Throughout June, Surface teamed with the Stuart Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania to craft a digital summer program for students to participate in during quarantine. Spearheaded by Winka Dubbeldam, Miller Professor and chair of the Department of Architecture, students were invited to respond to a brief to design a mobile medical testing unit for COVID-19. The competition was supplemented by an online lecture series featuring leading designers, architects, and doctors on the front lines of the pandemic.

At the end of the month, a jury of distinguished architects, educators, graphic designers, and industrial designers assembled to select the winners. Collectively, the student submissions are a showcase of the next generation of creative thinking and ingenuity, from a playground-themed concept and one inspired by a cumulus cloud to a design that resembles origami. Check out the top submissions.

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After meeting as co-workers at Whitehall Interiors, Stephanie Schroeder and Cat O’Brien teamed up to launch Alchemy Studio, their own interiors firm. Though a recent venture, the duo has already carved out a distinct look and feel for their projects, which comprise an array of sleek multiunit residential buildings infused with elements of darkness and mystery.

When: Until Jan. 29, 2021

Where: Domaine des Etangs, France

What: Taking place at the 2,500-acre private estate’s La Laiterie art space is a career-spanning showcase of 60 essential works by Yves Klein, the French artist best known for his signature color Klein Blue. The documents and films on display, which include Architecture de l’air, his utopian vision to build more flexible cities from the elements of fire, air, and water, explore his spiritual bond to nature and the cosmos.

Lexus is an automotive company that takes inspired design, relentless innovation, and uninhibited performance and turns them into passionate, moving experiences.

Surface Says: Lexus marries a Japanese appreciation for design, an ethos dating back thousands of years, with a thoroughly modern approach to engineering. The marque’s sleek vehicles always carry a sense of surprise and a strong attention to detail.

An Italian artist carves a huge portrait of Joe Biden into an empty field.

One of the original Rosie the Riveters, age 94, has been making face masks.

The artist Eva Fàbregas’s latest sculpture feels like a sensory intestinal tangle.

Andy Thomas visualizes the various squawks and coos of Amazonian birds.