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.
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the MTV Video Music Awards, production designer Matt Steinbrenner crafted an 18-meter-tall inflatable astronaut. The massive figure loomed over the stage at this year's show, which took place in New York last week.
Some readers admired the design, with one calling it "a joyful kind of branding", while another criticised it, remarking "more plastic... just what the world needs".
Other stories in this week's newsletter that fired up the comments section included the "world's lightest" glass whisky bottle designed by beverage company Diageo, Snøhetta's expansion of Omaha's Joslyn Art Museum and Foster + Partners' renovation of San Francsico's modernist Transamerica Pyramid.
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