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News: Swedish furniture retailer Ikea has added an augmented reality function to its 2014 catalogue, allowing customers to see what products will look like in their homes. (more...) View the full article

Drawing Architecture Studio has enclosed the balcony of a two-bedroom apartment in Beijing to make it resemble the front facade of a typical detached house. Read more

Designers Nienke Hoogvliet and Ryo Tada, filmmaker Georg Lendorff and Ventura Projects founder Margriet Vollenberg will join Dezeen's Marcus Fairs for a talk about running a studio during lockdown conditions from 2:00pm today as part of VDF x Ventura Projects. Read more View the full article

London Design Festival 2013: design brand SCP is launching its latest collection of products and furniture at its two London stores this week. (more...) View the full article

Check out the latest issue of Dezeen Mail for all the best stories and comments from Dezeen, including new work by Neri&Huand Richard Meier, handmade electrical plugs and updates from the fairs in Cologne and Paris this week. There’s also an update from Dezeen Wire, the latest movies on Dezeen Screen, all our new competitions and jobs, plus news on our latest pop-ups. Take a look at it here. Dezeen Mail is sent out every couple of weeks and you can subscribe here. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This August is London design month at Dezeen Super Store where, with the eyes of the world on London for the Olympic Games, we will be showcasing a range of products by some of the best designers and brands the city has to offer. (more…) View the full article

Dezeenwire: Alice Rawsthorn’s roundup of design festivals around the globe this autumn - The New York Times </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Dezeen team jets off for Milan tomorrow to start setting up Dezeen Studio powered by Jambox at MOST, where we’ll be playing all the great music that’s been sent to us so far. We wanted a track to get us in the party mood, and we definitely wouldn’t complain if this track by Will Matiu came on in a club. About Dezeen Music Project | More tracks | Submit your track View the full article

For her collaboration with VDF, singer-songwriter Beatie Wolfe has written an essay about the power of music to transform lives, particularly during difficult times. Read more View the full article

Dutch designer Maarten Baas has created a short satirical movie set in a future where Western society has suffered a dramatic decline and his works are found gathering dust in his warehouse. Read more View the full article

This Virtual Design Festival school show features work by industrial design students from the Zurich University of the Arts, including a deceptive VR experience and a handbook that addresses waste in design. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: bold, graphic lines define these Giga earrings by Scottish jewellery brand Nmarra, which are made from gold-plated brass. 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

Anthony Hunt Design and Luke Stanley Architects have designed a tent-shaped rental hut for the summit of a hill in rural New South Wales, Australia. Read more View the full article

Egg Vessels are a series of porcelain ceramics, which Mari JJ Design is launching during the VDF x Ventura Projects collaboration. Read more View the full article

In this exclusive video interview filmed as part of our high-tech architecture series, British architect Norman Foster explains how the headquarters he designed for HSBC in Hong Kong in the 1980s transformed his architecture firm into a global brand. Read more View the full article

New York artist Nova Jiang has created a mechanical maze that rearranges itself as you move through it (+movie). (more…) View the full article

The Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games get underway this Friday with an opening ceremony inside a Fabergé egg-inspired stadium by sports architecture firm Populous. (more...) View the full article

Japanese architects Maker have completed a Hiroshima restaurant where timber slats on the ceiling descend around the dining tables. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Revellers at this year's Coachella festival in California can visit a silent disco inside a dome of colour-changing balls by Spanish designer Héctor Serrano (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This week we reported on rumours that Apple is designing an electric car, the 76 nominees for Designs of the Year 2015 and a garden folly "dedicated to smoking" (pictured). Read on to catch up with the latest architecture, interiors and design news, plus our track of the week. (more…) View the full article

A baby-pink kitchen and a colourful patchwork carpet help revive the interior of this formerly lacklustre 1960s apartment in Bilbao, Spain, which has been overhauled by architecture studio Azab. Read more View the full article

We’ve just sent out a special issue of Dezeenmail with details of all our activities during the London Design Festival, starting on Saturday, including our @dezeen concierge service. Check out the newsletter for more details » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

An enormous frame surrounds a little window in the reconstructed stone wall that flanks this holiday home in northern Italy by architects bergmeisterwolf (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

In the first of a series of video interviews with former members of Archigram for VDF, architect Peter Cook recounts how the influential avant-garde architecture group rose to prominence in the 1960s. Read more View the full article