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Digital graphics company Crystal CG created animations on a 360 degree screen comprising 70,500 paddles held by the audience at the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics last night. (more…) View the full article

Hackney designer Magnus Pettersen will contribute a side table from his Locker furniture collection to the Stepney Green Design Collection curated by Dezeen. (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen Watch Store features in this new book about brand identities that use dynamic graphic design by designer and author Irene Ontwerp, and Dezeen readers can win one of five copies. (more…) View the full article

Bleachers climb over the roof of this timber-clad community centre in France by Ateliers O-S Architectes (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Herzog & de Meuron, The Design Museum, Design Academy Eindhoven and Priestmangoode (whose high-speed train concept is shown above) plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Wilkinon Eyre Architects, Form Us With Love and more... (more...) View the full article

Dutch designer Roeland Otten uses mosaic tiles, paint and photographic prints to disguise scruffy public buildings like this former public toilet in Amsterdam (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Product news: the lids of these pans by New York designer Karim Rashid have large, brightly coloured hooks for handles. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2013: Swedish collective Front will launch six new products in Milan next week, including leather stools shaped like squidgy animals and a plywood table with burnt-on with doodles (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Product news: furniture brand Vitsœ has reissued a classic chair by German designer Dieter Rams, the former head of design at Braun. (more...) View the full article

Architecture studio NOARQ has doubled the size of a house in northern Portugal by extending its rooftop into the hillside (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: French architect Jean Nouvel has been officially declared winner of the competition to design the prestigious National Art Museum of China in Beijing, ending months of speculation. (more...) View the full article

Two new structures have been erected by students amongst the trees of Hooke Park, England – a translucent pyramid suspended from the branches and a wooden burrow that nestles amongst the trunks (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Australian studio Edwards Moore has revamped a small brick house in Melbourne by adding a new storey and a translucent roof (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Corten steel columns alternate with floor-to-ceiling glass to bring stripes of light and shadow into this funeral home outside Barcelona by Spanish firm Batlle i Riog Arquitectes (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Movie: Konrad Buhagiar of Architecture Project explains how he built a 60 metre-high outdoor lift in historic Valletta, Malta, in our latest interview with category winners at last month's Inside Festival in Singapore. (more...) View the full article

The interior of Dutch fashion house Viktor & Rolf's first flagship store in Paris has been covered in grey felt by French studio Architecture & Associés. (more...) View the full article

Ben Davidson of London studio Rodić Davidson Architects designed this garden shed in Cambridge, England, to the exact proportions of his grandfather's old workbench and added pegboard walls for displaying a collection of handmade tools (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: integration with the existing fashion supply chain is crucial to the development of a successful wearable technology industry, says solar-powered dress designer Pauline van Dongen. (more...) View the full article

News: tech giant Google and eyewear company Luxottica have announced a partnership to develop Google Glass wearable headsets into consumer-friendly products. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Music Project: Imogen Heap has released a music video for her track Me The Machine, composed and performed using the Mi.Mu gloves she developed to create music with hand gestures. (more...) View the full article

Chris Kabel has created key fobs from found objects and glowing curtains reminiscent of the Northern Lights for the Fogo Island Inn hotel on an isolated Canadian island (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Competition: we've teamed up with author Corinna Dean to give away five copies of her new book Slacklands, a photographic guide to rural British architecture from the 20th century. (more...) View the full article

Stockholm-based Note Design Studio used photographs of Death Valley to inform the pastel colour scheme for this restaurant and coffee shop in the Swedish capital (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This week we published Marc Newson's beer machine for Heineken, a scissor-like bridge in London (pictured), and reported the winning projects from both the World Architecture Festival and Inside Festival 2014. Read on for more architecture and design highlights, plus our track of the week. (more...) View the full article

See the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with YOO, Martha Schwartz Partners and Speedo International, whose SpeedoFastskin3 racing suit and goggles are pictured. This is also the last chance to apply for roles with HAY, Ron Arad Associates and MAD Architects and more... (more...) View the full article