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Folks is presenting Sculptural Objects, a collection of everyday items that are handcrafted to evoke sculptures, for VDF x Ventura Projects. Read more View the full article

VDF studio profiles: scientific research meets design at Studio ThusThat, a multidisciplinary practice whose work exposes the hidden potential in the material world. Read more View the full article

Designers have spoken out against racism in America with Bec Brittain posting a black square on her Instagram account and David Adjaye sharing an image of a burning building in Minneapolis. Read more View the full article

Band-Aid is launching a range of bandages in light and dark shades of black and brown to make its products more racially inclusive. Read more View the full article

Design competition: there’s only one week left to enter our competition with Design Association in Japan to win free exhibition space at Tokyo Designers Week Container Exhibition during Tokyo Designers Week 2010 from 29 October to 3 November. More details » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Swiss architecture studio dB_dubail begert architectes have completed this translucent extension of a residential building in Le Noirmont, Switzerland. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

It’s four weeks to Christmas… so here are some images of a Christmas window display by Dutch designers Tjep. for a department store in Milan, Italy. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s an update from our recruitment site Dezeenjobs, including positions with Marcel Wanders, Tom Dixon and Heatherwick Studio, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with United Nude in China, UXUS in the Netherlands and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Design cooperative NAU have completed this interior for Austrian bank Raiffeisen in Zurich, featuring curving walls perforated to create pictures of faces. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The asphalt surface of a car park extends inside this cafe in Shizuoka, Japan, by Japanese architects Suppose Design Office. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These clothes by Montreal fashion designer Ying Gao curl and unfurl in reaction to light. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Guest artists will be invited to live and work inside this shard-like timber hut. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: in a review for The Guardian, architecture critic Jonathan Glancey says that the new Maggie’s centre in Nottingham is like something out of a fairytale and “is clearly designed to make visitors smile” – The Guardian Glancey claims that architect Piers Gough of CZWG and fashion designer Paul Smith, who was responsible for the interior, have triumphed in their attempt at creating a homely environment for those affected by cancer, adding: “From a purely architectural and design point of view, few hospital buildings – this side of the other eight Maggie’s Centres built in Britain since the 1990s – are as welcoming.” See our original story on Maggie’s Nottingh…

A triangular courtyard slices through the centre of this woodland retreat in Nagano, Japan. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: no two items of furniture or pieces of tableware are the same in the dining room that British artist Martin Creed has designed at London restaurant Sketch. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2012: today is the final edition of our daily TV show from Dezeen Studio at MOST in which we round up some of the other things that have been happening during the week. Tom Dixon demos the Digital Forming software he’s got on show that allows customers to customise their own bespoke Tom Dixon lamp or speaker and then purchase it online with the click of a button, Piers Roberts introduces the Designersblock exhibition in the cloisters of the museum and Achille Sassoli takes us on a tour of Carpigiani’s Gelato University. We also have footage of the MOST party from earlier in the week, as well as yesterday’s The Great Stamp Giveaway where 400 lucky visitors got their…

The next building in our series from the new Yongsan International Business District in Seoul, South Korea, is a skyscraper designed by French architect Dominique Perrault, with faceted glass that will ripple across the surface. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: London watch brand Uniform Wares have launched the latest range in their 300 Series of chronograph watches, which are available now at Dezeen Watch Store. (more…) View the full article

Swiss architects Bureau A have created decorative steel gates to discourage nocturnal “illegal activities” in the entrance to their Geneva studio. (more…) View the full article

The Design Museum Collection App for iPad is available to download from the app store and features interviews filmed by Dezeen, such as this one in which Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic describes the evolution of telephone design. (more…) View the full article

This week architects have been unveiling concepts for the redevelopment of New York’s Grand Central Terminal and SOM’s ring-shaped observation deck sliding up and down two skyscrapers proved the most controversial for our commenters, who set about mocking up some hilarious alternative renderings. (more…) View the full article

Product news: Swedish design duo Mattias Ståhlbom and Gabriella Gustafson of TAF have created a table with an upside-down underframe for Danish producers Hay. (more…) View the full article

News: well-designed classrooms can improve the academic performance of primary school pupils by 25 percent according to a new study undertaken by the University of Salford and UK architects Nightingale Associates. (more...) View the full article

The next intake of architecture students at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia will be accommodated in modular student housing with stark concrete interiors (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Zaha Hadid's glacier-inspired benches (above) and more new products from Milan feature in Dezeen Mail issue 147, which also includes the lastest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 147 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article