Building Design shows a power-generating "wind dam" designed by architects Chetwoods that uses a giant spinnaker sail slung between mountains to funnel wind into a turbine. More »

Tokyo design week: Japanese motion graphics company WOW projected several of their works at design store Cibone during Design Tide last week, including this piece.

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Designer Robert Stadler's Pentaphone is a suspended booth for cellphone users that isolates the caller from ambient noise in a public space. More »

Italian scooter manufacturer Piaggio has launched a new, seventies-styled version of its Vespa range, called the Vespa S. More »

Tokyo design week: Japanese design company Rock Paper Scissors has designed a product that acts as both packaging and a display system for fresh flowers. More »

Architects Alan Dempsey and Alvin Huang have won a competition to design a temporary, freestanding pavilion that will be built in front of the Architectural Association school in London early next year. More »

Tokyo design week: Blossom, a new floor light by Hella Jongerius for Swiss lighting brand Belux, was launched at Tokyo design store Cibone this week as part of Design Tide. More »

Check out our Tokyo wheels! We have our own personalised Mazda, generously provided by Tokyo Designers Week and Jetro. But this story is not about traffic jams on Aoyama-Dori but about our visitor figures, which broke all records last month, with over quarter of a million unique visitors. More »

London web designers Poke have created a web page that goes on forever for mobile phone network Orange. More »

Tokyo design week: Dutch designer Hella Jongerius has created a series of enamel plates in collaboration with tradtional Japanese enamelware company Ando Shippo of Nagoya. More »

Tokyo Design Week: New York's Museum of Modern Art has opened a new design shop in Tokyo. More »

Tokyo design week: here are some snapshots of Gyre, the new retail building on Omotesando street in Tokyo designed by Dutch architects MVRDV. More »

Tokyo Design Week: the Hono light by Japanese brand Metaphys is ignited by touching it with a magnetic match and extinguished by blowing on it. The LED light source even flickers like a real candle. More »

Urban Lobby is a research project by architects MRGD, that combines infrastructure and architecture for a speculative redevelopment of the Centre Point office tower in central London. More »