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British car brand Aston Martin are to launch a luxury compact city car, called Cygnet, next year. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

German-Taiwanese designer Béatrix Li-Chin Loos has created this series of spherical vases from layers of scrap wood, glass, cardboard and leather. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Stockholm designer Axel Bjurström will present a collection of furniture including these wheeled side tables as part of the Greenhouse exhibition of work by young designers at Stockholm Furniture Fair next week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeenjobs, including positions with us at Dezeen, UXUS in Amsterdam and MAD in Beijing, plus the last chance to apply for roles at Marcel Wanders, OMA and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This office for a law firm in Ragusa, Italy, by Chiavola + Sanfilippo Architetti has a translucent faceted wall framing the waiting room. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with British illustrators People Will Always Need Plates to give away four sets of books and platters in anticipation of their upcoming first book, London Buildings: An Architectural Tour. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with Max Fraser, author of the London Design Guide, to give away five signed copies of the brand-new 2012-2013 edition. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Space: JAILmake Studio will pack seeds and soil into bricks using their one meter by one metre factory at Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space today (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> 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

Dezeen Screen: this movie by photographer Cristobal Palma shows a project installed by Clavel Arquitectos in a Shenzhen public square, where children playing on roundabouts generate electrical power for three spinning parasols. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cologne 2012: French design brand Ligne Roset present their new collection in Cologne this week, including this little storage unit modelled on a traditional sewing box by Copenhagen designers GamFratesi. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Kitchen cabinets made from concrete blocks and removable patches of carpet that function as flip-flops can be found inside this Tokyo apartment by architects TANK. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Industrial designer Tom Dixon presents two new lamps as part of an exhibition of lighting at new Milan show MOST next month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

American firm Handel Architects have completed a New York hotel with porthole windows that give it an uncanny resemblance to children’s game Connect Four. (more…) View the full article

David Chipperfield Architects have won a competition to design a museum of fine arts in the city of Reims, France with proposals for a building clad in translucent white marble and glass. (more…) View the full article

French designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance has fitted out a restaurant at the top of the tallest skyscraper in central Paris. (more…) View the full article

A boxy wooden staircase twists up through the floors of this design store in Shanghai by architects Neri&Hu. (more…) View the full article

Competition: architecture critic Rowan Moore‘s new book Why We Build is released today, and we are publishing an extract as well as giving readers the chance to win one of five copies. (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival: this mechanical contraption by artist Martin Smith and his design company Laikingland will wake you up by chirping like a bird (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

In this movie filmed by Dezeen, east London designer Roger Arquer talks about the benches he made for the Stepney Green Design Collection using materials sourced from his local family-run hardware shop just before it closed down. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: designer David Oxley has launched a slender, adjustable LED task lamp on crowd-funding website Kickstarter. (more…) View the full article

Product news: French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have come up with a DIY kit for making curtains using a hanging cord that winds up like a guitar string. (more...) View the full article

British artist Richard Wentworth has collaborated with Swiss architects GRUPPE to build a pop-up wooden auditorium in the atrium of Central Saint Martins art and design college in London (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: American 3D printing company MakerBot has unveiled a prototype of a desktop scanner that will allow users to digitally scan objects they want to replicate with a 3D printer at home. (more...) View the full article

A timber lattice supports shelves, worktops, lighting and mirrors down one side of this beauty salon in Osaka by Japanese designer Yasunari Tsukada (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article