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The Portable Eye Examination Kit (Peek) aims to improve opthalmic health in low-income countries by adapting smartphones with clip-on hardware and an app, and is among this year's category winners for Designs of the Year 2014. (more...) View the full article

Architect Teemu Hirvilammi has completed a wooden house for his own family in the Finnish city of Lahti, featuring dark external walls and a contrasting interior of pale spruce wood (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The latest outlet of Japanese cheese tart shop Bake displays its wares on a Lego counter made by designer Yusuke Seki. Read more View the full article

Estudio ALA created this open-air chapel with a tall brick tower for staff at a tequila factory in the Mexican countryside (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Bike helmet brand Closca has updated its folding headgear with accessories designed to keep cyclists safe and warm during winter (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Right now Dezeen readers can win tickets to Richard Rogers' exhibition, a compendium of work by Zaha Hadid and Möbius strip-shaped shoes, plus this is the last chance to win books by Tom Dixon and MVRDV. (more...) View the full article

Stockholm 2013: Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs will moderate a talk about the future of designers and commerce at the Form Us With Love market tomorrow evening as part of Stockholm Design Week. (more...) View the full article

News: a 3D printer on the International Space Station has produced its first object, "paving the way to future long-term space expeditions" according to the US space agency NASA. (more...) View the full article

Pressed plants and colourful petals are frozen within these glass plates by German designer Meike Harde. (more…) View the full article

Berlin-based designer Sybille Paulsen has worked with people undergoing chemotherapy treatment to create bespoke jewellery from their own hair. (more…) View the full article

A portable router designed to bring constant internet connectivity to tough locations in Sub-Saharan Africa and beyond was presented at the Design Indaba conference in Cape Town this week. (more...) View the full article

A purse that charges a cell phone and an animated dress that displays tweets are among the pieces that will be presented in an upcoming exhibition at Boston's leading art museum. (more…) View the full article

Architect and designer Eero Saarinen was involved in the development of "new weapons and devices" for the US government, according to newly obtained documents. (more…) View the full article

Architecture studio William Matthews Associates and engineers Ney & Partners have built a bridge in Cornwall from two 30-metre cantilevered spans that don't quite meet in middle. Read more

These images taken by late photographer Julius Shulman show buildings from the USA's Mid-century Modern movement that "slipped from public view" (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Brooklyn studio TA Dumbleton Architect took cues from two divergent typologies – an old farmhouse and a city loft – while designing this weekend retreat on Long Island in New York (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Italian studio Massimo Galeotti Architetto has filled in the empty corner of a house in Treviso with a timber-clad extension to provide space for a new music room (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

IKEA has collaborated with Sonos to create a pair of Symfonisk hybrid speakers that each double as a homeware item. Read more

A wintery beach in Canada provides the setting for colourful installations based on the concept of migration, both human and natural, for Toronto's annual Winter Stations programme. Read more

This floor lamp by Japanese designer Yasutoshi Mifune leans backwards to cast light at an angle. (more...) View the full article

Maison&Objet 2016: London designer Ilse Crawford has added to her Billy series of lighting with a floor lamp that rests on a pair of brass feet. (more…) View the full article

Benjamin Hubert's design studio Layer has created a series of cocoon-like pendant lights for Danish furniture brand Muuto, inspired by the silkworm's act of "self-wrapping". Read more

Studio Gil used a combination of exposed concrete and reclaimed iroko wood to unite the interior of this extension to a Victorian terraced house in east London with its redeveloped garden. (more...) View the full article

This art museum by architect Renzo Piano straddles a canal in Oslo’s harbour (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London-based Atmos Studio has designed a timber pavilion named Playascape, which aims to "synthesise the essence of Burning Man" by bringing people together at the festival. Read more