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Dutch graduate designer Carolien Laro has designed a range of stools with flexible seats created by cutting slits into their solid wood tops. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Black Eyed Peas frontman Will.i.am has been appointed by technology company Intel as director of creative innovation. The rapper will be involved in the development of new technologies involving music and visuals and is reportedly also working on music specially for the brand. Intel’s vice-president Deborah Conrad said: “We’re thrilled to tap into the limitless creativity will.i.am brings to the table. He’s not only a brilliant artist and producer, but also an innovator pushing the bounds of technology professionally and personally. We share a strong interest in innovation around music, art and lifestyle, and are excited to join forces to establish an aut…

Japanese architects atelierA5 have completed this four-storey house in Tokyo enclosed by a perforated metal screen. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This floating bench by Japanese studio h220430 appears to be held up by bunches of balloons at either end. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Tiny dimples and raised dots cover these ceramic tiles by French designers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Check out the latest issue of Dezeen Mail for all the best stories and comments from Dezeen, including the new Apple headquarters by Foster + Partners, interiors that are styled like construction sites and an infinite clothes shop. There’s also an update from Dezeen Wire, the latest movies on Dezeen Screen and all our new competitions and jobs. Take a look at it here. Dezeen Mail is sent out every couple of weeks and you can subscribe here. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some images of an inflatable concert hall designed by architect Arata Isozaki and artist Anish Kapoor to tour parts of Japan affected by the earthquake and tsunami earlier this year. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the director of London’s Design Museum Deyan Sudjic claims the museum’s new home at the former Commonwealth Institute will offer a platform for future designers and that Britain can regain its reputation as creative power, “provided we go on investing in design” – The Guardian Sudjic describes the Design Museum’s original incarnation at the Victoria & Albert museum as “a little like an upmarket squatter in the V&A basement,” but suggests that “contemporary design is now firmly on the cultural agenda.” He claims that Britain must support design education in order to stay ahead of emerging economies, adding that “design is a way to create or safeguard…

Competition: we’ve teamed up with publishers Brusselssprout to give readers the chance to win five copies of their new Dubai Graphic Encyclopedia. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French graffiti artist Tilt has swamped one half of a Marseille hotel room in decoration, while the other half remains completely blank. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2012: the flexible back of this chair by Swedish designers Front comprises a thick spring wrapped in black leather. (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: in the final movie from our series announcing the call for exhibitors at this year’s World Architecture Festival in Singapore from 3-5 October, programme director Paul Finch discusses why an experimental office building with an inflatable facade was named World Building of the Year in 2011. (more…) View the full article

Movie: in our second movie from the Peroni Nastro Azzurro talk with Italian designers Formafantasma they talk about the processes behing their projects, which include plastics made of blood and vases made of bread (+ transcript). (more…) View the full article

This 4.5 metre-wide house in Los Angeles by Anonymous Architects was inspired by the narrow residences found in Japanese cities. (more…) View the full article

Caged balconies provide open-air corridors that are sheltered from harsh sunlight and tropical rain at this school in Vietnam by architects Vo Trong Nghia. (more…) View the full article

News: architecture critic Rowan Moore has labelled Renzo Piano’s Shard skyscraper as a “serious failure of planning” and described claims that the Olympics will regenerate east London as “bullsh*t”. (more…) View the full article

This weather-forecasting lamp creates an indoor cloud to warn of grey skies outside (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Scientists at a Spanish university are developing a new type of concrete that captures rainwater to create living walls of moss and fungi. (more...) View the full article

Product news: Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has designed a collection of glass condiment containers for Italian design brand Alessi. (more...) View the full article

This movie by German art director Mike Meiré for bathroom and kitchen brand Dornbracht features one shower that makes you feel like you're washing outdoors and another that you use lying down. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2013: work by the late James Irvine and other international designers has been reproduced in black marble for this collection by Marsotto Edizioni, unveiled in Milan this week. (more...) View the full article

Barcelona's new design museum is an angular metal-clad structure designed by local studio MBM Arquitectes (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Italian illustrator Federico Babina honed in on details of buildings by architects including Le Corbusier, MVRDV, Zaha Hadid and Mies van der Rohe to create the abstract graphics of this poster series. (more…) View the full article

This guest house consists of interconnected boxes that meander between the trunks of cherry and pine trees in a forest near Yonago City, Japan (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: a map that illustrates global forest densities using wood textures has won a competition to reinvent the tessellated world map designed 70 years ago by American architect and visionary designer R. Buckminster Fuller. (more...) View the full article