This year's London Design Festival will go ahead as scheduled in September, but with a more local focus and greater online activity in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. More about London Design Festival 2020 set to go ahead in September but expects "very little international travel"
A chair grown from fungi and hemp and ceramics inspired by occult rituals are among the design pieces presented by The Mindcraft Project for VDF. More about The Mindcraft Project 2020 showcases the work of 10 Danish designers at Virtual Design Festival
Dezeen Showroom: More than 50 glass spheres and hemispheres make up the Homo wall sculpture by Russian designer Grigory Gorkovenko, which can function as a clock, light and vase. More about Homo multifunctional wall sculpture by Grigory Gorkovenko
Dezeen teamed up with Rado and Les Couleurs Suisse to host a panel discussion on how iconic architect Le Corbusier's Architectural Polychromy colour theory has influenced the brands' new watch collection as part of Virtual Design Festival. More about Live panel discussion with Rado and Les Couleurs Suisse as part of Virtual Design Festival
Guadalajara design studio Peca has made rounded tables and footstools with pale wooden cylinders, wool and recycled glass. More about Peca creates cylindrical furniture with beech wood dowels
September's Maison&Objet interior design fair has been postponed and will instead take place online, while Paris Design Week is to go ahead. More about Maison&Objet becomes the latest design fair to drop physical event for digital version
Micha Weidmann, a graphic designer, typographer and art director who created the Dezeen logo, spoke to Dezeen in a live Screentime discussion as part of Virtual Design Festival. More about Live interview with Dezeen logo designer Micha Weidmann as part of Virtual Design Festival
Lance is a range of tubular wall lights, designed to highlight the details and textures of a building's surface, which Meteor Lighting is launching at the VDF products fair. More about Meteor Lighting launches three new collections at VDF products fair
Dezeen Showroom: The Duo Series is a collection of minimalist pendant lights by Californian lighting manufacturer Meteor Lighting that glow from both ends. More about Duo Series by Meteor Lighting
Dezeen Showroom: Dot Series is a collection of cylindrical luminaries by Californian manufacturer Meteor Lighting that are available in several styles. More about Dot Series by Meteor Lighting
Dezeen Showroom: Californian manufacturer Meteor Lighting's Lance series features cylindrical, outdoor wall lights, designed to accentuate the architectural elements of a building. More about Lance wall lights by Meteor Lighting
Second-year interior design students from the University of East London have created a series of lamps for a fictitious nail salon as part of this VDF school show. More about Ten eclectic lighting designs for nail salons from University of East London students
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
Mexican designer Moisés Hernández has created three metal stands for displaying flowers without a bulky vase. More about Moisés Hernández's No Vase displays flowers without a container
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
Bosnian designer Nataša Perković recycled the fibrous waste from palm oil factories to create the Reclaimed Oil Palm collection, which was made using as little material as possible. More about Nataša Perković makes textured furniture from palm oil byproducts
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
Dezeen Showroom: Elastic belts dressed with colourful yarn decorate Paola Lenti's playful Telar collection of matching outdoor seating. More about Telar seating collection by Paola Lenti
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: Zanotta has released an updated model of the skeletal Reale table by Italian architect, designer and photographer Carlo Mollino. More about Reale table by Carlo Mollino for Zanotta