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Stockholm designer Nicolas Cheng has designed a range of brooches made from bits of loofah, sponge and cotton. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Every room of this house in Japan by local architects Katsutoshi Sasaki + Associates is contained in a separate block, connected by sliding doors. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: architectural theorist Charles Jencks has written a new article for Blueprint magazine about the resurgence of postmodern architecture over the past twenty years, during which time other commentators claim it has become defunct. Jencks points to projects from the likes of Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Herzog & de Meuron and Santiago Calatrava as demonstrative of the continuing influence of postmodern ideas, which he claims have led to “the explosive growth in iconic buildings and landmark sculptures.” The V&A is currently hosting an exhibition of postmodern architecture and design and you can see all of our stories on postmodernism here. </img&g…

To coincide with the Less and More exhibition about the work of German designer Dieter Rams that opens tomorrow in Frankfurt, Dezeen have got together with furniture brand Vitsœ to give away five signed posters showing Rams’s ten principles of good design. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Italian studio Matteo Thun & Partners present a series of gently rounded bathroom fittings for German design brand Dornbracht at ISH 2011 in Frankfurt, which opens today. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here is another project from the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, this time Israeli student Sharona Merlin has designed a flattened cup and saucer. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: here’s a selection of photos by architectural photographer Luke Hayes of JamScape, the audio installation created by Yves Behar of fuseproject and Jawbone in collaboration with Dezeen. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architectural structures by seven architects including Terunobu Fujimori (above), Rintala Eggertsson and Sou Fujimoto open to the public today in the galleries of the V&A museum in London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Ravensbourne University is spotlighting its BA (Hons) Fashion Accessory & Textile Futures programme as part of the VDF x Ventura Projects collaboration. Read more View the full article

Copulating couples can be spotted among a crowd of tiny figurines under the surface of Rolf Sachs’s latest table. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Graphic designer Max Erdenberger of Wieden + Kennedy has designed this screen-printed poster to raise money for disaster relief following the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan at the end of last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Design products graduate Georgi Manassiev presents a chair with the seat and backrest divided in two at the Royal College of Art graduate show in London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen filmed this interview with the team behind the Plumen 001 light bulb, winner of this year’s Brit Insurance Design of the Year Award, during the ceremony at the Design Museum in London on Tuesday. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen movie: Milan designer Fabio Novembre talks to curator Daniel Charny and museum director Deyan Sudjic about the city’s contribution to design in this fourth film about Italian design for the Design Museum in association with Peroni Nastro Azzurro. (more…) </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

American designer Paul Loebach created this collection of rustic furniture in reference to the country cabins erected in nineteenth-century Adirondack, New York. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cologne 2011: Swedish design duo Glimpt presented these strawberry-inspired pendant lamps as part of [D3] Design Talents at imm cologne last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This Kindergarten in northern Italy by Austrian architects Feld72 is split into three separate house-shaped blocks connected by glazing. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Over 200 cubes display products by coffee brand Illy at this temporary shop in Milan. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

British designer Tom Dixon has added a small wheel to a standard cafe table design to make it easier for staff to move around. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Wrinkly mirrored walls distort the reflection of an apartment interior in Berlin by local architects Lecarolimited. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: “we’re advocating other UK architects to design on water,” architect Alex de Rijke told Dezeen at the Venice Architecture Biennale this week, where his firm dRMM are exhibiting proposals for floating housing at the British Pavilion. (more…) View the full article

A group of disused grain silos near Christchurch in New Zealand are being fitted out as motel rooms. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Italian design studio CLS Architetti have completed a shop in Vietnam with undulating fins and a giant mirrorball. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Temporium: Palomar‘s indestructible maps are behind today’s Advent calendar featuring products on sale at our Christmas pop-up shop The Temporium. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article