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Dezeen Watch Store at the WantedDesign pop-up in New York opens today and is now stocking LunaTik designed by Scott Wilson of Chicago studio MINIMAL – and we have a a world exclusive on the new limited-edition camouflage design (above). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These shoes by Dutch footwear designer Marloes ten Bhömer are pressed from three pieces of leather. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: British design retailer SCP will host new product launches and a seven metre-high installation by Michael Marriott at their east London store as part of Shoreditch Design Triangle during the London Design Festival this month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London architects Buckley Gray Yeoman have converted a fire-damaged former market hall in Shoreditch into Corten-clad university offices. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week on Dezeen we published analysis by Dezeen reader Salomé Francpourmoi, which questioned whether there was a bias towards white males in our features. You can have your say on the gender and race issue by leaving comments at the end of the post. Meanwhile, a zig-zagging extension by Bjarke Ingels Group won a competition to convert a warehouse in Basel and our most-viewed story featured a library near Beijing that’s covered in firewood. Also popular were a pointy apartment block in Japan by EASTERN Design Office and a garden pavilion made from trees that will take 100 years to complete, which one of our readers described as “a lovely gift to future folk.” Fas…

The Seoul office of Dutch designers Studio Dumbar has re-designed the national road signage system for South Korea. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Small-scale fittings, blackboards walls and round toilet cubicles are incorporated into this kindergarten in Japan, designed by architecture studios Hibino Sekkei and Youji no Shiro around a garden playground (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Cologne 2012: Chilean studio Great Things to People (gt2P) present this lamp covered in alpaca hair as part of [D3] Talents at imm cologne this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architect Masayoshi Takahashi of High Land Design has completed a house in Tokyo with a squared spiral staircase at its centre. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designer Dominic Wilcox is building up to Britain hosting the Olympic games this summer by nibbling his way through 30 boxes of McVitie’s Jaffa Cakes to build models of UK landmarks and icons. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with us at Dezeen and photographer Edmund Sumner, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Tom Dixon, Knoll International and more… (more…) View the full article

Movie: in this movie filmed by Dezeen at today’s preview of Heatherwick Studio: Designing the Extraordinary at the V&A museum in London, Thomas Heatherwick demonstrates the machine that dispenses guides to the exhibition from huge rolls of paper, inspired by newspaper printing presses. (more…) View the full article

Dutch graphic designer Wim Crouwel has created two new typefaces for London type company The Foundry, based on his work for exhibition catalogues and posters from the 1960s and 1970s. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: democratic nations won’t be able to host the Olympics in future due to increasing tensions between the public interests of democracies and the commercial interests of the games, according to a new report published by Dutch architecture, research and urbanism studio XML to coincide with the London 2012 Olympics. (more…) View the full article

Following yesterday’s story about a skyscraper that resembles a pair of trousers (above), here are some more looky-likey towers including one that readers have compared to a stack of toilet rolls and another that looks like a sex toy. (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to Wilkinson Eyre Architects‘ Paul Baker in this interview filmed just moments after the firm’s Cooled Conservatories for the Gardens by the Bay tropical gardens in Singapore was named World Building of the Year at the World Architecture Festival today. (more…) View the full article

Berlin-based product designer Dirk Winkel created this slim black desk lamp to show that plastic can be as solid and tactile as metal or wood. (more…) View the full article

The top story in the latest issue of Dezeen Mail is the news that Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, designer of the Cathedral of Brasília (above), has passed away aged 104. The newsletter also features all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Above: photograph courtesy of Shutterstock Read Dezeen Mail issue 130 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Product news: German furniture brand e15 has launched re-editions of a chair, sofa, daybed and stackable side table designed by German modernist Ferdinand Kramer in the first half of the twentieth century (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This week Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto (above) was announced as the designer of this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion and we rounded up his key past projects. Scroll on for more highlights from the week plus our favourite new track from Dezeen Music Project. (more...) View the full article

Product news: an extra surface swings out from underneath this coffee table by Italian designer Roberto Paoli (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Timber louvres and shutters form a protective shell across the exterior of this apartment building in Istanbul by Turkish studio Alataş Architecture & Consulting. (more...) View the full article

A staircase doubles up as a bookcase inside this renovated apartment in Barcelona by Croatian architect Eva Cotman (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This week Dezeen travelled to New York, where Adidas was launching its latest running shoe, and featured photographs documenting mid-century residential architecture in New Zealand (pictured). Read on to catch up with the latest architecture and design news, plus our track of the week. (more…) View the full article

Terracotta tiles resembling brickwork cover parts of this house extension in Dublin by Irish practice GKMP Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article