Beirut design studio T Sakhi combined Venetian Murano glass with recycled metal threads and powder to create a pair of textured glassware collections. More about T Sakhi infuses Murano glass with metal wires for Tasting Threads tableware
Virtual Design Festival launched this week! Here's a roundup of everything that happened in week one including live interviews, collaborations with cultural organisations and video messages from designers around the world. More about This week's VDF highlights include a live interview with Li Edelkoort and messages from 35 designers
London studio Pearson Lloyd has designed a steel flat-pack chair, called Cross Chair Tube, for Danish furniture brand Takt. More about Pearson Lloyd creates tubular steel flat-pack chair for Takt
Designer Sebastian Errazuriz has created an online exhibition that allows collectors to preview artworks in their home using augmented reality tools during the coronavirus pandemic. More about Augmented-reality exhibition launched to sell artwork during pandemic
Manufacturers in Spain are reopening their factories after two weeks in total lockdown to stop the spread of coronavirus, with brands to promising to "bounce back". More about Spanish design brands "optimistic" as factories reopen after lockdown
In the fifth and final part of today's collaboration between Virtual Design Festival and Forward Festival, Fredrik Öst explains how his creative agency Snask ended up acquiring a rock band. More about "Don't mix rock 'n' roll with the professional" says Snask founder at Forward Festival
Architecture studio SO-IL has designed a major installation for Lisbon's Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology that creates a new public route through the middle of the Amanda Levete-designed building via a secret rear entrance. More about Beeline installation by SO-IL creates a "clandestine" shortcut through Amanda Levete's MAAT museum
In the fourth part of today's collaboration between Virtual Design Festival and Forward Festival, artist and designer Sarah Illenberger discusses how she makes illustrations from everyday objects. More about "I illustrate but I don't draw" says artist Sarah Illenberger at Forward Festival
Designer Fabio Novembre questions the desire to return to normal after the coronavirus pandemic, claiming that "the virus is in the system we used to live in", in a video message recorded for Virtual Design Festival. More about Fabio Novembre calls for architects and designers to help create a new world order after coronavirus
Daily coronavirus briefing: today's architecture and design coronavirus briefing includes plexiglass beach cabins and free Zoom backgrounds from Studio Ghibli. More about Daily coronavirus architecture and design briefing: 17 April
Furniture brand Brdr Krüger has launched a chair developed by the late Danish architect Nanna Ditzel in 1983. More about Nanna Ditzel's 1980s Arkade Chair goes into production for first time
Daily coronavirus briefing: today's architecture and design coronavirus briefing includes architecture films chosen by Dezeen readers and hospital gowns made from airbags. More about Daily coronavirus architecture and design briefing: 16 April
Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has created a quick and easy face shield for healthcare workers fighting Covid-19, which attaches to the wearer's glasses. More about Tokujin Yoshioka shares three-step template for emergency face shields
Sports brand Nike has created the Air Max 2090 to demonstrate what it sees as being the future of trainer design. More about Nike designs Air Max 2090 to be "shoe of the future"
Dezeen promotion: Berlin-based studio Läufer & Keichel has created a solid wood table for furniture manufacturer Zeitraum that features undulating legs designed to look like curtain drapes. More about Läufer & Keichel design table with ribbon-like legs for Zeitraum
Today's VDF collaboration with PechaKucha features this live stream of talks by global creatives plus a live interview with PechaKucha founders Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Klein Dytham Architecture. More about PechaKucha and Virtual Design Festival team up to stream talks from around the world
Virtual Design Festival has launched with a video featuring self-recorded messages from 35 architects, designers and artists around the world including Stefano Giovannoni, Es Devlin, Ini Archibong, Ben van Berkel and Bec Brittain. More about 35 architects and designers contribute video messages to help launch Virtual Design Festival
Trend forecaster Li Edelkoort spoke to Dezeen live from Cape Town in our first Screentime conversation of Virtual Design Festival. Watch the interview here or on our YouTube channel. More about Live video interview with Li Edelkoort as part of Virtual Design Festival
People "don’t want to go back" to how things were before coronavirus, claims trend forecaster Li Edelkoort in a new manifesto of hope for a post-pandemic world, which is published exclusively on Dezeen today as part of Virtual Design Festival. More about Li Edelkoort proposes "World Hope Forum" in manifesto for rebuilding society after coronavirus
Daily coronavirus briefing: today's architecture and design coronavirus briefing includes a message of hope from Marcel Wanders and news of Australia withdrawing from the Venice Architecture Biennale. More about Daily coronavirus architecture and design briefing: 15 April