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London Design Festival 2011: designers Max Frommeld and Arno Mathies showed off their folding boat that’s made from a single, standard-sized sheet of plastic at Multiplex at The Dock last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: while Dezeen prepares for the 2011 London Design Festival, here’s a previously unseen interview we filmed with Spanish designer Jaime Hayón during last year’s festival. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival 2013: British design brand Noble & Wood is presenting its debut collection of crafted furniture and products at designjunction this week (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A year ago this week the Guangzhou Opera House designed by architect Zaha Hadid opened up in China. The curved timber velodrome was completed in London in preparation for this year’s Olympic Games and Thomas Heatherwick was revealed as designer of the Olympic torch. Industrial designer Marc Newson launched a collection of clothing featuring drawn-on pockets and fake turn-ups, plus Issey Miyake’s creative director Dai Fujiwara announced his decision to stand down. He was later replaced by Yoshiyuki Miyamae. We featured a house with a slide connecting its floors that went on to become one of Dezeen’s most popular stories of all time and we talked to MVRDV architect Win…

With only eight days left to enter Dezeen Awards 2020, we asked BBC Radio London presenter Rhael Cape, also known as LionHeart, what he'll be looking for when assessing architecture entries. Read more View the full article

Canadian camouflage company Hyperstealth Biotechnology has patented the technology behind a material that bends light to make people and objects near invisible to the naked eye. Read more View the full article

London designers Shed have completed the new flagship store for fashion brand Spencer Hart, located in a former bank in Mayfair, London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: Compact wall ovens, electric cookers and refrigerators feature in KOVA's new range of kitchen appliances suited to small living spaces. Read more View the full article

We’ve teamed up with London designers BarberOsgerby to give away five signed copies of their new monograph The Design Work of Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with BIG, Foster + Partners, the Royal College of Art and Studio Egret West, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Hayon Studio, MAD and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This blackened-timber house by Maximilian Eisenköck provides a holiday home for three siblings and their spouses overlooking a lake near Vienna (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London design studio Special Projects has developed an app that condenses important information such as contacts and maps onto a paper print out to help people live without their device for a day. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Wire: in her latest article for The New York Times, design critic Alice Rawsthorn explains how Dutch designer Aldo Bakker‘s expressive process and relentless attention to detail make him “one of the new wave of designers who could be called design-auteurs” – The New York Times Bakker’s products and furniture perform simple functions in ways that Rawsthorn says demonstrate “a quiet confidence, as if every element has been resolved with nothing left to chance.” Bakker says of his creative methods, which can lead to each product taking years to develop: “I love having the freedom to pay attention to every detail in my work, no matter how crazy.” See designs by Ald…

A section of tarmac appears to have been peeled back from the surface of a car park at London's Southbank Centre, suspending a car upside down in artist Alex Chinneck's latest illusionary installation (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: plans for a 40-storey tower designed by British architect Richard Rogers to sit on top of the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York have been shelved following the Chinese backer’s decision to pull out – The New York Times See a skyscraper in London completed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners earlier this year. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The BBC has apologised to Zaha Hadid after the architect cut short a live radio interview over poorly researched questions. (more…) View the full article

Warith Zaki and Amir Amzar have envisioned using bamboo grown and harvested on Mars to build the first colony on the red planet. Read more

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

New York design agency Sagmeister & Walsh has created an animated visual identity for cloud software management brand Fugue that responds to touch and sound (+ movie). (more…)

This week on Dezeen we published analysis by Dezeen reader Salomé Francpourmoi, which questioned whether there was a bias towards white males in our features. You can have your say on the gender and race issue by leaving comments at the end of the post. Meanwhile, a zig-zagging extension by Bjarke Ingels Group won a competition to convert a warehouse in Basel and our most-viewed story featured a library near Beijing that’s covered in firewood. Also popular were a pointy apartment block in Japan by EASTERN Design Office and a garden pavilion made from trees that will take 100 years to complete, which one of our readers described as “a lovely gift to future folk.” Fas…

OMA have completed a new building for the school of architecture at Cornell University in New York. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Frank Gehry once told Aaron Betsky that his favourite architect was actually an artist. After probing the work of late minimalist Robert Ryman, Betsky agrees that the painter's use of white made him a master manipulator of space. Read more

VDF studio profiles: Buckley Gray Yeoman is an employee-owned London architecture studio known for its imaginative conversion and restoration projects. Read more View the full article

A plywood storage wall stores and displays furniture, ingredients and cooking apparatus at this Paris culinary workshop by architecture studio Septembre (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Music: vintage Yamaha PSR-110 keyboard graphics form a kaleidoscopic moving collage in design agency Pentagram's first ever music video, created for Jesse Hackett's track Dump Run. (more…) View the full article