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Los Angeles studio Commune has used plaster walls, wood built-ins and terracotta tile floors to create a rustic feel inside this bakery in Santa Monica. Read more View the full article

Belgian design duo Fien Muller and Hannes Van Severen aimed to explore the possibilities of aluminium tubing in their latest furniture collection, which sees metal pipes lined up in welded rows. Read more View the full article

To kick off today's VDF collaboration with Beatie Wolfe, we're exclusively streaming the online premiere of the singer-songwriter's documentary Orange Juice for the Ears: from Space Beams to Anti-Streams. Read more View the full article

Designers Thomas Musca and Duyi Han have cast reinforced concrete into furniture with chunky angles and geometric voids that take cues from brutalist architecture. Read more View the full article

Design education "brainwashes" students into rejecting colour, pattern and ornament, according to Adam Nathaniel Furman, who said a group of London designers is finally overcoming bias against their use. Read more View the full article

Zaha Hadid Architects have designed a retail and business centre for the resort of Jesolo near Venice in Italy. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Barnaba Fornasetti will reveal the Italian brand's new Milan showroom and collection with an exclusive live tour and interview as part of today's VDF collaboration with Fornasetti. Watch from 4:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article

Australian designers Büro North have completed the interiors and signage for the head office of Australian department store MYER, featuring patterns carved into the walls. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These spinning tops by industrial designers Reddish of Israel are each made of a single sterling silver wire. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> 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’…

Here are some images of a water tower in Spain by Madrid studio GRG Arquitectos, which bears an uncanny resemblance to the female form. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen is proud to be online media partner for Inside: World Festival of Interiors taking place in Barcelona on 2-3 November and our readers can save 25% of the price of entering the festival’s awards programme and visiting the festival. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: fashion brand Issey Miyake have appointed Yoshiyuki Miyamae as designer of their womenswear collection, following the departure of creative director Dai Fujiwara in February (see our earlier Dezeen Wire). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photographer Roland Halbe has sent us these images of an extension to a museum inside a ruined castle in Halle, Germany, by Spanish studio Niento Sobejano Arquitectos. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s another update from the cutting edge of toilet design: Copenhagen studio UiWE are working on urinals for women. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with London designer Max Lamb to give readers the chance to win one of five signed copies of his new book China Granite Project II. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with us at Dezeen and architects Herzog & De Meuron, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Heatherwick Studio, The Museum of Everything and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Sarajevo fashion designer Ljiljana Majkić presents her Autumn/Winter 2011-2012 collection of garments with exaggerated geometric silhouettes. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The two rehearsal rooms of this Brazilian music school are covered with chalkboards on the outside and oriented strand board on the inside. (more…) View the full article

The top stories on Dezeen this week are all about slides, skyscrapers and animal products. (more…) View the full article

Two small side tables slot into the top of a coffee table in this set by Barcelona studio 3Patas. (more…) View the full article

London designer Tom Dixon will launch a range of iridescent stoneware pendant lights at next month’s London Design Festival. (more…) View the full article

Irish studio Grafton Architects have acknowledged the influence of celebrated Brazilian architect Paulo
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 Rocha on their work by constructing limestone models of his buildings and theirs at the Venice Architecture Biennale. (more…) View the full article

London-based designer Oscar Diaz launched this industrial looking stainless steel bottle opener at the Project No. 8 shop in New York this week. (more…) View the full article

Architecture studio Neri&Hu has opened a design gallery, shop and event space in a former colonial police station in Shanghai’s Jingan district. (more…) View the full article