Opinion: the Game Developers Conference is refreshingly free of the superstar egos and the luxury brands that dominate architecture biennales and furniture fairs – and much more significant for the future of design, says Kieran Long. More about "The most important design event in the world is one you've probably never heard of"
Opinion: Dutch architecture firm OMA was among 74 entrants for a competition to design a new footbridge across London's River Thames – but its entry was more about making a statement than trying to win, explains practice partner Reinier de Graaf. More about "Definitely not a bridge"
Opinion: it's time for designers to start thinking more like businesspeople, says Bradford Shellhammer, creator of new design e-commerce site Bezar and co-founder of Fab. More about "You're a design entrepreneur, not a designer"
Opinion: in a desperate grab to attract the attention of children reared on digital devices, board game manufacturers have forgotten that interaction design matters more than brand extensions, says Alexandra Lange. More about "Games that have withstood the fads of fashion and television should look like it"
Opinion: the fight for London's Aylesbury estate – a negative symbol of the Modernist-inspired drive to standardise housing design – is about saving the ideas not the architecture, explains Owen Hatherley. More about "The places people are staking their lives on now aren't architectural icons"
Opinion: Diller, Scofidio + Renfro's The Broad museum in Los Angeles is an elegant exercise in mundanity, says Mimi Zeiger. More about "An object lesson for designers caught on the hamster wheel of producing interestingness"
Opinion: why did the Postmodernist design movement flounder at the end of the 1980s? Will Wiles finds the answer in popular Hollywood movies. More about "Postmodernism was typecast as soon as it made it out of the Italian magazines"
Opinion: OMA partner Reinier de Graaf offers his top 10 tips for architects interested in branching out into urban consultancy, including "avoid writing" and "invoice early and invoice often". More about At your service: 10 tips for becoming a successful urban consultant
Opinion: earlier this month Vitra's Tony Ash argued that copyists are "eating away at the very creativity of our industry". In response, Chris Diemer of replica furniture company Voga argues that firms like his are making good design affordable for the masses. More about "To tar all replica furniture companies with the same brush is neither fair nor accurate"
Opinion: despite cultivating a public reputation as an industry of problem solvers, design is too focused on growth to face up to some of its biggest challenges, says Lucas Verweij. More about "Can designers really do what the public think they are capable of?"
Opinion: despite significant improvements last year, architecture's archaic equality problems haven't gone away. The American Institute of Architects' decision to award its 2015 Gold Medal to another mature white man isn't helping, says Alexandra Lange. More about "Was it too much to hope for first a woman and then a partnership?"
Opinion: the visual style associated with cinema's super-villains has been transformed into a marketable asset for house builders, says Owen Hatherley. More about "More frightening than American Psycho"
Opinion: the UK is one of only three European countries failing to protect designers from intellectual property theft – damaging both their income and the reputation of their products, says Tony Ash, managing director for design brand Vitra. More about "Copyists are eating away at the creativity of our industry"
Opinion: the now-defunct architecture firm FAT proposed a green bridge for London's River Thames in the 1990s as a form of social criticism. Now life is imitating art with Thomas Heatherwick's Garden Bridge, FAT co-founder Sam Jacob feels an apology is necessary. More about "The Garden Bridge is a magic bullet for a certain idea of the contemporary British city"
Opinion: unbridled materialism, technology and design combine to challenge the meaning of personhood in William Gibson's latest sci-fi novel. The foundations for this future are already being laid in real life, says Justin McGuirk. More about "Anything threatening to be a subculture is commodified before it can walk"
Opinion: the Brutalist architecture of 1960s British university campuses may not have been popular among students at the time, but recent styles of education architecture suggest a far more cynical approach, says Owen Hatherley. More about "The project of education-via-marketisation has had ugly results"
Opinion: why have architects and designers been so quiet about America's recent clashes over race and police violence? asks Mimi Zeiger. More about "Koolhaas may think we're past the time of manifestos, but that's no reason to play dumb"
Opinion: the legacy of the Modernist movement is a "God complex" among contemporary architects that is turning architecture into its own worst enemy, says OMA partner Reinier de Graaf in his first column for Dezeen. More about "The vast majority of the built environment is of an unspeakable ugliness"
Opinion: mobile products have a short lifespan, but Apple has invested heavily in turning them into desirable design objects. For some "luxury" customers that just isn't enough, finds Alex Wiltshire. More about "Even obsolescence is worthy of incredible expense"
Opinion: when the team behind the Rosetta space mission landed Philae on a moving comet last week, they celebrated in a grey control room – the kind of uniquely bland space that has been the backdrop to some of the 21st century's most iconic moments, says Will Wiles. More about "The control room is a highly charged mythic space"