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London studio FAT have completed the womenswear department of London department store Selfridges using angular structures and painted floor patterns in clashing colours. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Royal College of Art graduate Ben Faga is encouraging bees in London to swarm and set up new hives. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Canadian architecture office Atelier Pierre Thibault has completed a lakeside house in a forest near Quebec, which is raised above its hillside site on thin metal stilts (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Metal mesh ramps illuminated by psychedelic coloured lights formed the set for Prada's Spring Summer 2017 menswear show in Milan, which was once again designed by Dutch studio AMO (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Design Week Mexico 2016: empty cuboids representing both museum vitrines and coffins are stacked to create this installation outside Mexico City's Museo Tamayo (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Get 40% off this watch by Japanese architects SANAA to look like a cat curled around the wrist in the Dezeen Watch Store summer sale. Available in green, yellow or pink, the Neko watch is now only £45 (UK and EU) or £37.50 (rest of the world). Get yours here » Don’t forget you can get 10% off any product at Dezeen Super Store at 38 Monmouth Street, London WC2 with this flyer. View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our penultimate movie recorded at the MINI Paceman Garage in Milan, New York designer Stephen Burks discusses the importance of having a design identity and journalist Henrietta Thompson explains why designers are starting to expand into retail. (more...) View the full article

French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has created a series of objects designed to monitor electricity consumption in the home for energy company Schneider Electric. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Tactile sisal surfaces helped Master Studio foster an inviting atmosphere inside this pared-back coffee bar in Cape Town, South Africa. Read more

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeenjobs, including positions at Herzog & de Meuron in Basel and OMA in Rotterdam, plus the last chance to apply for roles at Dezeen, Buro Ole Scheeren, Matteo Thun & Partners and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2016: in this Dezeen movie for Caesarstone, designer Tom Dixon explains how the four sculptural kitchens he created for The Restaurant installation in Milan were designed to satisfy "the mini celebrity chef" in people. (more…) View the full article

Transportation designer Paul Priestman has shared his hack for making a smartphone stand from an egg box to avoid "bad angles" and painful "phone arm" when video calling during the pandemic. Read 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

Beijing architect Cao Pu has created a compact hostel in a traditional hutong courtyard that gets even smaller when its front wall is rolled back to provide extra external space (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Michigan architects Synecdoche stacked up timber offcuts to construct this pavilion in Atlanta, Georgia, held together by gravity alone. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Artists and designers including Vivienne Westwood, Christopher Kane and Wolfgang Tillmans have created protest-style posters about coronavirus for Dazed Media. Read more View the full article

Italian ceramicist Paola Paronetto has unveiled two new vase designs, created using her distinctive "paper clay" technique. Read more View the full article

London Design Festival 2010: designer Jaime Hayón launches a collection of furniture including this tubular club chair (above) for London design brand Sé as part of the London Design Festival this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Berlin practice Sauerbruch Hutton has renovated and extended a former Prussian military uniform factory to accommodate its own offices and an artist's studio. (more...) View the full article

Two monolithic concrete walls by designer Luca Fortin are arranged "like an opened book" to form a passageway inside a Quebec City park. Read more View the full article

Chinese architect Sun Dayong has created a conceptual design for a shield that would protect a wearer during a coronavirus outbreak by using UV light to sterilise itself. Read more View the full article

Spanish designer Antoni Arola has created a series of stackable tables, shelves and surfaces with light flooding from their undersides. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: Vello Bike is an ultra-light bicycle developed by Valentin Vodev, which can be folded into a portable size in seconds. Read more View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our next movie from Design Indaba in Cape Town, designer Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg discusses synthetic biology - a new field of science that could see designers creating artificial lifeforms. (more...) View the full article

Vello is showing three of its folding bicycles at Virtual Design Festival's products fair, including Vello Bike+, which is "the first bike to combine electric, self-charging and folding features" according to the Austrian brand. Read more View the full article