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Dutch designer and artist Joep van Lieshout talks to Dezeen about his sculptures depicting cannibalism and suicide in this interview recorded at the Carpenter’s Workshop Gallery in London, and how “industry itself needs to be saved” so he plans to “start producing from scratch again” (+ audio). (more…) View the full article

This set of wooden toys by Polish studio Poorex incorporates tools associated with household chores. (more…) View the full article

Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic was filmed by Dezeen for the Design Museum Collection App and in this compilation he talks about electronic products including the Jim Nature TV with a chipboard case by Philippe Starck. You can download the iPad app free from the app store here. (more…) View the full article

This week 3D printing has been high on the agenda with projects exploring the technology’s cultural impact at the Istanbul Design Biennial and a fair showcasing the equipment in London. (more…) View the full article

News: cheap 3D printers mean manufacturing can again take place at home as it did before the industrial revolution, according to MakerBot Industries CEO and co-founder Bre Pettis (+ audio). (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: in this movie we filmed at the World Architecture Festival, Chinese architect Li Xiaodong tells Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs how ”sustainability is a must” for new buildings in China, because if the country doesn’t get it right it’s ”the end of the world”. (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen Watch Store features in this new book about brand identities that use dynamic graphic design by designer and author Irene Ontwerp, and Dezeen readers can win one of five copies. (more…) View the full article

Job of the week this week is a position as an interior designer at Universal Design Studio in London. For more roles in architecture and design see our full selection of positions at Dezeen Jobs. (more…) View the full article

The Interieur Foundation’s Designer of the Year Alain Gilles will launch a bed that lets users hide chairs, a desk or even a bath behind its adaptable headboard at design fair Interieur 2012, which opens tomorrow in Kortrijk, Belgium. (more…) View the full article

Vienna Design Week: Spanish designer Martí Guixé presented an upmarket version of a box of wine at Sotheby’s in Vienna earlier this month. (more…) View the full article

News: architecture firm Foster + Partners has unveiled proposals to increase the capacity of New York’s Grand Central Terminal by widening approach routes and pedestrianising streets (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

As part of the series of interviews filmed by Dezeen for the Design Museum Collection App, director of the Design Museum Deyan Sudjic introduces two cameras that raised the bar of analogue photography. Download the iPad app free from the app store here. (more…) View the full article

Renaissance artist El Greco lived and worked in the Spanish city of Toledo and Pardo + Tapia Arquitectos has refurbished and added a glazed entrance pavilion to the small museum that houses some of his most important paintings (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

As a needle passes over this vinyl globe by Japanese designer Yuri Suzuki, it plays folk music and national anthems from around the world (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

News: architect Renzo Piano has unveiled designs for a museum of movie history for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles. (more…) View the full article

The stone mullions surrounding this visitor centre by Irish firm Heneghan Peng Architects imitate the towering basalt columns of the volcanically formed Giant’s Causeway (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: in this movie we filmed, architect Josefin Larsson of Wingårdh Arkitektkontor tells Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs how the residents of Stockholm want it to be a “low city”, but that her studio’s controversial high-rise hotel there is a “real midget” compared to the skyscrapers of Singapore, where the World Architecture Festival took place. (more…) View the full article

This week’s issue of Dezeen Mail features our coverage of the Istanbul Design Biennial including a plotter that repeatedly writes text from the Open Source Architecture Manifesto onto a wall (above), plus all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 123 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Istanbul Design Biennial: Rotterdam design studio Minale-Maeda has devised a set of 3D printed plastic connectors that combine with standard wooden parts so that anyone can make these four items of furniture. (more…) View the full article

Bright shades of yellow and green help elderly people find their way around in this 17-storey housing block in Barcelona by Spanish architects Pau Vidal, Sergi Pons and Ricard Galiana (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: the Braun BN0024 is the newest watch in our collection of iconic Braun watches. This timepiece has an understated face with classic hour and minute hands and features a smaller smaller dial on the face that marks the seconds using a yellow ticker. Buy now for £120.00 » (more…) View the full article

Hong Kong-based designer Michael Young has brought the Moke beach buggy back to life more than 60 years after it first appeared as a sister vehicle to the classic Mini. (more…) View the full article

A line of clerestory windows in the middle of the roof brings mid-morning sunshine into the north-west facing rooms of this wooden house in Slovenia by architects Kombinat (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: the architecture of OMA‘s Kunsthal gallery in Rotterdam has been criticised following the theft of seven major paintings by artists including Picasso, Matisse and Monet. (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: Australian architect John Wardle tells Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs how small projects can be “a good grounding for research and testing of ideas” in this movie we filmed about his award-winning Shearer’s Quarters at the World Architecture Festival earlier this month. (more…) View the full article