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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

There’s a special staircase for dogs at this renovated house in Ho Chi Minh City by architecture studio 07Beach. (more…) View the full article

Spanish studio Ripolltizon added this family home onto the end of a row of traditional houses in Mallorca, Spain. (more…) View the full article

Renaissance artist El Greco lived and worked in the Spanish city of Toledo and Pardo + Tapia Arquitectos has refurbished and added a glazed entrance pavilion to the small museum that houses some of his most important paintings (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This house by architects Destilat appears to climb down a hill at the foot of the Pöstlingberg mountain in Austria. (more…) View the full article

News: a yacht built for Apple's late co-founder Steve Jobs has been impounded in Amsterdam following a dispute over an unpaid bill to French designer Philippe Starck. (more...) View the full article

Maison&Objet 2013: Italian designer Valentina Carretta made these hanging lamps for Italian brand Seletti with coarse paper like the kind used in egg boxes. (more...) View the full article

A student housing block in Paris modelled on a stack of wooden baskets features in this latest movie about the work of Slovenian studio OFIS Arhitekti. (more...) View the full article

Calls for Denise Scott Brown to be recognised by Pritzker and a library with a robotic book-retrieval system (above) and wearable technology head-up this week's issue of Dezeen Mail, which also features all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 146 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article