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The United Nations has launched an open competition for creatives to create informative works that accurately communicate public health messages in a bid to "flatten the curve" of the coronavirus pandemic. Read more View the full article

Creative people thrive in difficult situations and can use the coronavirus pandemic to explore new ways to add value, says designer Lonneke Gordijn of Studio Drift in a video message recorded for Virtual Design Festival. Read more View the full article

Ingenhoven Architects has covered the Kö-Bogen II office block in Düsseldorf, Germany, with 30,000 plants to form hedges that would stretch five miles laid end to end. Read more View the full article

Fresh rumours about Apple's reputed augmented reality wearable headset, including its price and name – Apple Glass, have been leaked online. Read more View the full article

A renewable energy facility, underwater farms and buildings designed to restore and empower communities are among the 10 students projects in this VDF school show curated by Drury University's Hammons School of Architecture. Read more View the full article

Italian office Tissellistudioarchitetti have completed an apartment block in Cesena, Italy, built in long layers linked by ramps. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A window made of glass prisms by Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka is on show at MUSEUM. beyond museum in Seoul. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: the winners of the D&AD Awards 2010 were announced last night at a ceremony in London. See press release below. See all the winning projects on the D&AD website. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve teamed up with luxury outdoor furniture brand Dedon to give away five copies of Dedon: Coming Home, a limited-edition collection of photographs by American photographer Bruce Weber. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Graduate designer Kedmi Hanan’s jewellery pieces are made of computer components mounted in felt. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This waterproof sex toy has been designed by San Francisco designer Yves Béhar of fuseproject for sex toy brand JimmyJane. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designer Samuel Wilkinson created these mouth-blown glass lamps specifically to house the Plumen 001 low-energy light bulbs released by Hulger last month (see our earlier story). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designer Ignacio Canales Aracil created these sculptures by pressing and drying wild flowers. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch company OAT have designed a range of biodegradeable shoes. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Hong Kong designer Kitmen Keung has created a lounge chair and ottoman but slicing a cube of foam in two. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This small art gallery in Japan by Tokyo architects Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP has a softly curved exterior shape, sliced at one end to create a wide entranceway. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The first-ever building to have a carbon fibre structure is a mobile studio-cum-stage by Japanese architects Atelier Bow-Wow, which just opened in New York. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

American movie director David Lynch has completed a nightclub in Paris that’s inspired by and named after Club Silencio from his 2001 film Mulholland Drive. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Nick Willson Architects have completed a house in south-east London with sections of the facade clad in flint, timber and lead. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

JDS Architects have won a competition to design a youth centre for Lille, France. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: in her latest article for The New York Times, design critic Alice Rawsthorn examines the symbols and slogans adopted by the Occupy protest movement in cities around the world. Rawsthorn explains that the name ‘Occupy’, which originated at the Occupy Wall Street protest against the banking and democratic system, “is a stellar example of both what is known in marketing as an umbrella brand name and what the anti-corporatists in the movement could call beating them at their own game.” She adds that the use of hashtags and slogans short enough to send on social networks such as Twitter have helped the movement spread globally and could represent a new protocol …

Ghostly images of building facades decorate hanging fabric screens in a beauty salon in Omiya, Japan. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architects Panos Dragonas and Varvara Christopoulou believe there is no longer anywhere remote enough to build a wilderness hideaway, so have instead proposed a cabin raised above the Athens rooftops. (more…) View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with the organisers of the eVolo Skyscraper Competition to give away five copies of their book, which collates 300 of the best entries from the past six years. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

More Valentine’s design: Claesson Koivisto Rune presented this chair with a heart-shaped back at Stockholm Furniture Fair last week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article