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Dutch Design Week 2014: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Laura Cornet has created a set of toys that allow infants to upload their own photos, videos, locations and activities to social media before they're old enough to use a computer. (more...) View the full article

Paris design studio Appropriate Audiences has combined a 3D printer with a tattooist's needle to form an automated tattoo "printer" that can create indelible artworks on skin (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

The Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) used its annual conference to showcase products created with the latest additive manufacturing technologies, including a chair by architect Zaha Hadid that can be 3D-printed on-demand (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The walls of this house in Poland by Kropka Studio are covered in gabion baskets filled with the same local limestone used to build nearby castles and churches (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A glazed wall framed by thick concrete fronts this house built into a grassy hillside in Paredes, Portugal, by architecture office Spaceworkers (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A wooden staircase cantilevers over the central atrium that architect Andrew Pilkington has cut through the first floor of a Victorian building in west London to transform two small apartments into one large residence (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This jacket by Oslo studio Drap og Design illuminates to imitate the colours of whatever the wearer is touching (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

A folded timber roof adds drama to the interior of this school swimming pool in Buckinghamshire, England, by Duggan Morris Architects, but also helps to prevent echoes (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Comments update: two design heavyweights, Marc Newson and Frank Gehry, dominated the debate on Dezeen this week for very different reasons. (more...) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with publishers nai010 to give readers the chance to win one of five compendiums filled with the most innovative projects by Dutch designers completed over the past year. (more...) View the full article

Interieur 2014: biennale curator Joseph Grima and his research collective Space Caviar took over a derelict school in Kortrijk to create an exhibition exploring how perceptions of the home have changed over time (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Chicago-based Studio Gang is following in the footsteps of OMA, Herzog & de Meuron and Zaha Hadid by becoming the latest architect to design a residential building for Miami (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

See the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Ron Arad Associates, AECOM and HAY, whose recent products include an armchair by London studio Doshi Levien (pictured). This is also the last chance to apply for roles with DSDHA, Ab Rogers Design, Grimshaw Architects and more... (more...) View the full article

A crumpled white shell patterned with tiny perforations wraps around this cluster of small-scale buildings by French studio RH+ that form a children's centre in Paris (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Interieur 2014: condensation droplets pattern the inside of the balloon-shaped shade of this lamp by French designer Arturo Erbsman, which has won an Interieur Award at the Belgian design event. (more...) View the full article

The mirrored roof of this children's care centre by SATA reflects the surrounding treetops and west Ireland skies (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dutch Design Week 2014: Eindhoven designer Joost van Bleiswijk has collaged together found objects and old machine parts to make this range of furniture and lighting. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: cities in the future will exist in both a physical and digital form says William Trossell of 3D-scanning company ScanLAB, who claims the lines between the two "will become increasingly blurred" (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Portuguese architecture studio Virgula I has used local Iberian chestnut to introduce warmth and character into this hotel renovation in the town of Vila Nova de Cerveira (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Architecture firm HawkinsBrown has converted a pair of north London warehouses using timber dividers to create a temporary home for The Bartlett school of architecture (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A flurry of projects by well-known architects have recently completed in Paris, including an installation by Sou Fujimoto and Frank Gehry's Fondation Louis Vuitton, so we've put together a Pinterest board exploring the city's best buildings. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more projects in Paris View the full article

This small house in the French city of Tours by local architecture office Atelier 100architecture features a material palette of zinc panels, plaster and wooden boards that references its historical neighbours. (more...) View the full article

Waist-high partitions divide up the top floor of this mostly windowless house in Japan, framing different activities without cutting off light to any of the spaces (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Music: directors Martin Lorenz and Martin Allais recreated Charles and Ray Eames' 1977 film exploring the scale of the universe for Barcelona-based band Storms' new music video. (more...) View the full article

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam will next week open a remodelled exhibition wing, as the second and final phase of the major renovation by Spanish firm Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article