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The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features an inflatable astronaut designed for this year's MTV Video Music Awards. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. More
An inflatable 18-metre-tall astronaut towered over the stage at the MTV Video Music Awards in New York last night, designed by production designer Matt Steinbrenner to celebrate the award show's 40th anniversary. More
Heavy-lift machinery and vehicles informed the set design of the sci-fi horror film Alien: Romulus by production designer Naaman Marshall. More
Panels of translucent fibreglass envelop this multi-level stage designed by Cake Architecture for London arts and music festival Rally, revealing the reusable scaffolding structure at its heart. More
Entertainment architecture studio Stufish has designed 12-metre-high columns and ornate window frames for a stage for artist Lana Del Rey, which was shown at the Reading and Leeds festivals over the weekend. More
Nine kilometres of ribbon were used for one ball alone in series three of Netflix's Regency-era drama Bridgerton, which features decadent set designs that "soaked up materials". More
Set designers Shirin Naveed, Shankho Chaudhuri and Esha Sikander created a mini-nightclub for this year's Glastonbury festival that only played music from South Asian artists. More
Designer Bunny Christie created an ambiguous, white-tiled structure that could be a swimming pool, the inside of a TV or a jumbo pill as the set for the play People, Places and Things, which tells the story of a recovering addict. More
This year's Glastonbury festival debuted stages constructed using reclaimed materials, from storm-felled trees and helicopters to pieces of Heathrow's defunct Terminal 1. Here are five of the most interesting. More
Dutch studio AMO has created a small cabin and picket-fence-lined path as part of the set for fashion brand Prada's Spring Summer 2025 menswear show. More
Architecture studio Piovenefabi has created The Ring stage using repurposed steel beams for the 10th edition of Horst Arts and Music festival in Brussels. More
LA-based design studio Do Lab has created a series of fabric "mushrooms" to cover the audience and performers for one of the stages at this year's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. More
Brutalism, septic tanks and a rejection of the sci-fi status quo informed the set design of the film Dune: Part Two, production designer Patrice Vermette tells Dezeen in this interview featuring exclusive images. More
The set design for the Bottega Veneta Autumn Winter 2024 womenswear show at Milan Fashion Week featured a special edition of Le Corbusier's LC14 Cabanon stool in burnt wood. More
The fictional mega-estate in sci-fi film The Kitchen was designed to "flip the idea of dystopia on its head", says director Kibwe Tavares, who is also a co-founder of VFX studio Factory Fifteen. More
The Oscar-nominated set design for Poor Things aimed to create a "1930s studio movie with today's technology", the film's production designers have told Dezeen. More
Dutch studio AMO emphasised the "paradoxical dichotomy" between office interiors and the natural world for the Prada Autumn Winter 2024 menswear show, which featured a plexiglass runway above grass and streams. More
Danish architecture studio BIG has created an experimental stage set for Danish pop trio WhoMadeWho's world tour. More
Local architecture studio Lemay aimed to rethink the relationship between "the built and the natural" in its revamp of Théâtre de Verdure, which consists of a stage on an island and a fan-shaped seating area. More
Student drawings, scale models, and a life-size recreation of set designer Es Devlin's London studio are on display at an exhibition exploring the designer's 30-year archive at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. More