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Designers Jack Beveridge and Lizzie Reid have adapted the flocking process to make a hairbrush that's coated in human hair. (more...) View the full article

Hungarian design student Zsanett Szirmay has transferred folk embroidery patterns onto strips for a punched card music box, which plays the traditional motifs as sounds (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The latest issue of Dezeen Mail leads with John Pawson's minimalist remodelling of a German church and features the latest news, jobs, competitions and readers comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 163 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Product news: Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek has produced a wallpaper collection that replicates weathered wood textures. (more...) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Foster + Partners, the University of Virginia and MVRDV, whose 88-storey "vertical city" design for Indonesia's capital is pictured. This is also the last chance to apply for roles with Herzog & de Meuron, Bloom Miami, Priestmangoode and more... (more...) View the full article

This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position working with French designer Philippe Starck (pictured) as a senior architect. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Steel reinforcing bars are used for shelving and partitions at this coffee shop in Dublin by VAV architects. (more...) View the full article

Spanish firm Nook Architects has renovated a Barcelona apartment by adding patterned floor tiles plus a combined step and window seat leading out onto the terrace (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: wearable technology will revolutionise healthcare for doctors and patients alike, says the director of design studio Vitamins in our final movie from December's Wearable Futures conference. (more...) View the full article

News dominated this week as Shigeru Ban was awarded the Pritzker Prize, Facebook invested $2 billion in virtual reality, and Marc Newson described the design industry as "really pathetic". Read on for more architecture and design news from the past seven days, plus our Dezeen Music Project featured track. (more...) View the full article

Life-sized outlines of military drones drawn on the ground to depict their "invisible" presence by London artist James Bridle topped the Graphics category at Designs of the Year 2014 (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

New York designer Paul Loebach's flat-pack wooden chair slots together without glue, as demonstrated in a series of vaguely pornographic gifs (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Competition: we've teamed up with students from Mackintosh School of Architecture at Glasgow School of Art to give away five copies of MacMag39, the latest edition of their annual publication. (more...) View the full article

Format Elf Architekten added a pattern of hexagonal holes to the long aluminium facade of this office building in Germany to control the amount of daylight entering the interior (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Crinkled fibre-cement panels clad the facade of this theatre extension by Finnish studio ALA Architects in the city of Kuopio, complementing the concrete exterior of the original 1960s building (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

British designer Bethan Gray and Islamic art and craft revivalist Mitchell Abdul Karim Crites have launched the first furniture and tableware collections from their new company The Ruby Tree. (more...) View the full article

Triangular facets give a folded appearance to the bare concrete facade of this house in Argentina by local architect Nicolás Campodonico (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Photo essay: a smooth granite church in Iceland and a curvy concrete water tower in Germany are among the architectural structures documented in this series by German photographer Sebastian Weiss (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The top two floors of this office for Nestlé Waters in Beirut projects out by 15 metres to create a clear route below for trucks to access the warehouse next door (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The New York Public Library has selected Mecanoo – the Dutch architecture firm behind Europe's biggest library – to lead the renovation of its iconic main building on Fifth Avenue and a smaller branch nearby. (more…) View the full article

Movie: New York designer Dror Benshetrit discusses the limited-edition foldable wine rack he designed for Brancott Estate in our second movie for the New Zealand wine brand. (more…) View the full article

An open-sided shelter made from railway sleepers provides a stable on the roof of this house by CC Arquitectos, which is partially embedded in a slope overlooking a Mexican valley (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Stockholm 2016: the top of this table by Swedish designer Alexander Lervik flips up when not in use, so its curved handle can be used for carrying or as a hook for hanging on the wall. (more…) View the full article

Visitors can take a plunge into a cold lake after warming up in this floating wooden sauna by Seattle firm goCstudio – the latest example of the trend for buoyant architecture (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

In memory of musician Prince, who died suddenly last week, LACMA has used purple lighting to turn the popular Rain Room installation into a tribute based on one of the musician's most famous tracks. (more…) View the full article