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In the next of our movies filmed at Dezeen Live during 100% Design, British industrial designer Benjamin Hubert argues that designers should focus on building their own name as a brand. (more...) View the full article

Our job of the week is a position for a senior architect/urban designer at Herzog & de Meuron in Basel, Switzerland. Well known for their high-profile architecture projects worldwide, such as the VitraHaus in Weil am Rhein, Germany (pictured above), this year the firm has completed the Parrish Art Museum on Long Island and the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London. Visit the ad for full details or browse many other architecture and design job opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

News: a yacht built for Apple's late co-founder Steve Jobs has been impounded in Amsterdam following a dispute over an unpaid bill to French designer Philippe Starck. (more...) View the full article

Italian architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas have won a competition to build a cultural complex in Chengdu, China, with designs for spiralling buildings inspired by the city's ancient emblem. (more...) View the full article

The Dezeen Watch Store winter sale has begun! You can now get 20% off a selection of our best-selling watches for a limited time only, including the chronograph Braun BN0035 (above). Was £185, now £148. Visit Dezeen Watch Store to browse all our great deals. (more...) View the full article

Our movie for Philips Lumiblade about how OLED lighting technology will change interior design leads the lastest issue of Dezeen Mail, which also includes sex toys, twisting skyscrapers and all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 132 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

London-based studio Alex Cochrane Architects added a timber balcony and an open-plan interior to this Victorian boathouse in a deer park in the south of England. (more...) View the full article

The form of U-House by Jorge Graca Costa was inspired by traditional Mediterranean courtyard houses to protect it from the windy climate of western Portugal and it's the twenty-first door on our A-Zdvent calendar. Read more about U-House » View the full article

Two chunky concrete storeys are perched above a living room without walls at this house in São Paulo by Brazilian architects Studio MK27 (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London and Tbilisi firm Architects of Invention has completed a public services building on stilts for a city that doesn't exist yet in Georgia. (more...) View the full article

More doomsday preparations: earlier this year we published this survival kit for tomorrow's predicted apocalypse, containing practical items such matches and water as well as chocolate and hard liqueur. It's designed by Mexican branding company Menosunocerouno and you can read our story about it here » View the full article

In case the ancient Mayan prediction turns out to be true and the world does end tomorrow, Central Saint Martins fashion graduate Minki Cheng has created a collection of apocalypse apparel for surviving extreme conditions in style (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Danish studio BIG has designed an observation tower shaped like a honey dipper for Phoenix, Arizona. (more...) View the full article

This gymnasium in Utrecht by Dutch studio NL Architects has no windows but features walls that swell outwards to let light in from above (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Product news: a clock with disappearing hands and pen pots made of heat-shrink tubing are among the objects in the first collection from La Vague, a new online shop and collective offering work by young designers. (more...) View the full article

Huge rectangular holes puncture the walls and ceilings of this four-storey split-level house in Tokyo by Hiroyuki Shinozaki Architects, the next window of our A-Zdvent calendar. Read more about House T » View the full article

Designer Philippe Malouin describes how the Olympics has changed Hackney in this movie we filmed at Dezeen Live during 100% Design. (more...) View the full article

News: German car brand Audi has announced a new design strategy, bringing the interior and exterior design studios together to encourage faster innovation and stimulate greater dialogue between the teams. "You can't survive if you just depend on one brain to do a complex thing like a car," said Audi head of exterior design Achim Badstübner. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Tequila Don Julio asked the Dezeen team to put together a last-minute Christmas gift guide. Here's a selection of designerly items that have impressed us over the past year and will be buying for our friends and families. (more...) View the full article

News: UK firm Foster + Partners has unveiled plans to overhaul New York Public Library's flagship branch on Fifth Avenue by inserting a contemporary lending library into unused reading rooms and stacks at the back of the building. (more...) View the full article

Sunken cruise ship the Costa Concordia would be transformed into a watery memorial garden in this competition-winning conceptual design by London architecture graduates Alexander Laing and Francesco Matteo Belfiore. (more...) View the full article

New Habitat creative director Polly Dickens has unveiled her first full collection, 18 months after the household furnishings chain went into administration and closed all but three of its UK stores (+ slideshow + interview). (more...) View the full article

These seven star-shaped lights appeared in the flat expanse of Nevada's Black Rock Desert during this year's Burning Man festival (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Product news: British furniture designer Bethan Gray has created a collection of oak and linen lamps for department store John Lewis. (more...) View the full article

House S in Osaka by Suga Atelier has a concrete facade that looks like a rockface and it's the latest addition to our A-Zdvent calendar. Read more about House S » View the full article