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London Design Festival: every scrap of material and minute of production time was carefully recorded during the manufacturing of these twelve wooden chairs, helping the Royal College of Art students that designed them to measure each one’s sustainability. (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival: drops of coloured ink fall from the top of a stone staircase into a glass tank six storeys below in this installation at the V&A museum by German artist and designer Rolf Sachs (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This golden library in Copenhagen by architects COBE and Transform is meant to resemble a pile of books. (more…) View the full article

Rooms are shared between two matching concrete blocks at this house in Israel by architects Shilo Benaroya. (more…) View the full article

Here’s a movie showing the concept animations, construction and testing of the London 2012 Olympic cauldron by British designer Thomas Heatherwick. (more…) View the full article

Our end of summer sale at Dezeen Watch Store has begun and you can now save even more on a selection of our watches by Italian design brand Alessi. Jak (above) designed by New York designer Karim Rashid is now only £40.00 (UK and EU) or £33.33 (rest of world). Buy now » (more…) View the full article

Dutch designer Ka-Lai Chan has wrapped a whole wall, furniture and ornaments behind an all-encompassing layer of sticky tape at an abandoned apartment in Utrecht. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: the exhibitor line-up has been announced for the 23rd Biennial of design (BIO23), taking place from 27 September to 11 November 2012 at the Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana, Slovenia. (more…) View the full article

News: the Dutch city of Almere has won a bid to host the World Horticultural Expo in 2022 with proposals by MVRDV for a square-shaped peninsula covered in gardens. (more…) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with MAD, G Star Raw and Philips, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Wikinson Eyre, Wanda Creative, Carpenters Workshop Gallery and more… (more…) View the full article

An undulating golden plane blankets the new Islamic art galleries at the Musée du Louvre in Paris, which opened to the public this weekend (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival: Curator, author and furniture designer Suzanne Trocmé has created a 3D-printed ceramic bowl and egg cup based on the continuous form of a Möbius strip. (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival: construction workers made this furniture on show at London’s Gallery Fumi, but Brazilian architect Marcio Kogan of Studio MK27 has added small details to embellish each piece. (more…) View the full article

A chequerboard of solid and void cloaks the tapered glass walls of this bank in Innsbruck by Austrian architect Rainer Köberl (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The sounds of the countryside are amplified when you place your ear towards one of these four enormous trumpets built by architects Studio Weave (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival: London design journalist and photographer Barbara Chandler has selected ten of her favourite photographs from this year’s London Design Festival, including portraits of Martino Gamper, Industrial Facility and Tord Boontje. (more…) View the full article

In the second movie Dezeen filmed with designer Erwan Bouroullec at Clerkenwell Design Week, he flicks through the new book documenting 15 years of work by him and his brother Ronan and talks about his favourite project ever. (more…) View the full article

The latticed facade of this Tokyo bookstore by Klein Dytham Architecture comprises hundreds of interlocking T-shapes that subtly reference the logo of entertainment retailer Tsutaya (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

South London designers JAILmake have condensed their 205 square metres studio into just five square metres at design show Tent London, where they’ll be working on a new brief every day (+ audio). (more…) View the full article

The buildings of Lyon are pulled apart in these impossible photographs by Norwegian artist Espen Dietrichson. (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival: this week we’ve been recording short interviews with designers and critics at the top shows of the London Design Festival, and we’ve now compiled them in a handy audio guide to the festival. (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival: we’re hosting the last in our series of live shows at 100% Design today from 2:45pm, including talks with designer Clemens Weisshaar, restaurant founder Shamil Thakrar and trend forcaster Li Edelkoort (above). (more…) View the full article

This week Dezeen has been at the London Design Festival, where our most popular story has been the Prism installation displaying digital data from all over the city inside a secret tower at the V&A museum (above). (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival: we’ve recorded each of the Seven Designers for Seven Dials explaining their aerial installations curated by Dezeen and compiled them on an interactive map of the area. (more…) View the full article

Dutch design brand Droog has opened a hotel in Amsterdam where guests who venture out from their rooms can attend lectures, visit exhibitions and shops or relax in a ”fairy-tale garden” without leaving the building (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article