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Dutch designer Tim Vinke has created a mobile office made up of a desk and two chairs that fit together like pieces of a puzzle to form a trolley. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen and publishers Juice are giving away five copies of HGW: Hakobo Graphic World, a monograph about the work of Polish graphic designer Jakub Stepien, aka Hakobo. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Our new video website, Dezeen Screen, launches on Monday. As part of the launch we’re setting up a temporary video studio adjacent to Yves Behar’s JamScape installation in Milan and we’ll be filing video reports from the Ventura Lambrate district all week. For now the URL www.dezeenscreen.com redirects to the video category on www.dezeen.com… but not for much longer! Please check back after 1pm on Monday. More info about Dezeen Screen here. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

British designer Tom Dixon has added a small wheel to a standard cafe table design to make it easier for staff to move around. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

British architects Carmody Groarke have completed this granite monolith outside London’s Natural History Museum to commemorate victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The rooms of a black and white house in California lead out to a series of stepped terraces with a view of the famous Hollywood sign. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The third completed house in Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture series has a faceted black upper storey that sits on top of the glass-walled ground floor like a big hat. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen archive: following our story this week on a ship-shaped apartment, here’s a roundup of all Dezeen’s stories about boats. See all the stories » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish designer Héctor Serrano expands his range of children’s temporary tattoo puppets with these finger transfers. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: German architects Schneider+Schumacher have completed an underground gallery that creates a bulge beneath the lawn of the Staedel Museum in Frankfurt. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week we’ve created a Pinterest board with all the best images of lamps from Dezeen. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » View the full article

This stacking chair by New York designer Victor Vetterlein has an x-shaped frame and razor-thin legs. (more…) View the full article

This modular container by architects Nilsson Pflugfelder of London and Berlin can be reconfigured to create a workspace, artist’s residence, archive or meeting area as required by its host, the FLACC Workplace for Visual Artists in Genk, Belgium. (more…) View the full article

This week Dezeen has been at Beijing Design Week and you can check out a selection of the best projects, exhibitions and installations in our Facebook album, including a sculpture made from metal rods with a walk-through tunnel (shown above). See all the photos » View the full article

Mexican firm Fernando Romero EnterprisE (FREE) has won a competition to design a chapel in Miami with plans modelled on the pleated fabric gown of religious figure the Lady of Guadalupe. (more…) View the full article

News: over 150 UK designers, brands and organisations have joined a campaign to get the government to rethink plans to remove design and other creative subjects from the school curriculum. (more…) View the full article

Famous brands including Heinz, Marmite and Levi's have produced limited editions of their products with no brand names on the packaging for London department store Selfridges. (more...) View the full article

Bold blocks of colour at ground level contrast with the white upper storeys of this school in Mallorca by Spanish architects RipollTizon (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2o13: Dutch brand Moooi presented their Unexpected Welcome collection among giant portraits and undressed manequins in Milan's Tortona district last week (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Product news: Australian company DesignByThem has added a range of bright recycled-plastic chairs to its collection. (more...) View the full article

Furniture made of guns by Mozambican designer Gonçalo Mabunda will be on show in London next week. (more...) View the full article

Galvanised steel panels create fuss-free facades for the blocks of this Stockholm housing complex by Joliark, concealing all gutters and tidying away window frames. (more…) View the full article

Product news: Northumbria University graduate Josie Morris has created a range of copper-spun pendant lamps with chunky handles. (more...) View the full article

London designer Paul Cocksedge's first solo exhibition, at Friedman Benda in New York, features a table folded from a single sheet of steel (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A smog-removal machine and a modular phone concept (pictured) are among the highlights from Dutch Design Week, which we've been covering for the past seven days. More from Eindhoven, plus this week's architecture and design news and our Dezeen Music Project featured track follow. (more...) View the full article