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Design Miami 2013: this chair shaped like the fanned fail of a peacock by Toronto design studio UUfie was one of the most talked-about pieces at the Design Miami collectors' fair last month. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Guide: we kick off 2014 with five design events in the diary for January, starting with the imm Cologne trade fair in Germany. (more...) View the full article

Happy new year from the Dezeen team and best wishes for 2014! View the full article

We wrap up our review of this year's architecture and design news with December, when our top stories were all about wearable technology including 3D-printed shoes that could repair themselves overnight. (more...) View the full article

News: London retailer and furniture designer Zeev Aram (pictured) is among figures from the design world awarded in the New Year Honours 2014. (more...) View the full article

Things got a little weird in November, as our focus turned to synthetic biology and we featured cheese made from bacteria taken from human noses and tears (pictured) plus new creatures that could save existing species. (more...) View the full article

Our review of the year continues with October, during which the design of Zaha Hadid's stadium for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics was set to be scaled back after a number of high-profile architects rallied against its colossal size. (more...) View the full article

Rafael Viñoly's Walkie Talkie skyscraper in London stole the limelight when it reflected the September sun onto cars parked nearby and caused them to melt. (more...) View the full article

Comedy skyscraper stories dominated August, when a Spanish residential tower was reportedly built without a working elevator and a Chinese businessman made himself a home resembling a fake mountain on top of a Beijing housing block (pictured). (more...) View the full article

Moving into the second half of the year, China opened the largest building in the world in Chengdu in July but halted the construction of a 838-metre-high tower in Changsha that was planned to become the world's tallest (pictured). (more...) View the full article

Internships were in the spotlight when Sou Fujimoto told Dezeen that unpaid architecture work placements are a "nice opportunity", at the opening of his cloud-like Serpentine Gallery Pavilion (pictured) in June. (more...) View the full article

As we move into May in our review of the year, the news was filled with stories about skyscrapers including the topping out of One World Trade Center. (more...) View the full article

Apple hit the headlines in April, as we reported that the California firm's Foster + Partners-designed headquarters (pictured) was $2 billion over budget and its upcoming television was rumoured to be operated with a digital "iRing". (more...) View the full article

3D printing and scanning was hot on the agenda again in March, when a fully articulated dress was printed and worn by Dita Von Teese (pictured) and space architects planned to print a lunar base. (more...) View the full article

Moving on to February in our review of the year, Google was in the news as it unveiled a preview of its Google Glass headset (pictured) and revealed plans for a vast new campus in California. (more...) View the full article

To finish the year we're rounding up the biggest news stories and most popular projects from each month, starting with January. We kicked off 2013 with a focus on 3D printing, as the race began to 3D-print a house (pictured). (more...) View the full article

Black-painted timber contrasts with clean white window frames on the walls of this cube-shaped weekend home in Normandy, France, by Paris studio Beckmann-N'Thépé Architectes (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

In our second story today from Japanese firm Ryo Matsui Architects, a glazed facade reveals the two-storey interior of a house-shaped hair salon in Chiba, Japan (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Russian designer Anna Lotova slotted two layers of foam beneath the surface of this wooden desk to create squishy spaces for storing stationery and other objects. (more...) View the full article

Trees line the protruding balconies of this concrete house in Nagoya, Japan, by Tokyo studio Ryo Matsui Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

We've reached the final week of the year and and to get into the holiday spirit we've been publishing festive projects that include computer equipment and games consoles that sing Christmas carols and a series of geometric street lights in Berlin (pictured). (more...) View the full article

A faceted roof made from a shimmering copper-bronze alloy covers this extension by British firm Emrys Architects to a pair of Georgian townhouses in London (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Opinion: in this week's Opinion column, Lucas Verweij argues that as the design field expands to encompass all creative activities and designers try to solve all the world's problems, the discipline cannot possibly live up to expectations. (more...) View the full article

Wire baskets cradle balls of light to create these lamps by Barcelona designer Martín Azú. (more...) View the full article

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all our readers! Here's a photograph our editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs took of snowy La Plagne in France. Love from the Dezeen team x View the full article