Designer Michael Anastassiades has been awarded this year's London Design Medal, with architect Norman Foster, activist Sinéad Burke and emerging designer Rio Kobayashi also recognised. More about Michael Anastassiades and Norman Foster among winners of 2025 London Design Medals
Designer Rio Kobayashi used salvaged wood to craft furniture and sculptures that are on display alongside works by American painter Fritz Rauh as part of an exhibition at California gallery Blunk Space. More about Rio Kobayashi creates furniture from redwood offcuts for Blunk Space exhibition
Andu Masebo and Rio Kobayashi are among 23 designers who have created birdhouses for an exhibition held at South London Gallery that aimed to unpack "what it means to build a house for a bird". More about Birdhouses informed by skyscrapers and modernism feature in Dwellings exhibition
Rio Kobayashi has collaborated with engineering firm Webb Yates on the designer's first-ever pavilion, an abstraction of his childhood home in Japan, as part of the London Design Festival. More about Off The Shelf pavilion is made from standardised components that can go back on the shelf
Interior designers Nate Berkus and Brigette Romanek, designers Neville Brody and Rio Kobayashi and architect Nikoline Dyrup Carlsen have been named Dezeen Awards 2024 judges. More about Nate Berkus, Brigette Romanek and Neville Brody are Dezeen Awards 2024 judges
Dezeen has announced the Designers of the Year shortlist for this year's Dezeen Awards, which includes Lina Ghotmeh, Rio Kobayashi and Patricia Urquiola. More about Designers of the Year shortlist revealed for Dezeen Awards 2023
Designer Rio Kobayashi has created a London Design Festival "living room" filled with objects he created with the help of artist and designer friends. More about Rio Kobayashi's first solo show features tuna table and totem speakers
London designer Rio Kobayashi has reinterpreted the colourful markings found on Mikado pick-up sticks as a pattern for his new East West furniture collection. More about Rio Kobayashi bases colourful furniture on traditional game Mikado