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A Colombian company has created an emergency hospital bed from cardboard that can be quickly assembled and transformed into a coffin in response to the coronavirus crisis. Read more View the full article

Designer David Taylor has created a pair of candlesticks each made of three silver tubes clamped together by a found plastic component to form a tripod. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architects Juan Alberto Andrade and María José Váscones have built a wooden office in Guayaquil, Ecuador with a wall of angular windows that pop open, as shown in these photos with people wearing coronavirus face masks. Read more View the full article

Milan 2010: furniture brand Emeco launched a version of its famous Navy chair made of 111 recycled plastic cola bottles at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan last week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Amsterdam studio Nezu Aymo Architects have completed the interiors for a Japanese shop in Amsterdam with strips of bamboo hanging from the ceiling. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen and Mark Batty Publishers have got together to give away five copies of 3D Typography by designers Jeanette Abbink & Emily CM Anderson. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival 2010: British designer Jasper Morrison and Swiss watchmaker Rado have launched this timepiece with yellow detailing and a platinum shell and strap. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish architect Julio Barreno has added a zig-zag covered walkway to this school building in southern Spain in order to connect what were previously separate sides for boys and girls. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Design students Min‐Chieh Chen, Dominik Zausinger and Michele Leidi of the ETH Zurich, Switzerland, have sent us some images of a pavilion made of cardboard hoops. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Florida-based practice Oppenheim Architecture + Design have released these images of their proposals for 47 desert lodges at a resort in Wadi Rum, Jordan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Benjamin Hubert‘s Pod chair for Dutch company De Vorm received the 100% Design Award in Rotterdam last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with new Swedish bicycle accessory brand Bookman to give away five sets of their bicycle lights. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the Design and Technology Association is urging people to complete an online petition to retain design and technology as a compulsory part of the UK’s National Curriculum. Design and technology is one of the subjects that could become optional in schools following the government’s announcement in January that it intends to slim down the curriculum. The petition is supported by key members of the creative and manufacturing industries, who believe the subject to be vital to the UK’s economic development. Anyone wishing to support the campaign should visit the the Design and Technology Campaign website to sign the online petition or contact their local MP. …

Dezeen Wire: architect Steven Holl has been named as the winner of this year’s AIA Gold Medal. See all our stories about his work here. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Sugary treats are arranged like ingredients for potions inside this dimly lit patisserie in north Athens. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The subtly different proportions of two concrete gables fronting a bank building in northern Germany create the illusion that one side is fatter than the other. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2012: weary fair-goers in Milan can relax and recharge at an installation by Studio Toogood at MOST this week, guided through a healing performance by mysterious helpers dressed in white. (more…) View the full article

This shop display system by German designer Michael Schoner consists of stackable sheet-metal steps that allow a wide variety of configurations. (more…) View the full article

The solid and the ephemeral combine in this collection of garments by New York designer Jin Kay, inspired by the themes of a 1930s Japanese novel. (more…) View the full article

Gravel coats the exterior of this house in Japan by Keitaro Muto Architects, including a wedge-shaped block with outward sloping walls. (more…) View the full article

Rooms are shared between two matching concrete blocks at this house in Israel by architects Shilo Benaroya. (more…) View the full article

News: design fairs need to be better designed to provide a better experience to visitors, according the curator of the Interieur design biennale in Kortrijk, Belgium, which opened this weekend (+ interview). (more…) View the full article

Customers visiting a pop-up 3D photo booth in Tokyo from tomorrow can take home miniature colour models of themselves (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Our most popular story in September was the Ostrich Pillow by Kawamura Ganjavian, squishy headgear meant for sleeping in public, plus Dezeen collaborated with Apple and 3D printing got controversial. (more...) View the full article

Stockholm 2012: Stockholm studio Form Us With Love will launch a tiered spun metal lamp for Finnish brand One Nordic at Stockholm Furniture Fair this week. (more...) View the full article