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Dezeenwire: graphic design magazine Grafik has ceased publication as its owners have gone into administration. More information on the Grafik blog </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve just sent out the latest issue of Dezeenmail – take a look at it here. Dezeenmail is sent out roughly every two weeks and contains a selection of Dezeen’s best stories and comments, along with all our latest competitions and jobs. You can subscribe here. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photographer Edmund Sumner has sent us his pictures of a temple by Mumbai studio Sameep Padora & Associates. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Plans have been unveiled for a 12 metre-high bronze statue of London Mayor Boris Johnson overlooking the River Thames in London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with designers Tom Dixon and Paul Cocksedge, plus the last chance to apply for roles at MAD, Philips, Heatherwick Studio and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese designers Nendo have designed these three wooden bells containing mechanisms from children’s musical boxes. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A patchwork of yellow, green and white panels covers the erratically curving facade of a school in Finland by Linja Architects. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Tom Dixon and UXUS, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Balmond Studio, Doshi Levien, Heatherwick Studio and more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We love the energy that BEAKR tracks have, which is why we used Engine for the soundtrack on our Friday TV round-up from MOST. We used another of BEAKR’s tracks called Paper View on our showreel that we have been playing in our studio at MOST, and will be up on Dezeen soon. Manke sure you check out BEAKR’s Bandcamp page for all their other great tracks. About Dezeen Music Project | More tracks | Submit your track View the full article

Singapore design student Chan Min Yun has packaged doses of medicine in little origami parcels that open like flowers when placed into water (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Hackney-based artist Alex Chinneck has fitted identically smashed windows into a derelict factory just a mile away from the Olympic Stadium (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Designers and artists including Paul Smith, Quentin Blake, Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen and Tracey Emin have customised classic Ant chairs by Arne Jacobsen, which will be auctioned in order to raise money for Jamie Oliver’s Better Food Foundation. (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival: every scrap of material and minute of production time was carefully recorded during the manufacturing of these twelve wooden chairs, helping the Royal College of Art students that designed them to measure each one’s sustainability. (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen are giving readers the opportunity to win one of ten Pin World or Pin City wall maps by designers Emanuele Pizzolorusso and Alessandro Maffioletti for Palomar. (more…) View the full article

This aluminium furniture and lighting was cast inside sheets of heat-resistant fabric in a process developed by French designer Julien Carretero. (more…) View the full article

News: a building designed by Zaha Hadid for Beijing has been copied by a developer in Chongqing, with the two projects racing to be completed first. (more...) View the full article

Seed-dispersing robots and file-sharing drones are among proposals to fuse technology and the natural world by Liam Young of Tomorrow's Thoughts Today, presented at our Designed in Hackney Day last summer (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

The criss-crossing bands of these running shoes by Nike are inspired by a Chinese finger trap. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2013: London designers Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby have unveiled a collection of sofas for American furniture brand Knoll at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan. (more...) View the full article

News: Zaha Hadid Architects has won a competition to design a metro station for Riyadh, the Saudi Arabian capital. (more...) View the full article

Chinese studio Neri&Hu has unmasked the I-beams structure of the oldest steel-framed building in Shanghai to create an Italian restaurant with a raw industrial interior (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: a heritage group in Beijing has written an open letter to the Royal Institute of British Architects saying it is "disappointed and offended" that Zaha Hadid's Galaxy Soho complex has been given an RIBA International Award. (more...) View the full article

New York architecture studio Bureau V showed its debut menswear collection based on theories by German architect Gottfried Semper during New York Fashion Week. (more...) View the full article

Designer and TV presenter Naomi Cleaver included a map of flight paths over Heathrow and a stuffed deer in the shared facilities at this student housing development in Shoreditch, east London (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This movie shows shoppers walking under and sitting beneath the Christmas lights installed above public crossings and squares in central Berlin by German studio Brut Deluxe. (more...) View the full article