Stories by Natashah Hitti
Caret Studio installs gridded social-distancing system inside Italian piazza
Jihye Kang creates refractive furniture from rows of acrylic rods
Escapist restaurant interiors could be “lasting design legacy of the pandemic” says Roar trends report
M-Rad designs mobile Covid-19 testing unit concept from “virus-destroying” copper
Paul Priestman makes DIY smartphone stand from an egg box for video calls
Nynke Tynagel splits from Studio Job to start own graphics studio
Nendo adorns tuna fishing ship with graphic patterns to recall life on land
Antony Gormley shares seven-day Instagram diary of life in lockdown
Livable’s Well-Distance-Being project encourages social distancing with wearable rattan cages
Nendo designs self-driving mobile playground equipment for children
Tokujin Yoshioka shares three-step template for emergency face shields
Flying Table by JCPCDR Architecture hangs from seat belt-style mechanism
Kaoi studio designs modular Ebba chairs based on Ettore Sottsass’ Memphis movement
This week, designers imagined ways to socialise in a post-coronavirus world
Plastique Fantastique makes iSphere mask informed by 1950s sci-fi comics
Paul Cocksedge designs social-distancing picnic blanket for life after lockdown
Carlo Ratti’s Pura-Case uses “ozone power” to sanitise clothes
Production Club designs drink- and vape-friendly PPE suit for clubbing during a pandemic
This week, BIG created a spiral-shaped museum and Dezeen released its latest podcast
Mále Uribe Forés makes wall tiles from Chilean desert salt
Rie Sakamoto knits rubber bands together like yarn for elastic garments
T Sakhi infuses Murano glass with metal wires for Tasting Threads tableware