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Architect Hiroyuki Miyake used a traditional English bricklaying pattern for the ceramic tiles on the walls of this beauty salon in Toyokawa, Japan. (more…) View the full article

News: miracle material graphene has been used to develop infrared sensors, which could be inserted into contact lenses and allow the wearer to see in the dark. (more...) View the full article

US scientists have developed a hair dye that contains miracle material graphene, which allows hair to be coloured without causing breakage or frizz. Read more View the full article

Scientists at Australian research centre CSIRO have used graphene to create a simple filtration system that could change the lives of millions in the developing world by making the process of purifying water faster and more effective. Read more View the full article

UK scientists have found a way to incorporate wonder-material graphene into concrete, greatly increasing the material's strength and water resistance. Read more View the full article

Spanish illustrator and writer Agustín Ferrer Casas has created a graphic novel about 20th-century modernist Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, featuring a prologue written by British architect Norman Foster. Read more

Artists and designers have grabbed their pens, pencils and digital styluses to create images of support and informative illustrations to help distribute advice on how to slow the spread of coronavirus. Read more View the full article

Graphic designers are supporting the Black Lives Matter movement and current protests, sharing illustrations and links to resources that people can use to help others and educate themselves. We've rounded up just a few of the many artworks created to spread the message. Read more View the full article

From a zine profiling Yorkshire's best designers to a bike share branded in local dialect, this VDF school show features projects created by York St John University students to celebrate the UK's northern region. Read more View the full article

Architecture for London has designed the interiors of this north London extension to appear "like a neatly ruled grid in a notebook", hinting at the professions of its two inhabitants. Read more

Milan 2014: Swedish studio Claesson Koivisto Rune has created a modular chandelier, with strings of ovoid-shaped lights influenced by the shape of grapes hanging on a vine. (more...) View the full article

Since spring is on the way, here’s a range of metal garden furniture designed by Dutch designer Wieki Somers for French brand Tectona. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A hill-like green roof with a skylight helps to blend this public library by Toronto architecture firm RDHA into its grassy surrounds. Read more View the full article

Belgian studio Graux & Baeyens Architecten has used "sober but brutal" materials to create a new atelier for painter and sculpture Stief Desmet. Read more

Eindhoven designer Mieke Meijer of Dutch Invertuals presented a cabinet comprising a jumble of wooden frames in Milan last month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The bereaved will be able to find the location of their loved ones' graves using GPS in this cemetery without headstones, proposed by Australian firms CHROFI and McGregor Coxall for Sydney (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: Gravity – the first design by Hong Kong watch brand Ziiiro – is now available from Dezeen Watch Store. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch designer Jólan van der Wiel has expanded his range of products shaped by magnets with this candle-holder. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Tokyo 2010: Japanese designer NOSIGNER presented magnetic jewellery made of pearls at DesignTide Tokyo 2010 this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The team behind a virtual reality tool that allows designers to sketch in three dimensions has launched an iPad app that turns drawings into virtual and physical 3D models (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

London startup Gravity Sketch has officially launched its virtual reality sketching software that lets users create and manipulate three-dimensional objects in mid-air. Read more View the full article

The team behind the Gravity Sketch iPad app have launched new cross-platform software, which gives designers the option to draw and manipulate 3D objects in a virtual reality environment (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Designers can move easily between drawing in a virtual-reality environment and on their tablet using the latest update to Gravity Sketch. Read more

This weathering steel staircase by engineering studio Close to Bone cantilevers off a hill in Flanders, forming an observation tower overlooking rolling farmland and the Kabouterbos forest (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Outdoor classrooms and active farmlands surround the extension to this ecological high school in Connecticut, which Gray Organschi built with cross-laminated timber to demonstrate sustainable design practices. Read more