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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

Dezeen Space: east London street artist Stewy joins us at our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space today. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: London’s Barbican Art Gallery will broadcast a live stream of a debate featuring all seven partners of architecture practice OMA in public conversation for the first time ever at 7pm this evening. The discussion will be chaired by Tate Modern director Chris Dercon. Click here to watch it via the Barbican’s Facebook page. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Almost a hundred small square windows scattered across the walls, ceilings and roof of a house in Tokyo allow its occupants, a deaf couple and their children, to sign to each other through the walls even when the children are playing outdoors. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A shelving unit displaying children’s clothes doubles up as a plywood playhouse with a sliding staircase, swinging doors and removable furniture. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In the first part of today's collaboration between Virtual Design Festival and Vienna's Forward Festival, MoMA design curator Paola Antonelli talks about the role museums play in documenting the times. Read more View the full article

DMY Berlin: eight students of the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin presented copies of work by famous designers at DMY Berlin last week as part of a workshop with critic Lucas Verweij. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: Aeternum's range of Mourning jewellery is designed to offer people who are grieving a death "something to hold in times of sorrow". Read more View the full article

This 16 storey tower in Barcelona completed by Spanish studio R+B Arqts contains 75 social housing units and has a facade of vertical panels and aluminium brise-soleil. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

France, Austria and Norway are to become home to the world's tallest wooden buildings according to a new report by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, which has found Europe to be leading the timber construction movement. Read more View the full article

Swiss designer Adrien Rovero presents a collection of lights shaped like TV antennas at Galerie Kreo in Paris. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Daily coronavirus briefing: today's architecture and design coronavirus briefing includes a colourful message of thanks designed by Morag Myerscough, a social distancing-market and Cannes Lions news. Read more View the full article

Beijing Design Week 2011: here are some pictures of an exhibition curated by Beijing Design Week‘s creative director Aric Chen, where the childhood possessions of a Chinese actress were arranged beside illustrations of piecharts and explosions. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photographer Roland Halbe has sent us these images of an extension to a museum inside a ruined castle in Halle, Germany, by Spanish studio Niento Sobejano Arquitectos. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Szczepaniak Astridge has added a rooftop extension to Leaf House, a terrace in south London for architectural photographer Edmund Sumner and writer Yuki Sumner. Read more View the full article

London Design Festival 2010: designer David Weatherhead presents a collection of desktop items made of folded steel at Variability in west London this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

From a desolate vision of LA burning to a VR experience of a polluted ocean, Dezeen has selected four projects created by graduates of the Fiction and Entertainment masters program at the Southern California Institute of Architecture. Read more

Competition: we’ve teamed up with Lego® Architecture to give away five Lego models of the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Car brand Jaguar are showcasing their C-X75 electric concept car boosted by jet engines at Clerkenwell Design Week in London this week and have announced plans to put the £700,000 vehicle into production. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: England footballer Wayne Rooney has hired architects Pulmann Associates to design a shed in the garden of his £4 million home – The Sun </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Continuing our fifth birthday celebrations this week, here is the Dezeen team’s list of the five best parties we’ve hosted since we launched in 2006: (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architects Codesign have converted a Stockholm warehouse into a school. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This pharmacy in Athens by Greek studio KLab Architecture has a branching facade and green panels suspended from the ceiling inside. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

South African designers presented a wide range of pieces made from metals at this exhibition in Cape Town during Design Indaba earlier this month (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the Design Council in the UK have announced a new Board of Trustees, following their merger with CABE in April. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article