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This summer, a new era begins with Jurassic World Rebirth, an inventive continuation of the iconic Jurassic series. Rogue Ones Gareth Edwards directs this thrilling installment starring Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, and Mahershala Ali in a high-stakes mission to secure the future of humanity amidst a world where dinosaurs linger in the shadows.The movie takes place five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion. On this planet, dinosaurs exist only in isolated tropical ecosystems. Johansson plays the role of Zora Bennett, a covert operative who leads a mission to recover genetic material from the three largest dinosaur species. What begins as a tactical operation collides with the fate of a stranded family, revealing shocking secrets on a forgotten island once tied to the original Jurassic Park.It stars with a screenplay by Jurassic Park writer David Koepp, and visual effects are helmed by David Vickery and the legendary ILM. Jurassic World Rebirth promises jaw-dropping action and unforgettable moments. Mark your calendars-this pulse-pounding adventure hits theaters July 25!The post Jurassic World Rebirth Official Trailer appeared first on Vfxexpress.

Over the first 16 days of the Trump administration, Elon Musk and a small team at the Department of Government Efficiency has systematically started to dismantle the agencies that keep the country running.DOGE workers have taken multiple actions that experts say are illegal, from accessing private taxpayer data to pushing workers out of their jobs. Musk (and Trumps) power grab has arguably created a constitutional crisisand seems likely to only get worse. This is totally outside the bounds of the way the federal government should operate, and is required by law to operate, says says John Davisson, director of litigation and senior counsel at the nonprofit Electronic Privacy Information Center. So far, no one has stopped Musk. But its possible that lawsuits that are now underway could succeed.Musk is behind a push to try to get 2 million federal workers to quit their jobsincluding air traffic controllers, in an email that went out the day after a plane crash in D.C. killed 67 people. (This happened despite the fact that 90% of airports currently have a shortage of workers.) Only after a second plane crashed in Philadelphia, a day later, were air traffic controllers exempted from the general effort to try to get federal employees to take buyouts.An email sent by DOGE officials claimed that workers who took buyouts would get paid through September if they agreed to quit this month. As of Tuesday, at least 20,000 workers had agreed to leavebut the government doesnt have the funding to pay them, and DOGE doesnt legally have the authority to make the buyout offer in the first place. Meanwhile, some roles that cover vital day-to-day work will go unfilled. Some agencies, like the Justice Department and FBI, have seen firings that are also likely illegal.Musks team also reportedly accessed classified information at USAID, the international aid agency, without the proper clearance; the security officers who tried to stop them were put on leave. Musk later said that he spent the weekend putting USAID into the wood chipper, and that the humanitarian agency, which has saved millions of lives, was a criminal organization and it was time for it to die. On Friday, USAID announced that its 10,000 employees will be put on administrative leave.DOGE also reportedly accessed private Treasury payment systems that contain Americans personal data, including tax information and social security numbers, despite potential conflicts of interest with his own businesses and the risk that the data could fall into the wrong hands. Another career official was placed on leave for trying to prevent Musks teamincluding some college-age programmers with no government experiencefrom seeing the data.That band of personnel is barreling in to agencies across the government, upending security and privacy and confidentiality protections and established procedures, to gain access to databases that in many cases contain vast amounts of sensitive personal information from the general public and from federal employees, says Davisson. And they are doing this to remake the federal government in their preferred manner, regardless of what Congress has ordained.U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks to a crowd gathered in front of the U.S. Treasury Department in protest of Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency on February 4, 2025. [Photo: Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images]The approach seems to be to move fast and break things, including the lawMuch of DOGEs work is illegal, experts say. Basically, the approach seems to be to move fast and break things, including the law, says Laura Dickinson, a law professor at the George Washington University Law School who focuses on national security and human rights. A lot of what his team is doing appears to be illegal, and theyre putting the burden of challenging this on people that are harmed.DOGE is potentially breaking multiple laws. Its access to taxpayer information, for example, is very likely illegal under the Privacy Act and under aspects of the Internal Revenue Code, which guarantee confidentiality of information, Dickinson says. Theres also a case to be made that it could violate the Federal Information Security Modernization Act, which has some cybersecurity protection. The issue here is just that that personal data is very closely regulatedwho can have access to it, for privacy reasons, but also for security reasons. Its really quite dangerous to kind of change the process for handling that data. There could be greater exposure to hackers and others.In the case of USAID, because it was established by Congress, Musk and Trump dont get to choose whether or not it survives. Theres no current authority for this president, or any president, to abolish USAID, says David Super, a law professor at Georgetown University with expertise in administrative and constitutional law. So hes flatly disregarding a binding statute of Congress. The administration has folded USAID into the State Department, something that it also doesnt have the authority to do.Now Musks team is also targeting the Department of Education, which Trump reportedly wants to shut down via executive order. The DOGE team also showed up at the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on Tuesday, reportedly accessing computer systems with more confidential information. Project 2025 called for the agency to be broken up and downsized. Like USAID, the president doesnt have the legal authority to close either department.DOGE also doesnt have the authority to tell employees to quit. Federal law does allow for buyouts, but only if an agency decides that it wants to staff to leave early and submits a plan to the Office of Personnel Management and gets the plan approved. DOGE has created something entirely different, without any legal authority, in which they are effectively promising federal employees that they will be paid for doing no work between now and the end of September, Super says. Making such a promise is illegal, and they also have no authority to keep the promise even if they wanted to. (Unions representing federal workers have warned that the buyout offers are scams, and that workers are unlikely to actually get paid.)Lawsuits are underwayBecause the work is illegal, lawsuits are part of the answer. Federal employee unions sued the Trump administration on Tuesday for allowing DOGE access to sensitive data. The largest union also sued over the buyout offers, saying that the policy is pretext for removing and replacing government workers on an ideological basis. Public Citizen, an advocacy group, is suing over DOGEs violation of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, a law that requires public meetings and more transparency over what the government does. More lawsuits will come. USAID workers could sue, and so could recipients of funding from USAID, including contractors who work for the agency. Anyone whos affected, including citizens, could potentially sue. For example, if there is someone who is signed up to get extension courses from the Agriculture Department and those courses are cut off because of the illegal change in the job responsibilities of the people who were supposed to teach that course, people could absolutely sue, says Super.Its possible that some court cases could move quickly, in the same way that a court almost immediately blocked the Trump administrations attempt to freeze all federal funding. That doesnt mean that there wont be serious harm, Super says. Weve heard of AIDS treatment programs overseas and other things that desperately need continuity that have been shut down. All the people whose lives have been upendedpeople who are wondering how theyre going to make their mortgage, having taken jobs with the federal government often for less than the private sector would offer, expecting the job security that federal law provides themnow seeing their lives upset. Still, he says lawsuits can stop these things quite quickly. Though this also requires the Trump administration obeying the rulings of the court.Congress also needs to act, says MariaMcFarland Sanchez-Moreno, CEO of RepresentUS, a nonprofit that fights corruption. Its urgent that Congress do its job, she says. They are responsible for exercising oversight over the executive branch. Although several Congresspeople have spoken upSenator Brian Schatz, for example, vowed to put a blanket hold on nominees for the State Department to protest whats happening to USAIDthe majority still havent. Nobody should be silent in the face of this, Sanchez-Moreno says. And frankly, this should not be a partisan issue. This is about very traditional, historically conservative values of rule of law and preventing corruption and abuse of authority and respecting the constitution. In her past work in international human rights, she says she saw firsthand how important it was to act.These sorts of issues are easier to address earlier than laterI say that having worked on autocracy and corruption in many parts of the world, she says. Once you have attacks on the rule of law, if its not protected in a pretty strong way, it can be harder to recover it.Everything DOGE has done follows the playbook that Musk has taken at his own companies, where hes skirted labor laws and ignored safety regulations. In some cases, hes gotten away with it. The stakes are obviously higher now. This is a fast-rolling catastrophe, says Davisson. It is happening right now and demands an immediate response. I think all of our business in Congress should be put to the side and stalled wherever possible until this gross criminality and illegality is corrected and the DOGE is forced out of these systems.

A sweeping new U.S. tariff on products made in China is expected to increase the prices American consumers pay for a wide array of products, from the ultracheap apparel sold on online shopping platforms to toys and electronic devices such as computers and cellphones.An additional 10% tariff on all Chinese goods took effect Tuesday, while the U.S. Postal Service announced it will stop accepting parcels inbound from China and Hong Kong until further notice.The previous day, President Donald Trump agreed to pause his threatened tariffs against Mexico and Canada for 30 days following negotiations on Trumps demands for the North American nations to take steps to reduce illegal immigration and the flow of drugs such as fentanyl into the U.S.After failing to get a similar White House reprieve, China struck back with retaliatory tariffs on some U.S. goods that are set to begin next week.The sheer volume and variety of the China-made merchandise sold in the U.S. means residents would probably see the prices of many typically inexpensive items tick higher if the tit-for-tat tariffs persist.These are some of the products most likely to be impacted:Electronics, home supplies, and car partsThe U.S. imported about $427 billion worth of goods from China in 2023, the most recent year with complete data, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Consumer electronics, including cellphones, computers, and other tech accessories, make up the biggest import categories.China is a dominant production engine for tech gear, including for American companies like Apple that have their products assembled in the country. In 2023, China accounted for 78% of U.S. smartphone imports and 79% of laptop and tablet imports, the Consumer Technology Association trade group reported.The tariffs also may affect how much consumers pay for typically inexpensive clothing, shoes, and kitchen items like pots and pans, as well as the big-ticket items, such as appliances, furniture, and auto parts.Jay Salaytah, 43, who runs his own auto repair shop in Detroit, said he bought some pieces of equipment sooner than he might have, anticipating they would cost more if Trump implemented his campaign promise to use import tariffs as a tool to promote U.S. manufacturing.I knew the costs were going to go up, and these are manufactured in China, Salaytah said of a probe test light he purchased before Tuesdays tariff went into effect.Low-cost apparel and accessoriesIn addition to imposing a new tariff on Chinese imports, Trumps executive order also suspended a little-known trade exemption that allowed goods worth less than $800 to come into the U.S. duty-free. The order left open the possibility for the loophole to still be used with shipments from other countries.The trade rule, known as de minimis, has existed for nearly a century. It came under greater scrutiny in recent years due to the rapidly growing number of low-cost items coming into the U.S. from China, mainly from prominent China-founded online retailers such as Shein, Temu, and Alibabas AliExpress.Former President Joe Bidens administration proposed a crackdown on the loophole in September, but the rules did not take effect before Biden left office.Shein and Temu have gained global popularity by offering a quickly updated assortment of ultra-inexpensive clothes, accessories, gifts, and gadgets shipped mostly from China, allowing the two e-commerce companies to compete on the home turf of American companies.Seattle-based Amazon is trying to compete with them through an online storefront that mimics their business model by offering cheap products shipped directly from China.Chinese exports of low-value packages soared to $66 billion in 2023, up from $5.3 billion in 2018, according to report released last week by the Congressional Research Service. In the U.S., Temu and Shein comprise about 17% of the discount market for fast fashion, toys, and other consumer goods, the report said.How much will prices go up?Its unclear. Under de minimis, Shein, Temu, and AliExpress could bypass taxes collected by customs authorities. But under the changes effective Tuesday, company shipments from China will now be subject to existing duties plus the new 10% tariff imposed by Trump, analysts said.The vast majority of these orders are valued less than $800, which means all or virtually all of them are going to get caught in that, Youssef Squali, an analyst at Truist Financial, said.Juozas Kaziukenas, founder of e-commerce intelligence firm Marketplace Pulse, said he thinks the price increases on platforms like Shein and Temu will be pretty small and the products they sell will remain cheap. However, the rule change is likely to result in delivery delays since the packages now have to go through customs, Kaziukenas said.The new tariffs will also hit third-party sellers on Amazon that import products from China, according to Squali. He expects sellers to eat some of the costs and pass the rest onto customers, which he thinks could result in percentage price increases in the mid-single digits. Other e-commerce sites that host businesses, such as Etsy, are also going to be impacted, Squali said.Temu, which is owned by Chinas PDD Holdings, has previously said its growth did not depend on the de minimis policy. Though most of its products are shipped from China, Temu has been recruiting Chinese merchants to store inventory in the U.S., a move that experts said would allow it to not be as exposed to changes around the trade rule.In January, China also introduced measures to help cross-border e-commerce build overseas warehousing by offering them tax rebates or tax exemptionsWhat are U.S. retailers saying?The day after Novembers U.S. presidential election, Brieane Olson, CEO of teen clothing chain PacSun, went to Hong Kong to meet with factory executives to figure out ways to prepare for Trumps tariff plan.Roughly 35% to 40% of PacSuns garments are made in China, even as the chain has accelerated moves to diversify with suppliers in countries like Cambodia and Vietnam.But Olson said Trumps 10% tariff on Chinese goods was less extreme than the company anticipated. For now, PacSun doesnt plan to increase prices on its products or move its manufacturing of knitwear and denim out of China.Toys are another category of consumer products that relies heavily on imports from China. Greg Ahearn, the president and CEO of The Toy Association trade group, said he thinks toy companies that source in China are going to absorb the cost of the new tariff in the short term.Eventually, those price hikes will be moved onto the consumer, Ahearn said.Associated Press writers Anne DInnocenzio in New York, and Christopher Rugaber and Didi Tang in Washington contributed to this report.Haleluya Hadero, Associated Press

The Dezeen team are reporting live from Stockholm Design Week in the Swedish capital, where blown glass, woven grass and wiggly furniture caught our collective eye on 4 February.6.00pm put a plug in itFor the last post in our live coverage from Tuesday in Stockholm, Dezeen's design editor Jennifer Hahn misquotes Ren Magritte: ceci n'est pas une butt plug, she writes, about what is, the designer claims, in fact a large wooden stool created by Konstfack student Adam Fredrik Olsson as a tongue-in-cheek parody on the design industry and its gender skew.The designer describes the piece of wooden furniture as a stoolAlso being exhibited as part of the Konstfack show at Stockholm Furniture Fair is a series of furniture by Bjrn Olsson made using mycelium, which was used to clean toxic contaminants from a local industrial area in a process known as mycoremediation.Bjrn Olsson furniture collection was made with mycelium. Images Jennifer Hahn5.45pm call me maybeFredrick Nielsen invited journalists into his neon pink workshop to blow glass and drink champagne from the heaviest and most decadent goblets Stockholm has probably ever seen.Fredrick Nielsen's studio is currently bright pinkThe Swedish artist emblazons his mobile number onto most of his work, including on a large bronze coin which is installed at a school, often leading to phone calls from baffled members of the public, he told Dezeen.Journalists were invited to blow glass and drink champagne (in that order!). Images by Jane Englefield5.15pm crocheted grass chairThe same rush grass used to make tatami mats has been made into ropes and crocheted into upholstery to create the Igusa rope chair by Japanese studio Tokyo Product.The Igusa rope chair was crocheted from rush grasses"There is currently only one craftsman in Japan who has this skill," said founder Yoshiaki Koda.The chair is on display at the Stockholm Furniture Fair 2025Sadly, the base is still made from polyurethane foam, but Koda says the chair is still in development, so there is room for improvement. Jennifer HahnThe crocheted grass upholsters a foam seat. Images by Jennifer Hahn4.45pm scented sanctuarySwedish design studio All Matters Studio has created a peaceful space where visitors can escape the hustle and bustle of the fair and experience a scent installation.Giant alchemists' bottles were on displayDesigned for its artisan perfume brand En Doft, the minimalist space features a wooden walkway which leads visitors into all-white spaces scented by the brand.A wooden walkway makes up part of the installationAs well as premiering its new Insula Mane scent, with top notes of bergamot and eucalyptus, visitors can experience its woody Domus Sanctus perfume.The exhibition provides a peaceful spaceAll Matters Studio decorated the space with naked tree branches and alchemists' bottles. The result is a calming stand with a more sensory experience leading one visitor to wonder why all fairs don't think more about how they smell. Cajsa CarlsonImages by Cajsa CarlsonFind out about All Matters Studio's other event happening this week a flower shop takeover4.15pm Dezeen Dispatch spotted in the wildDezeen Dispatch is available across Stockholm during design week. Image by Jane Englefield4.00pm defiantly knobbly furnitureNorwegian designer Anna Maria fstedal Eng is showing as part of Hanna Nova Beatrice's lvsj Grd project for experimental and collectible design at the fair.Using American hard maple leftover from a previous project, fstedel Eng has created a series of knobbly furniture that echoes the defiant twists and turns of tree roots.Chairs feature natural and designed knobbles"Wood is so strong," she told Dezeen's Jane Englefield at the fair. "If it wants to force itself into a fence, it will."Images by Jane Englefield3.30pm pack your snusPerhaps the most Swedish thing we've seen so far is this project by designer Melissa Ciardullo, which explores alternative packaging solutions for snus tobacco pouches that are stuffed under the upper lip and left to dissolve.Melissa Ciardullo has designed alternative packaging for snusSwedes currently smoke the least out of all Europeans, but snus is used daily by 14 per cent of adult Swedes, creating a huge amount of plastic packaging waste.The exhibit displays snus holders from different generations. Images by Jennifer HahnCiardullo's project part of an exhibition on Plastic Perspectives in Stockholm Furniture Fair's Hall C explores the pros and cons of switching to reusable tins or bioplastic packaging. Jennifer Hahn3.00pm Swedish design is f***ing amazingSwedishdesignhas long been associated withminimalism orIKEA, whose affordable, practical furniture is now synonymous with the country around the world. But in recent years, Sweden's design scene has become increasingly varied.With a difficult economic environment contributing to an uptick in innovative design, designers are blending traditional craft with new technology and focusing on sustainability.Cajsa Carlson takes the temperature of the country's design, speaking with designers about emerging trends amidst chatter that Swedish design is having a "more interesting moment" than in the '90s.Read: Swedish design is "bold, explorative, conscious and f***ing amazing"2.00pm last night's dinnerDeputy editor Cajsa Carlson started her week in Stockholm with a dinner at textile brand Svensson's showroom in Sdermalm.Svensson worked with designer Shane Schneck and fashion designer Angelo da Silveira on the exhibition, Malleables, which saw them create new types of products from Svensson's leftover materials.Shane Schneck (left) has collaborated with Svensson on squishy sofas (front left)Schneck designed a collection of squishy sofas and stools from foam and textile, while Da Silveria made reversible vests that will be worn by Svensson staff. The exhibition will remain on show for a few months.And while the vegetarian dinner by Studio Marion lacked the ubiquitous Swedish meatball, it did feature a round dish tasty Tuscan Gnudi dumplings filled with basil and ricotta.Studio Marion catered the vegetarian meal. Images by Cajsa Carlson1.45pm Dezeen design disruptorsDezeen design and environment editor Jennifer Hahn is moderating a fascinating discussion in our second Design Disruptors talk, titled Materials of the future.Addressing a full auditorium at Stockholm Furniture Fair, the panel tackle the knotty subject of moving away from harmful materials, writes Max Fraser."We need a thousand different alternatives, not just one solution," said Celine Sandberg as her company Agoprene tackles fossil fuel-derived polyurethane foam with seaweed-based alternative. "Ours is just one of them."Dezeen's Jennifer Hahn (right) moderates Materials of the future panel discussion. Image Max Fraser"The expectations around scale of sales is not compatible with the finite resources that are available," said Natsai Audrey Chieza. "We have to work out how to replace petroleum, but there are many complex systems we need to unpick first."Note Design Studio's Cristiano Pigazzini said "quite often it is time and money that trips up progress. Companies are not willing to invest in those things when developing a new product."1.00pm six emerging designersAlthough originally conceived as a way for Swedish manufacturers to launch products,Stockholm Furniture Fairnow shines an almost equally sized spotlight on young, up-and-coming designers.Dezeen design editor Jennifer Hahn has picked the ones to watch for 2025.Taking place from 4 to 8 February, Stockholm Furniture Fair (SFF) is Scandinavia's biggest design fair and the anchor event ofStockholm Design Week.For work by emerging talents, head to the Greenhouse area in Hall C and Hanna Nova Beatrice's collectible design exhibition lvsj Grd in Hall A.Read: Six emerging designers to look out for at Stockholm Furniture Fair 202512.30pm I love lampImage by Jennifer HahnUnofficial icon of the fair is this woman dressed like a lamp. Who is she? Where is she going? Will she ever take it off? I guess well never know! [Ed. note: we will if you go and ask her, Jen!]12.15pm ICYMIDezeen is now in print! Those atStockholm Design Weekcan pick up Dezeen Dispatch at various locations across the city. Everyone else canread a digital version of the newspaper here.Written by the Dezeen editorial team, the 40-page newspaper-style publication contains features and interviews along withour highlights of this year's event.The publication, the first of its kind for Dezeen, will be available for free at venues throughout the design week (3-9 February).Dezeen launches Dezeen Dispatch at Stockholm Design Week11.45am Milan lends a handStockholm has long lacked an equivalent to Milan's legendary Bar Basso an aprs-furniture fair watering hole where designers and industry insider can gather for a negroni sbagliato or three.Guldbaren, or gold bar, is hoping to become Stockholm's version of Milan's Bar Basso. Image Jennifer HahnBut this year, Stockholm Design Week kicked off with a cocktail evening at the Nobis Hotel's Guldbaren, organised in collaboration with Basso's very own Maurizio Stocchetto, who flew in from Italy for the occasion.The golden mirror-panelled bar is hoping to establish itself as the festival's go-to place to see and be seen Jennifer Hahn11.30am is AI too good?Faye Toogood is now on the main stage of Stockholm Furniture Fair for the keynote talk, with Dezeen's deputy editor Cajsa Carlson.Toogood asks "surely AI can design an AI-Faye Toogood chair better than Faye Toogood?"Faye Toogood is the Stockholm Furniture Fair guest of honour this year. Image by Max Fraser"If we don't hold onto craftsmanship, we will lose it," she adds. "The role of a designer is to connect more to humanity and the human action of working with our hands." Max FraserThis talk is part of Design Disruptors: Dezeen talks at Stockholm Furniture Fair 2025.Find out more onDezeen Events Guide Carlson interviewed Toogood ahead of this year's event check it out below.Read: "The way we're designing and manufacturing is broken" says Faye Toogood11.15am Swedish models!Local office Note Design Studio is showing its debut architecture project at its city showroom, which is set within a former bank and still features an old telephone booth and the original vault now used as a (very) secure meeting room.Note's first architecture project is a timber-clad homeThe project is Villa Ottsj, a timber-clad house close to re, northern Sweden. Positioned on a hilly site, the home is made up of three identical volumes with pitched roofs.Now Note's showroom, the former bank features an original telephone boothInterlinked but offset from each other, the buildings were arranged to maximise windows and make the most of the rural setting.The design features three interlinked, pitched volumes. Images by Jane Englefield"It was to follow the height curves better, but also it means that each volume gets a small glimpse of the mountains," architect Jesper Mellgren told Dezeen.Villa Ottsj is Note Design Studio's first foray into architecture and more projects are in the works Jane Englefield11.00am embarrassing thingsGuest of honour Faye Toogood has taken over the entrance hall of the Stockholm Furniture Fair with an installation titled Manufracture, aiming to "demystify the process of designing and making".Faye Toogood's "embarrassing things" are on display at the entrance to Stockholm Furniture Fair"This is an installation where I've emptied my archive," she told journalists. "It's almost a live sketchbook. It's showing things that I'm embarrassed about."Images by Jennifer Hahn"It's showing things that never went into production," she added. "There is a resin table in the corner, which is a material I wouldn't choose today." Jennifer HahnFind out more aboutStockholm Furniture FaironDezeen Events Guide 10.30am frank in the loomThe beloved Swedish heritage brand Svenkst Tenn, 140 years after the birth of designer and longtime collaborator Frank Josef, is showing an in-store exhibition as an homage to Josef.Colourful textiles cover the floors and walls of the Svenkst Tenn spaceTitled Frank in the Loom, the show features a collection of handwoven rag rugs crafted from repurposed textiles originally designed by Josef, combined with Svenskt Tenn's signature linen Jane EnglefieldImages by Jane Englefield10.15am Dezeen DispatchOn the eve of Stockholm Design Week, Dezeen hosted a welcome dinner at the National Museum.Staged in partnership with Nordic Nest, the dinner took place in the grand environs of the museum's Sdra Ljusgrden and brought together international journalists and Stockholm's design community.The dinner was hosted in the Sdra Ljusgrden of the National Museum. Image by Max FraserThroughout the evening, representatives from Nordic brands Iittala, Fritz Hansen, Audo Copenhagen, Grsns and Louis Poulsen introduced new products to the audience.Dezeen's Max Fraser (right) hosted the evening, introducing Nordic brands. Image by Jennifer HahnThe evening culminated in the unveiling of Dezeen's new print publication, Dezeen Dispatch.Guests keenly perused their copies, including Claesson Koivisto Rune's Eero Koivisto who gave it a solid thumbs up Max FraserEero Koivisto was one of the first to get his hands on Dezeen Dispatch. Image by Max Fraser10:00am hej Stockholm!Dezeen's editorial director Max Fraser, editor-at-large Amy Frearson, deputy editor Cajsa Carlson, design editor Jennifer Hahn, social editor Clara Finnigan and design and interiors reporter Jane Englefield are on the ground in Stockholm reporting from Stockholm Design Week (SDW).Dezeen is hosting a series ofevents in the city this year, including ourDesign Disruptors talks, theDezeen Awards 2025 launch party and an event celebrating the first-ever Dezeen newspaper (which launched last night more to follow soon!).Dezeen Events Guide has created an SDW guide, highlighting the key events at the festival this year.As the 2025 event gets under way, take a look at ten unmissable exhibitions and installations including Stockholm Furniture Fair 2025, a pop-up by Form Us With Love and an exhibition by David Taylor at Bukowskis auction house.Read: Dezeen to host party and launch newspaper during Stockholm Design WeekSee Dezeen Events Guide for all the latest information you need to know to attend the event, as well as a list of other architecture and design events taking place around the world.All times are Stockholm time.The lead image is by Jane Englefield.The post Tuesday from Stockholm Design Week 2025 appeared first on Dezeen.

The Dezeen team are reporting live from Stockholm Design Week in the Swedish capital (3-9 February). Updated throughout the day with exclusive previews of products, installations and events.5.00pm terrazzo on tapDesigner Gustav Winsth looked to traditional taverns when designing this city showroom for glassware brand Bobo, reports Dezeen's Jane Englefield.Image by Jane EnglefieldCreated as an after-work spot to enjoy drinks sipped from Bobo's wafer-thin glasses, the showroom includes a pair of distinctive terrazzo taps designed to echo what they pour: one long tap in gold and white for foamy beer and another short pink-red tap for negronis better try both, just to be sure.Find out more on Dezeen Events Guide 4.45pm skl!Architecture studio Claesson Koivisto Rune (CKR) took journalists, including Dezeen's Jennifer Hahn who filed this report, on an exclusive tour of its new studio, taking over a grand 1890s apartment in Sdermalm, which once belonged to "some wealthy family".The new studio space is in a grand 1890s apartmentCKR renovated the home, preserving the classical, linear arrangement of the stucco-clad rooms with their ceramic fireplaces, while new shelving was added using wood repurposed from the studio's 2021 anniversary exhibition at Stockholm's Royal Academy of Fine Arts.Claesson Koivisto Rune renovated the space, maintaining original design detailsThe studio also showcased its latest collection for Swedish heritage glassware brand Orrefors, using three geometric forms the cone, sphere and cylinder to create glasses for any kind of drink (including, and perhaps most importantly, tequila shots).CKR are debuting a new glassware collection for Orrefors at Stockholm Design Week 2025CKR founders Mrten Claesson, Eero Koivisto and Ola Rune said they used an almost architectural approach to designing the assortment, aiming to create "a city of buildings" when setting the dinner table.Dezeen's Jennifer Hahn loves the collection but fears its delicacy!Personally, I'm obsessed but I fear I might break them within about 2.5 seconds of picking them up. Jennifer HahnObligatory shot of architectural models on the shelves of CKR's new studio space. Images by Jennifer Hahn4.15pm feline photogenicThe Dezeen team met the first pet of design week today!The cat was comfortable posing for visiting journalistsAt design studio Matsson Marnell's exhibition in co-founder Magda Marnell's home, the family cat whose name Dezeen sadly didn't cat-ch posed in front of the striking design pieces on show. Cajsa Carlson3.15pm functional sculpturesTeased on the blog yesterday (4.00pm entry), Cajsa Carlson has now written up the full exhibition from experimental design platform lvsj Grd at Stockholm Furniture Fair. Check it out below.Read: lvsj Grd exhibition showcases "functional sculptures" and undulating furniture2.45pm celebrating collaborationTo mark the anniversary of their decade-long collaboration, &Tradition has released a duo of new products from designer Luca Nichetto.Nichetto has designed the Muno chair for &TraditionThe Muno chair is the "little brother" of Nichetto's Cloud Sofa the first-ever product he created for the brand while Gio is a metal homage to Gio Ponti's iconic Murano glass chandelier.The Gio light takes its inspiration from Gio Ponti's Murano glass chandelierLater this year, &Tradition teased, there will also be a celebration of the designer's best-selling Lato side table.The Lato side table is Nichetto's best-selling design for &Tradition. Images by Jennifer Hahn"We are celebrating ten years by doing a special thing with this little fellow that allowed me to live properly," Nichetto joked. "Before that, I was broke."Dezeen's Max Fraser and Luca Nichetto, in conversation, took place last night (February 4) in &Tradition's spaceLast night, Nichetto explained the story behind these new products in a talk with Dezeen's Max Fraser, a fun-filled 40 minutes with plenty of anecdotes from Nichetto's career.2.00pm best foot forwardDezeen's Jennifer Hahn has some great lines from Stockholm Furniture Fair director Daniel Heckscher who, speaking to journalists, said "we're aiming to be the best design fair in the world"."Not the biggest we'll never beat Milan but the best. I'm not quite sure how we're going to get there yet but we're going to get there."1.30pm roll the diceDezeen's Clara Finnigan is taking a time check at David Taylor's Special Effects exhibit, on show at auction house Bukowskis.David Taylor's latest collection is on display at BukowskisTaylor's latest foray into collectible design includes a modern take on a grandfather clock.The pieces are made from aluminiumThe exhibition consists of 25 exclusive pieces created by Taylor in his signature material, aluminium.Find out more on Dezeen Events Guide Images by Clara Finnigan1.15pm disrupt more, waste lessMax's meatballs were well-earned, having just come from the Paper Bar of Stockholm Furniture Fair where he moderated the latest Design Disruptors talk with with designer and educator Ineke Hans, who talked about her work and how to disrupt more, waste less and act better.Ineke Hans (right) takes part in Dezeen's Design Disruptors talk seriesIn the last of four Design Disruptors events that Dezeen has organised this week, editor-at-large Amy Frearson has just taken to the same stage for a panel discussion titled The AI-volution, with speakers Sean Barrett from Interesting Times Gang; design director of FranklinTill Marta Giralt Dunj; Copy Lab founder Carl-Axel Wahlstrm; and Gharage's Alexandra Zenner.Amy Frearson (far left) moderates the final Dezeen Design Disruptors talk at Stockholm Furniture FairMarta Giralt Dunj said "to truly expand our creative potential, we need AI collaborators that challenge us, provoke critic thinking and make space for reflection, experimentation and even failure."1.00pm the money shotDezeen's Max Fraser is enjoying Swedish meatballs for lunch with Annica Eklund, creative director of House of Bolon, who is hosting a pop-up this week in the chic Stockholm restaurant Riche.Image by Max Fraser12.30pm a seat at the tableNJRD is unveiling timber furniture at the Grand Relations office, including a dining table, chairs and a sleek, long bench called Vior designed for communal meals and named after the Norse word for wood.NJRD's new dining table features a full-length matching benchA number of enviable design objects are on display at Grand Relations' office, including a cluster of classic Alvar Aalto for Iittala vases and an irresistible stack of Dezeen Dispatch newspapers. Jane EnglefieldAlvar Aalto for Iittala vases are displayed at the Grand Relations office. Images by Jane Englefield12.00pm Fit for a king! Dezeen social editor Clara Finnigan has been to see seven limited edition pieces by Nick Ross on show at Public Service Gallery.The limited edition of timber furniture is on show at Public Service GalleryThe collection uses the pruned branches of linden trees planted by King Frederick I of Sweden in the early 1700s.Images by Clara Finnigan11.30am love is your colourIt's all about colour for design studio Form Us With Love at Stockholm Furniture Fair this year, where the brand presents its collaboration with Swedish company Dalform.The collection is a collaboration between Form Us With Love and DalformForm Us With Love's collection, called Soft Edge, included benches and cabinets with curved shapes and bright hues, and were a new interpretation of Dalform's public-space furniture.Modular seating and storage systems are rendered in bright coloursFounders and designers Jonas Petterson and John Lfgrendrew on their knowledge of modular design to create the vibrant pieces, which can be combined to create larger storage or seating systems. Cajsa Carlson11.00am brilliantly bad AI designsLeading design store Nordiska Galleriet has started producing its own products, launching this week with the Lamp 53 by Axel Wannberg and the Empire chair by Sami Kallio.Axel Wannberg has designed lamps for Nordiska GallerietFurther to these launches, design studio Front has been experimenting with the possibilities and limitations of AI, with an installation in the store exhibiting their "AI-brilliantly bad" collection.Front worked with a range of AI models to interpret their sketches and drawings into three-dimensional objectsThis evening, Nordiska Galleriet will host the launch of Dezeen Awards 2025 with a talk and party entries have opened today! Max Fraser10.30am 3D-printed feet!Dezeen design editor Jennifer Hahn has spotted these 3D-printed ceramic joints, which hold up the wooden framework of a pavilion in Stockholm Furniture Fair's Greenhouse area, created by design firms Polymorf and Studio Pank.The joints have been 3D-printedThe flexible building system was constructed using timber from diseased elm trees and crooked cherry wood, which would otherwise have been incinerated.Images by Jennifer Hahn9:45am design of noteDezeen editor-at-large Amy Frearson has been to see Note Design Studio's latest project for flooring company Tarkett Atelj.Note Design Studio have designed the conversation pit with TarkettThe Stockholm-based studio has redesigned Tarkett's showroom, adding in a centrepiece that is bound to be a talking point a huge circular conversation pit, lined with yellow-ochre carpet.Charlotte Ackemar (left) and Lukas Petko of Note Design Studio collaborated with Tarkett on the conversation pitMatching cushions can be added or removed, so the pit can be used in various ways. The designers have done such a job of colour-matching the textile that accident-prone Frearson couldn't tell the difference and nearly tried to step down on the wrong one! Amy FrearsonThe installation is at the Tarkett showroom. Images by Amy Frearson[Ed. note: You can play quite a fun game of render vs reality for this project by checking out the listing in the Stockholm Design Week digital guide from Dezeen Events Guide.]9.30am god morgon!Welcome to day two of our live coverage of Stockholm Design Week. As the team get out and about in Stockholm to bring you more design, catch up on everything that happened on Tuesday at Stockholm Design Week 2025.Later today Dezeen's editorial director Max Fraser and editor-at-large Amy Frearson will be moderating the next two Design Disruptors talks at the Paper Bar of Stockholm Furniture Fair.Stockholm designers share their favourite local spots and hidden gemsFor our first print publication, Dezeen Dispatch, Dezeen asked some of the city's most prominent designers (and one architect) to share their recommendations for the best places to eat, drink and soak up culture across the Swedish capital.Find out about everything going on in the Stockholm Design Week guide created by Dezeen Events Guide, highlighting the key events at the festival this year.See Dezeen Events Guide for all the latest information you need to know to attend the event, as well as a list of other architecture and design events taking place around the world.All times are Stockholm time.The lead image is by Jennifer Hahn.The post Dezeen LIVE: Stockholm Design Week 2025 appeared first on Dezeen.

I saw this and immediately thought "The heck is this thing?"I couldn't guess, even after seeing the use case photo: It's called a BraceBlok, and it's basically ballast. It's made by Batisec, a French manufacturer of construction site fencing. These objects, which are made out of concrete and skinned in plastic, weigh 50kg (110 lbs) and are used to brace temporary fencing. As ugly as I find the thing, I suppose form does follow function here. The centralmost cutout in the underside accommodates the separate black base (which weighs another 14kg) for the metal brace. The U-shaped notch admits the brace at an angle, and the Space-Invaders-like shape is so that the blocks can be stacked in transit. Nothing about this object, however, screams "designed in France" to me.

These Alcova objects were designed by the Bouroullec brothers, pre-pandemic. They're still in production, and what a production process it is. I tend to think of glassmaking as a fairly solitary profession, at least the part where the craftspeople are actually working the glass. But in this video released this week by Ronan Bouroullec, we can see that it takes no less than eight master craftsmen, all working in concert, to get the piece into shape before the glass cools:The Alcova is in production by London-based WonderGlass. (That's their factory in the video, located outside of Venice.)

If youre a die-hard Apple Watch fan, there might be times when you feel a bit slighted at how Apple Watch chargers almost feel like afterthoughts. Most simply use the original Apple puck, and the majority simply have it tacked onto a larger all-in-one charging dock for iPhones and AirPods as well. Notable chargers designed specifically for the Apple Watch are almost few and far between, so this rather quirky charging cable comes as a pleasant surprise.Yes, its a charging cable designed to be used by other devices as well, but the presence of a built-in Apple Watch puck makes it clear what it really is for. Yes, theres a block that houses that charging circle for the Apple Watch, serving as an always visible reminder to check your smartwatchs battery level every time you plug something in. Fortunately, that isnt the only trick it knows.Designer: NomadUnless you have a portable and foldable wireless charging dock, chances are you still rely on charging cables to keep your Apple devices topped up on the go. But while thats fine for iPhones and AirPods, it means carrying a separate cable just for the Apple Watch because it can only charge wirelessly anyway. The Nomad Universal Cable for Apple Watch fixes that problem by literally combining those two functions in a single design.The otherwise normal USB-C cable has a block on one end that houses the typical Apple Watch wireless charger, meaning you can charge your Apple Watch on the same cable, whether alone or with an iPhone or iPad. And since this is USB-C were talking about, any combination of charger and device will work, including charging an iPhone via an iPad while also charging the Apple Watch.What about your AirPods, you might ask? Of course, you can charge it normally via the USB-C cable, but you can also place it on top of the Apple Watch charger if either end of the cable is already occupied. It almost offers the same versatility as multi-device MagSafe docks but with a more space-efficient design. Presuming, of course, youre fine without wireless charging for anything but the Apple Watch.The one catch to this design is that youll have to be mindful of the actual power draw when using the Apple Watch charger. Instead of the full 100W capacity, it will use 8W for the Apple Watch and 92W for anything else connected to the cable, which could lead to a bit of a problem with more power-hungry MacBooks. The cable is also specifically designed for charging, not data transfer, and it opted for a slower USB 2.0 spec in exchange for making the cable longer.The post Nomad has the strangest and most useful charging cable for Apple Watch owners first appeared on Yanko Design.