This year's London Design Festival landmark project, The Pangolin Shield, explores Britain and India's colonial history through a bamboo-grid pavilion covered with shields used both for protection and aggression.
Tiles decorated with hair and a dissolving washbasin made of soap are among the student projects featured in Behind Closed Doors, an exhibition by the Design Academy Eindhoven and Kaldewei at Berlin design festival Currents.
Dezeen Showroom: modernist style and high levels of comfort combine in the Vipp453 Swivel chair, created by Danish brand Vipp for both conference rooms and home offices.
Look-but-don't-touch design exhibitions are inherently unfulfilling so it's good that some designers are finding ways to let people properly interact with their work, writes Alice Fisher.
Designers Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad and Rafael El Baz have used traditional biscuit moulds to create Sweet Terrain, a collection of wall tiles for a HS2 station made from clay excavated during its construction.
White lime-rendered walls frame Casa Amona, a two-storey home and studio in Mexico, designed by local architecture studio Colar to support multi-generational living.
