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Dezeenwire: Alice Rawsthorn on the addition of 23 digital typefaces to MoMA‘s architecture and design collection, which until recently only included Helvetica – New York Times </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the semi-detached suburban house that was home to writer JG Ballard for 49 years is for sale, the Independent reports. Ballard lived in the house in Shepperton, London until his death in 2009. The property is valued at around £320,000. The Independent </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

News: Aric Chen, curator of art and design for the new M+ museum for visual culture in Hong Kong, says the museum will take an unprecedented stance in “placing Asia at the centre” of design history, rather than on the periphery as western curators have done (+ audio + transcript). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: architect Frank Gehry has confirmed that he has submitted designs for projects in China and India as difficult economic conditions in the US have led to a decline in development - Bloomberg (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: food company Del Monte have begun a trial packaging individual bananas in plastic wrappers. The company claim the packaging extends the shelf life of bananas by up to six days – Daily Mail </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: design writer Alice Rawsthorn’s latest column in The New York Times previews this week’s furniture fair in Milan. Read the article. Related: see all our coverage of Milan 2010. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: clothing brand Gap have scrapped their new logo, launched last week, after customers objected to the design – BBC </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the Royal Institute of British Architects in London has published a report promoting the social and economic benefits of well-designed buildings. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the UK government has set MPs a homework project over the summer to highlight British design and manufacturing icons. Examples put forward so far include toilet rolls, fish fingers and custard cream biscuits – Management Today See the full list of products on the Guardian Datablog » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: the latest RIBA Future Trends Survey reports growing confidence among UK architects. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: thirty UK branches of furniture chain Habitat are to go into administration as part of a deal involving the sale of the brand and the three London stores, the BBC reports. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Justin McGuirk, editor of icon magazine, launches his new blog for The Guardian with an attack on designer Ron Arad, whose Ron Arad: Restless exhibition opened at the Barbican recently – The Guardian Related stories: see our special Ron Arad issue of Dezeenwire. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In this movie filmed by Dezeen, east London designer Paul Cocksedge describes his discovery of the interesting forms created when polystyrene cups are heated and how he used the process to create a pendant lamp. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: in her latest article for The New York Times, design correspondent Alice Rawsthorn profiles Studio H, a humanitarian design project has spent a year teaching design skills to school children in a deprived part of North Carolina - The New York Times Rawsthorn describes the process that Studio H founders Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller undertook with the pupils – providing basic skills that resulted in the creation of a 2,000-square-foot pavilion at a local farmers market – and outlines the benefits of teaching design to students at a formative age. See links to more articles by Alice Rawsthorn here. </img> </img> </img> </img&g…

World Architecture Festival 2012: architect Kerry Hill won the award in the housing category at the World Architecture Festival with his design for an apartment building in Singapore and in this interview we filmed he discusses how he believes the nation is developing an “emerging approach to design” rather than an architectural style. (more…) View the full article

In the first of a series of movies about objects we curated for the Stepney Green Design Collection, east London designer Phil Cuttance describes the messy process of casting an extra-large version of his Faceture vase. (more…) View the full article

Icelandic designer Katrin Olina describes how she translates characters from her imagination into drawings, animations, products and interiors in this movie we filmed at Dezeen Live at 100% Design. (more…) View the full article

Hong Kong-based designer Michael Young talks about his MY03 Hacker watch, designed for watch brand ODM and available from Dezeen Watch Store, in this movie filmed by Dezeen. (more…) View the full article

Interview: recently Dezeen met up with Dennis Paphitis, founder of skincare brand Aesop. In this exclusive interview he explains why no two stores are of the same design, why he enjoys working with different architects around the world and how he believes “there’s a direct correlation between interesting, captivating store spaces and customer traffic within a store” (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

In the first of five movies Dezeen filmed with industrial designer Marc Newson to coincide with the publication of a major book on his work by Taschen, he talks about the early days of his career when he made everything himself – including one of his most famous pieces of work, the Lockheed Lounge chaise longue. (more…) View the full article

As Peter Zumthor has this week been named as the recipient of this year’s Royal Gold Medal for architecture, here’s another chance to watch the movie interview Dezeen filmed with him last summer, in which he told us “I’m a passionate architect and I think it’s a beautiful profession.” (more…) View the full article

In the next movie we filmed during Dezeen Live at 100% Design, designer Asif Khan explains how soap bubbles, rubbish bins and a neighbour’s flower bed have all provided inspiration for his work. (more…) View the full article

In this movie filmed by Dezeen, Studiomama founder Nina Tolstrup talks about the chair she modified for the Stepney Green Design Collection and how “there are always materials to be found” in east London. (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival: in this movie we filmed, architect Vo Trong Nghia explains how the house he designed with a vertical garden on its facade incorporates natural daylighting and ventilation systems that are invaluable in Vietnam, which experiences heavy rain and high temperatures, but often suffers day-long power shortages. (more…) View the full article

Dutch designer and artist Joep van Lieshout talks to Dezeen about his sculptures depicting cannibalism and suicide in this interview recorded at the Carpenter’s Workshop Gallery in London, and how “industry itself needs to be saved” so he plans to “start producing from scratch again” (+ audio). (more…) View the full article