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Dublin designers Notion have established their own design brand called NTN with an inaugural collection featuring wooden sunglasses, an aluminium watch and a table with a hammock underneath (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: a fighter jet incorporating 3D-printed parts has successfully completed a test flight, making it the first combat aircraft produced using additive manufacturing. (more...) View the full article

News: American manufacturer 3D Systems has unveiled the world's first 3D printers for food at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. (more...) View the full article

The Serpentine Pavilion programme is launching in Beijing, with an inaugural commission by Chinese studio Jiakun Architects to open in May this year. Read more View the full article

London Design Festival 2010: the Design Products department at the Royal College of Art in London have launched a collection of pieces for sale, designed by the course’s graduates. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: here’s the first image of the Kingdom Tower, about to begin construction in Jeddah and set to be the world’s tallest building at over 1000 metres. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Emma Dent Coad, the Labour Party politician who claimed a surprise election victory in the UK's richest constituency, is a design writer and architecture historian known for campaigning against gentrification. Read more View the full article

London is set to get its own international design biennial, based on the model of the Venice art and architecture biennales and directed by former Icon editor Christopher Turner. (more…) View the full article

News: the first image showing the "super-strength" copper-nickel skin that will clad Thomas Heatherwick's Garden Bridge has been unveiled, just 24 hours after the £175 million project was threatened by a legal challenge. (more…) View the full article

News: Michigan State University has unveiled the first photographs of its Zaha Hadid-designed museum of contemporary art, which opens to the public next month. (more…) View the full article

News: construction has begun on Diller Scofidio + Renfro's skyscraper at 15 Hudson Yards – the first residential tower in New York's new city quarter on stilts. (more…) View the full article

Texas-based startup Orion Span has revealed plans for a luxury space hotel, which is expected to open in 2022. Read more View the full article

Architect Rafael Viñoly has completed a visual arts centre in Colchester, England, that is wrapped in polished golden metal. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architect Frank Gehry has presented a new collection of his glowing Fish Lamps made of jagged plastic scales. (more...) View the full article

If carrying a wet papery packet home puts you off fresh fish from the counter at your local supermarket, London designers PostlerFerguson have designed a series of sleek sleeves to promote the less endangered types. (more…) View the full article

University of Sussex graduate Lucy Hughes used fish waste to create MarinaTex, a compostable alternative to single-use plastic that has won her this year's UK James Dyson Award. Read more

Milan 2011: Swedish designers TAF have created this polypropylene light in a hand knitted net for Swedish design brand Zero. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Rather than varnish these wooden chairs to colour and protect them, Japanese designers Nendo chose to wrap them in hundreds of metres of fishing line. (more…) View the full article

A city for fish modelled on a high-rise development underway in Xi'an, China, has been installed in a gallery next to the construction site (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London studio Sybarite have designed a modular display system for shoe brand FitFlop. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designer Mridu Sahai has created a collection of dresses that incorporate architectural fittings like this ventilation grate (above). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Polish architects Mateusz Adamczyk and Marcin Kwietowicz have inserted three gabled huts inside a Warsaw clothes store. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Inflatable architecture is back in fashion says Sharon Francis, author of new book Bubbletecture. She picks out five key examples for Dezeen, including an office with an inflatable facade and a pavilion made out of bubbles. Read more

Architect Bjarke Ingels said his pair of towers under construction in New York are shaped to "dance" with each other, so we've picked out more buildings designed to look as if they are performing a rhythmic routine. Read more View the full article

A+Awards: Belgian design office Five AM overhauled a tiny caravan to create this studio on wheels, which is next up in our showcase of this year's Architizer A+Awards winners. Read more View the full article