Design education "brainwashes" students into rejecting colour, pattern and ornament, according to Adam Nathaniel Furman, who said a group of London designers is finally overcoming bias against their use. More about Colourful "New London Fabulous" design movement is challenging minimalism, says Adam Nathaniel Furman
Designer Stephen Burks discusses the lack of diversity in the design industry and explains how his early experiences with European brands led him to work with artisans in the developing world in our latest VDF x Friedman Benda talk. More about "I've been the first and only African American to work with all my clients" says Stephen Burks
The ancient concept of yin and yang informed the serene aesthetic of this paint showroom in eastern China designed by JG Phoenix. More about JG Phoenix creates meditative interiors for Danilo showroom in Shantou
With less than a week to enter Dezeen Awards, Talenia Phua Gajardo, founder and CEO of digital art gallery The Artling, will be looking for "attention to detail". More about Dezeen Awards 2020 will be "great for visibility" says judge Talenia Phua Gajardo
DK-CM has built a cross-laminated timber reception pavilion with a diagrid roof in the gap between two junior schools in Norfolk, UK, to connect the previously separate institutions. More about DK-CM unites post-war and 1990s schools with CLT reception pavilion
Brooklyn design-build studio Desciencelab has overhauled a gabled house in Montauk on the furthest tip of Long Island with greyed cladding and teak interiors. More about Greyed wood clads renovated Montauk beach house by Desciencelab
Creative duo Artem Trigubchak and Lera Brumina used concrete slabs, sand and paving stones to fashion the furnishings and partition walls inside this office in Kyiv. More about Kovalska office in Kyiv is decked out with humble building materials
Sportswear company Adidas has released Face Cover, a reusable face mask made from a breathable recycled material for people to wear as coronavirus lockdowns ease. More about Adidas launches reusable face mask called Face Cover
Week seven of Virtual Design Festival features a special collaboration with designer Tom Dixon and talks with architects including Frida Escobedo and Junya Ishigami. We also premiere a new film by Laura Mark and Jim Stephenson, in which architect Eva Jiřičná discusses some of Zaha Hadid's most iconic buildings. More about Frida Escobedo, Junya Ishigami, Eva Jiřičná and Tom Dixon feature at VDF this week
With only eight days left to enter Dezeen Awards 2020, we asked BBC Radio London presenter Rhael Cape, also known as LionHeart, what he'll be looking for when assessing architecture entries. More about Dezeen Awards 2020 judge LionHeart wants a "clear balance of courage and audacity"
A prayer room occupies a white turret in this house in Chandigarh designed by architecture studio Charged Voids to reference the work of Le Corbusier. More about Charged Voids draws on Le Corbusier for multi-generational home in Chandigarh
The modernist Ben Rose House in the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Philip Johnson's Glass House informed this pool house designed by Canadian studio Maurice Martel Architecte. More about Philip Johnson's Glass House informs pool pavilion in Canada
New York's Islyn Studio has overhauled an old lumber warehouse in Albuquerque, New Mexico and turned it into a sun-lit food hall with various spots to indulge. More about Islyn Studio converts warehouse in Albuquerque into Sawmill Market food hall
Australian architecture studio Wood Marsh designed Towers Road House as "a sculpture to live within", with high concrete walls that arc under a disc-shaped zinc roof. More about Wood Marsh tops curving concrete walls with zinc disc for house in Melbourne
As our Virtual Design Festival reaches the halfway point, founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs selects his highlights from the most ambitious project Dezeen has ever attempted. More about Virtual Design Festival clocks up over a million video plays as it reaches the halfway stage
Swedish designer and Dezeen Awards 2020 judge Emma Olbers will be looking for "more sustainable projects with a low carbon footprint". More about Designer Emma Olbers wants products that are "good for us and for our planet"
Australian studio Alexander & Co has added wooden furnishings and a caged rattan ceiling to the formerly austere interior of this Italian restaurant in Sydney. More about Timber and rattan add warmth to Glorietta eatery in Sydney
New York architecture firm Arnold Studio has covered the walls of this sensory deprivation spa in Brooklyn neighbourhood Greenpoint with rigid felt and bold colours. More about Arnold Studio designs Brooklyn sensory deprivation spa Vessel Floats
Danish architecture studio Adept has used customised curved bricks to clad the five-storey Theodora House housing block alongside the Elephant Gate at the Carlsberg Brewery in Copenhagen. More about Adept builds customised-brick housing alongside Carlsberg's Elephant Gate
A machine that blows sanitising bubbles, single-dose seaweed capsules and a disinfecting doorbell are among winners of Bompas & Parr's Fountain Of Hygiene competition, which called for ways of rethinking hand-washing for the coronavirus era. More about Sanitising bubbles and seaweed capsules among winners of Bompas & Parr hygiene contest