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Milton Glaser, designer of the "I ♥ New York" logo, dies aged 91
Tributes have poured in for Milton Glaser, the influential American graphic designer who has died in New York on his 91st birthday. More
Tributes have poured in for Milton Glaser, the influential American graphic designer who has died in New York on his 91st birthday. More
Week 11 of Virtual Design Festival featured interviews with MPavilion architects Carme Pinós and Rem Koolhaas, a live stream with Piet Hein Eek and takeovers from the Design Museum and the Serpentine Gallery. More
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
Droog co-founder Renny Ramakers looks back at how the influential design platform shook up the industry in the 1990s in the latest talk in our ongoing collaboration with Friedman Benda for VDF. More
Rapper Kanye West has revealed that his fashion company Yeezy has teamed up with the Gap brand on a 10-year partnership. More
Reusable 3D-printed fracture casts and a compost caddy are among the products presented in this VDF school show, which features work produced as part of a course at Falmouth University that focuses specifically on sustainable design. More
Dezeen promotion: as part of its Revisiting Analogue project, furniture brand Prostoria has constructed a house-like pavilion with "transparent walls" in a forest near its factory in Croatia. More
French designer Erwan Bouroullec spoke about Kvadrat Shade, the roller-blind solution he designed with his brother Ronan for Kvadrat, in this live talk as part of a collaboration with the Danish textile brand for VDF. More
On 27 June, a virtual conference called Where are the Black Designers? will tackle racism in design. Dezeen spoke to the organisers about its objectives and the "overwhelming" response from the industry. More
Dezeen Showroom: Kvadrat Shade is a roller-blind system designed by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec featuring textiles by Kvadrat. More
In the second part of today's Virtual Design Festival collaboration with Serpentine Galleries, curator Rebecca Lewin speaks to Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew researcher Caroline Cornish and Ma-tt-er founder Seetal Solanki about how histories, politics and ecologies are embedded in materials. Tune in live from 11:00am UK time. More
London College of Fashion graduate Aniela Fidler questions the role of emotion in economic value with her conceptual Diamond Makers Lab, which would make diamonds from meaningful objects such as Notre Dame ash or a mother's cake. More
Today's VDF collaboration with London's Serpentine Galleries kicks off with an exclusive premiere of its latest podcast, which features artists and designers Formafantasma, Dunne & Raby and Black Quantum Futurism, ahead of a live talk exploring the political and ecological impact of materials. More
Dezeen Showroom: The pebble-like shell of the Adell chair is made from recycled plastic and designed by Arper to offer users "a welcoming and generous place of rest". More
Armin Broger, CEO of Arper, discusses the Italian furniture brand's two new chair designs and online catalogue in this captioned video produced for the brand as part of VDF. More
Central Saint Martins graduate Jessan Macatangay incorporated deconstructed chairs into his striking fashion collection, to symbolise how people carry the weight of personal struggles. More
Munich-based architecture studio 1zu33 has created numerous spaces for brands including a snowy forest within a pop-up restaurant and a tranquil interior for an Aesop store. More
Slovenian furniture brand Rex Kralj is unveiling four furniture series at the VDF products fair, all based on the work of late midcentury architect and designer Niko Kralj. More
Dezeen Showroom: A sleek metal rod runs along the underside of the Ena table, created by Danish designer Mikal Harrsen for furniture brand Rex Kralj, to form coat hooks on either side. More
Dezeen Showroom: The 1960 Chair, a seminal mid-century seating design from late Slovenian architect Niko Kralj, has been expanded into a product family with the 1960 Armchair and Bar Chair, created by Dutch designer Bart Schilder for Rex Kralj. More