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Japanese architect Makoto Yamaguchi has created a hair salon in the basement of a Tokyo building, showcasing the patchwork of alterations made by previous occupants of the space. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In this series of drawings French designer and photographer Clo’e Floirat documents her thoughts on design in Berlin, where she’s lived for three years. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

University of Lincoln graduate Sebastian Cox has made a range of furniture from unseasoned coppiced hazel wood. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This house with a pool on its first-floor terrace is by Japanese firm NRM-Architects Office and overlooks a stream in Hyougo, Japan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has sent this letter and video asking for donations to the Red Cross for disaster relief following the earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: architects including Foster + Partners, Aedas and BDP have accused the UK Conservative Party of exaggerating the fees architects were paid under the previous government’s Building Schools for the Future scheme - Building Design </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: Danish designer Jens Martin Skibsted talks about his bicycle brand Biomega and the future of urban cycling in this previously unseen video filmed by Dezeen during the London Design Festival 2010. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New Designers 2011: design graduate Brendan Magennis has made a collection of flat-packed furniture that has no screws or glue and can be assembled with just a few hearty whacks of a mallet. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Berlin designers Beta Tank want to make scaffolding pretty. Designer Eyal Burstein has started out by casting a series of scaffolding joints in glazed porcelain with gold and platinum nuts and bolts. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Paris architects Béal & Blanckaert have completed a Corten-clad library in the grounds of a monastery in northern France (photography by Julien Lanoo). (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: Mutewatch, a new touch-screen watch with silent alarm, is now available at Dezeen Watch Store and at our Christmas shop The Temporium. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Five years ago this week the late Steve Jobs unveiled the Apple iPhone, and went on to sell over a hundred million of them. Following their competition win, we revealed new images of the OMA-designed Shenzhen Stock Exchange, which topped out in June last year, and Brazilian brothers the Campanas completed the interior of a Camper shoe store in Berlin. Marc Newson designed a set of children’s toys for furniture store Habitat, who have since closed all but three of their UK shops, and we featured a farmhouse-style restaurant and traditional bakery by British architects FAT, located next door to the remaining Tottenham Court Road branch of Habitat. See all our stories…

This time last year French designer Matali Crasset completed a village of quirky hotel rooms in the Tunisian desert and Italian silversmith Gianfranco Pampaloni shocked both Dezeen readers and Florence residents by hanging a pierced animal’s heart in his shop window for Valentine’s Day. We featured more of our favourite projects from Stockholm Furniture Fair, which included chairs with leg warmers, lamps designed to look like stretched rubber bands and a nightlight inside an hourglass. Meanwhile, French artist Gwen van den Eijnde invented fantastical characters by creating a set of sculptural costumes for himself and photographer Fernando Guerra sent us some photograp…

This week we launched our Designed in Hackney initiative to highlight design talent in the east London borough of Hackney, one of the five host boroughs for the London 2012 Olympic Games and home to Dezeen’s offices. More details here. Our most popular story was an extension to a warehouse in Sheffield that looks like another building’s been added on top, which happens to be by Hackney architects Project Orange. An Amsterdam branch of Starbucks inside a former bank was our most-pinned story on Pinterest. Tom Dixon unveiled his plans for new show MOST in Milan next month, including Dezeen Studio powered by Jambox, just as Montreal designer Craig Alun Smith revealed his…

This cafe by Harris Butt Architecture is perched on the edge of an active volcano in New Zealand’s oldest national park (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Japanese designer Morie Nishimura has made a series of hinged brass mirrors that look like butterflies when mounted on a wall. (more…) View the full article

In the first of five movies Dezeen filmed with industrial designer Marc Newson to coincide with the publication of a major book on his work by Taschen, he talks about the early days of his career when he made everything himself – including one of his most famous pieces of work, the Lockheed Lounge chaise longue. (more…) View the full article

This gabled farmhouse by architects Budapesti Műhely is a contemporary interpretation of a traditional Hungarian peasant house (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The big news this week is Apple bringing its hardware and software design teams together under the direction of Jonathan Ive (above), a move our readers think is “long overdue” and they hope will mean the end of “that nasty skeuomorphism fetish” where software interfaces are styled to resemble leather and wood. (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen is giving readers the chance to win a set of Stackable Snowmen or Happy Little Trees Christmas decorations, both designed by Fruitsuper Design (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Product news: design studio Ryan Harc has created a series of modular stools that fit together to create different pieces of furniture. (more...) View the full article

Bethany Koby and Daniel Hirshmann of Technology Will Save Us explain how their DIY technology kits and workshops help people "understand what goes into the stuff in our lives" in the penultimate movie filmed at our Designed in Hackney Day. (more...) View the full article

This timber-clad house extension in Norway by Oslo studio Rever & Drage features curvy towers that point outwards like periscopes (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Light from small ceramic pendants is bounced off large steel bowls to form these lamps by London designers Studio Vit. (more...) View the full article

The southernmost tip of Scotland's Isle of Skye is the setting for this small wooden house by local firm Dualchas Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article