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Catalan designer Martí Guixé has created a wall clock for Italian design brand Alessi with no markings and a dry-wipe surface. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designer Aimée Furnival of A Studio for Design has created a series of greetings cards that fold out into miniature gardens, in which the recipient can grow cress. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Pasel Kuenzel architects of Rotterdam have designed a zinc-clad house on the site of a former slaughterhouse in Lieden, Netherlands. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designer Karim Rashid has created a bottle that filters tap water as the user drinks it. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Brazilian designers Fernando and Humberto Campana have designed a bamboo version of their Blow Up furniture and tableware collection for Italian design brand Alessi. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch designers Atelier Van Lieshout will unveil an eight metre-tall sculpture featuring oil drums and human figures in Rotterdam tomorrow. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve got together with Paul Priestman of design consultancy Priestmangoode to give away five Water Pebbles, designed to reduce water consumption while showering. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Steven Holl Architects have completed a building conceived as a “horizontal skyscraper”, supported over a landscaped garden in Shenzhen, China. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve sent out a special Ron Arad-flavoured issue of Dezeenmail, including movie links, latest stories and details of how to win tickets for our Dezeentalks event at the Ron Arad: Restless exhibition in London next week. Have 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. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Venetian designer Luca Nichetto will present a series of coffee tables with tops shaped like city maps for design brand Casamania in Milan next month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designers Campaign have created an installation in New York for fashion brand Dunhill, which features the outlines of a Georgian house picked out in aluminium frames. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: the Design Museum in London have announced the category winners for the 2010 Brit Insurance Design Awards. See press release below. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Italian designer Fabio Novembre will launch a chair for Casamania in Milan next month featuring a transparent polycarbonate seat supported on a cantilevered aluminium frame. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Zurich photographer Bruno Helbling has sent us his photos of a house on a hillside in Switzerland by Swiss office Felber Szélpal Architekten. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Tokyo designer Keisuke Fujiwara has wrapped bentwood chairs by German furniture brand Thonet in twelve kilometres of coloured thread. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In our second of four films made to coincide with the Ron Arad: Restless exhibition at the Barbican in London, we asked Ron Arad (above, pictured while studying at the Architectural Association) about his upbringing in Israel and how he found himself working as a furniture designer in London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Los Angeles designer Christopher Warren of WORD has created a collection of chairs made of plywood grids for an exhibition of artists’ books. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This house designed by Japanese studio Suppose Design Office in the grounds of a clinic is raised above the car park on piloti. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French studio Topos Architecture have completed a pair of perforated fast-food kiosks on the seafront at Saint-Nazaire, France. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Portuguese architects Grau.Zero have completed a house in Santo Tirso, near Porto, where one end peels up from the ground. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

American studio Richard Meier & Partners have completed an extension to the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, California, with a curved wooden ceiling. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Eindhoven designers VanBerlo have been awarded an iF gold award for their Batavus Utility Bike, which has a frame based on the shape of a paperclip. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: the Design Museum in London have selected seven studios for the shortlist to design their new home in a 1960’s RMJM-designed building in west London, including David Chipperfield, Caruso St John and John Pawson - Architects Journal </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architect Toyo Ito and b720 Arquitectos of Spain have completed two adjacent towers in Barcelona containing a hotel and offices. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch designer Kiki van Eijk has designed a collection of objects for Italian design company Secondome by splicing together recognisable components in unusual combinations. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article