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Designer Stephanie Bila used bent wood and crystals to create this body jewellery inspired by Japanese baskets for her Central Saint Martins graduate collection. (more…) View the full article

The peeling, brightly painted walls of an abandoned house provide a striking backdrop to this collection of over-dyed handmade rugs by American designer homeware brand ABC Carpet & Home. (more…) View the full article

Design Miami: Belgian designer Jens Praet used bronze drapes cast from sheets of cloth to dress these pieces of brass furniture. (more…) View the full article

Adobe employees can play basketball and ping pong inside the software company's new mural-covered Utah campus by San Francisco-based designers Rapt Studio (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

News: Apple has applied for a patent for a slap bracelet with a video display that could be a blueprint for its much-anticipated "iWatch" concept. (more...) View the full article

Product news: British designer Tom Dixon's latest collection, launching at MOST in Milan next month, includes solid brass champagne buckets and faceted furniture inspired by gemstones (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: online design retailer Fab.com has announced it will design its own range of furniture and homeware to be sold alongside its existing inventory. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: in this interview we filmed with Petrus Palmer of Swedish studio Form Us With Love, the designer talks about the No.1 watch - which is once again available to pre-order at Dezeen Watch Store (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

News: a human-powered helicopter by Canadian startup AeroVelo has become the first winner of a 33-year-old aviation prize, after hovering for 64 seconds and reaching an altitude of 3.3 metres. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: Dutch designer Lilian van Daal claims 3D-printing can replace traditional upholstery techniques to produce spongy-surfaced furniture in this movie filmed in Eindhoven. (more…) View the full article

Back to printing again this week on Dezeen, as an inkjet printer that eats its way down a stack of paper (pictured) was revealed and the world's first architectural structure using standard 3D printers was completed. Click through for more highlights and our Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

Movie: jury member Tobias Lutz explains why a folding boat and a mini greenhouse were among winners of the Unique Youngstar outdoor product design competition, in our second movie from garden trade show Spoga+Gafa. (more...) View the full article

Dutch designer Ineke Hans plays on traditional Canadian furniture as part of these collections for remote artists' community Fogo Island (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Daniel Libeskind is the twelfth addition to our A-Zdvent calendar of architects. Pictured here is the New York architect's extension to the Dresden Museum of Military History, which features a pointed steel and glass shard through the skin of the historic museum, but he also recently unveiled plans to build an angular apartment block in Berlin. See more architecture by Daniel Libeskind » View the full article

Sports brand Adidas has unveiled its latest running shoes with springy blades sticking out of the soles (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Interview: Clive Wilkinson, the architect behind the office design at Google's Silicon Valley headquarters, tells us how he convinced the internet giant to move away from "humiliating, disenfranchising and isolating" workers' cubicles (+ transcript). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2014: Japanese design studio YOY presented a lamp that projects the shape of a shade onto a wall and a rug that doubles as a chair in Milan this week (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Herzog & de Meuron has completed an open-air gymnasium in Natal, Brazil – the flagship project for the Swiss firm's regeneration of the Mãe Luiza neighbourhood (photos by Leonardo Finotti + slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Stockholm designers Erik Olovsson and Kyuhyung Cho added different shaped holes to the stackable wooden blocks that make up this flexible shelving unit, creating spaces suited to displaying various items. (more...) View the full article

This Montreal student housing block by Kanva is clad with concrete panels that are engraved with historic pictures of the site (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival 2014: JamesPlumb has used textiles coloured with a Medieval dying technique to cover the duo's latest pieces of furniture and lighting (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Large panels of glazing are sandwiched between the thick white concrete frame of this riverside house near Oxford by London studio Selencky Parsons (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Chicago firm JAHN and Mexican office ADG have teamed up to design a new stadium for Mexican baseball team Los Diablos Rojos del Mexico with a pointed roof modelled on a devil's trident. (more…) View the full article

Intended to encourage more austere worship for Buddhists, this stone shelter in a Vietnam city park was designed by a21studio – the firm behind the 2014 World Building of the Year (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This grey-rendered house was designed with strategically placed windows to create privacy for residents in a densely populated area of Japan (+ slideshow). (more…)