A competition to design bio-engineered wool, a spoon created using AI, and a subscription service for speed feature in Design Line this week.

As major institutions put on exhibitions curating utopian visions for the future, Zara Arshad enquires as to whether they have grappled fully with their colonial pasts.

Italian designer Stefano Giovannoni makes subtle updates to Laufen’s Ilbagnoalessi bathroom set.

A Louis Kahn brutalist building comes under threat, a hypertower breaks ground, and lab-grown meat gets approved for human consumption in Design Line this week.

1970s feminist architecture collective Matrix tell curator Viviane Stappmanns how they made space for women in design in this roundtable interview.

Brazilian designer Fernando Campana, one half of the Campana Brothers, has died at the age of 61.

A killer VR headset, Virgil Abloh’s bequest to Black fashion, and the great tech layoffs feature on Design Line this week.

The latest episode of The Crit is out, looking back on design news in October.

Disegno speaks with Vincent Grégoire of NellyRodi, the agency tasked with setting the theme and creative direction of the Maison&Objet trade fair.

MoMA curator Paola Antonelli on collecting code and their new exhibition, Never Alone: Video Games and Other Interactive Design.

This week, Design Line examines the celebrity Halloween costumes arms race, a tumultuous week on Twitter, and a battle between two space rovers.

Members of All in Awe, the co-operative non-profit studio founded by Eva Feldkamp, gather for a roundtable discussion on the importance of altruism in design.

Melting sugar machetes tell the colonial history of La Réunion in the work of designer Yassine Ben Abdallah, the winner of the 2022 Gijs Bakker award.

The Design Line looks at a week in design television, the unravelling of Made.com, Nigo’s World Cup kit for Japan, and much more.

Less Gesamtkunstwerk and more 3D-simulated catalogue, the first Muji-branded hotel in Shenzhen offers Brendan Cormier a hollow experience.

What will the Anthropocene leave behind? From Disegno 33, Lara Chapman unearths the fossils of the future.

Netflix enters the video gaming arena, IKEA raises its prices on flatpack furniture, and the death toll mounts for a desert megacity in this week’s Design Line.

Silicon Valley’s tech moguls designed their apps to be addictive – now they’re offering ways to wean ourselves off them. But can you ever design a perfect digital detox?