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Each piece in this "unnecessary" cutlery set by Israeli designer Lee Ben David has been shaped for use with just one specific type of food. (more...) View the full article

Following the popularity of a lakeside home featuring intricately patterned wooden screens, we've collected together spectacular examples of Austrian architecture from the pages of Dezeen and added them to a new Pinterest board. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more Austrian architecture View the full article

This coastal home in Chile by architect Gonzalo Mardones Viviani is set down into a cliff so as not to disrupt sea views from the road running alongside (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival 2014: Swedish designer Jomi Evers Solheim has created a collection of porcelain vases, using moulds formed around balloons that were filled with water. (more...) View the full article

Music: an animated humanoid rabbit chases a girl across the screens of Apple devices in this music video by Ukranian indie band Brunettes Shoot Blondes. (more...) View the full article

A zigzagging roof extends across this extension added to the original gable end of a community centre in the Swiss municipality of Oberglatt by Zurich studio Frei + Saarinen (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Books are arranged by colour rather than by title on the upper shelves of this bookshop in Rio de Janeiro designed by São Paulo firm Studio Arthur Casas (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Tratti by Inga Sempé's eponymous Parisian design studio is a collection of tiles in eight patterns that can be used individually, or in any combination to create endless compositions (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A horseshoe-shaped courtyard with a matching first floor terrace forms the heart of this remodelled and extended house in Kuala Lumpur, designed by local architect Eleena Jamil (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This week news surfaced of a possible design fault with Apple's iPhone 6, the High Line's final phase opened in New York (pictured), and we launched a new series focussing on the impact technology is having on fashion. Read on for more architecture and design highlights. (more...) View the full article

Design studio Artefact Group has created a conceptual smart locket that wirelessly interacts with social networks to display a digital memento of friends or family. (more...) View the full article

Competition: we've teamed up with London designers Another Studio to give away five model kits of the Crystal Palace, to celebrate the launch of their latest pocket-sized architecture collection. (more...) View the full article

Brutalism: one of the earliest known examples of Brutalist architecture in America is Paul Rudolph's Yale Art and Architecture Building in New Haven, Connecticut, an imposing, fortress-like building that juxtaposes masses of textured concrete with layers of steel-framed glazing. (more...) View the full article

This jewellery collection by Peruvian architect Diego Delgado-Elias comprises small but fully functional brushed-silver set squares, protractors, spirit levels and scale rulers, all set onto rings. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Biennale Interieur returns to Kortrijk, Belgium, from 17 to 26 October 2014, with a special exhibition of new work by nine past winners of the event's Designer of the Year award. (more...) View the full article

Fashion and technology: the digital revolution presents the "biggest challenge for fashion brands" according to digital fashion pioneer Francis Bitonti who asks: "How will an industry where value is communicated by exclusivity and craft cope with this new space?" (+ interview) (more...) View the full article

This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for an architect at Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, whose hospice designed to look like an oversized house in north London is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

The rooms of this house near Seoul by local architecture office Praud are contained within a slanted box that rises above the mountainous landscape (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dutch designer Teresa van Dongen has filled a glass tube with octopus bacteria to create a zero-electricity lamp that glows blue when disturbed (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

This timber-clad house along Australia's scenic Great Ocean Road has been raised above the ground to capture the best views of the ocean and provide shaded outdoor space beneath (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

These glowing circular swings have been installed by Höweler + Yoon Architecture to brighten up a patch of Boston parkland and to encourage children to play outside the confines of the playground (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

News: owners of Apple's newly released iPhone 6 handsets have taken to social media to complain about a possible design fault – using the hashtag #bendgate and posting images of devices that appear to have bent under pressure. (more...) View the full article

This house on a narrow site by German office Philipp Architekten follows the slope of its hilly location with a series of stepped levels (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Speaking at the launch of his first major built project in the UK – a gin distillery in Hampshire – London designer Thomas Heatherwick said he was "lucky" to be a British designer, but added that projects that promoted industry in the UK were "rare" (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

News: Herzog & de Meuron and John Pawson have teamed up to design the exterior and interior of a luxury Manhattan hotel and apartment block for New York developer Ian Schrager. (more...) View the full article