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Brussels designer Sylvain Willenz drew on cassette tapes and floppy disks for the design of these external hard drives. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Fashion designer Hussein Chalayan presents work including these moulds used to make his Inertia series of dresses (see our earlier story) at Spring Projects in London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Stockholm 2011: London designer Benjamin Hubert presented this task lamp with a perforated tubular casing at Stockholm Furniture Fair last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Lego-like blocks are stacked along the walls of this cafe in Chennai by Indian studio Mancini Enterprises. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: the Mercury watch by Hong Kong brand Ziiiro is now available in new colours at Dezeen Watch Store. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Grey plaster walls contrast with tan-coloured window frames at a hillside holiday house in Střekov by Czech architects 3+1 Architekti. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Check out the latest issue of Dezeen Mail for all the best stories and comments from Dezeen, including work by Foster + Partners, Daniel Libeskind and Renzo Piano, plus Rem Koolhaas gives us a private tour of OMA/Progress at the Barbican. There’s also an update from Dezeen Wire, the latest movies on Dezeen Screen and all our new competitions and jobs. Take a look at it here. Dezeen Mail is sent out every couple of weeks and you can subscribe here. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A glass bridge connects a concrete house with wonky windows to an artist’s studio in Puebla, Mexico. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Following their Eurovision Song Contest win last summer, Azerbaijan rushed to commission German firm GMP Architekten to design a new stadium that will be complete in time to host this year’s competition. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We used this remix by The [An]architects as the soundtrack for the first of our daily TV shows from Dezeen Studio powered by Jambox at MOST, which we published this morning and you can watch here. We’ll be choosing a different track from Dezeen Music Project each day, so make sure you tune in to www.dezeenstudio.com tomorrow morning for the next episode. About Dezeen Music Project | More tracks | Submit your track View the full article

Architects Stickyline have created a range of paper helmets shaped like iconic buildings from the Hong Kong skyline. (more…) View the full article

This luxury wooden speed boat is the latest model to be launched by Serbian yacht builders Art of Kinetik. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: plans to develop the London 2012 Olympic Park after the Games end in September were unveiled by mayor of London Boris Johnson yesterday, including the transformation of the press centre into a technology, design and research centre, and the creation of up to 8000 new homes in addition to the athletes’ village (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Architects Coop Himmelb(l)au have completed a film and theatre centre in South Korea with a steel and glass cantilever that’s wider than the wings of an Airbus A380 (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architect and writer Sam Jacob wants to transform St Paul’s Cathedral in London into a live map of the phases of the moon. (more…) View the full article

Product news: a clock with disappearing hands and pen pots made of heat-shrink tubing are among the objects in the first collection from La Vague, a new online shop and collective offering work by young designers. (more...) View the full article

News: the rise of affordable 3D printers is sparking a boom in demand for personalised sex toys that can be ordered online or printed at home. (more...) View the full article

Israeli ceramics designer Shlomit Bauman combined white porcelain with the very last batch of clay from a local pit to make these stretched and distorted objects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Facebook asked Frank Gehry to "tone down" his original plans for its new Silicon Valley campus, according to a partner at the architect's firm. (more...) View the full article

News: Google has honoured American graphic designer Saul Bass with an animated doodle based on his iconic Hollywood title sequences and movie posters. (more...) View the full article

Japanese firm Kengo Kuma and Associates has completed an art and culture centre with a chequered timber facade on the banks of the Doubs river in Besançon, France (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Product news: this chair by Milan design studio Skrivo features layers of thin cushions based on children's story The Princess and the Pea. (more...) View the full article

Small Discoveries: in our second movie for Perrier-Jouët, Viennese design duo Mischer'Traxler discuss the champagne flute they designed for the brand, which causes bubbles to stream from a small engraved moth. (more…) View the full article

This timber structure clad in recycled food packaging houses a temporary library and book exchange and was designed and built by architecture students in Cēsis, Latvia (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for architects at Herzog & de Meuron, whose M+ museum design in Hong Kong's new West Kowloon Cultural District is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article