New Designers 07: The Country in the City, by Goldsmiths design graduate Alex Brown, combines industrial fire safety glass with references to traditional embriodery techniques. More »

We’ve just updated our Zaha Hadid blog with a time-lapse movie showing the construction of the Lilas installation at the Serpentine Gallery (see previous post). The blog also features loads more exclusive content including a video interview with Zaha and a film of the Zaha Hadid exhibition opening party at the Design Museum.

Time to wind up the Zaha conspiracy theorists again… here are some photos of Lilas, the architects’ installation at the Serpentine Gallery in London, which opens to the public today.

The temporary structure was built to host the Serpentine’s annual summer party, which was held last night (above and below). Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12. More »

New Designers 07: Detacho Playhouse is a toy developed to teach children about divorce. Designed by Central St Martins College of Art and Design graduate Ben Forman, it features a dolls’ house that splits in half. More »

New Designers 07: Dandelion Light is a swaying standard lamp with a polyester shade designed by Sunghwa Jang, a design graduate from Kingston University in London. More »

New Designers 07: here are three projects by Madelene Björk, a graduate from the contemporary furniture degree course at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College. Above is her Sideboard Kitchen while below are her Wire Lamps and a project called 10 Metres. More »

New Designers 07: here is our first post from the New Designers Part 2 graduate showcase, which opened last night at the Business Design Centre in Islington, London. Paper Mache Arm Chair (sic) is designed by Majid Asif of University College for the Creative Arts. The chair is made of 120 layers of newspaper built up over an inflatable mould. More »

Architecture and design outfit Kram Weisshaar has created a limited-edition series of dinner plates for porcelain brand Nymphenburg. More »

Swedish design team Front have presented images of their latest body of work, called the Magic Collection. More »

AMO and Prada have launched Prada Prototypes, an online auction of limited-edition Prada garments and accessories. More »

Dezeen is mentioned extensively in the new issue of German design magazine Form, which this month focuses on blogs, the internet and all things online. More »

We’ve been sitting on these images since Milan, trying to decide whether the product is brilliant or bonkers… but what the hell. Here is Bookinist, a chair-cum-bookshelf. On wheels. With a reading light. And a cup holder. And a secret compartment. More »

Lise Lefebvre, who has just completed her Masters at Design Academy Eindhoven, has sent us images of her graduation project. Called The Aesthetics of Domestic Sound, it explores how the experience of using a domestic appliance is affected by the sound it makes. More »

Aircraft manufacturer Boeing yesterday launched its new commercial jet, the 787 Dreamliner.

Here are interior and exterior photos of the plane, which is the “world’s first mostly composite” passenger jet and which promises to be quieter and more fuel efficient than other jets. All images and caption texts are courtesy of Boeing. More »