Japanese researchers have used a nimble robotic hand exoskeleton to train expert pianists to improve their performance, using a technique they believe could be applied to e-sports, surgery or even handicrafts. More about Finger-waggling exoskeleton helps pianists play faster
A collection of contemporary designs, including rugs by Doshi Levien and Eny Lee Parker for CC-Tapis and lighting by Flos, have been installed in the house and studio of iconic Mexican architect Max Cetto during Mexico City art week. More about Contemporary design fills modernist Max Cetto house in Mexico City
Dezeen Showroom: White Tiger granite and golden-hued bronzed brass combine dramatically in the Skywalk kitchen, designed by kitchen brand Eggersmann. More about Skywalk kitchen by Eggersmann
Yrjö Kukkapuro, the Finnish furniture and product designer who dreamt up ideas "until the very end" over more than 70 years of creating, has passed away at his home in Kauniainen at the age of 91. More about Postmodernist Finnish designer Yrjö Kukkapuro dies aged 91
Swedish studio MatssonMarnell invited Stockholm Design Week visitors to the home of co-founder Magda Marnell, where local designers showcased beeswax candles, sculptural chairs and hairy lamps. More about One Day Exhibition showcases private flat filled with unusual design pieces
Ecological concerns and the pressures of the modern world mean designers no longer have the luxury of seeing their work as a form of self-expression, Japanese designer Naoto Fukasawa tells Dezeen in this interview. More about Design should "blend into the background of everyday life" says Naoto Fukasawa
Data journalist and illustrator Mona Chalabi has worked with architecture studio Situ to examine the proposed international crime of domicide in Patterns of Life, an installation at the Smithsonian Design Triennial at New York's Cooper Hewitt museum. More about Patterns of Life installation recreates homes destroyed by domicide
Montreal-based designer Ying Gao has created a pair of garments embedded with soft mirrors and eye-tracking robotic components that transform when people look at them. More about Ying Gao's All Mirrors clothing responds to the observer's gaze
New York-based Distributed Art Publishers and Designers & Books have partnered with Archigram magazine and designer Miko McGinty to create remakes of all ten issues of the 1960s counter-culture architecture magazine for the first time. More about Archigram to print "first ever" remakes with tributes by Tadao Ando and more
Dezeen Showroom: South Korean brand Vobia has released a kitchen made from stainless steel that gains character over the course of time. More about Ark T5 kitchen by Vobia
Late film director David Lynch adored design and architecture and mastered the art of wielding it to evocative effect, writes Anthony Paletta. More about "David Lynch was a superb director of architecture"
Local studio Form Us With Love has transformed its waterfront workplace into a bistro for Stockholm Design Week, where visitors can meet, eat and "actually use and test" the furniture on display. More about Form Us With Love turns Stockholm studio into buzzy red bistro
The Dezeen team have been reporting live from Stockholm Design Week in the Swedish capital, where office rollercoasters, cardboard cities and leather alternatives were on the menu on 6 February. More about Thursday from Stockholm Design Week 2025
A wave of radical designers in Sweden are experimenting with digital technology and alternative materials to invent new ways of making furniture. Amy Frearson reports. More about Swedish designers doing things that have "never been done before"
Swedish designer Jenny Nordberg has unveiled a collection of furniture at Stockholm Furniture Fair, made from used parts that are otherwise difficult to recycle. More about Jenny Nordberg creates office furniture from "library" of unwanted parts
Colour-coded terrazzo beer and negroni taps feature at the Bobo showroom in Stockholm, created as an after-work watering hole by Swedish designer Gustav Winsth and unveiled during the city's design week. More about Gustav Winsth designs tavern-style showroom for glassware brand Bobo
The Dezeen team have been reporting live from Stockholm Design Week in the Swedish capital, where terrazzo beer taps, conversation pits and twisted aluminium were the highlights from 5 February. More about Wednesday from Stockholm Design Week 2025
Swiss architect Giona Bierens de Haan has reinterpreted the spiked bark of the South American Ceiba tree to create a furniture collection as part of a collaborative exhibition in Geneva. More about Giona Bierens de Haan designs spiked furniture informed by Ceiba tree
Designers including Anna Maria Øfstedal Eng and David Taylor showed the potential of crafts-based design at experimental design platform Älvsjö Gård at this year's Stockholm Furniture Fair. More about Älvsjö Gård exhibition showcases "functional sculptures" and undulating furniture
The Dezeen team have been reporting live from Stockholm Design Week in the Swedish capital, where blown glass, woven grass and wiggly furniture caught our collective eye on 4 February. More about Tuesday from Stockholm Design Week 2025