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Product designer Samuel Wilkinson has created a miniature garden that works like a living Tamagotchi. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cologne 2011: product designer Meike Langer presented this table combined with two clothes rails as part of [D3] Design Talents at imm cologne last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Falling-Down Collection is a series of porcelain containers that Studio Meng-Chan Yu is presenting during the VDF x Ventura Projects collaboration. Read more View the full article

Movie: designers Daniel Rybakken and Francisco Gomez Paz discussed their latest chandeliers as well as the challenges and opportunities of LED lighting in this talk Dezeen hosted for Luceplan in New York. (more…) View the full article

For this month’s top ten we’ve compliled our most popular stories about jewellery. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Our latest Dezeen Watch Store pop-up opens next week at SuperDesign in London, where we’ll be showing the latest watches in our collection, including the Trapezoid series by Naoto Fukasawa for Issey Miyake (above). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

American studio David Baker Architects has completed a housing block in San Francisco that comprises a pair of buildings covered in contrasting white cement and black tiles, and micro apartments inside. Read more

Dezeen podcast: in this podcast recorded at Vienna Design Week, graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister talks about his Austrian heritage, the benefits of keeping a diary and trying to prevent his studio growing. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: Orbit, the latest design from Hong Kong watch brand Ziiiro, is now available at Dezeen Watch Store. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London studios Anomaly and Unit 9 are collating patterns donated by artists, which users can print out with instructions to make origami cranes in exchange for a donation to disaster relief in Japan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architecture firm Takashi Yamaguchi & Associates have completed this house in Ise, Mie Prefecture, Japan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These towering seaside structures imagined by Northumbria University student Thomas Savage would offer habitats for wild birds in winter and house water sports enthusiasts during the summer. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen is media partner with Clerkenwell Design Week, which takes place in London next week, and we’ll be presenting a pop-up Dezeen Watch Store at the Farmiloe Building on St John Street from 24 to 26 May. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architect Toru Shimokawa of STAD clad this shop selling eels in burnt and carbonised cedar. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Israeli designer Ayala Serfaty’s new collection of sculptural furniture and lighting includes upholstered pieces resembling lichen-covered stone. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Italian-Singaporean studio Lanzavecchia + Wai created these paper lamps in collaboration with a Singaporean craftsman who makes masks for a traditional lion dance. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: The flexible Plug & Light fixture by Jung features a magnetic LED that can be rotated, removed and replaced Read more View the full article

New York studio S9 Architecture has conceived a 16-storey office building for a waterfront site that is intended to house 4,000 employees working for tech and creative startups. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Screen: designer Ron Arad phoned Dezeen today to ask us to publish a movie of the bike he designed with sprung steel loops instead of spokes and tyres, to prove it works. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Claesson Koivisto Rune based the stone-like appearance of these massaging pillows on pebbles found on Sweden's beaches. Read more View the full article

We’ve made a few changes to Dezeen which hopefully will make it easier for people to navigate the site and find what they want, without detracting from the clarity and simplicity of our layout. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: Meet is a porcelain surface collection with a wood-like finish, developed by Caesar Ceramics to suit both contemporary and classical interiors. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Wire: German designer Dieter Rams writes about the design of Apple products for The Telegraph. Rams was head of design at German electronics brand Braun for over 30 years and Apple’s senior vice president of industrial design Jonathan Ive acknowledges Dieter Rams as his inspiration. Listen to our podcast interview with Dieter Rams » More about Dieter Rams on Dezeen » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we have teamed up with The Architecture Foundation in London to give away five copies of their book Union Street Urban Orchard, which charts the transformation of a disused London plot into a public garden. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New York studio MB Architecture have completed an art studio in the woods made of two steel shipping containers in Amagansett, New York. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article