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An explosion created these stools by Israeli designer Guy Mishaly. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Frankfurt designer Kai Linke has created a series of vases and side tables by sand-blasting timber to enhance the texture of the grain then casting the resulting shapes in ceramic. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Rotterdam-based design studio Atelier Van Lieshout will present new sculptures in bronze at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in London this autumn. (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

VDF products fair: The Blaziken trousers by Vienna-based label Brandan Josh are named after a Pokémon and made from reclaimed fabric scraps. Read more View the full article

Lebanon architects Atelier Hapsitus’s proposed design for the new headquarters of the BLC bank in Beirut would cantilever over the existing building. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Blee Halligan Architects has renovated and extended a house on Highbury Hill in north London, using black gridded glazing and pale brickwork to frame views into the back garden (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The three pitched roofs of this bungalow extension in Manchester were designed by Blee Halligan Architects to capture sunlight at different times of the day and frame views of trees in the garden (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Designer Tom Evans has developed a range of parenting gadgets that look like collectable toys. (more...) View the full article

In the first of two movies filmed by Dezeen at the Blickfang designworkshop in Vienna last month, curators Stefan Diez, Saskia Diez and Stephen Burks explain the workshop’s remit to develop designers’ business and branding skills. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Young designers discussed the pros and cons of producing their own products and building their own brands at this year’s Blickfang designworkshop, led by Stefan Scholten of design duo Scholten & Baijings (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

In this second movie filmed by Dezeen at the Blickfang designworkshop in Vienna last month, young designers Yi-Cong Lu (above), Hanna Emelie Ernsting and Only ET Will Judge Me talk about what they have learned. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Invisible Design Project educational programme has worked with visually impaired students to launch the "first furniture line designed by blind people" (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Design studio Instant Hutong created changing maps of Beijing’s disappearing ancient alleyways using lenticular printed panels as part of Beijing Design Week. (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival 2013: this four-tier shelving unit with bulging leather shelves by Belgium designer Damien Gernay is on display at London's Mint Shop this month (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Product news: Japanese industrial designer Naoto Fukasawa will launch a stackable wooden stool with a stainless steel footrest for Italian manufacturer Plank in Milan next week. (more...) View the full article

Cubes made from white-painted reinforcing rods form frameworks that support staircases and climbing plants at this renovated house in Ho Chi Minh City. Read more View the full article

Van Staeyen Interieur Architecten has used built-in furniture and bright colours to create both fun and functionality in a house renovation in Antwerp. Read more

Skyscrapers in Seoul: here’s yet another skyscraper proposal for the architectural zoo that is the Yongsan International Business District of Seoul – this time a 385-metre-high tower by architects Kohn Pedersen Fox with a vertiginous swimming pool sticking out two thirds of the way up. (more…) View the full article

Most Loved: Finnish designer Harri Koskinen explains how he came up with the idea of encasing a lightbulb in a glass box to create his iconic Block Lamp in the next movie in our exclusive video series. Read more View the full article

Amsterdam-based product designer Ernst Koning has invented a portable hexagon-shaped Faraday cage to help us switch off from our smartphones. Read more

Block9 co-founders Gideon Berger and Steven Gallagher explain how they built the monolithic IICON stage at Glastonbury in this exclusive video shot by Dezeen at the famous music festival. Read more

Walls appear to be peeling back from the facade of this house by Chinese office AZL Architects, one of 24 architect-designed buildings underway in a forest near Nanjing, China. (more...) View the full article

London-based startup Blocks has designed a smartwatch that allows wearers to choose the functionalities they need by clipping on additional modules. (more…) View the full article

Aoa Architects has clad the stepped gables of a playful apartment block in South Korea with glossy red and white tiles in a reference to the video game Minecraft. Read more View the full article