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These spinning ‘light paintings’ made with sparkling crystal beads by designer Philippe Malouin are currently on show in the Digital Crystal exhibition at London’s Design Museum (+ movie + slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Victims of human trafficking can find refuge behind the faceted walls of this sheltered housing block in the Netherlands by Dutch firm KAW (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

In this movie filmed by Alice Masters for the Design Museum’s annual Designers in Residence exhibition, Yuri Suzuki talks about his radio with a circuit board arranged like the London Tube map and his mission to demystify consumer electronics. (more…) View the full article

This shimmering steel house in Kyoto by Japanese architects ALPHAville towers above its vernacular neighbours. (more…) View the full article

In this second movie that Dezeen filmed with Mischer’Traxler at Clerkenwell Design Week, the Austrian design duo talk to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about their Idea of a Tree machine, which makes benches and lamp shades that are all unique records of the sunlight conditions on the day they were produced. (more…) View the full article

Unlike other folding bicycles, this one by Czech designer Mikuláš Novotný has full-size wheels and can be rolled home rather than carried. (more…) View the full article

London design brand Hulger has installed a chandelier made from their new Baby Plumen light bulbs in The Changing Room, a former fitting room at Dezeen Super Store. (more…) View the full article

Ten conceptual showrooms for the home of the future are presented in this exhibition at temporary arts venue Depot Basel in Switzerland. (more…) View the full article

Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza has concealed an office block with walls made entirely of glass behind a sandstone enclosure in the Spanish city of Zamora (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The London Design Festival is underway and the sun is shining so if you’re out and about this afternoon be sure to check out the Seven Designers for Seven Dials installations curated by Dezeen (+ map). (more…) View the full article

Austrian design duo Mischer’Traxler talk to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about how their basket-building machine will only work when someone’s watching in this movie we filmed at Clerkenwell Design Week. (more…) View the full article

Irish studio Grafton Architects have acknowledged the influence of celebrated Brazilian architect Paulo
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 Rocha on their work by constructing limestone models of his buildings and theirs at the Venice Architecture Biennale. (more…) View the full article

A geometric sculpture grows from a column and branches across the ceiling of the new designer menswear space designed by architect Alex Cochrane for London department store Selfridges. (more…) View the full article

A prefabricated concrete cube appears to hover above the wooden base of this house near Amsterdam by Dutch practice Engelarchitecten (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

German designer Gitta Gschwendtner and Brazilian artist Maria Thereza Alves have planted a garden on a derelict barge in Bristol Harbour using the kinds of foreign seeds that were once mixed up in ships’ ballast before being dumped in the river (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

We’ve introduced a new weekly Job of the Week feature on our new-look Dezeen Jobs recruitment site. Each week we’ll pick out the most exciting or interesting new job. This week, it’s an opportunity for a CAD designer at Marc Newson in London. (more…) View the full article

Our big news this week is Dezeen featuring in Apple’s launch movie for the iPhone 5. The story was picked up by MacRumours last night and was so popular it knocked our servers out for a moment. (more…) View the full article

Paris Design Week 2012: architect and designer Jean Nouvel unveiled a collection of aluminium chairs for Emeco at his studio in Paris this week. (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen are giving readers the chance to win one of five copies of architecture and design critic Will Wiles‘ novel about how interior design affects the way we live, called Care of Wooden Floors. (more…) View the full article

Horizontal grooves create tactile stripes across the plaster-covered walls of this house in Leiden, the Netherlands, by architects GAAGA (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A meeting table with swinging chairs (above) leads the latest issue of Dezeen Mail, which includes the best stories and comments from readers plus new jobs, competitions, movies and more. Read Dezeen Mail issue 118 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Spanish lighting designers Luzinterruptus scattered 10,000 glowing books across the ground at Federation Square in Melbourne this summer for a lighting festival dedicated to reading. (more…) View the full article

A large glass vitrine holds rooms like exhibits at the centre of this apartment in Singapore by Chinese architects Neri&Hu. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: furniture designers including Katie Walker (above), Rebecca Scott and Charlene Mullen will exhibit at Decorex International 2012, which takes place in London from 23 to 26 September 2012. (more…) View the full article

Our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs has been redesigned and is now live! We’ve refreshed the look and feel of the site with a new colour and font, bigger headlines and text and a number of new features including a Job of the Week slot. Otherwise the site retains the same simple, clear navigation as before and most importantly, the price of posting a job ad has not changed: it still costs just £100 to post an ad for 28 days! As well as being posted on Dezeen Jobs, positions are promoted via Twitter, in our feeds, in our weekly Dezeen Mail newsletter and our Dezeen Jobs round-up every Monday on Dezeen. We believe www.dezeenjobs.com is the world’s most effective architecture…