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Students from London's Royal College of Art and Imperial College have devised a system that provides access to news coverage via a portable satellite modem during a government-enforced internet shutdown. Read more View the full article

Mycelium pendant lamps dangle above recycled-plastic dining tables inside Silo, a zero-waste restaurant in east London designed by studio Nina+Co. Read more View the full article

At 5:00pm UK time today VDF goes live to Milan, where Bar Basso owner Maurizio Stocchetto will tell the story of the design world's favourite drinking spot and show how to mix the bar's signature cocktail. Read more View the full article

A prayer room occupies a white turret in this house in Chandigarh designed by architecture studio Charged Voids to reference the work of Le Corbusier. Read more View the full article

A pedestrian bridge designed by American architect Bernard Tschumi and French firm Hugh Dutton Associés has opened in La Roche-sur-Yon in France. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designers Ini Archibong and Chrissa Amuah will speak to Dezeen in a live Screentime conversation sponsored by Philips TV & Sound as part of Virtual Design Festival today. Tune in from 4:30pm UK time. Read more View the full article

Designer Sarah Böttger of Germany has created a series of containers made of glass components joined with plastic rings and disks. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Maximilian Büsser of watch brand MB&F has designed a watch with dials mounted on two jet engine-shaped parts of the case. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Alasdhair Willis has resigned as chief executive of British design brand Established & Sons. See his letter below. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

White lighting tracks with red edging swoop across the ceiling in this Shanghai supermarket by Head Architecture of China. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cologne 2011: London studio Doshi Levien present this child’s rocking horse at imm cologne in Germany this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Stockholm 2011: Swedish furniture company Massproductions present this simple steel-framed armchair at Stockholm Furniture Fair this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: in Milan this week Italian brand Moroso launch this set of low tables by Japanese designers Nendo, where a mirrored lower shelf reveals the patterned underside of the table top. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This pavilion by London architects Plasma Studio is located at the heart of the 2011 Xi’an International Horticultural Expo, which is currently taking place in China. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

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Dezeen Watch Store (and our pop-up store at 55 Neal Street until 16 July) is now stocking Iconograph, the first watch by Berlin designer Werner Aisslinger. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New Zealand furniture brand Resident will launch their inaugural collection at designjunction during the London Design Festival next week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Space: design graduate Clinton Sheldon brings a series of products made of components salvaged from the factory of British furniture company Ercol to our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space today. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: a mirrored tree house designed by architects Tham & Videgård Arkitekter for the Treehotel in northern Sweden is now available for sale as a flat-pack kit. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architect Peter Zumthor designed this memorial on an island in Norway to commemorate suspected witches who were burned at the stake there in the seventeenth century (photographs by Andrew Meredith). (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cologne 2012: German brand e15 presented these side tables that combine marble tops with coloured steel bases at trade fair imm cologne last week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Neighbouring London studios Office Sian and Kai Design have completed a Thai canteen that features exposed bricks walls, caged lighting and a concrete bar. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2012: in this interview filmed at Dezeen Studio, Guardian critic Justin McGuirk gives us his take on the future of design criticism, as fast reactions on platforms like Twitter and Facebook are balanced by long-form analysis in e-books and online journals. He goes on to discuss how the fetishisation of traditional crafts by mass-producers is pushing design in a new direction and agrees with previous guest journalist Joseph Grima that the arrival of hacking culture and open-source production is the big story in Milan this year, describing it as the antithesis to the luxury design industry that the city normally centres around. (more…) View the full art…

Movie: Thomas Heatherwick talks to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about redesigning the iconic red double-decker bus for London in this interview filmed by Dezeen at the preview of Heatherwick Studio: Designing the Extraordinary at the V&A museum in London. (more…) View the full article

Eight poles and a board made of forest waste bolt together to make a flat-pack table by Japanese designers Hiroyuki Miyabe and Jun Yoshimura of SPEAC. (more…) View the full article