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Designer Hugo Passos’ yellow side table inspired by the paintings of Dutch artist Piet Mondrian will feature in the Stepney Green Design Collection curated by Dezeen. (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival: designers Lee Broom and Jason Bruges are among the ten speakers taking part in the designjunction PechaKucha tonight, with a live DJ set from Dezeen Music Project afterwards. (more…) View the full article

This squishy headgear by Spain and Switzerland-based studio Kawamura Ganjavian creates the perfect conditions for a power nap at your desk, at the airport or in the library (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Job of the week this week on Dezeen Jobs is an opportunity for an industrial designer at clothing brand G-Star RAW in Amsterdam. For more roles in design and architecture see our full selection of positions at Dezeen Jobs. (more…) View the full article

This concrete bungalow on a remote Japanese island is built to protect its occupants from both extremely bright sunshine and destructive typhoons (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival: today’s live show from 5pm at 100% Design hosted by Dezeen will include talks with London designers Philippe Malouin (above) and Benjamin Hubert, and writer and curator Beatrice Galilee. (more…) View the full article

Architects Allies and Morrison have added this gabled extension to a nineteenth century boarding school in Brighton, England. (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

London Design Festival: designer Faye Toogood has opened up the back room of her studio in north London to host a salmon-smoking workshop, locally sourced lunches and a literary salon. (more…) View the full article

This week’s issue of Dezeen Mail leads with our coverage of the London Design Festival, including the Prism installation at the V&A museum that displays live data from around the city (above), plus all the latest news, jobs and competitions. Read Dezeen Mail issue 119 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

London Design Festival: the family home of the future will feature mechanised floors and furniture that emerge from walls, floors and ceilings at the touch of a button, according to Yo! Sushi and Yotel founder Simon Woodroffe (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

We relaunched Dezeen Jobs last week with a new look, and to celebrate we’ve introduced a special offer for a half-price recruitment advert. To get your discount, pick up a voucher this week from Dezeen Super Store at 38 Monmouth Street WC2, or one of our pop-ups at 100% Design (stand IP15) or designjunction (stand B6). View the full article

News: Apple was named best design studio and best brand of the past 50 years at a special ceremony marking the 50th birthday of D&AD this week and Apple’s entire design team, including senior vice president of industrial design Jonathan Ive (above), flew to London to collect the awards. (more…) View the full article

In the most extreme example yet of QR codes used as decor, the new Hotel Modez in Arnhem has a room covered entirely in scannable codes that link to “pornography, pin-ups and other piquancies”. (more…) View the full article

Developing hardware and software at the same time is design’s “new frontier”, according to industrial designer Yves Behar. Speaking to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs at 100% Design yesterday, the industrial designer said bringing 3D designers and interface designers together was “a whole new blue ocean” adding, “Apple is actually a little bit behind in that area.” (+ audio) (more…) View the full article

A converted nineteenth century farm building once used for drying hops has been nominated for the RIBA Manser Medal for the best new house in the UK, following a renovation and extension by architects Duggan Morris (+slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival: Dezeen is hosting a series of innovative daily live shows at 100% Design, continuing today at 5pm with London designers Dominic Wilcox (above) and Asif Khan, and curator and writer Daniel Charny. (more…) View the full article

Danish firm C.F. Møller likens its completed art and craft museum in Norway to a “block of ice that has slid down from the surrounding mountains” (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architecture studios FARM and KD Architects have converted a 1920s shophouse in Singapore into a residence with a swimming pool stretched along the ground floor. (more…) View the full article

This installation by Leo Lindroos from Finnish architecture firm MOOK mimics the warm orange glow of a sunset to send viewers into a relaxed and sleepy state by boosting their melatonin levels. (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival: the first project by MAP, the new studio of designers BarberOsgerby, is a digital laboratory at London’s Science Museum where visitors can interact with internet-users around the world using musical instruments and robots (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival: Dutch designer Marcel Wanders spoke to Dezeen about a new clock inspired by a London landmark earlier today at the Moooi showroom in west London (+ audio + movie). (more…) View the full article

Hackney designer Magnus Pettersen will contribute a side table from his Locker furniture collection to the Stepney Green Design Collection curated by Dezeen. (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival: hundreds of intricate models by emerging Japanese architect Akihisa Hirata are pinned onto the looping walls of this installation at the Architecture Foundation in London (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

In this movie filmed by Dezeen, designer Erwan Bouroullec talks to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about the textured Pico tiles that he and his brother Ronan exhibited during Clerkenwell Design Week. (more…) View the full article