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Virtual Design Festival launched this week! Here’s a roundup of everything that happened in week one including live interviews, collaborations with cultural organisations and video messages from designers around the world. Pre-launch Video messages: we built up towards the launch day by releasing a few of the many video messages we’ve received from creatives around

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Architecture studio SO-IL has designed a major installation for Lisbon’s Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology that creates a new public route through the middle of the Amanda Levete-designed building via a secret rear entrance. Called Beeline, the intervention allows pedestrians to walk from the city to the waterfront through the centre of the museum’s ovoid

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Dutch designer Maarten Baas has explained how he has adapted to coronavirus lockdown in a short video message recorded for Virtual Design Festival. “Hello, this is Maarten Baas from my studio in the Netherlands,” says Baas. “And this is how I cope with the current situation”. Baas shot to fame in 2002 with his graduation

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The Covid-19 pandemic gives designers the chance to address global challenges instead of making “more meaningless stuff,” designer Hella Jongerius says in this video message recorded for Virtual Design Festival. “From now on, a concerned approach to design will not simply mean returning to past ideas and making more meaningless stuff,” says Jongerius in an

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