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
This week on Dezeen we launched a Virtual Design Festival featuring a live video interview with Li Edelkoort and messages from architects and designers from across the world. More about This week Dezeen launched the first ever Virtual Design Festival
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
In the third part of today's collaboration between Virtual Design Festival and Forward Festival, Freitag creative director Pascal Dulex explains how the Swiss accessories brand evolved from making bags out of truck tarpaulins to creating compostable clothes. More about Freitag creative director talks about creating clothes that are "completely biodegradable" at Forward Festival
Two white volumes are fronted with large openings that frame countryside views "like works of art on the wall" in this Menorca house designed by local architect Marina Senabre. More about Minimal white buildings form Menorca house by architect Marina Senabre
In the second part of today's collaboration between Virtual Design Festival and Forward Festival, Erik Spiekermann shares seven propositions for designers to remember. More about "Don't work with a**holes," says Erik Spiekermann at Forward Festival
Today's Forward x VDF collaboration features five talks, starting here with Paola Antonelli plus typographer Erik Spiekermann, Freitag's Pascal Dulex, artist Sarah Illenberger and rocking graphic designers Snask. More about Paola Antonelli is first of five speakers at today's Forward x Virtual Design Festival collaboration
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
Oliver Leech Architects has extended a house in south London, adding a kitchen that pairs natural wood and brick with a muted colour palette. More about Oliver Leech Architects uses soft colours to create bright and airy kitchen extension
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
British and Irish architects, artists and critics have selected the buildings that they look forward to seeing again after the coronavirus pandemic. More about Architects and critics choose the feel-good buildings they are missing during coronavirus
Students on the Master of Architecture postgraduate course at the University of Brighton present their work in this digital student show as part of Virtual Design Festival. More about MArch students at University of Brighton present work on the theme of "ecological aesthetics"
In his second video selection for Virtual Design Festival, Martin van der Linden explains the metabolist characteristics of Kenzo Tange's Kuwait Embassy, which the video blogger describes as one of his favourite buildings in Tokyo. More about Kenzo Tange's Kuwait Embassy "looks like a person carrying two water buckets" says YouTuber Martin van der Linden
James Garvan Architecture has added gabled timber-batten screens to the facade of this house in Sydney, which is meant to mimic the form of a neighbouring property. More about North Bondi House in Sydney fronted by angular white gabled screens
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