Design

A report from Europe’s longest-running design biennial, this year focusing on what it means to be ‘critical’

In the first episode of a new six-part film series in collaboration with Bang & Olufsen, Design Matters, London-based designer and artist Martino Gamper talks about the idea of contact: how the human body informs his approach to furniture design

Flavin Judd talks about protecting his father’s legacy, and how the Judd’s furniture - presented at Frieze New York - got made

Community-minded, small-scale, sustainable: designing for China's 'new normal'

From Anthony Burgess being bitchy to a primer for Xenofeminism: what to read this weekend

How should designers respond to disaster?

An interview with Aric Chen, M+ curator of architecture and design, about his plans for the collection and revisiting historical global narratives

How technological developments are changing our relationship to control 

Are designers of colour finally getting the recognition they deserve?

A weekend at A House for Essex, a collaboration between Grayson Perry and Charles Holland

Cabaret Voltaire looks for investors and The Metropolitan Museum unveils its new logo: a round-up of the latest art news

Award-winning novelist Ali Smith responds to Sonia Delaunay's joyful and 'simultaneous' approach to life, art and design

The French artist Nathalie du Pasquier recollects the people, images and places that have shaped her career

Sarah Hromack unpacks the work of the Dutch design studio

Design, architecture and optimism in postcolonial Africa

An alternative history of graphic design

In the studio with designer Fraser Muggeridge

How the iconic, discontinued Ambassador car has inspired Indian artists

Various venues, Brno, Czech Republic

Muriel Cooper: a graphic design pioneer who anticipated the digital revolution