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DMY Berlin 2010: stitch by Dutch designer Pepe Heykoop is a series of second-hand items given new, hand-stitched fabric skins. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

An irregularly-shaped glass top is supported by a network of beech struts to form this table by Italian designer Paolo Cappello. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New exhibition space Křehký Gallery has opened inside a former ham factory in Prague. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: the lineup of readers at Once Upon a Dream: London Tastemakers in Bed with Veuve Clicquot this week has been announced. See schedule below. More about Once Upon a Dream: London Tastemakers in Bed with Veuve Clicquot » All our stories about London Design Festival 2010 » (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

News: former US president Bill Clinton has been named as the keynote speaker for the American Institute of Architects' annual conference in Atlanta this May. (more…) View the full article

Italian silversmith Gianfranco Pampaloni celebrates Valentine’s Day by piercing a real heart with a solid silver arrow and hanging it in the window of his Florence shop. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: design critic Justin McGuirk lifts the lid on the furniture industry’s royalty system and asks “are designers being exploited by having to make work for free?” in his article for The Guardian, describing #milanuncut as the big story of Milan 2011. Read the full article » More about #milanuncut here » Follow the debate on Twitter » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architecture graduate Stephan Sobl has designed an upside-down skyscraper to hang over the Colorado River in Nevada, right beside the Hoover Dam. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here is a complete set of photographs of the heavily criticised Museum of Liverpool by Danish architects 3XN, which opened to the public last month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A watch featuring a looter running off with a TV while a riot policeman stands and watches is one of a series of one-off, customised time pieces commissioned by Dezeen from Dominic Wilcox. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architects Stephen Williams Associates have completed a hotel that looks like a shipping warehouse beside the harbour in Hamburg. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this movie filmed at Qubique 2011, student Milena Kling shows us an exhibition of projects from the University of Arts Berlin, which were completed in collaboration with material brand Alcantara. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Paris 2012: chair brand Emeco presented a new collection of seating by French designer Christophe Pillet at Maison & Objet in Paris this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: sports brand Nike have created a range of running shoes with knitted uppers made in one piece. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

One year ago this week we were still presenting some of our favourite projects from Milan’s annual Salone Internazionale del Mobile, which included chairs from a mist-filled showroom, a desk that cascades off the wall and a midnight meal in a darkened apartment. We also featured the zigzag-shaped chair launched there by Zaha Hadid, which no one could work out how to sit on. Meanwhile, architecture stories continued to be popular with our readers, who couldn’t get enough of a split-level apartment filled with nooks and crannies, a staircase encased by faceted wood, and a Swedish cottage with a stark pine interior. Over in the Netherlands, UNStudio revealed images of a to…

Slideshow: American architect David Jameson has completed a two-storey house in Bethesda, Maryland, with white walls that look like pixellated blocks. (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: a swimming pool, spa, cinema and games room will be hidden in the rock beneath the main cluster of buildings at this Norwegian hunting lodge and hotel by London architects Haptic. (more…) View the full article

Movie: basketball games have become so aggressive that sports brand Nike decided to include combat pads in its latest kit, explains the brand’s global creative director for the Olympics Martin Lotti in the next Dezeen movie in anticipation of tomorrow’s exclusive event at the Nike+ House of Innovation. (more…) View the full article

Austrian design duo Mischer’Traxler talk to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about how their basket-building machine will only work when someone’s watching in this movie we filmed at Clerkenwell Design Week. (more…) View the full article

News: new technologies are causing a “cultural revolution” that will transform the way objects are made and the way they look, according to the curator of Adhocracy, a new exhibition exploring the impact of digital networks and open-source thinking on the design world (+ interview transcript). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: London watch brand Uniform Wares has updated its best-selling 200 Series range of watches with three new models featuring an improved Swiss movement and new finishes. Buy now at Dezeen Watch Store with free worldwide shipping. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen has teamed up with Google for today's UK launch of the Field Trip app, which provides contextual information about your surroundings wherever you go. (more...) View the full article

Maison&Objet 2013: Dutch studio Scholten & Baijings has created a range of glassware for Danish brand Hay featuring swatches of colour, graduated tints and grid lines (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London-based design duo Raw Edges arranged hundreds of fabric ribbons around the edge of their display stand for Danish textile manufacturer Kvadrat at this year's Stockholm Design Week. (more...) View the full article

Architects including Zaha Hadid, Farshid Moussavi and Hani Rashid have signed a petition calling for Denise Scott Brown (above) to be recognised as a Pritzker Prize laureate alongside her husband, Robert Venturi, who was awarded the prestigious prize in 1991. (more...) View the full article