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Dezeen promotion: Japanese designer Oki Sato of Nendo will present their inaugural collection for new Singaporean design brand K% at Luminaire‘s Chicago showroom this month. (more…) View the full article

Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake has created a range of LED lamps for Italian lighting company Artemide that unfold from flat 2D shapes into 3D shades. (more…) View the full article

The departure lounge that Dutch designers Tjep. have just refurbished at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport includes a slide to keep children occupied while they wait. (more…) View the full article

London design studio Yang:Ripol have remixed humble stationery items to create a pen that doubles as a pencil case and an eraser-capped pencil with its own brush. (more…) View the full article

Germany, one of six countries bidding to host the United Nations’ Green Climate Fund, have selected Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA) to design a sustainable HQ in Bonn if their bid is successful. (more…) View the full article

A footwear company in Thailand says it has developed a way to bio-engineer stingray skin to produce customised trainers – although the claim has been met with scepticism from scientists and outrage from animal rights campaigners. (more…) View the full article

The Dezeen office reopens tomorrow following the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee holiday. Now you can remember the long weekend forever by downloading a free souvenir poster designed by Hackney graphic designer Sarah Hyndman of With Relish. (more…) View the full article

Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion was our most popular architecture story last week so here’s a run-down of all twelve temporary pavilions over the years by architects including SANAA in 2009 (above, photographed by Iwan Baan), Jean Nouvel in 2010 and Frank Gehry in 2008. (more…) View the full article

Italian designers Formafantasma have completed a series of objects using various types of discarded leather, including the skin of pigs, fish and cork trees. (more…) View the full article

Japanese designers Nendo have designed a shoe store where the shoes walk around the store on their own. (more…) View the full article

Polish designer Boguslaw Sliwinski has created a new series of plates to encourage people to play with their food, this time allowing diners to recreate sporting action with their vegetables. (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: projecting window frames cast dramatic shadows across the sandy red walls of this university in the Moroccan desert. (more…) View the full article

Argentinian architects Adamo-Faiden have completed a building in Buenos Aires that could either be used for offices or apartments. (more…) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Marcel Wanders, Matteo Thun & Partners and Starbucks, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Tom Dixon, Universal Design Studio, Heatherwick Studio and more… (more…) View the full article

Architects Carmody Groarke have transformed an abandoned canal-side petrol station in north London into a temporary restaurant and events space with fluted walls. (more…) View the full article

This house for a pianist and a violinist in Leiden, the Netherlands, is the latest in a series by Dutch architects Pasel Kuenzel on the site of a former slaughterhouse. (more…) View the full article

The first adidas by Stella McCartney store has opened in London, with an interior designed by architects APA. (more…) View the full article

This week five years ago it seemed like everyone was talking about the logo created by graphic designers Wolff Olins for the London 2012 Olympics. British tabloid The Sun claimed the accompanying video could trigger epileptic fits, while Dezeen readers couldn’t believe it cost £400,000 and even questioned whether it was a hoax. (more…) View the full article

After the popularity of our story on Nendo’s bathroom for Bisazza Bagno this week, we’ve compiled over 100 covetable bathrooms from the pages of Dezeen in our latest Pinterest board. See all our Pinterest boards » Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » View the full article

Dezeen archive: this week we reported on the tiny mobile theatre (top right) that staged performances in a couple of locations during Clerkenwell Design Week last week, so here’s a reminder of all the other mobile buildings we’ve featured. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » View the full article

This Barcelona apartment by Spanish studio Nook Architects combines modern kitchen and bathroom fittings alongside original mosaic flooring and exposed wooden ceiling beams. (more…) View the full article

Twenty-five thousand brown paper lunch bags line the wall and ceiling of OWEN, a new fashion boutique in New York’s Meatpacking District by Jeremy Barbour of Brooklyn architects Tacklebox. (more…) View the full article

This time last year we revealed designs by BarberOsgerby for the London 2012 Olympic Torch, which went on to be named Design of the Year (see our interview with the designers here). Also in the news was a 3D-printed bikini, a house that turns into a fortress and a school that encouraged students to copy famous designs. (more…) View the full article

This week Herzog & de Meuron were in London for the opening of their Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, Thomas Heatherwick opened his solo show at the V&A and BarberOsgerby’s Olympic torch has been making its way around the UK. We’ve got interviews with all three for you. (more…) View the full article

Sushi is prepared on a faceted white counter at this restaurant in London’s Soho by architects Gundry & Ducker. (more…) View the full article