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The Design Museum Collection App for iPad is now available to download, featuring interviews filmed by Dezeen with Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic about 59 objects from their collection. Download it free from the app store here. In this film we’ve compiled extracts focussing on how design has shaped the way we listen to music over the last century, including iconic devices like the Ecko AD-65 radio from the early 1930s, SK5 Phonosuper from Braun in the 1950s and Sony’s experiments from Walkman to Discman to MiniDisc towards the end of the twentieth century. (more…) View the full article

London design studio Yang:Ripol have remixed humble stationery items to create a pen that doubles as a pencil case and an eraser-capped pencil with its own brush. (more…) View the full article

Zig-zagging pathways lead to viewing platforms perched high in the Norwegian mountains in this visitor facility designed by Reiulf Ramstad Architects (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A staircase is extruded from the wooden shelves of a bookcase at this renovated house in Tuscany by Italian architects Sundaymorning and Massimo Fiorido Associati. (more…) View the full article

Our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs has been redesigned and is now live! We’ve refreshed the look and feel of the site with a new colour and font, bigger headlines and text and a number of new features including a Job of the Week slot. Otherwise the site retains the same simple, clear navigation as before and most importantly, the price of posting a job ad has not changed: it still costs just £100 to post an ad for 28 days! As well as being posted on Dezeen Jobs, positions are promoted via Twitter, in our feeds, in our weekly Dezeen Mail newsletter and our Dezeen Jobs round-up every Monday on Dezeen. We believe www.dezeenjobs.com is the world’s most effective architecture…

Beijing Design Week: designer Arthur Huang used Nike shoe material to create a colourful web in a rusting gas tower during Beijing Design Week (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This ridged limestone house by Athens studio decaArchitecture faces out over the edge of a cliff on the Greek island of Milos (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

New York architects Studio Cadena placed three white boxes inside this industrial loft in Brooklyn to make bedrooms for three flatmates. (more…) View the full article

Cologne 2013: Italian designer Luca Nichetto installed his idea of the house of the future at trade fair imm cologne last week (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Product news: Japanese design studio Nendo has come up with a modular office furniture system with tall backrests for extra privacy (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Product news: Spanish studio Lievore Altherr Molina has designed a family of triangular tables and stools for Italian brand Arper. (more...) View the full article

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban developed these timber and earth houses for the rehabilitation of a Sri Lankan fishing village that was swept away during the 2004 tsunami (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen archive: this week we've delved into our archive to find all the best blow-up buildings, products and installations. See more inflatables in architecture and design » See all our archive stories » View the full article

London designer Philippe Malouin has used solid-surface material Caesarstone to form the seats of twelve swings arranged in a circle for an exhibition later this month. (more…) View the full article

Japanese studio FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects has completed a family house in Shiga, Japan, that is 27 metres long but only 2.7 metres wide (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: contemporary architecture and design magazine Azure has revealed the five-strong international jury that will decide the winners of the 2015 AZ Awards, including designer Philippe Malouin. (more…) View the full article

News: a host of international architects including Zaha Hadid, UNStudio, Snøhetta and Safdie Architects have been shortlisted to design the World Expo 2017 exhibition in Astana, Kazakhstan. (more...) View the full article

French architects RAUM have arranged a cluster of holiday apartments in Brittany around terraces that are connected by small alleys (+ slideshows). (more...) View the full article

British designer Tom Dixon has launched a tea set made of spun brass. (more...) View the full article

Bands of light shine through the perforated metal facade of this sports hall by French studio Ateliers O-S Architectes in north-west Paris (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A pointed arch punctures the red concrete facade of this Portuguese visitor attraction designed by Lisbon architect Gonçalo Byrne to present the history of a fourteenth century battle between Portuguese and Castilian forces (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Fashion brand Pringle of Scotland has incorporated laser-sintered nylon fabric into garments for its Autumn Winter 2014 collection, shown yesterday at London Fashion Week. (more...) View the full article

News: Apple's reclusive head designer Jonathan Ive says the technological age in still in its infancy in his first in-depth interview in almost 20 years. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2014: designer Tom Dixon presented a collection of pendant and table lights that combine geometric brass-plated planes with spherical glass shades in Milan last week. (more...) View the full article

News: installations including a "gigantic scale" rotating sculpture by Barber and Osgerby, a garden installation by Zaha Hadid and a swarm of drones have been announced for this year's London Design Festival in September. (more...) View the full article