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British-American branding firm Wolff Olins has created a shapeshifting logo for South African telecoms company Oi that changes colour and form in response to people's voices (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Skyscraper-shaped dildos and a sculptural butt plug are among the silicone erotic toys created by design studio Wolfgang & Hite to critique New York's high-end real estate projects. Read more

Dezeen promotion: Wolfgang Rieder, owner of the Rieder Group, has become the first design entrepreneur to be granted a Loeb Fellowship at Harvard University. Read more View the full article

Architecture firm Wolfgang Tschapeller has renovated a library at Cornell University and added suspended shelving, which prompted criticisms about the potential for upskirting when it opened in earlier this year. Read more View the full article

Australian studio Wolveridge Architects ran a brickwork pathway through the inside and outside of this timber-clad extension to a house in Melbourne, using old bricks found in the garden (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Architect Masayoshi Nakanishi has created a library with curving seating areas, which is aimed exclusively at women in Japan. Read more View the full article

London Metropolitan University graduate Charlotte Wilson was awarded Best in Show at London graduate show FreeRange this year for her proposal to convert a bunker into a museum. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2010: artists Studio Job and designer Pieke Bergmans present a collection of polished bronze objects with blown-glass lamps spilling out of them for Italian gallery Dilmos in Milan this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Artists Studio Job have sent us a couple of images of a lighting project they will present in collaboration with Dutch designer Pieke Bergmans for Italian gallery Dilmos in Milan next month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Residents taking a bath or using the toilet are on show to swimmers in the pool at this brick and concrete house in Chiang Mai, Thailand (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Beijing Design Week 2011: a menu charting the water footprint of different dishes was presented to diners at a Beijing cafe during design week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Danish studio Kilo Design has created a mask to protect and educate children living in areas with very high levels of air pollution. Read more View the full article

A youth centre in Spain designed by Barcelona and Madrid studio B720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos uses warm colours and wooden elements to create a "comforting" place. Read more

Dezeen promotion: the Wood Awards: Excellence in Architecture and Product Design is inviting architects and designers in the UK to submit entries for this year's competition. (more…)

Behind a glass facade, a basket weave of timber encases the living and dining areas of this house in Nara, Japan by Japanese studio Tadashi Yoshimura Architects. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Australian architecture studio Wood Marsh designed Towers Road House as "a sculpture to live within", with high concrete walls that arc under a disc-shaped zinc roof. Read more View the full article

Japanese architect Tadashi Yoshimura created a living room lined with mud during the renovation of this 200-year-old family house in Nara. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Design students Wing Yi Hui and Lap Ming Wong of the Oslo School of Architecture and Design have completed a domed latticed pavilion as part of a performance-oriented design project. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A sinuous plywood wall winds through the interior of this Parisian apartment, which has been redesigned by local studio Toledano + Architects. Read more View the full article

A glass walkway and terrace connect both halves of this black house near La Juanita beach, Uruguay, which FRAM Arquitectos and Delfina Riverti built almost exclusively out of wood. Read more

Slideshow: Russian architect Peter Kostelov has removed the welded metal walls of an apartment he first completed seven years ago and replaced them with light timber partitions. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

American studio Roger Ferris + Partners has created a trio of wood-clad volumes with pitched roofs for a family relocating from New York City to the Hamptons. Read more View the full article

Three different shapes rendered in three distinct materials come together in the Elements table, launching at Biennale Interieur this week. Read more View the full article

This raised wooden structure, designed by Cerejeira Fontes Architects, creates a secluded inner chapel inside an old church in Braga, Portugal. Read more View the full article

FMD Architects used slender lengths of timber to "stitch" together this narrow Melbourne house and its new garden extension. (more…) View the full article