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If no one in the house is sick, there’s no need to go crazy. Depending on the size of your household and how often everyone goes in and out, every other day or two to three times a week should be adequate for cleaning, sanitizing, and disinfecting highly-touched surfaces. If someone in your house is ill, it’s recommended to keep them isolated and to clean surfaces and surroundings daily. Before you get cleaning, remember to check the labels on your disinfectants. ‘Sanitising’ significantly reduces the number of germs and can take a fraction of the time of disinfecting, which kills...

On a Wednesday afternoon as I found myself missing my people—my family is, like many, spread out in different states, I had a genius idea: an all-family virtual happy hour. I sent a Google calendar invite, come as you are (jammies acceptable), and looked forward to Friday night when we could all have a laugh together. Of course, as my personal lightbulb was flickering to life, so were those of many others; over the course of the next few days, I would be invited to a FaceTime catch-up among friends and see others post screenshots of similar such gatherings across...

If no one in the house is sick, there’s no need to go crazy. Depending on the size of your household and how often everyone goes in and out, every other day or two to three times a week should be adequate for cleaning, sanitizing, and disinfecting highly-touched surfaces. If someone in your house is ill, it’s recommended to keep them isolated and to clean surfaces and surroundings daily. Before you get cleaning, remember to check the labels on your disinfectants. ‘Sanitising’ significantly reduces the number of germs and can take a fraction of the time of disinfecting, which kills...

On a Wednesday afternoon as I found myself missing my people—my family is, like many, spread out in different states, I had a genius idea: an all-family virtual happy hour. I sent a Google calendar invite, come as you are (jammies acceptable), and looked forward to Friday night when we could all have a laugh together. Of course, as my personal lightbulb was flickering to life, so were those of many others; over the course of the next few days, I would be invited to a FaceTime catch-up among friends and see others post screenshots of similar such gatherings across...

In the first of three exclusive video interviews with Dezeen for Virtual Design Festival, fashion designer Iris van Herpen explains how her training as a ballet dancer led her to pioneer the use of new technologies and materials in haute couture. The Dutch fashion designer has built her career on taking an experimental approach to fashion, using materials as diverse as silicone, metal lace, iron filings and glass. Her elaborate haute couture collections combine traditional craft with digital techniques such as laser cutting, digital fabrication and 3D printing. Dezeen interviewed Iris van Herpen, centre right, at her Amsterdam studio According...