Discipline

Design

How things are made to be used, held and lived in. Profiles of architects, typographers, industrial designers and the people who refuse to stay in one studio.

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Stories from the field

The Architect Who Grows Her Buildings

Ines Valdés-Okafor left glass towers behind to grow walls from fungus. Her structures are now outlasting her critics.

A Typeface Is a Term Sheet

Ren Isobe-Carvalho draws alphabets for subways and writes cheques for founders. She says the two jobs are the same.