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Copenhagen industrial design trio KiBiSi have produced a moulded plywood chair for the Danish Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010 this summer (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

German studio Winkens Architekten have completed a kindergarten in Berlin that has sheltered terraces at each end. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

German designer Peter Böckel will present this combined book shelf and lamp at DMY Berlin this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch designers Tejo Remy & René Veenhuizen have designed a collection of furniture that looks inflated but is actually made of cast concrete. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A retrospective exhibition of British artist David Watkins’ jewellery opens tomorrow at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Danish architects C. F. Møller have completed a centre for entrepreneurs in Horsens, Denmark, where a green fibre-cement staircase spirals round the central atrium. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish architects Carlos Pereda Iglesias and Óscar Pérez Silanes have completed a jewellery shop in Bilbao divided by rippled glass screens. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These pieces of jewellery by Central Saint Martins graduate Stéphanie Van Zwam are made from plastic bubbles and tubes that float around the wearer’s body (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Photographer Roland Halbe has sent us his photographs of a holiday home in Spain by Anton García-Abril of Ensamble Studio, cast in the earth and hollowed out by a cow. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Es Devlin, Zoé Whitely, Marc Spiegler and others will join a live panel discussion organised by Therme Art for VDF, which will examine the value of cultural events amidst global unrest. Watch here from 5:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article

Spanish branding agency Summa has subtly rebranded Correos, the Spanish national postal service, with a simplified logo for the digital age and a new typeface. Read more

Gaetano Pesce implores young designers to consider how to address social issues through their work, which he says has a greater capacity to communicate with people than art, in our latest collaboration with Friedman Benda for VDF. Watch from 11:00am UK time. Read more View the full article

Here are some photos of the completed 2012 London Olympic Stadium designed by HOK Sport (now known as Populous). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A private balcony is concealed behind the black galvanised steel exterior of this house in Yao, Japan, by architect Yosuke Ichii. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Zurich photographer Bruno Helbling has sent us his photos of a house on a hillside in Switzerland by Swiss office Felber Szélpal Architekten. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This lamp by German designers Tobias Sieber and Samuel Treindl is cast from 10kg of copper, so its value will increase with metal prices. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch Design Week 2011: best known for his grown-up furniture that would be quite at home in a fairy tale, Amsterdam designer Bo Reudler presents a collection of children’s furniture in Eindhoven as part of Dutch Design Week this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Italian ceramics company FMG has produced a collection of large-scale tiles called Max Fine, which can be applied across floors, walls and furnishings. Read more View the full article

A roof terrace can be glimpsed between the metallic grey timber beams that surround a two-storey house near Riga, Latvia. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Brazilian designers Fernando and Humberto Campana have built a house in São Paulo that is covered in palm fibre to give it a hairy exterior (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Show RCA 2011: Royal College of Art graduate Erik de Laurens has made a pair of swimming goggles, spectacles and beakers out of fish scales. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: the inner rippling patterns of semi-precious stones are featured across the "dreamlike" furniture and fabrics in Fornasetti's Malachite collection. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: prowling leopards and lush foliage feature in Italian brand Fornasetti's latest range of furniture, called Leopardo. Read more View the full article

Designer Rafael de Cárdenas of New York created the interior of this Cape Town menswear store Unknown Union with shelving in clashing colours that fade into each other. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Electric vehicle brand Arrival has launched a zero-emissions bus aimed at making public transport viable in the coronavirus era. Read more View the full article