The US office furniture maker Herman Miller will buy its peer Knoll in a $1.8bn cash-and-stock deal, Reuters reports.

The Crit is back with its ninth episode, in which the hosts look at the UX design of public mourning, backtracking at the V&A, a new appointment at Het Nieuwe Instituut, and two new Antepavilion designs.

Proposals by Nima Sardar of studioN, and Morgan Trowland and Julian Maynard Smith, will both be constructed for the fifth edition of London's annual pavilion competition.

Aric Chen has been announced as the new artistic and general director of Het Nieuwe Instituut, a Rotterdam-based institute of architecture, design and digital culture.

As goods and products begin to flow freely down the Suez Canal once more, so too has The Crit returned to offer a steady flow of all the latest design news.

How can we measure time in a way that centres long-term environmental change rather than human industry?

Lost Time, a print project launched last year, has returned to highlight the UK's 15.5 percent gender pay gap.

The latest analysis and news from the world of design and architecture is here. We're happy to report that ‘Digital tumescent’, the sixth episode of Disegno’s The Crit is available now.

Founded in 1958, the DSN is the Earth’s most sophisticated means of interplanetary exchange – the system by which NASA passes telemetry data between Earth and its spacecraft.