A celebration of Iittala’s 140th anniversary explores the supernatural tales, magic, and witchcraft that haunt the history of Finnish glassblowing.

Niall McLaughlin Architects’s timber library for Magdalene College, Cambridge, has won the Wood Awards’ 2021 Gold Award.

After the V&A’s U-turn, Glenn Adamson explains how museums have got themselves in a muddle when it comes to chronological order.

From Disegno #11, dancer Adrien Dantou gets comfortable in Hieronymous, designer Konstantin Grcic’s series of experimental seating structures.

Designer Ineke Hans has teamed up with furniture newcomer Circuform to relaunch her injection-moulded REX chair as a closed loop product made from recycled plastic.

Disegno’s roundup from the 2021 London Design Festival.

A data sculpture made out of old bank statements by Pentagram’s Giorgia Lupi puts America’s income inequality into stark relief.

Norman Foster has explained his logic behind continuing to design airports during the climate crisis, citing the potential of geoengineering technologies.

London’s Design Museum has put out a call for entries for its Entrepreneurs Hub – an eight-week accelerator programme intended to aid design-led startups.

A first edition of the Aryton collection, made from reclaimed teak sourced from Imperial College’s old workbenches, will be sold to raise money for the Goldfinger Academy.

The Bell chair sees Konstantin Grcic reflect on the importance of clear information and rigid constraints to the design process.

Connected, an exhibition of new home offices by AHEC and the Design Museum, raises questions around the opportunities and challenges of designing over FaceTime.

The Swiss-Argentinian designer has created two editioned versions of the mechanical pencil that was first developed in 1929.

A look at the phenomenon of woke-washing and the failure of many brands to meaningfully engage with social justice movements.

Pentagram’s Jon Marshall has returned to his back catalogue, designing a new version of the Velo bicycle navigation device.

The Lost Graduation Show at the 2021 Salone del Mobile aims to provide a public platform for the class of 2020-21 – those whose own graduation shows were cancelled by the pandemic.

A roundtable about Blackness in the design industry and discussion of the ways in which the term collates disparate identities.

Bocci’s Omer Arbel joins material scientist Anna Ploszajski for a conversation about the alchemy that occurs when you begin mixing copper with glass.