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Paris design studio A+A cooren have designed a collection of lights held together with velcro. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: former Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo has been appointed as chairman of the committee for World Design Capital Helsinki 2012. See press release below. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Fifteen architecture graduates from the American University in Dubai (AUD) present work addressing the living and working conditions of local labour workers and other pressing social concerns in this Virtual Design Festival school show. Read more View the full article

Designer Arik Levy presents a pebble-shaped device for opening water bottles at Maison&Objet in Paris this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London architecture firm Studio Ben Allen has built a plywood structure inside a flat in London's brutalist Barbican Estate to create a bedroom for two children, featuring archways, steps and a fold-down desk. Read more View the full article

London designer Min-Kyu Choi was awarded the Brit Insurance Design of the Year Award 2010 for his Folding Plug at a ceremony at the Design Museum in London last night. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Shanghai Expo 2010: here are some images of the Polish pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010 designed by Polish studio WWAA Architects. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Design collective Postfossil will launch a new collection of furniture as part of the SaloneSatellite at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan next week, including these wooden chairs joined together with adhesives naturally present in the timber. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Shimmering panels of stainless steel create the appearance of a rippling lake above the heads of shoppers at a supermarket in Moscow. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New Designers 2011: Spanish furniture and product design graduate Ornella Stocco has created a modular furniture system with joints made of porcelain. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2010: Japanese bathroom brand TOTO launched a toilet by Italian designer Stefano Giovannoni in Milan last week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

An oversailing glass roof and steel mesh curtain protect a two-storey extension and terrace at a historic Sydney house. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French design brand Moustache will launch their second collection of furniture by designers including Big-Game, Matali Crasset and Bertjan Pot in Milan next week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photographer Nelson Garrido has sent us his photographs of this building by AGi architects of Spain and Kuwait, comprising three homes clad in white stucco and three homes in black stone. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Brooklyn office Caliper Studio have completed an apartment in New York that features a very complicated stainless steel staircase. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Rainwater slides down into the central folds of a plunging roof at this Dallas house, draining into a collection tank for reuse. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Researchers at MIT have invented a low-cost moisture sensor for disposable nappies that uses radio frequencies to alert caregivers when babies need changing. Read more View the full article

Hong Kong firm O Studio Architects have completed a stark concrete church on the side of a sacred mountain in China. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch architects Office for Metropolitan Architecture have won a competition to design an extension to the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec in Canada. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this movie filmed at DMY Berlin, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs chaired a panel discussion with editors and authors of Open Design Now: Why Design Cannot Remain Exclusive. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French architects RDAI have completed this new Paris boutique for fashion brand Hermès inside a 1930s swimming pool building. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll down for all the latest from Dezeenjobs, including positions with architects MAD in Beijing plus designers Heatherwick Studio and Tom Dixon. This is also the last chance to apply to work with OMA, Levitate and more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In this Dezeen podcast for the Design Museum architect David Adjaye talks to curator Gemma Curtin about Urban Africa, an exhibition of his photographs on show at the museum in London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Berlin designers Beta Tank want to make scaffolding pretty. Designer Eyal Burstein has started out by casting a series of scaffolding joints in glazed porcelain with gold and platinum nuts and bolts. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The founder of architecture firm Assembledge+ has completed a house for himself in Los Angeles featuring walls that seem to completely disappear to open up to a garden. Read more View the full article