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Following the popularity of our Designer Christmas Cards post, here are a few New Year cards we’ve received from designer folk out there. Above: Kam Tang. Meanwhile Happy New Year from us, thanks for visiting and see you in 2008! More »

Design Miami 07: here is our sixth movie from Design Miami in December, featuring the As Long As It Lasts tattoo parlour set up by Tobias Wong, Josée Lepage and Aric Chen (who is interviewed in this film). Movie length: 38 seconds. More »

Amer Alhassan of AAArchitects has renovated the auditorium at the Royal Institution of Engineers in the Netherlands (KIVI NIRIA) in The Hague. More »

Designer and illustrator Katrin Olina created a mural called Spur for the VIP room at 100% Design Tokyo last month. More »

Oktokki Space Center is the third of our trio of projects by Korean architects Mass Studies. More »

The second of our three recent buildings by Korean architects Mass Studies is the Xi Gallery in Pusan. More »

Here is the first of three recent projects by Korean architect Minsuk Cho of Mass Studies: the Ann Demeulemeester Shop in the Gangham district of Seoul. More »

Interior architects Universal Design Studio have completed a new flagship store in London for clothing brand Reiss. More »

Designer Ross McBride of Tokyo-based Normal presented a new collection of clocks and watches at 100% Design Tokyo last month. More »

David Kohn Architects‘ design for Heterotopia, a zero carbon art garden at the Thames Gateway, has been shortlisted for the RIBA London and Arts Council England ideas competition ‘Arts Space of the Future’. More »

Norwegian architects Snøhetta have completed Petter Dass Museum, a building cut into solid rock on a remote Fjord in Norway. More »

Reborn is the name of a bath and water faucet developed by Chinese designers Being Object. More »

Japanese lighting designer Chihiro Tanaka has produced two new products, one inspired by cherry blossom and one by “shimmering aurora and sublime mountain folds”. More »

A 1927 tea infuser by Marianne Brandt has sold at auction for $361,000, breaking the sale record for Bauhaus design. More »

Design Miami 07: the fifth in our series of movies from Design Miami features Tomáš Gabzdil Libertiny of Studio Libertiny talking talking about his Paper Vases performance (movie length: 1 min 15 seconds). More »

Design Miami 07: designers WokMedia presented a new shelving system called Between Lines at Design Miami earlier this month. More »

Design Miami 07: Constantin and Laurene Boym showed a limited gold-plated edition of their Buildings of Disaster series at Design Miami earlier this month. More »

When we were young we used to hang our favourite Christmas cards on a length of string pinned to the wall. We thought we’d do the digital equivalent with our favourite e-cards this season. More »

We just learned that Joost van Brug’s pioneering and influential design blog reluct.com has closed after four years. More »

Here are a couple of images of Eden Bio by French architect Edouard Francois, a social housing development in Paris set in organic gardens. More »