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Japanese designer Rie Sakamoto replaced yarn with rubber bands for her knitted fashion collection, which aims to showcase this stationary item's overlooked qualities. Read more View the full article

Photographer Vicente Depaulo has captured some of the most iconic buildings by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer and has manipulated the results so that they come to life when seen through 3D glasses. (more…) View the full article

Three-dimensional oak panelling covers the walls, ceiling and counter of this Aesop store interior in Oslo, designed by Norwegian architecture firm Snøhetta (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with Dutch author Jeroen Junte to give readers the chance to win one of five copies of his new book, Hands On: 21st Century Dutch Design. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: this video by Gavin Lucas in collaboration with Order involves a visit to Mr Smith’s Letterpress Workshop in Kennington, London where Smith explains how he likes to design, set and print using traditional wood and metal type to create contemporary typographic prints. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Virgin has unveiled plans to build a fully electric, high-speed train that would connect Southern California to Las Vegas by 2023. Read more View the full article

Visitors are invited to make their mark on the cafe walls of London’s Design Museum by ticking boxes on this stripy wallpaper by Dutch designer Richard Hutten. (more…) View the full article

Today VDF teams up with Schloss Hollenegg for a live tour of the historic castle in Austria with curator Alice Stori Liechtenstein at 6:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article

Ross Lovegrove has designed this year's Fashion Awards trophy, which consists of a laser-cut DNA double helix that appears to be suspended inside a monolithic crystal. Read more View the full article

News: three months after leaving online retailer Fab, its co-founder and ex design chief Bradford Shellhammer has announced that his next career step will be to form a rock band with British designer Tom Dixon. (more...) View the full article

Net City will be a car-free urban district for Shenzhen masterplanned by architecture firm NBBJ for Chinese technology company Tencent, which owns social media and messaging company WeChat. Read more View the full article

Rusted steel frames project from the traditional stone and plaster walls of this renovated farm house in Spain's Gavarres mountains by Barcelona office Zest Architecture. (more...) View the full article

Slabs of travertine in two different shades create horizontal stripes across the facade of this house in Melbourne by b.e. Architecture (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Opinion: designers could offer beautiful, meaningful and lasting alternatives to the mass-produced souvenirs offered inside London's tourist shops, says Will Wiles. (more…) View the full article

Researchers at the Clinatec laboratory in Grenoble have created an exoskeleton, which paralysed users can control with their mind in order to help them move both their arms and legs. Read more

Dezeen is giving away five hardcover copies of Fabricate 2017: Rethinking Design and Construction, which brings together the best architecture and design projects involving digital fabrication. Read more View the full article

Singaporean studio LOOK Architects has created a landscaped park and promenade overlooking a beach in north-east Singapore where 400 Chinese civilians were murdered during World War II (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: a new generation of 3D printing pens will "improve the creativity of everybody" and "give the world a new way to communicate," according to the designer of the Lix pen, which launched on Kickstarter this week and has already raised over £400,000 (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2012: the front section of this shelf by London design duo Raw Edges slides down to create a work surface. (more…) View the full article

Movie: in this film produced by Dezeen for the British Council, leading artists and curators discuss the increasing significance of digital art and the new opportunities open to artists working "in a digital age." (more…) View the full article

News: Junya Ishigami and Svendborg Architects have won a competition to design a "symbol of peace" for Copenhagen's harbour with plans for a monumental cloud-like building with a boating lake inside. (more...) View the full article

A roof terrace, balconies and an external staircase maximise outdoor space for this overlooked house in Tokyo designed by Japanese studio Front Office. Read more View the full article

Product news: this collection of office furniture by Japanese design studio Nendo can be screwed together with a coin rather than tools (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Stockholm 2012: the prongs of this whisk by Hanover studio Ding3000 for Danish brand Normann Copenhagen fold away for neat storage. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is crowdsourcing funds to erect more than 300 artworks based on themes of immigration, division and borders, in locations across New York City. Read more View the full article