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News: James Dyson, designer of the Dyson vacuum cleaner, has attacked the UK government's plans to force overseas students to return home after completing their studies, describing the idea as "short-sighted". (more…) View the full article

British technology company Dyson has designed a ventilator and is primed to produce 15,000 units in the coming weeks to help meet the demand caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Read more View the full article

Dyson has created 44 engineering and science activities for children to try out while at home during the coronavirus pandemic, from making a balloon-powered car to building a bridge from spaghetti. Read more View the full article

Product news: industrial design firm Dyson has unveiled a cordless vacuum cleaner for hard floors that sucks up dirt and wipes the surface at the same time. (more...) View the full article

British industrial design brand Dyson have unveiled their latest product: a fan heater. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dyson has cancelled its plans to build an electric car, which was expected to launch next year, claiming the project is not "commercially viable". Read more

News: British inventor James Dyson has donated £4 million towards building a new cancer centre in Bath, UK, based on the principles underlying his successful redesign of a neonatal ward at the same hospital. (more...) View the full article

British engineer and inventor James Dyson has announced he is increasing his brand's UK presence tenfold with the opening of a second campus. Read more View the full article

Engineer and inventor James Dyson has revealed a design for a hairdryer that is silent to human ears and controls its own temperature to protect hair from heat damage (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

This fashion collection made of heavy-duty black tarpaulin by graduate designer Martijn Van Strien is on show at Design Academy Eindhoven as part of Dutch Design Week, which kicked off yesterday. (more...) View the full article

Clerkenwell Design Week 2013: new table sizes and a matching bench have been added to London designer Mathias Hahn's E8 range of colourful wooden furniture. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Berlin furniture company EAJY has launched its first product on crowdfunding website Indiegogo – a wooden chair with legs inspired by structural steel beams (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The Eames Foundation has released a plan to maintain the modernist Californian residence that Charles and Ray Eames built for themselves to make it look like the designers "just stepped out for the day". Read more

Montreal-based designers St Ely have created a sofa made up of three interchangeable modules with sliced-off corners. (more…) View the full article

Qubique 2011: this light by German collective llot llov can be adjusted by hooking the shade onto one of a string of twenty turned wooden balls. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Rotterdam studio Kraaijvanger has added two new buildings to a school in a suburb of the Dutch capital, The Hague, with pitched roofs and rustic materials that reference the site's original role as a farm (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Design graduate Neil Conley has made a series of funerary urns from reclaimed carbon fibre. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

BCHO Architects have completed this house buried in the ground in Seoul, Korea. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London studio Doshi Levien has self-produced a collection of lights with organic forms, including one that resembles flowers and another that looks like a fried egg. Read more

Dezeenwire: here’s a movie filmed inside the Toyo Ito-designed Sendai Mediatheque during last Friday’s earthquake in Japan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Squares of light shine through the perforated brick facade of this former storehouse, which architect Ryo Matsui has converted into an entertaining space after it was partially destroyed in Japan's 2011 earthquake. (more…) View the full article

White-wash walls and greenery are intended to create a relaxing atmosphere at this doctor's office and clinic in New York, designed by Alda Ly Architecture for a startup company that takes an alternative approach to healthcare. Read more

Budapest studio Gereben Marián mixed cement with local earth and rock to create the rugged walls of this series of buildings, which accommodate visitors to a vineyard in the Eger wine region of Hungary (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Studio Mabb has used a humble material palette of plaster, timber and iron to complement the rustic interiors of this eatery in Brescia, Italy. Read more

Dutch firm Lagado Architects have designed a temporary public toilet block with wide open sections in the roof so users can sit on the toilet and look up into the sky (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article