Counterspace’s 2021 pavilion has opened in Hyde Park, formed from architectural elements sampled from around the city.

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.

How have Amazon and its online competitors changed the way we buy books? With the launch of Bookshop.org, Disegno set out to investigate.

Disegno is recruiting a new assistant editor to join its team.

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

The Crit convenes to give a quick overview of the new issue of The Quarterly Journal of Design and to run through some short announcements.

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

Boeri will oversee a revised format that will allow the general public to attend the fair for its duration, and buy products at discounted prices.

The co-founder and former director of Vienna Design Week will head up MAK – Museum of Applied Arts from September 2021.

The Paris trade fair will take place from 9 to 13 September, with a programme spread between the physical fair and online.

The 10th episode of The Crit is here, running the rule over ceremonial set design, the death of Yahoo! Answers, Brit awards statuary, and the interior design schemes of the UK government. We also remember the inimitable Alber Elbaz.

The Spanish architect, educator and theorist has been given the highest accolade from the Venice Architecture Biennale, which opens on 22 May.

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.