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Dezeen promotion: this year's Dutch Design Week will focus on makers and the creative process, and will include exhibitions, lectures, prize ceremonies, networking events and debates. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Decovery paint ingredient manufacturer DSM is hosting a talk at Dutch Design Week on the vital role that plant-based paint can play in making the whole design industry more environmentally friendly. Read more

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in this movie we filmed during Dutch Design Week, designer Maarten Baas gives us an exclusive tour of his studio on a former farm a few miles north of Eindhoven. (more...) View the full article

Four studios are presenting very different floor coverings in a Dutch design showcase at London Design Festival, demonstrating a range of innovative techniques and technologies. Read more View the full article

Korteknie Stuhlmacher Architecten has completed a family holiday home on an island south of Rotterdam, made up of barn-like structures that take their cues from local agricultural buildings (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Design collective Dutch Invertuals celebrates "the mother of all forms: the circle" with an exhibition of objects from fragmented mirrors to sculptural ceramics. Read more View the full article

Milan 2016: this year's Dutch Invertuals exhibition in Milan featured tactile objects designed as physical representations of emotions, beliefs and even galactic phenomena (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: Amsterdam design studio Denieuwegeneratie have buried a woodland villa beneath a mound of earth at a Dutch nature reserve. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A "closed-loop climate system" centred around a tower of plants will feature in the Netherlands' pavilion at the Dubai Expo 2020. Read more

Curtains glide along tracks on the ceiling to constantly reconfigure the space inside the Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. (more…) View the full article

Orange lockers open to reveal secret rooms, windows, videos and images inside The Netherlands' Venice Biennale Pavilion, in an exhibition that explores the future of physical labour. Read more View the full article

Dutch architecture studio Inbo has completed a transparent house in the Netherlands and has hidden it behind a grove of trees to protect the privacy of its residents (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Wim Crouwel, the renowned Dutch graphic designer responsible for the identity of Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum for more than two decades and founder of Total Design, has died aged 90. Read more

Shimmering aluminium panels are ridged like the top surfaces of bricks on the exterior of this country house in upstate New York by architects Grzywinski + Pons (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

US studio Duvall Decker Architects has created a residence in central Mississippi that is "shaped to draw the outdoors in and lure the family out" (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

MDF tiles and blue carpet are some of the simple materials that architecture studio Dvekati has used to furnish this office in Moscow, which takes cues from the pared-back aesthetic of Soviet modernism. Read more View the full article

California company Dvele has designed prefabricated, off-grid houses with solar panels that allow people to stop relying on "antiquated power grids". Read more View the full article

Chilean studio DX Arquitectos has added a timber-framed roof extension to the home of a yoga teacher in Santiago, providing a studio where she can teach classes (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Swiss studio Roeoesli Maeder Architekten has built anembassy for Switzerland in Nairobi, Kenya, as an extension of the dyed concrete boundary wall that surrounds the compound. Read more View the full article

A crosswalk sign with the people standing apart and warnings not to shake hands are among the series of conceptual signs designer Dylan Coonrad reinterpreted to fit with the coronavirus' social distancing guidelines. Read more View the full article

Milan 2011: French designer Matali Crasset launched this convertible sofa for Campeggi at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan earlier this month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Hong Kong department store Lane Crawford invited eight designers including Tom Dixon (above), Michael Young, Jaime Hayón and Ilse Crawford to revamp the Chinese ming-style chair for an exhibition currently on show at the ifc mall in Hong Kong. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

US firm Dynia Architects has completed a home in the mountain town of Boulder, Colorado, where the main living spaces are separated with thick partitions of Corten steel. Read more View the full article

News: a range of products inspired by a young designer's dyslexia has won the New Designer of the Year Award (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Product news: British industrial design brand Dyson has launched a combined tap and hand dryer so hands can be both washed and dried without leaving the sink. (more...) View the full article