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British digital designer Daniel Brown has created a website for fashion brand Mulberry where users can email a unique image of a flower to their valentine. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Swedish-based craftsman Love Hultén has designed and built a NES topped with a glass dome as a tribute to the hugely popular 1980s video games console. Read more View the full article

Dezeen is one of many London design businesses supporting Love Japan – a design auction taking place at Clerkenwell Design Week next week to raise money for Shigeru Ban Architects’ evacuation centre project, which is helping people made homeless by the recent earthquake in Japan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photo essay: worried that Brazil's love motels would fall foul of Olympic development, Dutch duo Vera van de Sandt and Jur Oster visited the pay-by-the-hour rooms to capture the moods of these intimate spaces (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Marc Dibeh of Lebanon has designed a table-top lamp with a sex toy stowed in its side. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Icelandic artist and director Harald Haraldsson turned a wall of bookshelves into a fractured and futuristic backdrop for this music video (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Hessian sacks, timber planks and wire mesh hint at the former life of this cafe in Tel Aviv, which Studio Ronen Levin and Eran Chehanowitz converted from an orange-packing plant in the historic port of Jaffa that gives the oranges their name. (more…) View the full article

Two console tables by Japanese designer Yuki Matsumoto can be leant against each other and linked by their drawers. (more…) View the full article

The UK's iconic red phone boxes are being repurposed for a more contemporary telecommunications need: mobile handset repairs. (more…) View the full article

Thick green brush nearly conceals the slanted roof of this house near Melbourne, which architecture studio Lovell Burton has created for a retired couple and their extended family. Read more

Architecture studio Lovell Burton has referenced surrounding hay sheds to create a house clad in galvanised steel panels on an agricultural paddock north west of Melbourne. Read more

Huibert van Muilwijk has designed a chair made out of lolly stick-shaped plywood components for Dutch studio Made by Midas. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Vietnamese studio Vo Trong Nghia Architects plans to address the housing crisis in Vietnam by introducing modular homes that use cheap local materials and are easy to assemble. (more…) View the full article

More than 900 bamboo poles were used to construct this home, designed by architect Enrique Mora Alvarado for a site in a remote Ecuadorian rainforest (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Invisible Studio built this mobile micro home at its woodland studio near Bath, England, for just £20,000, thanks to the use of salvaged materials and locally grown timber. Read more View the full article

A huge school for Syrian refugees is set to be built at a camp in Jordan, using a modular and re-deployable construction system developed with the help of former Architecture for Humanity director Cameron Sinclair. Read more View the full article

Top prize at this year's DBA Design Effectiveness Awards has been awarded to a toothbrush developed for the rural Indian market. Read more

Loyn & Co has unveiled its design for Parc Hadau, a net-zero-carbon housing scheme in Wales that will be built from cross-laminated timber and powered by renewable energy. Read more View the full article

Loyn & Co Architects has completed a home in a protected area of Welsh countryside, with old vernacular buildings sitting alongside modern additions featuring bare concrete and rusted steel (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Providing sweeping views of a wilderness reserve was the primary goal for US studio Lubrano Ciavarra when designing this large wood-and-slate holiday home in Rhode Island (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Two monolithic concrete walls by designer Luca Fortin are arranged "like an opened book" to form a passageway inside a Quebec City park. Read more View the full article

Home-grown Chinese design brands will soon be selling affordable products in the west, according to Italian designer Luca Nichetto, who is creative director of Chinese startup furniture brand ZaoZuo (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Italian designer Luca Nichetto has created a range of glass lights for Swedish heritage brand Svenskt Tenn, marrying together a print by Josef Frank with Venetian glassblowing techniques. Read more

Italian designer Luca Nichetto has created furnishings, including tables, sofas and benches, to be used in workspaces, residences and museum galleries. Read more View the full article

Colourful blown-glass totems by Luca Nichetto are among the works in Decode/Recode, Venetian glassmaker Salviati's exhibition at Milan design week. Read more View the full article