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An exhibition charting punk's influence on high fashion has opened at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York this week. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2011: Swiss brand Punkt. presented this alarm clock by British designer Jasper Morrison at Spazio Rossana Orlandi in Milan last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

As London design month continues at Dezeen Super Store, we are now stocking Punkt. alarm clocks and phones by Hackney designer Jasper Morrison. (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival 2010: at his shop in London this week Jasper Morrison presents this telephone he’s designed for Swiss brand Punkt. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

PUP Architects has refurbished Surrey Docks Farm in London, reinstating a three-storey tower clad in black timber and topped by a golden pig weathervane. Read more View the full article

Manchester designer Liam Hopkins of Lazerian used waste cardboard from media company Bloomberg to construct a meeting area inside their London headquarters. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Bristol's Grade II*-listed Clifton Cathedral has undergone a £3 million renovation, carried out by British architecture firm Purcell. Read more View the full article

Milan 2013: French architect Jean Nouvel unveiled a pair of leather and rubber boots for Italian shoe brand Ruco Line at the Interni Hybrid Architecture and Design exhibition in Milan this week. (more...) View the full article

Design studio Artefact Group has created a conceptual smart locket that wirelessly interacts with social networks to display a digital memento of friends or family. (more...) View the full article

Dutch architects MVRDV have unveiled their design for an office building in Paris, where the middle section will appear broken and twisted open. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Unable to put on a graduate or end-of-year show this year? Partner with Virtual Design Festival to host a digital showcase of student work. Read more View the full article

Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group have won a competition to design multistorey, prefabricated wooden housing for Kouvola, Finland. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: we’ve just added the latest design in Michael Young’s range of watches to our online watch store at www.dezeenwatchstore.com. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Tokyo 2010: Japanese studio Nendo have created these bottle-shaped piggy banks with two coin slots that mimic a pig’s snout. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Swedish designers Marcus Abrahamsson Kristoffer Fagerström have created this bench with a seat made of stacked pine batons for outdoor furniture brand Nola. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The six shortlisted entries in the RIBA competition to design new electricity pylons for the UK have been announced. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cologne 2011: industrial designer Linn Kandel exhibited these occasional tables inspired by electricity pylons at imm cologne earlier this month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish studio PYO Arquitectos has removed some of the internal walls in a Madrid flat to make it less segregated and bring in more light (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Electricity pylons, road-signs and rusty advertising plaques steal the spotlight from the Giza pyramids in these images by photographer Manuel Alvarez Diestro. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Creative agency Virtue has partnered with Copenhagen Pride to develop the world's first genderless voice, which aims to eradicate bias in technology. Read more

Dezeen Wire: Spanish lighting brand Santa & Cole has launched a lawsuit accusing the state of Qatar of copying street lighting devised for Barcelona by Catalan designer Beth Galí in 1996. (more…) View the full article

Gigantic tree-like columns support the overhanging roof of the Qatar National Convention Centre by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, captured in these new shots by Portuguese photographer Nelson Garrido. (more...) View the full article

The emblem for the upcoming FIFA 2022 World Cup in Qatar will be a figure-of-eight-shaped white band based on the form of shawls often worn in the gulf region. Read more

Central Saint Martins graduate Qiang Huang has created a range of unfinished furniture bases that need to be completed by adding components from discarded shared bikes. Read more

Slideshow: a layer of translucent plastic cloaks the bright yellow and green exterior of this Shanghai youth centre by Chinese firm Atelier Deshaus. (more…) View the full article