This week, BIG completed a spiral-shaped museum in the Swiss mountains and John Pawson discussed the reasoning behind his characteristic minimalism in Dezeen's latest podcast. More about This week, BIG created a spiral-shaped museum and Dezeen released its latest podcast
Columbia College Chicago exhibits an immersive installation tailored to the deaf community for the VDF x Ventura Projects collaboration. More about Columbia College Chicago creates immersive installation for deaf community
Daily coronavirus briefing: today's architecture and design coronavirus briefing includes coronavirus tartan and emojis. More about Daily coronavirus architecture and design briefing: 24 April
Chilean architect Mále Uribe Forés has turned salt into reactive wall tiles that will crystallise and grow over the course of her Salt Imaginaries installation. More about Mále Uribe Forés makes wall tiles from Chilean desert salt
Jessica Walsh's creative agency &Walsh has designed emojis that detail life during the coronavirus pandemic, including hand sanitiser, a tin of beans and healthcare workers dressed as superheroes. More about Coronavirus-related emojis by &Walsh offer "comic relief" during pandemic
Ron Arad speaks to Dezeen in this live discussion as part of VDF's collaboration with the British-Israeli designer and architect. More about Live interview with Ron Arad as part of Virtual Design Festival
Daily coronavirus briefing: today's architecture and design coronavirus briefing includes a design for safe flying, an opinion piece from Reinier de Graaf and the Coughvid app. More about Daily coronavirus architecture and design briefing: 23 April
Experimental clothing brand Vollebak has created a near-indestructible jacket from Dyneema – a fibre that is 15 times stronger than steel. More about Vollebak creates Indestructible Jacket
Rubbery doors outfit this cabinet designed by architecture studio Allthatissolid so that they stretch and form breast-like shapes when pulled open. More about Masque Thing cabinet features stretchy doors and "sumptuous" legs
Our VDF collaboration with The World Around concludes with the premiere of a new film by Andrés Jaque and Ivan Munuera, which charts the global impact of coronavirus across a wide range of different scales. More about Andrés Jaque and Ivan Munuera premiere film exploring the visual landscape of Covid-19
Architect Cameron Sinclair and vegan fashion designer Mats Rombaut are joined by Facebook's director of product design Margaret Stewart in the third part of our Virtual Design Festival collaboration with The World Around for Earth Day. More about Cameron Sinclair and Facebook's Margaret Stewart feature in the third instalment of The World Around symposium
Data journalist and illustrator Mona Chalabi has unveiled a series of limited-edition prints and shared a selection of her illustrations visualising information about coronavirus as part of The World Around's takeover of Virtual Design Festival for Earth Day. More about Mona Chalabi creates Stats to Help you Breathe illustrations to take people's minds off coronavirus
Curator Aric Chen and designer Thomas Thwaites discuss their work in the second part of our Virtual Design Festival collaboration with The World Around, which also features short films by Kalyanee Mam and Apichatpong Weerasthakul. More about Part two of The World Around's Earth Day symposium features Aric Chen and Thomas Thwaites
Our Virtual Design Festival collaboration with The World Around for Earth Day kicks off with a series of conversations with designers including Nelly Ben Hayoun and Nigerian architect Kunlé Adeyemi. More about Kunlé Adeyemi and Nelly Ben Hayoun feature in the first session of The World Around symposium
In this live interview, Beatrice Galilee speaks to Dezeen about the online symposium she has curated as part of Virtual Design Festival's partnership with The World Around for Earth Day. More about Live video interview with The World Around curator Beatrice Galilee
To mark Earth Day, VDF collaborated with The World Around to host a series of talks, interviews, short films and essays exploring ideas that could "shape the future of our relationship with the planet". More about Kunlé Adeyemi, Nelly Ben Hayoun and Cameron Sinclair feature in VDF's collaboration with The World Around for Earth Day
Daily coronavirus briefing: today's architecture and design coronavirus briefing includes delays to work on Notre-Dame Cathedral and an intensive care unit in a shipping container. More about Daily coronavirus architecture and design briefing: 22 April
Research and design platform Livable has created a rattan frame that is worn over the head and body to increase awareness of the need for social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic. More about Livable's Well-Distance-Being project encourages social distancing with wearable rattan cages
Artists and designers including Vivienne Westwood, Christopher Kane and Wolfgang Tillmans have created protest-style posters about coronavirus for Dazed Media. More about Vivviene Westwood and Christopher Kane create hopeful coronavirus posters
Hospitals "desperately need designers" to improve everything from the way they tackle coronavirus to the layout of operating theatres and the design of medical charts, according to a senior US doctor. More about Lack of design input in healthcare is putting both patients and doctors at risk, says physician