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Graphic designer Nynke Tynagel has launched her own practice after working alongside Job Smeets as joint owner of art and design collective Studio Job for over 20 years. Read more View the full article

Hong Kong designer André Fu has installed glass cubes and a miniature zen garden on one of the city's piers to create a presentation space for fashion brand COS. (more…)

Northmodern 2015: Danish designer Troels Flensted has produced a collection of resin tabletops patterned with flecks of brightly coloured pigment (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Today Virtual Design Festival teams up with Lisbon's MAAT museum to present its collaboration with architect SO-IL. First, Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu of SO-IL explain their Beeline installation in this exclusive video. Read more View the full article

Australian artist Linda Tegg has created a living installation inside Jil Sander's headquarters in Milan, using plants gathered from around the city. Read more

Japanese architects Eureka and Atelier Chocolate have completed a vet’s surgery and apartment behind a metal mesh cage in Kanagawa. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this second of four interviews with some of the designers that Dezeen Watch Store are taking to Interiors UK in Birmingham from 22 January, David Ericsson of Hong Kong watch brand VOID talks about his collection. Watch the movie » Dezeen Watch Store and friends will be at stand G31 in the Design Village at Interiors UK, which takes place at the NEC Centre in Birmingham from 22-25 January featuring furniture, lighting, flooring, soft furnishings and accessories from over 600 exhibitors. Register to attend here. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

IBM has developed a new type of battery that's free of cobalt, nickel and other heavy metals, avoiding the environmental and humanitarian issues related to lithium-ion technology. Read more View the full article

The Temporium: there are just two more days to visit our Christmas shop The Temporium, where you can snap up gifts by over 20 designers and brands including this toy cable car from Theo. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These tree house-like cabins by Thai designer Worapong Manupipatpong are built up around the column of a building rather than over the branches of a tree. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: designer Ron Arad launched a range of 3D printed eyewear in Milan earlier this month. In this movie he discusses his pioneering 3D printing experiments in 1999 and his views on the technology today. (more...) View the full article

Plex'eat is a protective plexiglass face shields designed by Christophe Gernigon that would dangle over diners in restaurants so they share a table after the peak of the coronavirus pandemic. Read more View the full article

Those of you who’ve been asking us for larger images on Dezeen will be pleased to see we’re now adding a slideshow of big pictures to the top of selected stories. Click here to see what we mean. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

British curator Beatrice Galilee has launched a new architecture forum that will kick-off as a conference in New York next year, with speakers including Elizabeth Diller and Shohei Shigematsu. Read more View the full article

Slideshow: the faceted copper envelope of this house extension near Sydney was designed by architects Innovarchi to resemble a roof. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In our second movie with Tom Dixon filmed earlier this year in Milan, the British designer discusses his foray into fashion design and says that his capsule collection for sports brand Adidas is based on the idea of creating a personal survival kit for Milan design week. (more...) View the full article

Angled white walls will mark the entrance to underground contemplation spaces at Herzog & de Meuron's roadside Autobahnkirche chapel in Switzerland. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Italian flooring manufacturer Marazzi has released its Crogiolo ceramic and stoneware collection with four new series, including designs based on majolica pottery and tiles with a brush-stroke effect. Read more View the full article

Brown brick facades of Promontorio's tower in the Angolan town of Lubango recall the tones of traditional African rammed-earth buildings. Read more View the full article

An exhibition at the Denver Art Museum showcases over 200 pieces with a playful spirit that were created by US-based industrial and graphic designers in the 1950s and '60s. Curator Darrin Alfred selects his highlights. Read more

An extensive exhibition of Charlotte Perriand's work at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris reveals the art-filled interiors and architectural scale of the French designer's expansive life and career. Read more

Russian studio Niko Architect has sunk a Teletubby-style house underneath an artificial hill punctuated by conical skylights that pop out of its planted roof. Read more View the full article

BIG has unveiled an expansive cable-car system with two transit hubs to be built in Oakland, as part of the architecture studio's plans for a new baseball stadium in the California city. Read more

The cylindrical shape of this university building on the outskirts of Dutch town Wageningen is designed by BDG Architects to optimise the usable floor space inside and reduce energy loss through the facade (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

September's Maison&Objet interior design fair has been postponed and will instead take place online, while Paris Design Week is to go ahead. Read more View the full article