From Modernism to Ikea mugs, how universality shaped design

Reinventing the chair: Martino Gamper interview

Designer explores our fractured world, using everything from barbed wire to burkhas

Hussein Chalayan searches for ‘blind spots’ between design, fashion and sculpture

Discover the work of the Design Museum’s new class of designers in residence

Olafur Eliasson’s Ice Watch comes to London

Robert Venturi’s ‘Ghost Houses’ are playful reminder of the great architect’s continuing influence

Designer Ximi Li talks Shanghai’s multicultural past, changing present and prosperous future

Eating in virtual reality: Fantasy restaurants and nightmarish meals

Balfron Tower: Gutted east London fortress is a husk of a utopia

Stories: Where Arthur Analts’ bronze cigarette packet came from

The Moon Lander: NASA’s ugly but essential spacecraft

Thonet at 200: Surviving Bauhaus

Simple, bold and perfectly executed

Are videogames the final frontier of design?

Karcher design door handles with leather

Caroline Baumann: ‘The Cooper Hewitt does not to react viscerally. We ask how important will an object be in 20 years’

The Avala Tower is an icon of the Belgrade skyline

Martijn Rigters’ exploratory approach to materials

Gyratory systems

Ecophon’s expanded Solo solutions fine-tune acoustic design