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Milan 2015: Spanish designer Jaime Hayón has created a range of wooden tables that are shaped to look like the curved structural elements of iconic buildings by Le Corbusier. (more…)

Spanish designer Jaime Hayón aimed to take visitors to this hotel in Madrid on a "visual journey through Spain's past" by combining Arabic and Moorish details with his signature playful aesthetic. Read more View the full article

Spanish designer Jaime Hayón is launching a limited-edition chronograph with a chimp-like face for his watch company Orolog. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Spanish designer Jaime Hayon has added a series of chairs to his rattan furniture collection Frames. Read more View the full article

Children can crawl into the rear end of a wooden pig when visiting this playground installation by Spanish designer Jaime Hayón at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. (more…) View the full article

A giant chess set and a hot-dog-shaped rocking horse are on show at a retrospective of work by Spanish designer Jaime Hayón at the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands (+ slideshow + interview). (more...) View the full article

Handcrafted pieces from local artisans will be available to purchase in this lifestyle store in Jaipur, India, which features interiors developed by Bijoy Jain. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: Jak, the second watch by New York designer Karim Rashid for Italian brand Alessi, is now available at Dezeen Watch Store. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Jak Studio has redesigned the conventional L-shaped sofa to suit the "home workplace of the future", enabling it to be altered from seating or a bed into a work pod. Read more View the full article

Architect Jake Moulson has renovated a dilapidated Dublin townhouse, creating a dramatic set of interiors filled with bespoke furniture. Read more

Built in Lyon's docklands, Jakob + MacFarlane's new headquarters for international news channel Euronews features an acid-green facade punctured by two huge egg-shaped holes (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Mexican architect Jakob Gomez has renovated a 1970s apartment in the mountainous area surrounding Monterrey, Mexico, using bright yellow to mark out the circulation space in the centre (+slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Extra travel items can be stowed in the giant pockets of this wearable luggage to get around strict hand baggage restrictions on low-cost airlines. (more...) View the full article

Eindhoven designer Jalila Essaïdi has turned manure into haute couture, creating a poo-based fabric that has been used to make clothes (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Industrial designer Yves Béhar of Fuseproject has sent sketches, computer renderings and photos explaining the design and manufacture of Jambox, a portable wireless speaker for Jawbone. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Temporium: we have ten Jambox portable wireless speakers in limited-edition packaging designed by Yves Behar of Fuseproject on sale at The Temporium, our pop-up design store in London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Norwegian firm Snøhetta has completed a library at North Carolina State University that features a robotic book retrieval system and a 3D printing workshop (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Academy Award-winning set designer Ken Adam, who created iconic backdrops for seven films in the James Bond franchise and Stanley Kubrick's Dr Strangelove, has died at the age of 95. (more…) View the full article

American artist James Casebere has produced a series of staged photographs portraying a future world in which people are forced to build shelters to escape catastrophic flooding. Read more View the full article

News: landscape architecture studio James Corner Field Operations, who collaborated on New York's High Line, has been selected to create a huge public park bordering the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: a system that extracts moisture from air like a desert-dwelling beetle has won this year’s James Dyson Award for students working on innovative engineering solutions. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Vacuum-cleaner entrepreneur James Dyson has become the UK's wealthiest person despite spending £500 million on his company's scrapped electric car, which has been revealed for the first time. Read more View the full article

Dezeenwire: industrial designer James Dyson is to succeed Terence Conran as Provost of London’s Royal College of Art. See press release below. Sir James Dyson to Succeed Sir Terence Conran as Provost of the Royal College of Art, London Sir James Dyson, the engineer entrepreneur, is to succeed Sir Terence Conran as Provost of the Royal College of Art. The Head of the College, the Provost presides over meetings of the Court and 
confers degrees at Convocation. Sir James will take up the post on 1 August 2011, when Sir Terence officially retires from the role.

 Sir James Dyson, whose term of appointment is five years, is widely acclaimed as one of the world’…

News: British industrial designer James Irvine, who founded his studio in Milan nearly 30 years ago, has died aged 54. (more...) View the full article

Photographer Charles Hosea has sent us his pictures of this visitor centre in Essex, England, with oversailing wooden roof trusses by UK firm Sarah Wigglesworth Architects. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article