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Dutch designer Freedom of Creation have sent us a short movie showing the making of Electric Light Shoe, the giant, rapid-prototyped, illuminated trainer containing a miniature city that they designed for footwear brand Onitsuka Tiger (see our earlier story). More »

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Troika have sent us a video of Cloud, a digital artwork they designed for the luxury lounges at the new Heathrow Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport near London (see our earlier story). More »

Waive is a bench made from an open grid of curved timber slats by US designer-maker Matthias Pliessnig. More »

Dutch architects UNstudio presented ‘The World’s Longest Table for All Cultures’ for the IMM Cologne furniture fair, held last week in Germany. More »

Dutch architects UNStudio designed the masterplan for Hall 11 at the IMM Cologne furniture fair held in Germany last week. More »

Car on a Stick is a green urban transport proposal by industrial designer Ross Lovegrove.

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Swiss watch brand Pierre Junod has launched a new design by architect Richard Meier. More »

Space tourism company Virgin Galactic has unveiled the design of SpaceShipTwo, a craft that will carry eight passengers on short space flights. More »

Actor Brad Pitt has signed up thirteen architectural practices – including Adjaye Architects (above and below), Morphosis, MVRDV and Shigeru Ban Architects – for the Make It Right housing project in New Orleans. More »

London-based design practice Doshi Levien have collaborated with bespoke shoemakers John Lobb Ltd to create this range of shoes, entitled Apprentice. More »

Designer Patricia Urquiola has designed a range of outdoor furniture for B&B Italia‘s Outdoor Collection. More »

Designer Johan Bruninx renews old furniture by covering it with paper packaging tape in intricate patterns. More »

Troika, Christopher Pearson and El Ultimo Grito are among designers commissioned to create works for Heathrow Terminal 5 at Heathrow airport near London, which opens this spring. More »

American technology company Bug Labs has developed a system where consumers combine modular electronic devices to build their own ideal gadget (via Protein OS). More »