Lighting
Lighting
Radio-jamming Dis/Connect chandelier prevents people from using their smartphones
Brooklyn-based designer Eric Forman has created a chandelier that blocks wireless signals below it to create "spaces of digital quiet". More
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News
News
Solving climate change will require "technologies we don't yet have" says John Kerry
New technologies will be required to prevent catastrophic climate change, US climate envoy John Kerry has admitted. More
Industrial
Industrial
BIG designs battery-metals plant, ships and underwater robots for undersea mining company
Architect BIG has designed a factory and a number of waterborne craft for The Metals Company, a mining firm aiming to develop sustainable ways of extracting metals required for electric batteries from the seabed. More
Roundups
Roundups
Seven 3D-printed houses that have been built around the world
A Dutch couple recently became the first people in Europe to move into a 3D-printed home, so we have rounded up seven examples of 3D-printed houses from around the world. More
Transport
Transport
Yuri Suzuki composes soundscape for electric cars that adapts to the driverÂ
Pentagram partner Yuri Suzuki has developed a new family of sounds for electric vehicles that hope to replace the "monotonous and annoying" noises made by conventional cars. More
News
News
Tesla suspends Bitcoin payments over concerns about "rapidly increasing" emissions
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced that the electric-car maker will no longer be accepting Bitcoin in exchange for its vehicles due to the cryptocurrency's alleged contribution to climate change. More
Video
Video
Jean-Michel Rochette's foldable OLED television opens and closes like a book
In our first video showcasing the finalists of Dezeen and LG Display's OLEDs Go! competition, Canadian designer Jean-Michel Rochette explains his concept for a lamp that unfolds to become a television. More
Homeware
Homeware
Yves Béhar 3D prints Forust homeware from reclaimed wood waste
Sawdust is mixed with a natural tree-sap binder and 3D printed into complex, swirling geometries to form this homeware collection, designed by Yves Béhar for additive manufacturing company Forust. More
News
News
Imogen Heap removes 20 tonnes of carbon dioxide from atmosphere with debut NFT drop
Musician Imogen Heap has created a collection of six audiovisual NFTs that are carbon negative and hope to "set the bar for what digital art can and should be". More
Products
Products
Layer creates slim Beosound Emerge bookshelf speaker for Bang & Olufsen
Benjamin Hubert's studio Layer has designed a new speaker for Bang & Olufsen to deliver high-performance audio in a small and subtle format. More
School Shows
School Shows
The Design Village spotlights 11 student architecture and design projects
In our latest school show, undergraduate and postgraduate students at The Design Village in India present architecture and design projects ranging from a shelter for cats to an algorithmic learning aid for people with dyslexia. More
Landscape
Landscape
MIT Senseable City Lab maps Brazilian favela with handheld 3D-scanners
Researchers at digital laboratory MIT Senseable City Lab have used handheld 3D-scanning technology to analyse the architecture of Rocinha, Brazil's largest favela. More
News
News
Rhode Island School of Design space club projects get NASA backing
NASA has selected three projects from the Rhode Island School of Design's Space Design club for its development programmes, meaning the work could one day be tested in space. More
Roundups
Roundups
Eight outlandish items jumping on the NFT bandwagon
From a picture of a twig to a golden Pringles can, we've rounded up eight NFTs that are trying take advantage of the hype around the blockchain technology. More
Interview
Interview
Virtual nightclub Eschaton creates "feeling of a rabbit hole" by combining theatre with gaming design
"The possibilities are infinite" when you bring theatre into virtual space, according to the designers behind pioneering nightclub experience Eschaton. More
Products
Products
Minwook Paeng develops robot eye to help users walk while looking at their phones
Industrial design student Minwook Paeng has created a robotic Third Eye that is fixed to the forehead and looks out for obstacles when the wearer's real eyes are glued to their smartphone. More
Products
Products
Pearson Lloyd attempts to shift stigma around stairlifts with Flow X
London studio Pearson Lloyd has called on designers to take on more medical and accessible design projects, as it revealed its design for an aesthetically appealing stairlift called Flow X. More
Software and web design
Software and web design
Typewise keyboard uses artificial intelligence to improve smartphone typing
The latest version of keyboard app Typewise combines autocorrection, language detection and a user-friendly "honeycomb" layout, to help you type faster with fewer errors. More
OLEDs Go! competition
OLEDs Go! competition
Top five designs in Dezeen and LG Display's OLEDs Go! competition revealed
A lamp that unfolds into a screen, a TV that becomes a shelf and an OLED display that can be easily wheeled from room to room are among the finalists in Dezeen and LG Display's OLEDs Go! competition. More
VR/AR
VR/AR
The Fabricant designs gender-fluid digital clothes informed by the Renaissance
Digital-fashion house The Fabricant has collaborated with RTFKT to create the gender-fluid RenaiXance collection of digital garments, which were minted as NFTs. More