News Feed

Herringbone parquet covers the walls and floor of this photography studio in east London by local design practice Post-Office. (more…) View the full article

Designers and architects were wrapping materials over and around things one year ago, like these wooden plywood ribs that appear to drape the ceiling and bar of a coffee shop in Poland (above). (more…) View the full article

This week a staircase for dogs has been our most popular on Dezeen and most-shared on Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter. (more…) View the full article

Rows of interchangeable tiles spell out what’s on the menu at this fast-food pasta outlet in Tel Aviv, designed by Studio OPA as a “tribute to Scrabble”. (more…) View the full article

Finnish design graduates Arttu Kuisma and Juho Kruskopf have produced a set of ceramic pots and vases that look deceptively squidgy. (more…) View the full article

Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic talks about kettles by famous designers as part of our series of interviews we filmed for the Design Museum Collection App for iPad, which is available to download free from the app store here. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the ArcelorMittal Orbit tower and other areas of the Olympic Park in Stratford are now likely to be kept open to paying visitors after the end of the Paralympic Games, reports The Independent. (more…) View the full article

The forms of this tea service by design graduate Eunjae Lee are based on the components of an engine. (more…) View the full article

This holiday home by Swiss architects Hurst Song Architekten is partly embedded in the steep slopes of the Swiss Alps (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

German designer Sarah Böttger scaled the same rectangular shape up and down to create this tubular metal hall stand. (more…) View the full article

Budding novelists will lust after this writer’s hideaway in upstate New York designed by New York City architects Cooper Joseph Studio (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Two console tables by Japanese designer Yuki Matsumoto can be leant against each other and linked by their drawers. (more…) View the full article

A tall and narrow entrance slopes down to a low and wide living space at this triangular house in Japan by Katsutoshi Sasaki + Associates. (more…) View the full article

Gingham and lace patterns have screen-printed onto the tables and shelves of this Breton crêperie in west London designed by Paul Crofts Studio. (more…) View the full article

Rather than erasing all trace of this Kyoto townhouse’s previous owners, Japanese architects Q-Architecture Laboratory preserved the earlier haphazard extensions as a timeline of the building’s history. (more…) View the full article

ECAL graduate Kacper Hamilton has designed a luxury axe with carbon-fibre in its handle and interchangeable heads. (more…) View the full article

London designer Max Lamb used stonemasonry tools to hand-carve the models for this crockery collection from lumps of plaster. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: the winners of the garden unique competition to design outdoor dining products will exhibit their work at spoga+gafa garden trade fair in Cologne from 2 to 4 September 2012 and Dezeen readers can apply for 100 free tickets to the event. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Little Printer, the web-connected gadget we featured earlier this year that prints out personalised messages, news, birthdays and to-do lists collected from the internet on a till-roll, is now going into production. (more…) View the full article

Erginoglu & Çalışlar Architecture’s proposal for a swimming pool under an inverted dome at a primary school in Istanbul has been shortlisted for an award at this year’s World Architecture Festival, which will take place in Singapore from 3-5 October (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

For those still craving more sport in their life, Vancouver-based design graduate Tom Chung has come up with a countdown clock to speed up daily tasks. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen filmed a series of interviews with Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic about 59 objects from their collection for the Design Museum Collection App for iPad, which is available to download free from the app store here. (more…) View the full article

We’ve been sent an update from Jardin de la Connaissance, the garden of decaying books in Quebec which we featured back in 2010: the books are now sprouting enormous orange mushrooms, and this year the designers introduced moss. (more…) View the full article

Austrian architects Atelier Thomas Pucher built a glass box and courtyard onto this house in Graz to bring the family’s living space outdoors (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

When asked to represent Nordic identity, Norwegian studio Permafrost created wooden toys based on an oil rig and tanker. (more…) View the full article