A skeletal chair and a lamp wearing a hat were among the standout projects from emerging designers at this year's Design Week Lagos, where they featured in the annual Design + Innovation exhibition.
Milan's Salone del Mobile has announced its first-ever exhibition dedicated to unique and limited-edition design with Salone Raritas, which will debut as part of the furniture fair's 64th edition next April.
From a Japanese book lover's house to a brutalist holiday home in Mexico, the living rooms compiled in this lookbook feature lofty ceilings and interiors to match.
Plumy blades of grass were turned into the "world's first" plant-based alternative to feathers for the grand finale of fashion designer Stella McCartney's Spring/Summer 2026 show in Paris.
Environmental organisation A Plastic Planet has removed the paywall around its PlasticFree database, giving designers and brands unfettered access to its directory of expert-verified plastic substitutes.
Jony Ive has developed a modern take on a nautical lantern in collaboration with Japanese appliance manufacturer Balmuda, driven by the designer's own struggles to find a portable LED light that is actually seaworthy.
London has undeservedly fallen off the radar for the international design community, gallerist Alex Tieghi-Walker tells Dezeen in this interview ahead of London Design Festival, where he is curating one of the main design districts.
Students from MIT have developed a retrofuturistic kitchen robot that uses AI to look at the ingredients available and makes suggestions for what to cook based on your mood, skill level and available time.
Two opposing halves come together to form the minimalist medals for next year's Milano Cortina Winter Games, marking the first time the Winter Olympics will have two host cities.
Ghostly imprints of hands, butts and other body parts linger on the surface of this heat-reactive seating collection, developed by London designer and Central Saint Martins graduate Jacob Walls.
Giant acoustic panels grown from hemp and mycelium are dangling from the domed ceiling of a new dance music tent at Glastonbury this week, born from a collaboration between British DJ Floating Points and Magical Mushroom Company.
Lamps hung by nothing but their conducting wires and the "first-ever" sculpture that stores your yoga mat are among the collectible designs on display as part of a group show by Taiwanese gallery Fanzi at Copenhagen's 3 Days of Design festival.
Launches of foam-free sofas are coming in hot and fast as furniture makers wake up to the toxic impacts of polyurethane padding. Below are seven recent examples, packed instead with beans, latex and nothing but air.
Among the more experiential offerings at this year's Milan design week was a three-act play from design studio Formafantasma, presenting a critical perspective on modernism and its legacy.
German carmaker Mercedes-Benz is hoping to redefine vans as luxury VIP shuttles with its Vision V concept, unveiled this week at the Shanghai motor show.
Pastel-toned, suicide-proofed chairs are among the penitentiary furniture revealed to the public as part of Prison Times, the debut exhibition from the Dropcity centre for architecture and design in Milan.
The founders of Milan design week showcase Alcova have opened a late-night bar and restaurant in an old slaughterhouse for the festival's 2025 edition.
Leading UK architects and designers including David Chipperfield, Jasper Morrison, Amanda Levete and Tom Dixon have opposed government plans to allow artificial intelligence companies to train their models on copyrighted work without consent.