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Check out the latest issue of Dezeen Mail for all the best stories and comments from Dezeen, including a Snoopy-shaped border checkpoint and stocking-shaped blood pack. There’s also an update from Dezeen Wire, the latest movies on Dezeen Screen, all our new competitions and jobs, plus news on our Christmas shop The Temporium. 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

The Temporium: spend 2012 joining the dots around some of London’s famous landmarks with this calendar by designer Dan Usiskin, on sale now at our Christmas pop-up store The Temporium. We’re also giving them away free with the first five purchases today so hurry down! (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in the second part of this discussion we filmed at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Milan designer Fabio Novembre talks about changes in the Italian design scene and compares his ethos to those of other Italian designers. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2012: last week at the Hacked Lab in Milan, Hackney-based designer Dominic Wilcox battled a 3D printer in a competition to build a model of the nearby Duomo cathedral. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Japanese designer Takeshi Miyakawa has been accused of planting false bombs and arrested while installing his work in a New York street during the International Contemporary Furniture Fair. (more…) View the full article

Canadian designer Maskull Lasserre has created a series of shoes that leave animal footprints. (more…) View the full article

The OMA-designed headquarters for the Rothschild Bank in London is one of the six buildings shortlisted for the 2012 Stirling Prize (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

As temperatures soared in London earlier this week we all wanted to go for a dip, but none of the local facilities quite matched up to the pools that feature on our latest Pinterest board. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » See all the stories that feature pools on Dezeen » View the full article

This week Peter Zumthor was named as winner of the Royal Gold Medal for architecture, an undulating golden extension to the Louvre (above) opened in Paris and open-source blueprints for 3D-printed guns were released. (more…) View the full article

French designer Marie-Virginie Berbet has designed a sleeping capsule for taking power naps at the office. (more…) View the full article

The final extract from our Book of Ideas selected by Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs this week is a 24-hour performance involving two janitors constantly sweeping lines of rubbish to represent the hand of a clock. (more…) View the full article

Insects including a weevil and a wasp transform into cars and motorbikes in these lenticular prints by Canadian design studio Joe Jin. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: with Cape Town serving as World Design Capital in 2014, we spoke to programme director Richard Perez about how the title can help the city overcome problems inherited from the Apartheid regime. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2013: Achille Castiglioni's iconic Parentesi lamp has been updated with a flat LED light source by designer Konstantin Grcic, who presented his redesign at Euroluce in Milan last week. (more...) View the full article

Steel rings were moulded around a wooden chandelier before it was burnt away, leaving this latest piece in a collection of disintegrated furniture by Amsterdam-based Studio Markunpoika. (more...) View the full article

Royal College of Art graduate Jeongwon Ji has made her own bioplastic from crab shells. (more...) View the full article

Chinese studio Naturalbuild has created an office and event space in a Shanghai warehouse that previously belonged to Huang Jinrong – a notorious 1930s underworld figure (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A garden snakes between the cedar-clad walls of this house in Osaka by Japanese architects Arbol Design (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with John Pawson, Foster + Partners and Asif Kahn, who designed the Coca-Cola Beatbox at the London 2012 Olympic Park (pictured) with Pernilla Ohrstedt. This is also the last chance to apply for roles with Wilkinson Eyre Architects, Specialized, IDEO and more... (more...) View the full article

This house by Portuguese architect Miguel Marcelino rests on top of an old warehouse in Torres Novas, central Portugal (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Folded steel staircases lead to elevated rooms atop freestanding metal towers inside this old industrial building in Brussels that adn Architectures has converted into an open-plan apartment (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen has teamed up with London department store Selfridges to present a futuristic concept store, featuring an augmented-reality watch store and a walkaround digital model of Zaha Hadid’s £300 million superyacht (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for a middleweight industrial designer for London designer Benjamin Hubert, whose screen of branching modular structures called Amass is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

This flat circular lamp by Japanese designer Jun Yasumoto was designed to resemble an owl's wide eyes at night. (more...) View the full article

German fashion designer Jule Waibel has turned her intricate pleated paper dresses into steam press templates for wearable fabric garments that expand and contract as the wearer moves. (more...) View the full article