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Fashion designer Nicholas Daley creates immersive, music-filled exhibition

Return to Slygo at NOW Gallery celebrates the designer’s Jamaican-Scottish roots and love of music

Design
02.06.21

Superflux creates forest installation for Vienna Biennale

Invocation of Hope tackles the urgent crisis of climate change and invites visitors to imagine a post-anthropocentric planet

Design
28.05.21

The Wood Street Altarpiece celebrates community gardening in Walthamstow

The colourful triptych installation by Eleanor Hill animates the underpass of a railway bridge

Design
24.05.21

Sudō Reiko and Japanese textile innovation

Japan House London's exhibition Making NUNO showcases the work of textile designer Sudō Reiko 

Design
17.05.21

19 Chairs charity project features work from Tom Dixon, Es Devlin, Morag Myerscough and more

Made in lockdown, the chairs are being auctioned off in aid of Age UK and Resourcing Racial Justice

Design
13.05.21

Linear park by Migliore+Servetto opens in South Korea

The 5km-long Blue Line Park, created alongside a transformed railway line, animates the city of Busan

Design
12.05.21

Rethinking care: Design Museum hosts online showcase of emerging designers

The Designers in Residence have tackled mental health, empathy, microbes and traditional craft

Design
07.05.21

The Festival of Britain at 70: questioning the myth

The 1951 festival has long been the victim of selective memory – it’s time we got the story straight

Design
07.05.21

Public installation ‘Arena for a Tree’ opens in Basel

The walk-in installation by Klaus Littmann, with integrated seating, is an homage to nature

Design
04.05.21

Yotam Ottolenghi launches colourful tableware collection

Designed in collaboration with with Italian artist Ivo Bisignano and Belgian brand Serax, FEAST promotes the pleasure of sharing food

Design
29.04.21

Virtual exhibition celebrates designers of Montreal

FICTIONS, an initiative from Collectif des Créateurs Canadiens (CCC), showcases the work of eight designers in an 'atypical love letter' to Montreal

Design
23.04.21

London bridges lit up as part of Illuminated River project

Stretching from Blackfriars to Lambeth, five newly illuminated bridges mark the completion of Leo Villareal's project, which will be in place for 10 years

Design
16.04.21

Breathing Pavilion by Ekene Ijeoma creates a space of sanctuary in Brooklyn

The illuminated installation encourages communal calm and hope amid crisis

Design
14.04.21

Tom Dixon launches new designs ‘virtually’ in Milan

Celebrating the 60th anniversary of Salone del Mobile, the British designer hosts '24 Hours in Milan'

Design
13.04.21

Morag Myerscough’s new installation in London champions hope and joy

The colourful bamboo structure, titled See Through, is part of the Wander Art trail and responds to the impact of the pandemic

Design
09.04.21

Crimes Against Design: Downing Street’s briefing room

At a cost of £2.6m, the UK government's new press briefing room is nothing more than a vanity project, argues Matthew Ponsford

Design
31.03.21

Quarta & Armando designs Shanghai nightclub for post-pandemic cultural revival

The design and architecture studio used light and material to create an immersive clubbing experience

Design
26.03.21

Note Design Studio rethinks the public bench

The studio's new flexible system of urban furniture is designed to accommodate the outdoor social life tentatively anticipated in the post-lockdown era

Design
26.03.21

Why on earth are we so obsessed with terrazzo?

From Instagram-friendly bathrooms to gimmicky phone cases, terrazzo has become nothing short of a viral design trend

Design
19.03.21

Virtual exhibition showcases experimental Danish design

The Mindcraft Project's new interactive show features ten inventive designers from Denmark

Design
17.03.21

Urban Sun installation claims to ‘clean’ public spaces of coronavirus

Aimed at enabling outdoor gatherings, the Studio Roosegaarde project cites effects of far-UVC light

Design
04.03.21

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