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News: Storm Thorgerson, the British graphic designer who created the iconic album sleeve for Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, has died aged 69. (more...) View the full article

Music: directors Martin Lorenz and Martin Allais recreated Charles and Ray Eames' 1977 film exploring the scale of the universe for Barcelona-based band Storms' new music video. (more...) View the full article

The creative directors behind Stormzy's headline Glastonbury set honoured the British rapper's south London roots with visual nods to Croydon's Brutalist architecture. Read more

Norwegian designers Vibeke Skar and Ida Noemi Vidal presented ceramic pendant lights with embossed surfaces in the Ventura Lambrate district of Milan last month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This timber structure clad in recycled food packaging houses a temporary library and book exchange and was designed and built by architecture students in Cēsis, Latvia (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2011: Swedish collective Front will present a series of vases that tell the stories of five women living in remote villages in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designers Rikkert Paauw and Jet van Zwieten of Foundation Projects transform refuse skips and their contents into small buildings. (more…) View the full article

Combs, lighters and babies’ dummies are among the hundreds of objects found washed up on British beaches and then hung in the atrium of a new London cancer centre by designer Stuart Haygarth. (more…) View the full article

A furry, fox-like creature moves frantically in this ad, created by branding agency Superunion and animation designer Esteban Diacono for a performance of opera The Cunning Little Vixen. Read more

German designer Philipp Weber's glassblowing pipe with valves like a trumpet won the New Talents Award at DMY Berlin last week (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

News: a strap-on robotic arm that allows humans to lift heavy weights has won this year's James Dyson Award for the most innovative student design product. (more...) View the full article

Dezeenwire: the Strata tower in south London by BFLS architects has won The Carbuncle Cup, awarded annually by Building Design magazine to the ugliest building completed in the UK during the past 12 months - Building Design Also on Dezeenwire: Jonathan Glancey’s review of the Strata tower </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Istanbul Design Biennial: this project by Antwerp design studio Unfold explores how 3D-printed objects created from identical digital files can be as varied and unique as hand-made objects (+ movie + slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Czech studio A1 Architects covered the walls of this cafe in Prague with a tactile mixture of black plaster, coal and pieces of straw, in a modern take on the clay plasters used inside traditional Japanese tea houses (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This house near Hamilton, Ontario, relies on a combination of fireplaces and straw walls to keep it warm, with a rooftop meadow adding to its green credentials (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Swedish studio Belatchew Arkitekter wants to transform a Stockholm skyscraper into a wind farm by covering it in thousands of electricity-generating bristles. (more...) View the full article

This house in Zellerndorf, Austria, by Vienna studio Franz Architekten comprises three separate units linked by glass passages. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Suspended vending machines dispense plastic tubes containing coloured T-shirts in this Sydney shop by Facet Studio of Sydney and Osaka. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: Markus Jehs and Jürgen Laub modelled the Striad lounge chair for Herman Miller on the "construction of high-performance ski boots". Read more View the full article

Reception desks, carpets and mid-century furniture found in Midtown Manhattan lobbies informed the design of menswear brand Jack Erwin's flagship store in New York. Read more

Product news: these matchboxes from Danish design brand Hay are decorated only with the red phosphorus ink that's used for striking matches. (more...) View the full article

Our new Pinterest board showcases the best and most innovative uses of tiles, including MVRDV's shopping centre that's covered in hand-glazed iridescent ceramic tiles and a greenery-boosting tile that can collect and manage water. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›

Milan 2013: London designer Michael Anastassiades presented lamps strung between walls on fine cables for Italian lighting brand Flos last week. (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

Cologne 2011: designer Philippe Nigro presented this series of interlocking pendant lights for Ligne Roset at imm cologne earlier this month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article