This week, Virtual Design Festival came to an end
This week on Dezeen, we rounded up the highlights from Virtual Design Festival as the programme of events drew to a close, including eight ways VDF set the agenda for architecture and design. More
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This week, Milton Glaser passed away
This week on Dezeen, we looked back at Milton Glaser's most interesting creations following the graphic designer's death and looked forward to a house designed to ride out the next global crisis in. More
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This week, Kengo Kuma designed a chicken coop
This week on Dezeen, Kengo Kuma's studio designed a blackened-wood chicken coop in Mexico, while Airbnb's co-founder declared that "travel as we knew it is over". More
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This week, designers heralded a sustainable future
This week on Dezeen, Parley for the Oceans founder Cyrill Gutsch predicted we'll have pollution-eliminating biofabricated materials with the decade, and Arrival launched an electric bus. More
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This week, architects and designers responded to racial inequality
The week on Dezeen, graffiti artist Banksy sketched a memorial to slavery, architects and designers created a public Google Doc to promote black-owned studios and Michael Ford warned architects away from designing prisons. More
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This week, creatives responded to racial inequality
This week on Dezeen, international creatives rallied in response to the Black Lives Matter movement and readers remembered the work of artist Christo, who passed away. More
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This week, Adidas released a face mask and designers were accused of "coronagrifting"
This week on Dezeen, Adidas released a face mask, Waugh Thistleton Architects proposed creating mobile vaccination centres in shipping containers and designers were accused of "coronagrifting". More
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This week, Dezeen interviewed Alison Brooks about post-coronavirus housing
This week on Dezeen, we spoke to architect Alison Brooks about how housing design should change after coronavirus and interviewed Killing Eve's set decorator about what it takes to dress a cult TV classic. More
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This week, architects and designers looked to a socially distanced future
This week on Dezeen, architects and designers envisioned socially distanced offices, schools and planes, while a gridded social-distancing system was installed in an Italian piazza. More
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This week, designers imagined ways to socialise in a post-coronavirus world
This week on Dezeen, designers focused their efforts on creating objects for life after Covid-19 lockdown, from blankets and frames for social distancing in parks to unconventional face shields. More
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This week, designers created fashionable personal protective equipment
This week on Dezeen, designer Joe Doucet envisioned a face mask that can be worn as a fashion accessory and Production Club unveiled a conceptual PPE suit for clubbing during the coronavirus outbreak. More
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This week, BIG created a spiral-shaped museum and Dezeen released its latest podcast
This week, BIG completed a spiral-shaped museum in the Swiss mountains and John Pawson discussed the reasoning behind his characteristic minimalism in Dezeen's latest podcast. More
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This week Dezeen launched the first ever Virtual Design Festival
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
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This week, Dyson kept kids entertained and Frank Lloyd Wright gave virtual tours during lockdown
This week on Dezeen, Dyson crafted 44 engineering challenges for children during the coronavirus lockdown and Frank Lloyd Wright residences opened their doors for virtual tours. More
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This week, architects and designers created medical equipment to fight coronavirus
This week on Dezeen, designers created face shields, mask holders and an emergency hospital to help combat the coronavirus pandemic. More
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This week, designers created objects and structures to help fight coronavirus
This week on Dezeen, Carlo Ratti designed an intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients from shipping containers and Dyson prepared to provide 15,000 ventilators for the NHS. More
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This week, designers responded to the coronavirus outbreak
This week on Dezeen, designers put their skills to use in response to coronavirus by 3D-printing ventilator valves and sharing critical advice. More
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This week, Li Edelkoort predicted a better future in the wake of coronavirus
This week on Dezeen, trend forecaster Li Edelkoort argued that the disruption and economic standstill caused by the coronavirus outbreak could ultimately lead to a positive outcome for the planet and its people. More
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This week, the Pritzker Prize was awarded to Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara
This week on Dezeen, architects Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara became the fourth and fifth women to ever win the prestigious Pritzker Prize. More
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This week, Salone del Mobile was postponed due to coronavirus
This week on Dezeen, the Salone del Mobile fair in Milan was postponed until June as events across Europe were disrupted by the coronavirus outbreak. More
