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Celebrities including Stephen Fry, David Baddiel and Elizabeth Hurley have modelled face masks designed by Ron Arad that will be sold to raise money for the UK's National Health Service. Read more View the full article

Recycled plastic and rubber make up this unisex trainer by Belgian brand Norm, which has set out to change the "nonsense" manufacturing process of a standard pair of shoes. Read more View the full article

Dezeenwire: in an interview with the Sunday Times, engineer and inventor James Dyson reveals he is to stand down as chairman of Dyson and talks about the Ingenious Britain report commissioned by the Conservative Party, in which Dyson sets out ways to make Britain a leading high-tech exporter – Sunday Times Related stories: Air Multiplier fan by Dyson; The Wind by Issey Miyake with James Dyson. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Brooklyn-based designer Sara Sallam has imagined a collection of jewellery and accessories to protect the wearer from tech-enabled surveillance without concealing their features. Read more View the full article

Dezeenwire: Design Miami/Basel have announced designers Beta Tank, Graham Hudson, rAndom International, Zigelbaum & Coelho as winners of this year’s Designers of the Future Award. See press release below: (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London studio Theis and Khan Architects have completed their own home and studio in east London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Statues at the this hotel by Singapore studio Ministry of Design have their heads in the clouds. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Hong Kong designer Michael Young has designed a showroom in Shanghai to showcase applications for solid surface material Corian. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Australian designer Marc Newson has created a limited edition range of his Zvezdochka shoes for sportswear brand NIKE. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Koichi Suzuno and Alicja Strzyzynska of Torafu Architects have designed a children's seat that splits in half to reveal a dolls' house inside (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architect Frank Gehry has unveiled his designs for a new business school at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architects Geneto installed diagonal walls across the interior of this houe in Shiga, Japan, to block views through to neighbouring houses and create new spaces in between the rooms. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French practice Moussafir Architectes have completed this refurbishment and extension of a house in the Parisian suburbs, adding deep larch wood window frames. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen archive: following our popular story on the smartphone with an old-fashioned rotary dial by Richard Clarkson (top left), we’ve grouped together all our stories from the Dezeen archives about telephones. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A bare cliff face is visible through the abutting glass walls of a Jerusalem house. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year work began on the Maggie’s Centre for cancer care in Glasgow by OMA, which opened last month. Industrial designer Bill Moggridge received the 2010 Prince Philip Designers Prize and a pitched-roof extension to a mill-keeper’s cottage in Norfolk won the RIBA Manser Medal 2010 for the best new house in the UK. Niels van Eijk and Miriam van der Lubbe completed the high-tech refurbishment of a concert hall in Eindhoven and our readers loved a school extension in Spain with a chalkboard wall. Meanwhile, Belgian designers Quinze & Milan created a deconstructed chair with layers of fabric wedged into a wooden frame, Studio Swine built a mobile stall …

Dezeen Screen: in this movie that we filmed at Qubique 2011, Philipp Mainzer, founder of German furniture brand E15, talks about the furniture and accessories the company showed during the Berlin design fair. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Venetian designer Luca Nichetto presented this table lamp, called Vader after the Star Wars character whose mask it resembles, at Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair earlier this month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Swiss architect Aurélie Blanchard has lined every wall and surface in the bar of this Basel restaurant with copper, while a dark green dining room looms just behind. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2012: Elle Decoration UK editor Michelle Ogundehin tipped collaborations with Japanese designers and manufacturers as the most exciting development in Milan this year when she paid a visit to Dezeen Studio. In this first instalment of our interview with her, she discusses the calming effect this has had on the design industry and how quality design has become more accessible to high street brands. (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: architectural photographer Leonardo Finotti has sent us images of this house for a couple of art collectors and their children designed by São Paulo architect Isay Weinfeld. (more…) View the full article

Icelandic fashion designer Sruli Recht has used translucent lambskin, stripy skunk fur, an ancient meteorite and fabric that can withstand mortar attacks in his latest menswear collection (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: psychology is on an equal footing with technological advances when designing sportswear to improve an athlete’s performance, Nike‘s creative director for the Olympics Martin Lotti told the audience at a talk hosted by Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs at the Nike+ House of Innovation at Selfridges last night. “It’s not just about lightweight,” he said. “It’s about looking good as well as the psychological element. We see performance on all levels: environmental performance, psychological performance, physical performance.” (more…) View the full article

Unlike other folding bicycles, this one by Czech designer Mikuláš Novotný has full-size wheels and can be rolled home rather than carried. (more…) View the full article

A grid of red sandstone panels dominates every side of this university library in Katowice, Poland, by architects HS99 (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article