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Tbilisi designer Max Machaidze and writer Zurab Jishkariani have produced animated videos to accompany nine music tracks by KayaKata, the hip-hop band they lead. Read more View the full article

Fundamental Architects and Omega Render have envisioned a building spanning a river in Astana, capital of Kazakhstan, with a hole in the middle to make it look like the national flag. Read more

Moon/en/co and Van Helmond Architecten have teamed up to form Kazerne, an Eindhoven hotel that boasts just eight rooms and an exhibition space that will showcase pieces from notable Dutch designers. Read more

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Kazuyo Sejima has designed the Laview commuter train with huge passenger windows and a curved glass nose, which is now in operation between Tokyo and Saitama. Read more

Architect Kazuyo Sejima has unveiled her design for a Japanese commuter train with semi-transparent and mirrored surfaces designed to help it blend in with the surrounding landscape. (more…) View the full article

KC Design Studio has squeezed a series of living areas into this 46-square-metre apartment in Taipei by incorporating space-saving furniture pieces. Read more

KC Design Studio has updated a 3.7-metre-wide house in Taiwan with a perforated facade and lightwell to combat the lack of daylight in the island's dense neighbourhoods. Read more View the full article

Japanese architects Geneto installed diagonal walls across the interior of this houe in Shiga, Japan, to block views through to neighbouring houses and create new spaces in between the rooms. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The square windows and mansard roof silhouette of this Bavarian townhouse by German architects SoHo Architektur are an echo of the building that formerly occupied the site (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Tel Aviv architect Kedem Shinar drew on Israel's Bauhaus architecture and her training in Japan to create the clean lines of this bright white house in Carmey Yossef (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

We've divided and updated our Pinterest board of minimalist projects into sections containing austere architecture, pared-back interiors and essential designs that do more with less. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest › Read more

Milan 2016: we're heading to Milan to report on the city's annual festival of design exhibitions, installations and parties next week. Keep up with Dezeen's coverage of the event using our new Pinterest board, which we'll be updating daily. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See our Milan 2016 coverage View the full article

Personal fertility tracking is set to get more sophisticated with the arrival of Kegg, the first wearable device to measure cervical mucus. Read more

Clerkenwell Design Week 2013: Spanish atelier MUT patterned these tiles with shapes that look like overlapping pieces of coloured paper. (more...) View the full article

Concrete walls, wooden floors and simplistic furnishings form "transparent" living spaces within this pair of formerly light-starved Tokyo apartments renovated by Norm Architects and Keiji Ashizawa Design Read more

Interior designer Kelly Hoppen has created a life-size statue of Disney's iconic cartoon character Mickey Mouse, which she has adapted to suit a "grown-up" audience. Read more

The cruise ship, called Celebrity Edge, has 1,500 suites designed by British interior designer Kelly Hoppen, who also fitted out the world's first cantilevered deck that can move up and down the ship's exterior. Read more

Interior designer Kelly Hoppen has created a collection of premium light switches and plug sockets for Focus SB that provide an alternative to "very conservative" electrical wiring accessories. Read more View the full article

Kelly Jazvac is showing pieces of plastiglomerate at the Milan Triennale, a "warning sign" material that is a mix of molten plastic debris and beach sediment. Read more

American interior designer Kelly Wearstler scoured vintage shops to source the eclectic furniture that decorates the living room-style lobby of this hotel in Santa Monica, California. Read more View the full article

Vienna Design Week: London-based designer Julia Lohmann thinks dried strips of seaweed could replace leather, paper and plastic to make everyday objects like these laser-cut kelp lampshades (+ audio + slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This volcano museum in western Hungary features walls of dark concrete and Corten steel designed by Budapest studio Foldes Architects to reference the colours of volcanic rock and lava (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Design student Ken Nakagaki has adapted a traditional stationery implement to work with Computer Aided Design (CAD) software, creating a tool that enables users to replicate digital files on paper (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

American designer Ken Tanabe has used a range of unusual materials including balloons, videotapes and CDs to form alternative Halloween costumes. (more…) View the full article

News: the cost to build a new outpost of the V&A museum in Dundee, Scotland, has almost doubled to the sum of £80 million – a figure that architect Kengo Kuma has claimed is "surprisingly high" (+ movie). (more…) View the full article