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Eliminating plastic from the seas is not possible and instead new materials need to be developed to replace plastic, according to the founder of Parley for the Oceans. Read more

Social enterprise Make Bank has released a collection of 24 prints by British creatives, including textile designer Donna Wilson and graphic designer Peter Chadwick, to help fund arts education for disadvantaged children. Read more

This week on Dezeen, architects and politicians praised Mikhail Riches' "ground-breaking" Goldsmith Street after it became the first social-housing scheme to win the RIBA Stirling Prize. Read more

This week we've selected the top architecture and design opportunities based in China including vacancies at architecture studios UNStudio and Aedas. Read more View the full article

Kazakhstani designer Enis Akiev has developed a method for turning single-use plastic packaging into tiles, by emulating the organic process of rock formation. Read more View the full article

Canadian firm Paul Bernier Architecte has extended a dental practice in Montreal with two floors of apartments covered in aluminium panels. Read more View the full article

Los Angeles-based artist Lucy McRae has created a survival kit for a post-apocalyptic future, designed to be carried on the body as if you were a sherpa. Read more View the full article

Designing more sustainable structures is not about deciding what is good or bad, but making more carefully considered design decisions, says architect Diébédo Francis Kéré. Read more View the full article

Design gallery The Future Perfect has created its third Casa Perfect showroom to pay homage to its 1970s aesthetic of the Beverly Hills house it inhabits. Read more View the full article

Provencher Roy and GLCRM Architectes have added a subterranean pavilion to the parliamentary home of the Canadian province Quebec. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: the Axia collection from Australian brand Phoenix is a set of ultra-thin minimalist taps for architecture fans. Read more View the full article

In the fifth and final part of today's collaboration between Virtual Design Festival and Forward Festival, Fredrik Öst explains how his creative agency Snask ended up acquiring a rock band. Read more View the full article

Today we are streaming the entire Dezeen Day conference as part of Virtual Design Festival, including talks by Paola Antonelli, Liam Young, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and more. Read more View the full article

The co-founders of design magazine Sight Unseen will discuss the ins and outs of running an online design exhibition in a live talk with Dezeen as part of the VDF x Sight Unseen collaboration. Watch it here live from 4:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: Markus Jehs and Jürgen Laub modelled the Striad lounge chair for Herman Miller on the "construction of high-performance ski boots". Read more View the full article

Hamburg designer Alexa Lixfeld has sent us new pictures of her Metamorphose collection, including a series of silver cutlery comprising spoons, forks and ambiguous shapes in between. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

British designer Thomas Heatherwick recently launched a chair shaped like a spinning top made of spun steel and copper. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: at Tokyo Designers Week later this month Thomas Heatherwick is to be named Designer of the Year and Tokujin Yoshioka is to be named Artist of the Year in the Tokyo Design & Art Environmental Awards. See press release below. See all our stories about Thomas Heatherwick » See all our stories about Tokujin Yoshioka » (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese designers Nendo have designed stackable packaging for a range of products by Japanese cosmetics brand THREE. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Temporium: come down to our Christmas pop-up store The Temporium in London from 9-19 December and register your details for a chance to win one of several great giveaways, including a signed, limited-edition copy of Peter Blake: Alphabets (above), a 675 Chair by Robin Day, a Rabbit light by Front for Moooi and more. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cologne 2011: these lamps with a mechanism derived from marking tools were among a collection of furniture presented by German designer Bao-Nghi Droste at imm cologne. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This house on a rocky hilltop in Sweden by Swedish architect John Robert Nilsson sits upon on a limestone-covered concrete plinth, which provides a continuous floor surface inside and outside of the house. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This 28 metre-high steel sculpture of the Jaguar E-Type car was designed by Gerry Judah for the Goodwood Festival of Speed, which took place in Sussex, UK, last weekend. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some images of the five winning projects at this year’s INDEX: Awards, including Hövding, an inflatable bicycle helmet (above). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Belgian fashion designer Martin Margiela has completed his first hotel interiors at the Maison Champs Elysées in Paris. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article