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 Dezeen Space: Victoria Spruce and her sculptural shoes are the stars of our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space today. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

SOdA School of Design is presenting Liquid Memory, an exhibition of student work, as part of VDF's collaboration with Ventura Projects. Read more View the full article

London designer Max Lamb has designed this self-assembly wooden chair for Tokyo furniture brand E&Y. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The circular roof of a metro station near Copenhagen looms over sunken platforms like a spotty UFO. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Design graduate Julian Bond of the Royal College of Art has created a moulding machine to produce vases, each with its own unique design. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We've rounded up six bakeries and shops for sweet treats that have been designed with cream interiors just as delicious as the goods for sale. Read more View the full article

London design studio Special Projects has created Envelope – paper sleeves to seal away smartphones to minimise screen time for the day while still allowing access to basic functions. Read more View the full article

Architecture studio Furuichi and Associates has completed a museum dedicated to Japan's Jōmon period, featuring a multi-faceted roofscape designed to evoke the inside of a cave (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This film by Paul Nicholls of architectural imagery studio Factory Fifteen was awarded best film at the CG Architectural 3D Awards 2011 in the architectural film/animation category. Called The Simulation, it’s the first movie in a two-part series called The Golden Age. Nicholls made the series while studying at the Bartlett School of Architecture alongside his colleague Kibwe Tavares, author of the Robots of Brixton movie we published earlier this week. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Eindhoven designer Laurens Manders has created this lumpy safe for stashing possessions with sentimental value. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: industrial designer James Dyson is to succeed Terence Conran as Provost of London’s Royal College of Art. See press release below. Sir James Dyson to Succeed Sir Terence Conran as Provost of the Royal College of Art, London Sir James Dyson, the engineer entrepreneur, is to succeed Sir Terence Conran as Provost of the Royal College of Art. The Head of the College, the Provost presides over meetings of the Court and 
confers degrees at Convocation. Sir James will take up the post on 1 August 2011, when Sir Terence officially retires from the role.

 Sir James Dyson, whose term of appointment is five years, is widely acclaimed as one of the world’…

Aki and Arnaud Cooren of Paris studio A+A cooren have designed a glass vase with a vortex-shaped void in the middle. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

UK designer Austin Houldsworth has erected a machine at a park in Cheshire, UK, to fossilise a pineapple and a partridge. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designer Moritz Waldemeyer created the laser effects for pop star Ellie Goulding‘s music video Lights. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photographer Fernando Guerra has sent us his images of a public passage and gallery in Vila do Conde, Portugal, designed by Portuguese architect Manuel Maia Gomes. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Los Angeles film producer behind American Psycho has created a cantilevered mirrored house near Joshua Tree National Park, designed to look like a New York skyscraper on its side. Read more View the full article

Los Angeles studio Mini Inno added a Japanese-style tea room to a 1960s property in Joshua Tree National Park while turning it into a holiday home. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: over on Dezeen Watch Store we’re now stocking Neko (above), the new design by Japanese architects Sanaa for Italian brand Alessi. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

American firms Brooks + Scarpa and Studio Dwell have created a suburban Chicago home with an inner courtyard screened from the road by "vertical twisting columns" of brick. Read more

Canadian firm Sturgess Architecture have designed a glass viewing platform to cantilever over a glacial valley in the Columbian Icefields of Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Yves Béhar of San Francisco design firm fuseproject has designed an affordable family of office chairs inspired by suspension bridges for Herman Miller. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designers Studio Weave have installed a meandering 324 metre-long bench on the seafront at Littlehampton in the UK. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This extension to a mill-keeper’s house on the Norfolk Broads by London studio Acme has been awarded the RIBA Manser Medal 2010 for the best new house in the UK. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architect Shunichiro Ninomiy used an atrium and small pool of water to admit light indirectly to the ground floor of this east-facing home in Osaka, Japan. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Shay Carmon and Ben Klinger of Studio Ve in Israel have created a clock where the two hands are linked by a striped paper-like material, creating ever-changing 3D shapes as the hours go by. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article