INDEPENDENT DESIGN REVIEWVOL. 08 — AUTUMN 2026

FORM.

OBJECTS. IDEAS. THE SPACE BETWEEN.EST. 2018 / PRINT & CULTURE
THE SHAPE ISSUE / 001

Nothing
is ever
just a circle.

On the quiet radicalism of simple things, and the people who see possibility where others see an edge.

Dear curious reader,

A circle has no privileged beginning. Turn it and it is still itself. Yet give it weight, cast a shadow, place it beside a square, and suddenly it has a voice.

This issue is an invitation to stay with familiar things long enough for them to become unfamiliar. Good design begins there: in the second look.

THE EDITORS, FORM.