Stiliyana Minkovska donates her Ultima Thule collection to St Thomas’ Hospital

The alternative birthing suite, designed by architect and designer Stiliyana Minkovska, is now at St Thomas' Hospital

The Alexagate aims to stop Amazon’s background listening

This newly developed add-on accessory uses ultrasonic technology to jam the tech giant from recording conversations.

Exploring eclecticism in the French design scene

A new collection of innovative products demonstrates that French design isn’t only concerned with heritage and classicism.

19 Chairs project calls on designers to reimagine seating for older people

Designer brothers Tom and Will Butterfield turned wasted hours during lockdown into a design project, enlisting industry greats to reinvent seating for older people.

How an underwater museum is using design to platform reef conversation

ICON speaks to British sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor, who has sunk a 165 tonne greenhouse in the heart of the Great Barrier Reef to offer experiential learning about reef restoration.

New Designers goes digital for Class of 2020

Artist Barney McCann visualises new life forms using artificial intelligence

Bubbles and brushes: how designers envisage the future of hand sanitiser

Designing London’s back to work commute

Space10’s open-source design platform aims to save the bees in style

Inconvenient and overdesigned, Apple’s credit card may just be its next success story

The architecture of pastiche

A brief history of Gothic Architecture

The Gothic period spanned a long period of history and its intricate buildings are still captivating today

Patricia Urquiola: Formal and fun

Postmodernism: The flamboyant rejection of Modernism

Are Nike’s Vaporflys the fastest shoes in the world?

Vorticism: A brief history of a brief movement

Industry news and events – 3 April 2020

More than 60 years on the Eames Chair is still a classic

The bodies that built New York

The supermarket makes consumption as easy as breathing