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Designers Osko+Deichmann of Berlin have covered a series of domestic objects in a coating normally applied to street furniture in order to prevent vandalism. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store (and our pop-up store at 55 Neal Street until 16 July) is now stocking Iconograph, the first watch by Berlin designer Werner Aisslinger. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This colourful series of public toilets recently completed by Japanese architects Future Studios in Hiroshima have been designed to resemble origami cranes. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Artists Studio Job of Belgium have installed pieces from their iconic collections in the rooms of a Belgian stately home. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Livaria de Vila is a book shop in São Paulo where the store front is made of revolving bookcases, designed by Brazilian studio Isay Weinfeld Arquitecto. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Catalan designer Martí Guixé has created a series of containers for Italian design brand Alessi, which have arrows and speech bubbles for the user to write messages on. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Rotterdam studio STAR Strategies + Architecture have photoshopped green walls over images of iconic buildings to poke fun at the way architects believe cladding a building in plants makes it sustainable. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch designer Pepe Heykoop has created this collection of furniture by covering an assortment of old chairs in odd scraps of leather. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2010: Swarovski Crystal Palace present installations by designers including Tokujin Yoshioka, Yves Behar and Gwenael Nicolas in Milan this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2010: Paris designer Constance Guisset presented a combined bird cage and fish tank at Spazio Rosana Orlandi in Milan last week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This captioned video shows a virtual reality experience created by Universal Everything, where a 5,000-strong crowd of simulated humans surges and swarms in response to the user's movements. Read more

Italian designer Marco Dessi has created a set of glasses and decanters for Austrian brand Lobmeyr. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

German studio Archifaktur has inserted felt-lined caves and green-floored playrooms into the loft of a 1930s primary school (photographs by Zooey Braun). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Iconic Italian homeware brand Alessi has sold a 40 per cent stake to private equity fund Oakley Capital. Read more

Dezeenwire: the official guide to this year’s London Design Festival is now available on line. Download a copy here. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2010: Eindhoven designers Lanzavecchia + Wai presented their debut collection in Milan last month, featuring a range of furniture wrapped in brightly-coloured stretchy fabric. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this second movie filmed by Dezeen for trade show Garden Unique, British garden designer Andrew Wilson talks about successful collaborations between architects and garden designers, including The High Line in New York and Peter Zumthor’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London (above). Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Thai design agency Prompt Design have created a range of t-shirts that are packaged to look like food from a supermarket. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Shangai Expo 2010: architectural photographer Iñigo Bujedo Aguirre sends us this portfolio of photos of the Thomas Heatherwick-designed UK Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010, which opened yesterday. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This sofa by Copenhagen designers KiBiSi consists of stacked pillows with fiber concrete buttons. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Skyroom is a rooftop event space designed by David Kohn Architects above the Architecture Foundation’s London offices. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Construction has begun on a large-scale housing development designed by Dutch firm MVRDV for Pune, India. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This chair with a curved frame and tapered legs is by Korean designer Hyung Suk Cho. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen in Israel: artist and designer Ehud Oren presents furniture disguised as buildings in an exhibition at the Braverman Gallery in Tel Aviv. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Austrian firm Franz Architekten have completed this football training facility in Vienna for Fußballklub Austria Wien. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article