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This time last year Nike launched a football strip for the French national team featuring the classic Breton stripe, while Terence Conran, Tord Boontje, Tom Dixon and over a hundred other prolific designers each created an artwork on a piece of graph paper to raise money for cancer care centres. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The latest issue of Dezeen Mail features a speedboat designed by Zaha Hadid (above), a shoe inspired by a bird’s skull and a proposal to thatch London skyscrapers, plus new jobs, competitions and music. Read Dezeen Mail issue 110 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Dynamic, colourful patterns represent the way organisms interact and evolve in the visuals for Max Cooper's latest music video, which was directed by Maxime Teresuac. Read more View the full article

Stockholm 2016: British designer Tom Dixon has created a collection of seven rugs influenced by patterns found around London for Danish manufacturer Ege. (more…) View the full article

These medals designed by Philippe Starck split into four, allowing winning Olympic athletes to share their success with their families. Read more View the full article

This week's Dezeen Mail features Zaha Hadid's Royal Gold Medal win, Norman Foster's controversial views on the future of London and a Modernist-inspired home in Tel Aviv (pictured). There's also the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 272 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

London's V&A has acquired a pink hat with cat-shaped ears, which became a symbol of the Women's March on Washington following Donald Trump's inauguration. Read more View the full article

London-based Henley Halebrown referenced both Georgian and modernist buildings when creating this Stirling Prize-shortlisted group of brick-clad student halls at the University of Roehampton's parkland campus. Read more View the full article

Turkish architecture studio Autoban has designed giant wooden "cocoons" for the interior of the new international terminal at Baku airport in Azerbaijan (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A collection of original costumes, set designs, photographs, instruments and other objects from David Bowie's personal archive will go on show at the V&A museum in London this March, coinciding with the release of the pop star's first album and single in a decade. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: new to Dezeen Watch Store this week is the simple Sheffield Classic, the second watch in our collection by Swedish watch brand Daniel Wellington. (more...) View the full article

Blown glass lights that look like bubbles of magma and blown glass vessels slumped over steel and brass stands feature in Nouvel Limited's latest collection. Read more View the full article

A rotating 10-metre sphere is the centrepiece of the set for British pop group Take That's current world tour, which was designed by Ray Winkler of Stufish. Read more

The two founders of Lagado Architects have revamped their own townhouse in Rotterdam to feature bold live-work spaces and a sculptural blue staircase. Read more View the full article

A hidden corridor beneath a grass hill links the metal-clad volumes of this house and cooking school near in the Netherlands by architecture firm Mecanoo. Read more View the full article

Italian office Studio Galantini has upgraded the wooden structure of a 1970s chapel in north-west Italy so that it can be used for summer services, music recitals and theatrical performances. (more...) View the full article

A scale replica of a gateway to an ancient temple in Japan has been constructed in the grounds of the Dorich House Museum in south London by architecture students from Kingston University. (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Hermann Zapf was one of the most influential typographers of the early digital age. Following his death earlier this month, Rob Alderson, former editor-in-chief of It's Nice That, explains how the German designer paved the way for the emoji and helped change visual communication. (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

American artist Syd Mead, who is best known for his visual concept designs for sci-fi film Blade Runner, has died at the age of 86. Read more View the full article

Architectural photographer Richard Chivers has captured images of gas holders from across England to create a visual record of the remaining examples of the structures. Read more View the full article

Our latest Dezeen Watch Store pop-up has a stand at the World Architecture Festival, taking place in the Marina Bay Sands hotel and conference centre in Singapore until tomorrow. (more…) View the full article

A trademark application made earlier this month has given a clue to name and crest of David Beckham's new Miami football team, and the year they aim to start playing. Read more View the full article

London designer Adam Nathaniel Furman has teamed up with Scottish surfaces manufacturer Mirrl to develop a furniture collection informed by Japanese lacquerwork and a folkloric one-eyed boy. Read more

This towering commercial block in Ginza, Tokyo, by Amano Design Office features a faceted aluminium facade reminiscent of a crumpled-up sweet wrapper (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This week we're counting down the most-pinned home interiors that feature tiled surfaces, from original mosaic floors in Barcelona apartments to a contemporary kitchen in a London house extension (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article