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Fashion brand COS, skincare brand Aesop and management consultants McKinsey & Company are among the high-profile global companies that Dezeen is partnering with for Milan design week. Read more

Lengths of brightly coloured garden hose are arranged to resemble a classical fountain in a work by artist Bertrand Lavier currently installed in the grounds of London's Serpentine Sackler Gallery (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Swedish studio Form Us With Love has designed an all-white interior for a Stockholm boutique dedicated to coloured pens. (more…) View the full article

A patchwork of roughly hewn local stone and smooth plaster forms the facades of this house, designed by architects Nomo Studio to overlook the sea in Menorca. Read more

Residents of the Neo Bankside housing have had their claim that Tate Modern's Herzog & de Meuron-designed extension invades their privacy dismissed by the high court. Read more

Nike has pulled a special-edition Fourth of July trainer that features an old version of the American flag on its heel, following criticism that the design harks back to the era of slavery. Read more

News: Italian design school Domus Academy has recruited leading creatives – including Patricia Urquiola, Joseph Grima, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Alice Rawsthorn – to form a panel that will help the school "revolutionise" its teaching (+ interview). (more…) View the full article

Business news: the creative industries are growing faster than any other business sector in most of the UK according to new data, with 47 "creative clusters" now scattered across the country – including "less 'hip'" areas like Slough and Chester. (more…) View the full article

Porto studio Fala Atelier has overhauled the layout of a cramped flat in Lisbon, adding sliding doors that connect each room to a central living area and small balcony. (more…) View the full article

Lithuanian designer Ingrida Kazenaite has developed a conceptual pen that would mend damaged clothes by "printing" over rips and tears. (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival 2014: Tel Aviv designer Nir Meiri has created a collection of vases made from layers of materials stacked in different combinations (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Gaps between the three brick boxes of this house near Barcelona by local firm H Arquitectes can be transformed from enclosed rooms into covered patios by folding back glass doors at both ends (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

US firm Norman Kelley has merged old and new elements inside the flagship store for clothing retailer Notre, which is housed inside a 113-year-old building in central Chicago. Read more

Shoppers are encouraged to get hot under the collar while perusing the erotic products on offer at this Munich sex shop, with a curvaceous interior by New York designer Karim Rashid (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This scarf by architect Sam Jacob features the wiggly symbol used to represent insulation on architectural drawings. Read more View the full article

News: a memorial museum designed by architecture firm Snøhetta on the former World Trade Centre site in New York will be inaugurated by US president Barack Obama tomorrow (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Graduate shows 2015: for those scared of injections, Royal College of Art graduate Celine Park has proposed a new immunisation technique: inhaling vaccines through fungus (+ slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Screens with a perforated geometric pattern help to control the flow of light, air and views throughout this house in a suburb of Tel Aviv by Israeli architect Pitsou Kedem. Read more View the full article

Exposed brickwork and ceilings, themed rooms and a dedicated recording studio feature in the headquarters of music streaming company Soundcloud, which have been created inside a former brewery in Berlin (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: president of the Rhode Island School of Design John Maeda has announced he will leave the school to join a Silicon Valley venture capital firm and chair eBay's new Design Advisory Board. (more...) View the full article

Nike has colour-matched Brazil's new World Cup football strip with the kits worn by the team that won the tournament back in 1970. Read more View the full article

A house that stretches down to a nearby reservoir (pictured), Foster + Partners' cycle-friendly tower and a residence with transparent walls feature in Dezeen Mail issue 238. Click through for all the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 238 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Architect Matthew Springett and educator Fiona MacDonald, who collaborate as Matt + Fiona, have worked with children with autism to design and build a sensory playground. Read more

A 150-year-old farm complex in Switzerland has been converted into an assortment of office and apartment blocks by Zürich studio EM2N (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article