Button table and Stool X by Babai

Dezeen Showroom: Ukrainian brand Babai has released a design-forward table and stool for children that aims to fit seamlessly into playrooms and adult living spaces alike.

Designed and handcrafted in Ukraine, the Button table and Stool X are both made from high-grade birch plywood and have a structure that Babai co-founders Vika Moskalenko and Olena Zakaliuk aimed to make both minimal and playful.

Three simple structural elements come together in the design – two base sections and a top – and each of these carries its own colour, which the designers say...

Furniture Using Indigenous Volcanic CMUs as Ballast

Industrial designer Octavio Barrera hails from Spain's Canary Islands, where this project was executed. Barrera was hired to design a full complement of furniture—benches, tables, shelves, etc.—for the offices of the Rayuela Association, a community organization in Tenerife.

To keep things affordable, Barrera designed everything out of plywood, all with straight cuts and unfinished edges. These pieces would be too lightweight to reliably stand on their own. Thus for ballast he specified Canary Island concrete block, the region's version of CMUs, which are made using local volcanic rock:

Editorial illustrations spring 2026

Various editorial illustrations commissioned and published winter/ spring 2026

Nestout's Water-Resistant Cap Lets You Charge in Wet or Dusty Conditions

Here's a good piece of UX design, for challenging outdoor situations. Nestout's portable power banks have waterproof caps for the ports, as many outdoor products do. But those caps only work when they're plugged in. The assumption has always been that you've got the cap on when it's raining out.

But what if you need to charge, and can't get under cover? For that situation, the Japanese outdoor brand has designed this water-resistant CAP-1. You push your charging cable's business end through a silicone gasket, plug in, then screw the entire thing shut on the powerbank's threaded neck.

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This Design Award Is Also A Mold. Why?

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We will tell you in a moment, but first we would like to encourage you to enter the 2026 Core77 Design Awards, the final deadline is tomorrow night, Friday March 27th. 

You've done the design work, now get the recognition. This prestigious competition celebrates excellence in design across various disciplines, recognizing innovative projects from professionals AND students alike. Don't miss your chance to showcase your work on a global stage and gain industry recognition: Enter Now.

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The trophy originated with the debut of the Core77 Design Awards 16 years...

Frissón Cultural Space / On Form Studio

© Giovanni Peyrone architects: On Form StudioLocation: Roma, ItalyProject Year: 2026Photographs: Giovanni PeyroneArea: 220.0 m2

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Woonpioniers opts for "modernity tucked inside tradition" at timber-lined Dutch home

A pair of gabled volumes conceal the expansive timber-lined interiors of Light House, a home in the Netherlands designed by local studio Woonpioniers.

Located in the village of Nigtevecht in Utrecht, the home is tucked within a row of homes on a sloping, narrow plot close to a river.

Aiming to maximise this challenging site, Amsterdam-based Woonpioniers designed the home as two gabled volumes that slot together "like puzzle pieces", with stepped floor levels and mezzanines that create deceptively expansive and high-ceilinged interiors.

"By leaning into the restrictions, we – together with the clients – co-created a house that...

"Anything good is kind of costly" says Marc Newson

Forty years ago, Marc Newson designed what would become the most expensive work ever sold at auction by a living designer. In this interview, he reflects on affordability, collectible design and current projects, including Ferrari's first electric car.

Newson, who is considered one of the most influential designers of our time, has famously lent his biomorphic style to almost every kind of object imaginable. "Is there anything Marc Newson hasn't designed?" the New York Times asked in 2012.

Since then, the Australian's catalogue has only broadened. It now encompasses, among other things, a Hermès pen, a Beretta shotgun, AI binoculars, the Qantas Skybed,...

Multiple Neom construction contracts cancelled

A trio of companies have announced the cancellation of contracts to deliver work on the Trojena ski resort and The Line city as the Neom project in Saudi Arabia stalls.

Steel company Eversendai announced this week that its structural steel contract for Neom's Trojena ski village, which is under construction in Saudi Arabia's mountainous Tabuk region, had been terminated.

Italian contractor Webuild also announced the cancellation of its contract to build three dams for a lake at the resort.

Hyundai Engineering and Construction recently said that its contract with Samsung Construction and Trading and contractor Archirodon to construct a tunnel for The Line...

"It's time to see all those circular economy strategies for what they are"

The circular economy is an unhelpfully vague concept that belongs in the recycling bin, writes Smith Mordak.

There's a skip on my street. Builders are putting waste down the shoot clipped to the scaffolding. It's loud, and the builders play '90s pop that creeps into my consciousness. Savage Garden's "Truly Madly Deeply" has been stuck in my head for days.

I don't begrudge them the classic tunes, but the brand-new, plastic-wrapped building materials coming in, the sound of the gas torch melting the bitumen that seals the felt roof, and the big skip are all a bit sad, and making me think:...