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London Design Festival 2010: London brand Uniform Wares have launched their second collection of watches – come and try one on at our Dezeen Watch Store pop-up at the The Tramshed in east London this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Zaha Hadid Architects have unveiled designs for a theatre in Rabat, Morocco. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch designer Hella Jongerius presents 300 porcelain vases coloured with layers of mineral and chemical glazes at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

More about Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec in Milan – this time a wooden bird for design brand Vitra. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: French designer Pierre Favresse presented this collection of furniture with looping sections and bent ply at the Nouvelle Vague exhibition of new French design in Milan last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with Lego® Architecture to give away five Lego models of the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in the first of our series of interviews with designers presenting their work at Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space, architect Julian Hakes talks about his Mojito Shoe, which has no footplate and wraps around the wearer’s foot in a single ribbon. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: designer Philippe Starck says that not being able to save lives and tackle key global issues in his work leaves him feeling “impotent”- The Independent The designer has created a new photobooth that meets his aims of designing democratic and affordable products. Starck claims they offer a solution for those who can’t afford a camera, adding that photos help us to “exist.” He also laments the modern propensity for vandalism that threatens the booths, saying: “Twenty years ago it was possible to design something pretty and people to respect it. Not now.” </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View…

Dezeen Wire: Dutch architect Herman Hertzberger has been named as the recipient of this year’s Royal Gold Medal for architecture. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen archive: following our story this week on wallpaper for faking a Renaissance palazzo, here’s a roundup of all Dezeen’s stories about wallpaper. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Five years ago this week we chatted to Brazilian designers Fernando and Humberto Campana as they unveiled their chairs made from Disney cuddly toys in London. As Design Indaba drew to a close in Cape Town, a condom applicator designed to help prevent the spread of AIDS was named Most Beautiful Object in South Africa and we featured lighting made from salvaged plastic that had also been presented there. Designer Moritz Waldemeyer sent us backstage snapshots from Paris Fashion Week of mechanical dresses that play videos, plus we previewed the chairs that architects Kram Weisshaar planned to launch in Milan that spring. See all our stories from February 2007 » See al…

Dutch designers Studio Makkink & Bey have completed a store for shoe brand Camper in Lyon with staircases that seem to go on forever. (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen have teamed up with Danish audio company Libratone to give away a Libratone Live special edition speaker customised by German designer Lizzy Courage (+movie). (more…) View the full article

Design practice 24° Studio linked together hundreds of hollow paper stars to line a tunnel and stairway in Santorini, Greece. (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival: Dutch designer Marcel Wanders spoke to Dezeen about a new clock inspired by a London landmark earlier today at the Moooi showroom in west London (+ audio + movie). (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: in this movie we filmed at the World Architecture Festival, Chinese architect Li Xiaodong tells Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs how ”sustainability is a must” for new buildings in China, because if the country doesn’t get it right it’s ”the end of the world”. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: lighting consultancy LightCollective has collaborated with electronics brand Philips to create a smartphone app enabling lighting designers to collect and share their inspirations, available to download and trial for free from today on Apple and Android (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Curator and writer Beatrice Galilee proposes that architecture and design exhibitions need to be about more than just "sticking furniture on plinths" in this movie we filmed at Dezeen Live during 100% Design. "It's just not good enough anymore," she says. (more...) View the full article

Portuguese studio Aires Mateus has transformed a house in Portugal into a bright white building with a sprawling extension (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: a library dedicated to design has opened in South Korea's capital city, offering access to over 11,000 books chosen by an international team of curators and critics. (more...) View the full article

News: the highly anticipated Apple television is set to launch later this year and will be operated with a digital "iRing" worn on the finger, according to an industry insider. (more...) View the full article

This apartment block in the Iranian town of Mahallat was constructed using the otherwise useless offcuts from local stonecutting businesses. (more...) View the full article

News: a proposal by Rem Koolhaas' firm OMA for a bridge that could accommodate different types of traffic as well as pedestrians and events has been selected by local authorities in Bordeaux, France, as one of two final competing designs. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen has gone daily! Today we're launching a new email service bringing you all the headlines from Dezeen every day. And we're calling it - guess what? - Dezeen Daily! (more...) View the full article

This low-cost concrete block house outside Monterrey was designed and built by its owners, with support from a non-profit social housing project led by local architecture office S-AR (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article