Mary Katrantzou designs first tile range
In the 'Victorian' collection for Villeroy & Boch, the Greek fashion designer draws inspiration from postage stamps and butterfly collecting
Design Museum announces Netflix exhibition this summer
The exhibition in London will celebrate Netflix's 'design journey' since its launch in 1997
Max Lamb designs altar for modernist church in Peckham
The designer's minimal works for the community-focused church aim to honour its original materiality
Powered by dance: Glasgow arts centre generates energy from clubbers
The Bodyheat project at SWG3 shows how designing renewable energy systems can be fun, too
Mac Collins wins Design Museum’s new annual prize
The young furniture designer receives the inaugural Ralph Saltzman Prize, a new award that celebrates emerging designers
Levi’s launches recycled and recyclable jeans
The new, circular version of the iconic 501 jeans is another step in the fashion industry's reckoning with its environmental footprint
Superflex co-designs play sculptures with children in Denmark
The collaborative public space project in Billund, made from blocks of pink marble, includes a 'play contract' carved into the stones
The best design projects of 2021
From skate parks to algae clothing, we round up the best installations, innovations and spatial transformations of the year
‘Freedom Skatepark’ opens in Accra
The new skating space, delivered by design studio Limbo Accra, is the first phase of creating a major youth cultural centre in the city
Prague underpass transformed into colourful skate park
Using minimal interventions, U / U Studio has turned a neglected space into a new community asset
Giant pink paddling pool opens in central Melbourne
The interactive installation outside the National Gallery of Victoria references Australia's pink salt lakes
LEGO launches wooden homeware collection
The brand associated with plastic bricks and play goes all serious and sustainable. Is this a grand return to the company's wooden roots?
Virgil Abloh: ‘I’m here to be an inspiration’
For the Off-White founder, everything creative was political. Here we publish our interview with the late design polymath from Spring 2021
London basketball court co-designed with local residents
Home Court aims to create a positive multi-generational space in its Camberwell community
Peggy Gou and Space Available design plastic waste chair
The chair forms part of the Radical Plastics project, which recycles and redesigns waste saved from oceans and landfills
Instagram and Brooklyn Museum announce #BlackDesignVisionaries grant recipients
The five recipients of the inaugural grant programme span graphic, fashion and spatial design
Cristina Iglesias unveils new sculptural work in Malta
Sea Cave (Entrance) preempts the creation of a major contemporary art museum on the island
Yinka Ilori creates colourful ‘launderette’ in London
The Launderette of Dreams is a temporary play space installation using over 200,000 LEGO bricks
London community workshops turn waste into homeware
Hosted by Blackhorse Workshop and GoodWaste in Chingford, the Plaster Works events invite the public to transform building waste materials
Old Fiat factory rooftop transformed into public garden
Benedetto Camerana has added 40,000 plants to the rooftop test track of Fiat's former HQ in Turin
There is nothing ‘super’ about superyachts
From Bezos' Y721 to Abramovich’s Ecstasea, these are playthings of the uber-rich with designations that call to mind an eau de toilette or knock-off Nokia
