Product design
Yuhsien designs glass “flower hoods” informed by bubbles and mochi cake
Decorative tiles and freestanding bathtub feature in INAX showcase at VDF products fair
Sara Sallam’s Orwell jewellery thwarts invasive tracking technology
Ex-Samsung engineers develop “world’s smallest LiDAR device” that makes touchscreens touchless
Freyja Sewell’s Key Workers masks take design cues from science fiction and Buddhism
Cardboard hospital beds that double as coffins developed as “worthy solution” to coronavirus crisis
RCA students design licking phones that turn speech into physical sensations
Milliken’s latest flooring collections include carpet tiles to aid social distancing
Geberit’s latest sanitaryware products include high-rise drainage technology
Seven shelters for city-dwelling bees
Rimbin is an “infection-free” playground concept designed to look like water lilies
Matter’s Sukha concept enables women to carry out smear tests at home
FMG releases collection of tiles that can be applied to any interior surface
Band-Aid launches bandages to “embrace the beauty of diverse skin”
Lukas Wegwerth used lockdown to reassess the material choices in his Three+One project
Outdoor urinal designers offer solutions to pandemic public toilet problem
V&A curator picks five objects that have taken on new meanings during the pandemic
Norimaki Synthesizer device uses electrically charged gel to simulate different flavours
Sanitising bubbles and seaweed capsules among winners of Bompas & Parr hygiene contest
Christophe Gernigon proposes suspended Plex’eat hoods for post-virus dining in restaurants
Space10 shares platform for people to create “dream home” for bees
SAIC graduates share 18 visions of utopia as part of Sight Unseen’s online exhibition
Nanimarquina unveils four new collections of rugs