Augusta Pownall
Rei Kawakubo designs costumes for Vienna State Opera
Comme des Garcons designer Rei Kawakubo has created the costumes for a Vienna State Opera production of Virginia Woolf's Orlando. More
Designers of Björk's Cornucopia show "ignored the concert rule book"
Icelandic singer Björk worked with creatives from the theatre world who tore up the rule book to create a "delicate" set for her Cornucopia tour. More
Serpentine Galleries appoints Frieze Los Angeles's Bettina Korek as CEO
American arts administrator Bettina Korek has been appointed CEO of London's Serpentine Galleries following Yana Peel's resignation earlier this year. More
Dezeen's top 10 design and technology trends of 2019
For our review of 2019, deputy editor Augusta Pownall picks out ten trends that have preoccupied the design and technology industries this year, from the circular economy to the continued rise of China and a focus on privacy. More
Eurovision 2020 visual identity combines song contest participant's national flags
Design agency Clever°Franke has created a logo for the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 that combines the flag and year that each of the 41 participating countries first competed. More
Tesla divides opinion with Cybertruck "dropped from a sci-fi movie"
The radical design of Tesla's electric Cybertruck, which was unveiled last week, has caused a storm on social media, with some people calling it "courageous" and others "ridiculous". More
Anatomy of an AI System wins Design of the Year 2019 at The Design Museum
Infographic and research project Anatomy of an AI System, which reveals the social and environmental consequences of voice-assistant devices, has won Design of the Year 2019. More
Eco-Visionaries is the latest exhibition about our destruction of the natural world
Eco-Visionaries at London's Royal Academy of Arts looks at how art and architecture can help us respond to environmental change, and is the latest in a line of recent large-scale exhibitions on the theme. More
Five female trailblazers who changed the field of design
Charlotte and Clementine Fiell's book, Women in Design, highlights what made figures like Apple icon designer Susan Kare and architect Zaha Hadid revolutionary. The authors pick five women from the book who transformed design. More
KayaKata creates "audiobook" of videos to accompany their hip-hop tracks
Tbilisi designer Max Machaidze and writer Zurab Jishkariani have produced animated videos to accompany nine music tracks by KayaKata, the hip-hop band they lead. More
The Object is Absent is a "less materialistic" design exhibition for an overcrowded world
The Object is Absent is a multi-strand installation that focuses on the designers' bodies rather than the objects they create, to demonstrate a shift in the priorities for the next generation of makers. More
Watch the video of Paola Antonelli's keynote lecture at Dezeen Day
Our natural world is "fixable, but it will never be the same" said Paola Antonelli at our Dezeen Day conference. Watch Antonelli discuss design's response to impending extinction in the first movie from the event. More
Space10 opens second research lab in creative hub in Delhi
Copenhagen-based research lab Space10 is to open a research and design lab next week, in the Dhan Mill gated compound in south Delhi that is home to emerging design studios, creatives and entrepreneurs. More
Gus Casely-Hayford appointed as first director of V&A East
British historian, curator and broadcaster Gus Casely-Hayford has been appointed the inaugural director of V&A East, the South Kensington museum's east London outpost. More
Biobasecamp pavilion aims to demonstrate the potential of timber in architecture
A timber pavilion called Biobasecamp at Dutch Design Week brought together projects that demonstrate the potential of the "concrete of the future" to fight against climate change. More
"The future isn't terrifying. It just needs to be better" says Paola Antonelli
Humans need to design a better future for the planet, and anger can be a good engine for that change, MoMA curator Paola Antonelli told the Dezeen Day audience. More
50 artists respond to society's struggle to switch off at Somerset House's 24/7 exhibition
In the first major exhibition dedicated to 24/7 culture, Somerset House presents "creative responses to this modern malaise" by more than 50 artists and designers, including Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg. More
Pavilion grown from mycelium acts as pop-up performance space at Dutch Design Week
The Growing Pavilion is a temporary events space at Dutch Design Week constructed with panels grown from mushroom mycelium supported on a timber frame. More
Atelier NL creates benches from storm-felled trees for Dutch Design Week
Atelier NL has made a series of wooden benches from trees uprooted in a huge storm that hit Eindhoven earlier this year, to sit alongside objects made from wood at their studio. More
Dutch Design Week exhibition explores "complex networks" of junk
Design Academy Eindhoven alumni studios look at the myriad consequences of junk in a globalised world in an exhibition at the Van Abbemuseum and across the city for Dutch Design Week. More