The Design Museum in London has announced the shortlist for the first Brit Insurance Design of the Year Awards – a new annual exhibition and awards programme that replaces the controversial Designer of the Year award. More »

Stockholm Design Week: We’re in Sweden this week, and the girls from Front have just completed an installation in the lobby of our hotel, the Nordic Light. More »

London designers Peter Marigold and Beta Tank have created a chair that uses sensory substitution technology to transmit moving imagery to the sitter’s brain. More »

American sculptor Dan Corson created the Empyrean Passage sculpture to mark the boundary between West Hollywood and Beverly Hills, California. More »

Tokyo architects Atelier Tekuto have developed a prefabricated aluminium house with walls that act as both structure and thermal radiators. More »

Israeli designer Shay Alkalay has sent us an animation and still images of Cut Attachez – a system that allows you to attach a drawer to an existing piece of furniture. More »

Mark Sanders, designer of the Strida Bike, has given Dezeen access to his archive of drawings, models and photographs (including his very first sketch of the bike, above). Here he tells us how the project came about: More »

Edinburgh architects A+J Burridge have designed a sustainable timber house for Scotland that features lambswool insulation. More »

Yay! We’re celebrating our best month ever: we got over 550,000 unique visitors in January. 551,798 to be precise. Thanks everyone!

Office for Metropolitan Architecture has announced a large residential complex containing over 1,000 apartments in Singapore. More »

Architectural photographer Dennis Gilbert has sent us photos of the Irish Aid Volunteering and Information Centre in Dublin, designed by Irish architect Tom de Paor. More »