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Manufacturers in Spain are reopening their factories after two weeks in total lockdown to stop the spread of coronavirus, with brands to promising to "bounce back". Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: design brand Fritz Hansen has reissued its stacking Vico Duo chair to celebrate 100 years since the birth of its designer Vico Magistretti. Read more View the full article

Daily data visualisations created by John Burn-Murdoch for the Financial Times have provided one of the most reliable pictures of the global coronavirus pandemic. He spoke to Dezeen about how his charts allow people to stay informed independent of politicians and other influences. Read more View the full article

French studio Topos Architects have completed a nursery in Nantes where the gabled ends are clad in red polycarbonate, engraved with floral patterns. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: The Herman Miller Lino office chair is designed by Sam Hecht and Kim Colin to offer optimum comfort and a "wide range of aesthetic options" in the workplace. Read more View the full article

Designer Sophie Duran of Rotterdam has created a collection of facial jewellery including these lips that can be inflated with a hand pump. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This pair of pavilions by Dutch studio Hansteerds Architectuur mark the entrance to a cemetery in the city of Blankenberge, Belgium. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Featured architect: David Chipperfield is our featured architect at the moment, having just been announced as this year’s winner of the Royal Gold Medal for architecture (see our Dezeenwire story). Browse all Dezeen’s stories about him in this special category. Featured architect: David Chipperfield Above photograph is by Martin Godwin </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Swiss watchmakers Tudor present two models in their 2010 collection, including the Tudor Heritage Chrono (above). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: architect Norman Foster is working on designs for Apple’s new campus in Cupertino, California – El Economista (in Spanish) via Gizmodo More Dezeen stories about Foster & Partners </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Los Angeles architects Emergent have won a competition to design a sports centre and arena for the 12th National Games of the People’s Republic of China, to be held in Liaoning in 2013. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this movie filmed by Dezeen at Ventura Lambrate in Milan last month Rotterdam designer Diederik Schneemann presents his series of vases and lamps made from recycled flip-flops. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Check out all our stories about this year’s Royal College of Art graduate show, including a 3D-printer that uses sunlight to make sand into glass objects, clothes that feed information to smart phones and spectacle frames made of hair. See all the stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Continuing our special feature about swimming pools, here’s a timber pool house with limestone walls beside a farmhouse in Surrey, England. See a movie of the building on Dezeen Screen » (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch Design Week 2011: designers Raw Color and Studio Mkgk present people dressed as trees as part of Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven this week. Watch the movie on Dezeen Screen » (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This take-away packaging by Casey Ng combines a paper bag top with a rigid carton for the base. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Brightly coloured and patterned panels chosen by different groups in the local community adorn a new library and learning centre in Melbourne, Australia. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Oriented strand board lines every wall, floor and ceiling inside this residential barn extension in Norfolk, England, by London studio Carl Turner Architects. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: our second project this week by Stuttgart architects Werner Sobek Design is a huge cantilevered altar that was temporarily constructed in Freiberg, Germany, for the pope’s visit last year (photographs by Zooey Braun). (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

One year ago a proposal for 47 lodges carved into the side of a sandstone cliff in Jordan sparked a furious debate about the project’s “ecological” credentials and London designer Dominic Wilcox created a provocative stylus for using a touch-screen phone in the bath. Architecture projects completed this time last year included David Chipperfield’s Turner Contemporary gallery on the seafront of Margate in England, and a shopping centre on the site of a traditional marketplace in Abu Dhabi by Foster + Partners. Meanwhile, a mobile art pavilion by Zaha Hadid was a hit with readers, while the design for a Comic and Animation Museum in China by Dutch studio MVRDV was compare…

Calling creative businesses in the London borough of Hackney! As part of our Designed in Hackney Day on 1 August, we’re offering twelve FREE stalls at an indoor market at Hackney House on Shoreditch High Street. (more…) View the full article

London based graphic designer Sarah Hyndman has completed her year-long project photographs objects arranged in groups of five to look like the Olympic rings (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: architect Frank Gehry (pictured above, left) is designing the new campus for social media giant Facebook, which claims it will be the largest open-plan office in the world. (more…) View the full article

This all-white summer house outside Moscow by architect Peter Kostelov has sunbeds and a see-saw but no windows or doors. (more…) View the full article

Hundreds of perforations are dotted across the monolithic facade of this weekend house outside Mexico City by AS/D Asociación de Diseño. (more…) View the full article