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For their graduation projects, students from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) have designed products to reflect their idea of a perfect place, shown here as part of VDF x Sight Unseen. Read more View the full article

As part of VDF x Sight Unseen, our second roundup of projects from this year's Offsite Online: Selects exhibition features furniture, homeware and lighting that places the material front and centre. Read more View the full article

California-based designer Jim Lenahan – best known for his concert sets for musicians like Tom Petty and Korn – has designed a chair for Pope Francis' visit to New York today. (more…) View the full article

New York fashion designer Aina Beck experimented with foil printing to create the dappled metallic patterns in her latest capsule collection. (more...) View the full article

Finnish chef Sami Tallberg will take Virtual Design Festival viewers on a live foraging tour of the forest surrounding his home as part of our collaboration with Stockholm Design Week. Watch the broadcast from 3:30pm UK time. Read more View the full article

Our Christmas shop, The Temporium, opens next week and we’re excited to announce more participants – including British brands Established & Sons and Another Country, and Spanish textile designer Cristian Zuzunaga… as well as Diego Ramos and his chocolate moustaches (above). We’ll also have flying Christmas cards, USB stick necklaces, diamond-shaped lights and much more…(more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Ethical creative agency Nice and Serious has developed an online platform that directs Londoners to their closest zero-waste shops and offers tips on how to reduce your reliance on plastics. Read more

Beijing Design Week 2011: Beijing studio lasfera presented a collection of furniture including handmade lamps of curled bamboo at 751-D Park last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Pictures have been revealed of the ring made by Apple's departing design chief Jony Ive and his frequent collaborator, renowned designer Marc Newson, from a single enormous diamond. Read more

Barcelona studio Hidalgo Hartmann Arquitectura has completed a concrete house with a triangular profile in the rural outskirts of Girona, Spain (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This house near Hamilton, Ontario, relies on a combination of fireplaces and straw walls to keep it warm, with a rooftop meadow adding to its green credentials (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

American studio Specht Architects has designed this Dallas residence with long corrugated concrete volumes to reference brutalist architecture. Read more View the full article

As part of today's VDF collaboration with Arthur Mamou-Mani, the French architect speaks about his Galaxia temple at the 2018 Burning Man festival and shares previously unseen aerial footage of it. Read more View the full article

Today is Earth Day! To mark the occasion, VDF has collaborated with The World Around to host a series of talks, interviews, short films and essays exploring ideas that could "shape the future of our relationship with the planet". Read more View the full article

This sculpture of a boy and rocking horse by Berlin artists Elmgreen and Dragset will be the next installation on top of the Fourth Plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: a mirrored tree house designed by architects Tham & Videgård Arkitekter for the Treehotel in northern Sweden is now available for sale as a flat-pack kit. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Maison&Objet 2015: Canadian lighting brand Bocci has launched a light made by forcing molten glass into a loose heat-resistant fabric pillow. (more…) View the full article

Dezeenwire: German architect Günter Behnisch, founder of Behnisch Architekten, and has died aged 88. Via sueddeutsche.de </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A series of wooden partitions divide the interior of this apartment in Tokyo by local architects Camp Design Inc, creating a multilayered space with hidden alcoves and areas (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Copenhagen firm Svendborg Architects have built this artist’s studio inside an existing stable building in Denmark. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

British designer Michael Robinson‘s topical posters celebrating this summer in London are available from Dezeen Super Store at 38 Monmouth Street, London WC2. Come down to our launch party tonight from 6-9pm and remember you can print off this flyer to get 10% off at the store! (more…) View the full article

Five years ago this week we chatted to Brazilian designers Fernando and Humberto Campana as they unveiled their chairs made from Disney cuddly toys in London. As Design Indaba drew to a close in Cape Town, a condom applicator designed to help prevent the spread of AIDS was named Most Beautiful Object in South Africa and we featured lighting made from salvaged plastic that had also been presented there. Designer Moritz Waldemeyer sent us backstage snapshots from Paris Fashion Week of mechanical dresses that play videos, plus we previewed the chairs that architects Kram Weisshaar planned to launch in Milan that spring. See all our stories from February 2007 » See al…

Our last Dezeen Mail this year leads with the recently opened Stonehenge Visitor Centre and also features the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 183 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Stockholm studio Andreas Martin-Löf Arkitekter has completed a cluster of affordable apartment blocks in the Swedish capital, featuring facades with alternating opaque and transparent sections. Read more View the full article