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With the Milan furniture fair just around the corner, Dezeen has teamed up with Organisation in Design, initiators of the Ventura Lambrate design district in Milan, to provide this downloadable map and guide to the area. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2010: Dutch designer Roderick Vos will present a shelving unit designed to reference Art Deco skyscrapers in Milan this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Indian studio Khosla Associates used a modular concrete framework, bold colours and perforated terracotta screens to create this climate-sensitive kindergarten in Bangalore, which topped the education category at the Inside Festival awards earlier this month. (more...) View the full article

Architect Frank Gehry has unveiled his designs for a new business school at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Interior design studio Drake/Anderson has used muted tones, earthy materials and clean lines to create tranquil rooms with a strong connection to nature inside this 12-year-old home in the Hudson River Valley. Read more

A huge canopy extends from one side of this auditorium in the Spanish province of Córdoba and folds over a riverside terrace, encouraging visitors to loiter around before and after performances. Read more View the full article

The curving lines of this steel wire chair by French designer Constance Guisset are intended to represent fabric draped over the seat and back (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Finnish design graduates Arttu Kuisma and Juho Kruskopf have produced a set of ceramic pots and vases that look deceptively squidgy. (more…) View the full article

Architects Gundry & Ducker created a pub inside a cardboard box inside the crypt of a London church. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designer Gitta Gschwendtner presented a kitchen island comprising a pile of drawers and a sink at the Wallpaper* Handmade exhibition in Milan last month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Italian designer Marco Guazzini has created a console with drawers that slide along its length to create different configurations (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Here are some pictures of Carmody Groarke’s exhibition design for Drawing Fashion, which opened at the Design Museum in London earlier this month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: a range of delicate glass objects by Italian research centre Fabrica will be on show at the exhibition space of design brand Luminaire during Design Miami 2013 next month. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: architects will soon be able to walk around inside 3D sketches of their projects and edit their designs as they go, according to the team behind the revolutionary Gravity Sketch 3D drawing pad. (more...) View the full article

Designer Thomas Fiechtner of Vienna, Austria, has made this task lamp that can be balanced in two different positions to vary the light intensity. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This wind-up toy by British design brand All Lovely Stuff creates abstract art when let loose on a sheet of paper. (more...) View the full article

If for some reason you’d like to draw pictures with the bottom of your cup, Japanese designer Fumiaki Goto has made these little vessels with the same combination of ceramic and graphite used to make pencil lead. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In this series of drawings French designer and photographer Clo’e Floirat documents her thoughts on design in Berlin, where she’s lived for three years. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The curator of a new exhibition of drawings by Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh has selected six works for Dezeen, explaining how he used his drawing skills as "a valuable promotional tool". (more…) View the full article

Writer and artist Clo’e Floirat has sent us a series of comical-satirical drawings of venues for the London 2012 Olympics, including one of the “Awful Tower” representing the much-criticised ArcelorMittal Orbit tower by Anish Kapoor as an Eiffel Tower tied in knots (above). (more…) View the full article

Writer and artist Clo’e Floirat‘s comical-satirical drawings of London 2012 Olympic venues are now available at Dezeen Super Store as part of London design month. (more…) View the full article

Product news: Gothenburg studio Design Stories and recycling workshop Returhuset have created a range of drawstring lamps made of waste material from local factories. (more...) View the full article

American firm Handel Architects have completed a New York hotel with porthole windows that give it an uncanny resemblance to children’s game Connect Four. (more…) View the full article

French design duo Cauboyz built a wall of illuminated words to make this typography-inspired music video (+ movies). (more...) View the full article

Minnesota studio Dream The Combine has constructed a series of black steel frames that accommodate net hammocks, mirrors and misters, providing a setting for MoMA PS1's summer music series. Read more View the full article