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A shade of teal inspired by the landscape surrounding Scotland has been named the World's Favourite Colour, following an international survey carried out by paper company GF Smith. Read more View the full article

Icelandic designer Anna Thorunn exploits the "natural shape" of the circle in this set of rounded tray tables and candle holders. Read more View the full article

Inspired by a brutalist soap, we curated a Pinterest board of the best-designed grooming products, including 13 reinterpretations of the shaving brush and an aluminium straight razor aimed at millennials. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest › View the full article

Over 30 artists and designers have called for their work to be removed from the Design Museum's Hope to Nope exhibition, after the London gallery hosted an event for one of the world's biggest defence companies. Read more View the full article

American design studio BHDM has chosen warm materials and Spanish-influenced motifs for the interior of this bar, located at the top of the AC Hotel near New York's Times Square. Read more View the full article

Chinese designers Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu discuss the disappearing village cultures of China in their lecture at Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair 2019. Watch the livestream here from 12.00pm UK time. Read more

Medusa Group has designed Akademeia High School in Warsaw with a large central courtyard surrounded by stepped seating that leads to a herb garden roof. Read more

Neri Oxman's Mediated Matter Group at MIT has designed an installation using the skin pigment melanin — and says it will inevitably be used in architecture. Read more

The latest edition of our newsletter Dezeen Weekly features Jeanne Gang as Time Magazine's most influential architect, proposals to replace Notre-Dame Cathedral's spire and a coastal house in Devon. Subscribe to Dezeen Weekly ›

London's V&A shows what the future of food could look like in its latest exhibition Food: Bigger than the Plate, which takes visitors through a full food cycle from compost to plate. Read more

Apple has launched its first dedicated operating system for the iPad, making it easier to multitask, manage files and use Apple Pencil. Read more

Katja Trinkwalder and Pia-Marie Stute have designed a series of add-on accessories for those who are concerned about surveillance and their data security. Read more

Architecture studio Bates Masi Architects has used sliding doors, decks and balconies to open up this slatted wooden home in Annapolis, Maryland to the nearby water. Read more

Elevated walkways and sunken gardens with sculptural energy-harvesting "trees" will define LAVA and Aspect Studios' Central Park masterplan in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Read more

Australian studio Universal Favourite has designed the packaging for contact lens subscription service Dimple, which makes use of boldly patterned circles that correspond with prescriptions. Read more

The family of mid-century architect Eliot Noyes, who was a member of the Harvard Five, has agreed to place his Connecticut home into an easement to ensure its longterm survival. Read more

Dezeen promotion: architect-led tours, open offices and a pumpkin carving competition are among the events that will take place in New York for the city's month-long architecture festival Archtober. Read more

The Netherlands could build a million new homes from sustainably harvested local wood and save 100 megatons of carbon in the process, according to architect Marco Vermeulen. Read more View the full article

Burning Man has acknowledged the carbon emissions it causes and called on attendees to consider alternatives to burning, as part of a plan to become carbon negative by 2030. Read more View the full article

Exposed pipes painted pastel tones and a burnt pink ceiling are among the details Brazilian studio SuperLimão added during the renovation of an apartment in downtown São Paulo. Read more View the full article

The Wuxi Taihu Show Theatre, which is wrapped in a steel structure designed to look like a bamboo forest, has opened in China. Read more View the full article

Johan Sundberg Arkitektur has designed a holiday home raised on twelve steel stilts on a steep slope near the sea in Mölle, Sweden. Read more View the full article

Competition: alternative architecture event Turncoats has returned for a final season, and Dezeen is giving away five pairs of tickets for its debate on space in the next 24 hours. Read more View the full article

London architecture practice Sam Jacob Studio has created a shelter that combines prehistoric monumental elements with contemporary forms in Shenzhen, China. Read more View the full article

This week on Dezeen, Dyson crafted 44 engineering challenges for children during the coronavirus lockdown and Frank Lloyd Wright residences opened their doors for virtual tours. Read more View the full article