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Ever judged a book by its cover? Amsterdam creative studio Moore has reversed the well-known idiom – designing a sleeve that scans your face and won't open unless approached without prejudice (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Balconies of all shapes and sizes have been added to our latest Pinterest board. See our new balconies Pinterest board » Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » View the full article

Our new Pinterest board features a variety of designs created from paper, including intricately crafted models of tropical birds, a fluffy looking chair by Nendo and brightly coloured fashion outfits. See our new paper designs Pinterest board» Follow Dezeen on Pinterest» View the full article

This activity-tracking device by former Apple CEO John Sculley's tech startup Misfit looks more like luxury jewellery than a sports accessory. (more...) View the full article

Australian office Tribe Studio has hollowed out the centre of a 1920s house in Sydney to create angular ceilings and a wide entrance to the garden (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Fashion designer Sadie Williams has heat-pressed neoprene to create this collection of metallic sci-fi garments, which was nominated for Designs of the Year 2014 earlier this week. (more...) View the full article

A spiral of wooden strips surrounds a staircase in the restaurant of this Strasbourg hotel, designed inside a former equestrian academy by Paris studio Jouin Manku (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Berlin-based product designer Mark Braun has created his first watch, with the Metro for fine watchmakers Nomos Glashütte (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

New York 2014: Canadian design brand Umbra has launched its Umbra Shift platform at ICFF in New York, with a range of products that includes the Hanger Chair by London designer Philippe Malouin. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: a new watch created by Industrial Facility that is inspired by the design of beer bottles is now on sale at Dezeen Watch Store. (more...) View the full article

Graphic design studio GrandArmy has overhauled the signage and packaging for the United States Postal Service in the "largest retail rebrand project in American history" (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival 2014: a series of glass objects by artist Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert, including lights designed to look like clouds, are on display at Gallery Fumi in east London (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Two unusual umbrellas were popular this week as the rainy season made itself felt across large swathes of the Northern Hemisphere, so we've collected together some of the best rain-related designs from the pages of Dezeen. (more...) View the full article

Japanese studios SNARK and OUVI have slotted a six-metre-wide house with a lopsided roof between two buildings on the edge of a cemetery (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This blackened plywood box added by architect Antonin Ziegler to one end of a rural home on France's northern coast provides a private library and garage for its inhabitants (+ slideshow). (more…)

The "world's lightest and most compact electric bike" has surpassed its crowdfunding goal in just two days. Check out all the bicycles we've featured on Dezeen, including a design that folds into a backpack and a bike with a frame made from cardboard. See all our stories about bicycles » View the full article

Stark white walls frame vistas of the Ionian Sea from a bright white house by Brussels-based architect Olivier Dwek, which is perched above the coastline of Zante (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The letter L in our festive countdown of bridges is the Langkawi Sky Bridge, a suspended structure at the top of a mountain on Malaysia's Langkawi archipelago. (more…) View the full article

Rotterdam studio MVRDV has revealed its design for a shopping centre with a pearlescent facade, which is on target to complete this summer in central Beijing. (more…) View the full article

Opinion: this year's SXSW technology conference may have had Barack Obama as its headliner, but the tone was still surprisingly sombre, says Kieran Long. Are the tech evangelists as worried about the future as the rest of us? (more…) View the full article

Milan 2016: visitors are posting images of innovative products using our #milanogram2016 tag, including a sink that automatically lowers from a kitchen surface (pictured). Click through to see more of today's highlights. (more…) View the full article

Swathes of ribbed concrete and glass form curvaceous walls and a spiralling walkway for this art faculty at a Tenerife university, designed by local studio GPY Arquitectos (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Canadian architect Brian MacKay-Lyons has built a cabin for an architecture intern at his Nova Scotia farmstead, featuring a rough skin of weathering steel, and a rustic but compact interior (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Movie: Caesarstone CEO Yos Shiran reveals how the company develops and manufactures new countertop products in this exclusive video Dezeen produced for the quartz surface brand. (more…) View the full article

Brexit design summit: the freedom to recruit talented staff from overseas is "completely essential" according to leading UK designers, who have submitted ideas for a design manifesto to help the sector thrive after Brexit. (more…) View the full article