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Pharrell Williams has launched his third collection with G-Star RAW, which includes denim garments made using recycled plastic removed from the oceans. (more…) View the full article

Our US job of the week on the new and improved Dezeen Jobs website is for a project architect/project manager at Clive Wilkinson Architects in California, which designed the office interior for comedy video production company Funny or Die (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Architect Leandro Garcia has renovated an apartment for a family's holiday home near the beach in Matinhos, Brazil and filled it with vintage Brazilian furniture. Read more View the full article

Stone walls extend past the four volumes of this holiday home for an elderly couple near Seoul, designed by local studio OBBA to disguise when the residents are away. Read more View the full article

Tchaikovsky Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre by wHy Architecture will be built on the bank of the Kama River in Perm, Russia, near the Ural mountains. Read more View the full article

MIT Media Lab has partnered with designer Yves Béhar on a smart furniture system for micro apartments, which can turn the space into a bedroom or living room at the touch of a button (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

As Italy's furniture industry struggles to bounce back after the recession, has Copenhagen regained its place as Europe's design capital? Dan Howarth investigates. (more...) View the full article

Movie: in our final exclusive video interview with Alberto Alessi, the president of the Italian design brand recalls the controversy surrounding Philippe Starck's stylish but impractical lemon squeezer, saying he considers it to be "a big joke". (more...) View the full article

Movie: in the first of a series of exclusive video interviews with Bjarke Ingels, the Danish architect talks us through three of his practice BIG's current projects and explains why he considers diagrams to be such an important design tool. (more...) View the full article

Curator and writer Daniel Charny has teamed up with Sugru’s James Carrigan to launch Fixperts, a matchmaking service that introduces inventive designers to people with everyday design problems (+ movies). (more…) View the full article

Object Carpet has teamed up with Ippolito Fleitz Group to create its latest carpet collection, which is launching as part of VDF x Ventura Projects. Read more View the full article

Pentagram has created the brand identity for Fountain, a craft CBD sparkling-water drink, to feature curving lines modelled on the shape of the letter "f". Read more View the full article

Swiss artist Zimoun has used motors to add jostling and spinning motions to three installations made up of cardboard boxes (+ movies). (more...) View the full article

Italian architect Stefano Boeri has unveiled plans to create a forested smart city in Cancun, Mexico, that is designed to be a "pioneer" of more eco-efficient developments. Read more View the full article

This boutique by Japanese designers Nendo is full of fake doors. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Puma is introducing Design to Fade, a biodegradable sportswear collection, as part of the VDF x Ventura Projects collaboration. Read more View the full article

News: a team comprising Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron and Australian firm Hassell has won the high-profile competition to redesign Melbourne's iconic railway station at Flinders Street. (more...) View the full article

Product news: these flexible plastic connecters have been designed by Christina Kazakia to help children to lash sticks together when building dens. (more...) View the full article

The New York office of architecture studio Grimshaw has drawn up plans for a range of prefabricated coronavirus testing centres within shipping containers, named D-Tec. Read more View the full article

British fashion designer Gareth Pugh has based his latest collection on costumes he created for a sun-themed opera, using golden triangles and black stripes to depict rays of light. (more…) View the full article

Brazilian firm Terra e Tuma Arquitetos has designed a U-shaped residence with an outdoor swimming pool in the middle, while also integrating the home into a hillside. Read more

Architecture studio Cooking Sections and engineer AKII have created an experimental landscape in Sharjah to demonstrate how desert plants could be used as an alternative to water-hungry greenery in arid cities. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: architects and designers have until the end of February to submit their entries to this year's A' Design Awards. Read more View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with Not-Another-Bill to give away four three-month subscriptions to its design gift service (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our next movie from the UK capital, senior curator at the V&A Kieran Long explains why the London museum has controversially acquired the world's first 3D-printed gun. (more...) View the full article