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Milan 2013: London studio Industrial Facility will present a lamp with a glass base wrapping round the beam of light in Milan this week. (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

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: Google Creative Lab creative director Alexander Chen explains how he created a digital string you can pluck like a viola and discusses Google Glass and the future of user interface design in this movie we filmed at Design Indaba in Cape Town last month. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2013: British designer Jasper Morrison will present a chair inspired by camping furniture for Italian brand Mattiazzi in Milan next week. (more...) View the full article

This week architecture news has been dominated by the call for Denise Scott Brown to be recognised as Pritzker Prize laureate alongside her husband and partner, Robert Venturi, who won in 1991. Scroll on for a recap of the last seven days in design. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2013: the design world descends on Milan next week. To help you navigate the hundreds of events around the city we've compiled a map with our pick of the best exhibitions, parties and talks. (more...) View the full article

A McDonald's restaurant and a petrol station are concealed within this faceted glass shell in Georgia, designed by architect Giorgi Khmaladze (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for a product designer at food brand Nestlé, makers of the Kit Kat chocolate bar. See more stories about chocolate on Dezeen here. Visit the ad for full details or browse many other architecture and design job opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Milan 2013: Dutch brand Moooi has sent us these sketches by designers including Marcel Wanders, Studio Job and Joost van Bleiswijk for the Dutch firm's new collection launching in Milan next week. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Italian design brand Pedrali will commemorate it's fiftieth anniversary with a mirrored installation and the launch of a new chair in Milan next week. (more...) View the full article

A plant-covered twisting tower shaped like a DNA strand by Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut is under construction in Taipei, Taiwan (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2013: this office chair by Copenhagen design firm KiBiSi is mounted on a Y-shaped stem, allowing the seat of the chair to rock back and forth as well as rotating left and right. (more...) View the full article

Unfinished concrete surfaces and wire-fencing balustrades give an industrial aesthetic to the interiors of this apartment building in Lausanne, Switzerland, by local studio Personeni Raffaele Schärer Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2013: Slovenian designer Nika Zupanc will present folding lamps powered by little wind-up keys at Spazio Rossana Orlandi in Milan next week. (more...) View the full article

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is set to reopen next week following a ten-year restoration and extension programme led by Spanish office Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen takes over a car wash in Milan next week! We're relocating to the MINI Paceman Garage in Via Tortona, where we'll set up a video studio as part of our Dezeen and MINI World Tour. (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

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

Milan 2013: Italian designer Luca Nichetto has teamed up with Japanese studio Nendo to create a range of products including a knitted room-divider and a scaly carpet, which will be presented in Milan next week (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Japanese architect Hironaka Ogawa designed this rural house in Kagawa like a sundial, with a south-facing tower that casts shadows across a grassy courtyard (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Product news: these hexagonal storage boxes by Icelandic designer Thorunn Arnadottir use varying shades of grey to distort perspective. (more...) View the full article

Norwegian firm Snøhetta has completed a library at North Carolina State University that features a robotic book retrieval system and a 3D printing workshop (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

As we count down to Milan next week, we take a quick look back at the key themes and Dezeen's projects from the last three years at the design world's most important festival. (more...) View the full article

A narrow vertical slice at one corner is the only interruption to the monolithic facade of this plain white house in Miyazaki, Japan, by Hiroshima studio Tsukano Architect Office (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: British graphic design studio IDO has redesigned the logo and website for the estate of Gerry Anderson, the creator of classic puppet television series Thunderbirds and Stingray (+ movie). (more...) View the full article