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Graphic designer Cristina Vanko has been writing out all the SMS messages she sends by hand with a calligraphy pen. (more...) View the full article

Product news: London architect Zaha Hadid has designed a curvaceous wine bottle for Austrian winemaker Leo Hillinger. (more...) View the full article

News: London firm Allford Hall Monaghan Morris has won a competition to design the new Scotland Yard headquarters for the London Metropolitan Police. (more...) View the full article

Gabion walls, concrete staircases and huge rocks frame the spaces of this public park in Zaragoza by Spanish architects Héctor Fernández Elorza and Manuel Fernández Ramírez (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Spanish firm YLAB Arquitectos has completed a faceted house on the outskirts of Barcelona that appears to have been stretched down a hill. (more...) View the full article

Beijing designers reMIX Studio created a string installation that guided visitors through a derelict building to a pop-up restaurant at Beijing Design Week 2013 (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The tongue-in-cheek livery of South African airline Kulula includes a "This way up" sign on one plane and points out the locations of key components on another (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A couple of large-scale projects reached completion in China this week, including OMA's Shenzhen Stock Exchange and MAD's horseshoe-shaped hotel in Huzhou (pictured). Scroll on for more architecture and design news, as well as our Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in this movie filmed during London Design Festival, leading figures from London and abroad explore the pros and cons of working in the city and discuss the threats to its status as one of the major design centres of the world. (more...) View the full article

News: Asda is to become the first UK supermarket to offer an in-store 3D scanning and 3D printing service. (more...) View the full article

Concrete canopies shaped like leaves shelter the rooms of this house in the coastal town of Alibaug, India, by SJK Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: researchers at Bristol University in the UK have developed a way for users to get tactile feedback from touchscreens while controlling them with gestures in mid-air. (more...) View the full article

Weddings and parties take place inside halls framed by stone, timber and bamboo at this events building for a Vietnam hotel by Vietnamese firm Vo Trong Nghia Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for a product designer/design engineer at Michael Anastassiades, whose lamps strung between walls on fine cables for Italian lighting brand Flos are pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Industrial designer Marc Newson has updated his clothing line for Dutch fashion brand G-Star RAW. (more...) View the full article

London studio Loop.pH mimicked the molecular structures of carbon atoms to generate the form of this illuminated wiry dome (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Product news: Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek has produced a wallpaper collection that replicates weathered wood textures. (more...) View the full article

Ornate wooden screens shroud one side of this theatre in Wuzhen, China, while the other side is shielded behind angular brickwork fins (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The latest in a string of products designed by Jonathan Ive and Marc Newson for the (RED) charity auction is this one-off aluminium desk. (more...) View the full article

Mineral crystals grown on thin threads form the shape of a chair in this installation by Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka. (more...) View the full article

Opinion: in his latest column, Kieran Long argues that product designers should learn from architects and tackle civic issues like surveillance and security rather than "hide in their studios making something lovely." (more...) View the full article

OMA's completed Shenzhen Stock Exchange (pictured) and a horseshoe-shaped hotel by MAD lead this week's issue of Dezeen Mail, which also features the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 173 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

News: Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki has gathered a throng of designers including Toyo Ito, Sou Fujimoto, Kengo Kuma and Riken Yamamoto to oppose the design of Zaha Hadid's 2020 Olympic Stadium in Tokyo. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: Italian designer Denis Guidone has designed a watch based on smooth, flat pebbles - and the Stone watch is now available to purchase from Dezeen Watch Store. (more...) View the full article

News: Dezeen has been shortlisted for two more journalism awards to add to the three we're already up for - and our editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs has been nominated for The Hospital Club 100 list of most creative people (vote here!). (more...) View the full article