‘Boom obsesses over every element of design – including the textures and scents of her books, as well as their appearance’

In a quiet mountain town in Trentino, Italy, the duo Brave New Alps is providing skills and support to precarious migrant communities

How designers are exploring the subject’s elemental role as an agent of political and social change

Alice Rawsthorn on the Italian design duo’s response to ecological and political concerns

How should designers respond to disaster?

How technology has shaped our expectations of desirable design

How technological developments are changing our relationship to control 

Are designers of colour finally getting the recognition they deserve?

Charles and Ray Eames, Rem Koolhaas and Christien Meindertsma: Alice Rawsthorn shares her highlights from 2015

Customized design in a time of fluid identities

The re-invigorated relationship between design and craft

The pros and cons of new digital interface design

The shifting influence of Milan’s Salone del Mobile

Is the design world still a boys’ club?

New technology and endangered objects

The difference between disciplines

In a new occasional column, frieze asks a respondent to nominate the objects, people or ideas that have influenced them

A petition to save Le Corbusier’s threatened masterpiece

Panoramic wallpaper