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A tactile watch designed for blind people by a group of students has gone into production after strong demand from sighted consumers (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

News: OMA has seen off competition from BIG and Buro Ole Scheeren to win a competition to expand the Berlin headquarters of multimedia firm Axel Springer. (more...) View the full article

Dutch firm Wiel Arets Architects applied an intricate fritting technique to the glazed facade of this office complex in Zurich to give it the appearance of onyx marble (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2014: industrial designer Marc Newson has raided the archives of 80-year-old glasses manufacturer Safilo to find inspiration for his first collection of optical eyewear, which will launch in Milan in April (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London designer Paul Cocksedge has launched a set of circular bike lights on Kickstarter that can be locked to a bicycle by slotting them over a standard lock (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Canadian studio Naturehumaine inserted a glass floor and skylight to draw sunlight through the interior of this two-storey house in Montreal, and reintroduced wooden boards to make a feature of the staircase. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Dezeen readers can receive a 25 percent discount on tickets to the Designs of the Year 2014 exhibition, opening today at London's Design Museum (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: social network Facebook has paid $2 billion to acquire Oculus VR, the technology company behind the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. (more...) View the full article

Swedish firm OkiDoki! Arkitekter has created its own offices inside a former corset factory in Gothenburg, designing an open-plan workspace that hosts events for local residents in the evening (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

British designer Benjamin Hubert has developed a more stable version of his lightweight Ripple table, which features on the shortlist for Designs of the Year 2014 (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London studio dRMM has completed a house and studio for Hackney artist Richard Woods, using his trademark cartoon-style print to add colour to the building's facade and staircase (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Zaha Hadid has completed a Hong Kong boutique for Stuart Weitzman - her latest sinuous store interior for the American footwear designer. (more...) View the full article

Opinion: as the market for design education explodes and schools struggle to keep up, we need to work out what a designer actually is and what they need to learn says Lucas Verweij. (more...) View the full article

News: tech giant Google and eyewear company Luxottica have announced a partnership to develop Google Glass wearable headsets into consumer-friendly products. (more...) View the full article

High street fashion chain American Apparel has launched a 43-piece collection of clothing featuring graphic prints by Memphis Group designer Nathalie Du Pasquier (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

News: football star David Beckham has unveiled proposals to build a 25,000-seat stadium for his new Major League Soccer (MLS) team on the waterfront in Miami. (more...) View the full article

Ahead of the opening of the Designs of the Year 2014 exhibition tomorrow, here's a look back at one of the standout projects - a floating school on a Nigerian lagoon by architecture studio NLÉ (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Slideshow feature: following the news that Shigeru Ban will receive this year's Pritzker Prize, here is a look back at some of the buildings designed by the Japanese architect across his 30-year career. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2014: Designer Tom Dixon will present a range of furniture and metallic lighting that references British members' clubs in Milan next month. (more...) View the full article

Japanese studio NI&Co. Architects has built a small sound-proofed cabin in Nagoya where its owners can retreat to play the piano. (more...) View the full article

Designer Tom Evans has developed a range of parenting gadgets that look like collectable toys. (more...) View the full article

Canadian studios Dan Hanganu Architectes and Côté Leahy Cardas Architectes have revamped the tent-like structure of a church in Quebec to create a modern library featuring coloured glazing, spiral staircases and lofty ceilings. (more...) View the full article

News: Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has been named as the 2014 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. (more...) View the full article

A lamp by Finnish designer Tuomas Auvinen that fits neatly into the edges of a room has won this year's Muuto Talent Award for students. (more...) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with publishers Myrdle Court Press to give readers the chance to win books about Trenton Oldfield's time spent behind bars after disrupting the Oxford-Cambridge boat race. (more...) View the full article