Rima Sabina Aouf

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Google has worked with artist Lachlan Turczan at Milan design week to present an immersive installation of mist and lasers that allows visitors to move light as though sweeping back curtains. Turczan's artwork Lucida (I–IV) was the main drawcard of Google's Making the Invisible Visible installation, where the tech giant also displayed some of its products and design work.

2 weeks ago | dezeen.com | Rima Sabina Aouf

Dezeen Showroom: ancient stuctures and experimental design approaches inform the Zzzigurat cupboard knob, designed by architecture practice Sans-Arc Studio for Australian door hardware brand Bankston Architectural. A new addition to Bankston Architectural's Super collection of levers, knobs, pulls and cabinetware, the Zzzigurat cupboard knob features a striking geometry of successively receding stacked discs.

2 weeks ago | dezeen.com | Rima Sabina Aouf

Swiss bathroom brand Laufen has worked with designer Yves Béhar to craft the inaugural product made in a first-of-its-kind electric kiln at the brand's factory: a water-saving washbasin, now on display at Milan design week. The Béhar-designed Volta sink is made in Laufen's electric tunnel kiln, which the brand believes to be the first kiln of this type to be used in the bathroom sanitaryware industry.

3 weeks ago | dezeen.com | Rima Sabina Aouf

EcoLogicStudio has opened a new studio and design lab in Turin, Italy, modelled on the typology of a house, as the studio seeks to explore how its experimental biodesign work can integrate with day-to-day domesticity. The Design Apothecary is located in a 19th-century industrial building in central Turin that EcoLogicStudio says was known as Mulini Feyles and served as one of the headquarters of the arte povera movement in the 1960s and 70s.

3 weeks ago | dezeen.com | Rima Sabina Aouf

Japanese video game company Nintendo has revealed the details of its first substantial console redesign in eight years, the Switch 2, in a presentation live-streamed today. Set for release on 5 June, Nintendo's Switch 2 features a larger screen, redesigned Joy-Con controllers that magnetically attach to the console body, and new functionalities catered to multiplayer gaming – including the option to integrate video calls via a new camera.