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Slideshow: car brand Mini will present a panel-van version of the Mini Clubman at the International Geneva Motor Show next month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architect and designer Oscar Tusquets Blanca was a close friend of Salvador Dalí and collaborated with the artist on a number of furniture pieces. He spoke exclusively to Dezeen about his career, parties with Dalí and his latest furniture based on the Surrealist's paintings (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The Temporium: this tea service by Tina Tsang of London design brand Undergrowth Design is the latest addition to the designer gifts on sale at our pop-up store The Temporium in London next month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

NABA is exhibiting a student furniture collection called Dots as part of the VDF collaboration with Ventura Projects. Read more View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with us at Dezeen, Tom Dixon and Matteo Thun & Partners, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with David Collins Studio, Sruli Recht and more… (more…) View the full article

The Normal Vivid watch designed by Tokyo designer Ross McBride is now only £100.00 (UK and EU) or £83.33 (rest of the world) in the Dezeen Watch Store end of summer sale. Buy now » (more…) View the full article

London firm Tony Fretton has sandwiched two rows of brick houses between a pair of canals in the town of Den Helder in the Netherlands (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for an FF&E interior designer to join London interiors studio Black & Milk, which recently revamped an apartment in the UNStudio-designed Canaletto Tower. More › View the full article

Stuttgart photographer Zooey Braun has sent us his images of this hotel in Ramsen, Germany, by Naumann Architektur, with tree trunks in guests’ rooms. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These ceramic bowls by Belgian designer Ilona Van den Bergh are slip-cast in perfect half-spheres and reshaped while still pliable to create one-off pieces (+ slideshow). (more…)

Dezeen promotion: graduate art and design show Free Range 2010 opens at the Old Truman Brewery in London tomorrow. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Andrew Marr interviews graphic designer Neville Brody about the arts in the digital age on BBC Radio 4. Listen to the interview here » See all our stories about Neville Brody » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Design students Wing Yi Hui and Lap Ming Wong of the Oslo School of Architecture and Design have completed a domed latticed pavilion as part of a performance-oriented design project. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dublin creative agency Boys and Girls has installed a new reception desk supported by giant Jenga blocks at one end and balloons at the other. (more…) View the full article

Here’s another stadium designed by German studio GMP Architekten (see our earlier stories here and here) for the 2010 FIFA World Cup starting this week in South Africa. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This pod-shaped woodland retreat floats on a net between the trees in Dorset, UK. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Nicolai Ouroussoff, outgoing architecture critic at the New York Times, reviews the Central China Television building in Beijing by Rem Koolhaas of OMA: “The forms are a reworking of classical perspective; the irregular structure is an attack on Modernist ideas about structural purity”. Read Ouroussoff’s review | Read Dezeen’s August 2008 story about the CCTV building (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the winners of the D&AD awards were announced at a ceremony in London last night. Winners include the iPad and Plumen 001 light bulb in the consumer product design category, Thomas Heatherwick’s Seed Cathedral at Shanghai Expo 2010 and Studio East by Carmody Groarke in the spatial design section, and Puma’s Clever Little Bag in the packaging category. See all the winning projects on the D&AD website. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Skidmore Owings & Merrill designed this latticed pavilion in lieu of a Christmas tree for the courtyard of a building designed by the late Jørn Utzon in Aalborg, Denmark. Read more View the full article

Tokyo studio Nendo have collaborated with a traditional Japanese potter to create a flat, square loudspeaker made of 1mm thick ceramic decorated with intricate patterns. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French architect Jean Nouvel has designed a sprawling, stone-clad residential development for the outskirts of Quito that echoes its mountainous surroundings. Read more View the full article

Bags of rice and bottled condiments are displayed on simple plywood units inside this former Tokyo greengrocers that has been converted into a tiny rice shop, cafe and a home for the proprietor (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

We’ve teamed up with publishers Fiell to offer our readers the chance to win one of five copies of Cult-ure by graphic designer Rian Hughes. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Readers are debating Kate Wagner's coining of the term "coronagrifting" to describe outlandish coronavirus-related proposals and sharing their thoughts on other top stories in this week's comments update. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this movie filmed at Dezeen Space, Spanish designer Roger Arquer talks about the furniture he made for his daughter using wooden spoons, rolling pins and a pastry brush. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article