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Virtual Design Festival

Virtual Design Festival

Stellar Works, Mariam Kamara, Lee Broom, Winy Maas and What Design Can Do feature at VDF this week

Week ten of Virtual Design Festival features talks with architects and designers including Mariam Kamara, Lee Broom and Winy Maas, as well as collaborations with brands such as Stellar Works, Vitra and Rado, and organisations Mindcraft, London Festival of Architecture and What Design Can Do. More about Stellar Works, Mariam Kamara, Lee Broom, Winy Maas and What Design Can Do feature at VDF this week

Highlights

Highlights

This week's VDF highlights include Partisans, Ini Archibong, Parley for the Oceans and a VR Burning Man temple tour

Week nine of Virtual Design Festival featured live interviews with Barnaba Fornasetti and Ini Archibong, as well as a celebration of World Oceans Day and the 2020 AHEAD Americas awards. More about This week's VDF highlights include Partisans, Ini Archibong, Parley for the Oceans and a VR Burning Man temple tour

This week on Dezeen

This week on Dezeen

This week, architects and designers responded to racial inequality

The week on Dezeen, graffiti artist Banksy sketched a memorial to slavery, architects and designers created a public Google Doc to promote black-owned studios and Michael Ford warned architects away from designing prisons. More about This week, architects and designers responded to racial inequality

VDF x Yuri Suzuki

VDF x Yuri Suzuki

Yuri Suzuki presents Sound of the Earth: Pandemic Chapter on VDF

Sound artist and designer Yuri Suzuki is sharing his Sound of the Earth: Pandemic Chapter project, which contains crowdsourced sounds of the pandemic from all over the world, as part of Virtual Design Festival. More about Yuri Suzuki presents Sound of the Earth: Pandemic Chapter on VDF

Dezeen Showroom

Dezeen Showroom

Piper 103 outdoor sofa by RODA

Dezeen Showroom: The Piper 103 sofa by RODA is distinguished by a slender, metallic body that is dressed by woven "belts" of coloured fabric. More about Piper 103 outdoor sofa by RODA

VDF products fair

VDF products fair

AntiCAD reveals its latest acoustic panel designs at VDF products fair

AntiCAD is presenting two ranges of acoustic panels at VDF products fair, including the undulating Fabrix range that references the famous The Great Wave off Kanagawa print. More about AntiCAD reveals its latest acoustic panel designs at VDF products fair

Dezeen Showroom

Dezeen Showroom

Fabrix acoustic panels by AntiCAD

Dezeen Showroom: The undulating Fabrix acoustic panel system by AntiCAD is modelled on The Great Wave off Kanagawa woodblock print by Hokusai. More about Fabrix acoustic panels by AntiCAD

VDF products fair

VDF products fair

DDC spotlights three statement furniture collections at VDF products fair

New York showroom DDC is exhibiting three furniture collections at VDF's products fair, including Zanotta's updated model of Carlo Mollino's skeletal Reale table. More about DDC spotlights three statement furniture collections at VDF products fair

Architecture

Architecture

Woods Bagot devises office layouts for workplaces post-coronavirus

Woods Bagot has created four proposals for workplace design following coronavirus that merge working from home and office life to "strengthen culture and performance". More about Woods Bagot devises office layouts for workplaces post-coronavirus

Dezeen Showroom

Dezeen Showroom

The New Classic bathroom collection by Marcel Wanders for Laufen

Dezeen Showroom: The New Classic is a collection of sanitaryware and accessories designed by Marcel Wanders for Swiss manufacturer Laufen, which hopes to bring a "poetic experience" into bathroom interiors. More about The New Classic bathroom collection by Marcel Wanders for Laufen