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German graduate designer Christoph Thetard has created a set of pedal-powered kitchen gadgets. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Industrial designer Christian Vivanco has created this pendant lamp inspired by seaweed. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch practice Origins Architects have designed this office in Amsterdam for motion graphic designers Onesize, incorporating a row of free-standing timber arches over a meeting table. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architecture studio Corpo Atelier has restructured an old stone outbuilding in a rural area of northern Portugal, adding a bulky wooden framework behind its thick masonry walls (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been released on bail after two months in detention, which Xinhua news agency said was “because of his good attitude in confessing his crimes” – Guardian More about Ai Weiwei on Dezeen » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with us at Dezeen, architects Manalo & White and designers Priestmangoode, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Tom Dixon, Herzog & de Meuron and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Space: Spanish designer Roger Arquer is next up on Dezeen Platform, our micro-exhibition at Dezeen Space, with his Alba chair and stool. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architects 00:/ and Space Station have designed digital advert-covered offices to straddle Old Street roundabout, located down the road from Dezeen’s offices in London and dubbed Silicon Roundabout due to the number of technology companies and start-ups in the area. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Inside awards: in the first of a series of Dezeen Talks filmed at the Inside awards in Barcelona last week, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to Dutch designer Jeroen Luttikhuis of interior design studio OPERA Amsterdam about the Ceramics Study Galleries at the Victoria & Albert museum in London, which won the display category. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New design brand One Nordic Furniture Company will launch during Stockholm Design Week next week with an inaugural collection by Swedish studio Form Us With Love. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The protruding entrance lobby of this Tokyo house has a seamless frosted facade that glows with diffused light. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designed in Hackney: we’re stepping into the fashion world for Designed in Hackney this week so every day we’ll be showcasing fashion designers who are based in the borough. We start with Gareth Pugh‘s sculptural designs for new ballet Carbon Life, which had its premier at the Royal Opera House last month. (more…) View the full article

One year ago a lot of architecture and design seemed to be centred around love and sex, as we featured a coin-operated wedding machine, a mask for clamping mouths together and a couple of architectural installations that resembled parts of the female anatomy. (more…) View the full article

Folding steel shutters and bullet-proof glass protect the new reception of the Belgian Embassy in Athens by Buerger Katsota Architects. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen filmed a series of interviews with Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic about 59 objects from their collection for the Design Museum Collection App for iPad, which is available to download free from the app store here. (more…) View the full article

Architects Spark have added a stairwell resembling a giant wedge of Swiss cheese onto two Bangkok shophouses they’ve converted into a youth centre. (more…) View the full article

News: a range of drinking glasses, jugs and vases incorporating dye that generates electricity from sunlight by Marjan van Aubel has won the DOEN Materiaalprijs at Dutch Design Week (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen is giving readers the chance to win one of five copies of Generative Design, a book about using computer processing to design artwork, models and animations. (more…) View the full article

German designer Clemens Weisshaar argues that cutting edge software from race car engineering and hypersonic aircraft will underpin design in the future in this movie filmed at Dezeen Live during 100% Design. (more...) View the full article

London firm Alison Brooks Architects used dark-stained timber and sloping rooftops to reinterpret the rural architecture of Essex for this suburban housing development (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Competition: we're giving readers the chance to win one of five copies of a book about the Golden Lion-winning Torre David project presented at last year's Venice Architecture Biennale. (more...) View the full article

Architecture firm Haworth Tompkins has installed a bright red auditorium amongst the brutalist concrete of London's National Theatre (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Our latest Pinterest board brings together all of the Japanese houses we've featured on Dezeen over the last six years. See all the projects » Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » View the full article

Competition: we're giving readers the chance to win a copy of trend forecaster Li Edelkoort's new book exploring fetishism in fashion. (more...) View the full article

Architecture studio Sevil Peach has overhauled a house once owned by Victorian painter and illustrator Frederick Barnard to create an artist's residence boasting period features and a patio-side bathtub. (more…) View the full article