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Child-sized face shields with interchangeable decorations have been designed by Metaform Architects for children going back to school, plus today's other design-related coronavirus news. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: UK flooring manufacturer Forbo has designed its Tessera Earthscape carpet tiles to emulate the natural textures of soil and rock. Read more View the full article

Italian designer Marco Dessi has created a set of glasses and decanters for Austrian brand Lobmeyr. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Austrian studio Marte.Marte Architects has revealed its design to convert the building where Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn into a police headquarters. Read more View the full article

Photographer Stéphane Chalmeau has sent us his photos of student accommodation in Bordeaux designed by French studio Lanoire & Courrian. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Comments update: a top heavy concrete house beside a Chilean lagoon proved unexpectedly divisive this week, with readers describing it as both "beautiful" and a "brick sh*thouse". (more…) View the full article

Dezeen have got together with Stephen and Theodore Spyropoulos of London design and architecture studio Minimaforms to give away five copies of Enabling: the Work of Minimaforms. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s another conceptual project from Shenkar College of Engineering and Design student Yaniv Berg (see his coffee machine in our earlier story), this time a digital SLR camera where the lens and body are merged to form a kinked cylinder. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architects Geneto used screens decorated with grooves to divide this Tokyo apartment. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A1Architects of Prague designed this little tea house with a tall roof in Ostrava in the Czech Republic. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These patterned false eyelashes made of paper by Paperself are the latest addition to the range of designer goods on sale at our pop-up The Temporium in London next month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen archive: since it’s nearly time for Santa Claus’ rounds we’ve compiled all our stories from the Dezeen archive about toys. See all the stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Taiwan designers Paradox Studio created a wall of undulating wooden blocks to display products at this shop in Taipei. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: as the UK government reviews design technology’s status as a compulsory school subject, industrial designers Seymourpowell have released a movie featuring Paul Smith, James Dyson and others talking about the importance of design education. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designer Héctor Serrano presents a series of paper accessories for turning balloons into animal heads at the New York Gift Fair this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese designers Nendo will present this display unit with shelves that are only 5mm thick at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in London next month. Watch the movie on Dezeen Screen. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This house in Nagoya by Japanese architect Tomohiro Hata has five roofs that pitch in opposing directions. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: art and design critics have questioned whether the posters unveiled on Friday to celebrate next year’s London Olympics truly represent the best of British creativity. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: we’ve got a special white and gold Christmas edition of the Iconograph watch by Werner Aisslinger at the online Dezeen Watch Store and you can try one in person at our Christmas shop The Temporium in London. More » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The joints of this handcrafted task light by Israeli industrial designer Asaf Weinbroom comprise strips of walnut veneer clamped round the oak base and head. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week sports brand Nike launched a range of knitted running shoes, car brand Mini unveiled a panel-van version of the Mini Clubman and RCA graduate Min-Kyu Choi put his award-winning folding plug graduation project into production. A website called Arch Leaks was launched to revel the secrets of architecture firms and some users immediately set about creating and rating fake practices, while open-source designs for spectacle frames cut from 18mm plywood stirred up an amusing debate among our readers. ”We are currently working on the next iteration of WikiGlasses – a range of 18mm ply open-source contact lenses,” comments the designer. Meanwhile construction began…

This first article in a series on technology and design supported by computing brand Intel takes us inside university workshops and studios to investigate how digital technology is radically transforming design education. (more…) View the full article

Designed in Hackney: continuing this week’s focus on Shoreditch design company SCP, here’s the Josiah pendant lamp by Terence Woodgate, first created in 2008. (more…) View the full article

Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron have won a competition to design a children’s hospital and a teaching/research centre in Zurich, Switzerland. (more…) View the full article

Here’s another project from Japanese designer Reiichi Ikeda, this time a hair salon in Osaka with diagonally striped wood and frosted glass (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article