Product design
Traditional Venetian mirrors redesigned to include “sexy manga girls”
Cecilie Manz and Bang & Olufsen design portable speaker
Mutina collaborates with Hella Jongerius to create colour-rich collection of tiles
Boston Dynamics to start selling SpotMini robot as soon as 2019
Benjamin Hubert’s modular furniture introduces new method of bonding textiles
Hiroto Yoshizoe’s mirrored mobile 1.625m/s2 reflects light from a single bulb
U-Joints exhibition examines the diverse world of construction joints
Belén presents textile-based alternatives to “harmful” sunscreens
IDEA is an ironic “design supermarket” based on IKEA products
Students from Singapore and Kyoto design objects inspired by each other’s cities
Erez Nevi Pana designs “guilt-free” vegan furniture using salt and soil
Arne Jacobsen’s Vola tap design celebrates 50th birthday
Microsoft launches adaptive Xbox controller for gamers with disabilities
Nendo launches “third cigarette” as alternative for smokers
Brutalist soap imitates concrete coastal barriers so it won’t slip out of your hands
Crosby Studios’ all-purple furniture collection includes recurring hand shapes
Competition: win a Sonos One voice-controlled smart speaker
Lauren Lee’s Warm Wall is designed to alleviate women’s menstrual cramps
Neri Oxman’s new death masks contain pigment-producing microorganisms
Glass monsters invade Milanese theatre for Lasvit’s Monster Cabaret exhibition
ÉCAL students transform Milanese palazzo into 3D-printing factory
Panter & Tourron combines religion and technology for collection of holy objects
Ashtray and door handle from Mies van der Rohe’s unbuilt London tower recreated
