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French fashion house Hermès have teamed up with car distributor Como to design the interior of ten Smart cars. More »

German designer Michael Schoner of NL Architects has designed a bench that plays music from passing mobile phones via Bluetooth. More »

American designers Formvision have created a pop-up store for sportswear brand Reebok in New York, USA. More »

Architecture and design practice Plystudio have completed an apartment interior called J-Loft in Singapore. More »

London-based designer Sebastian Bergne will exhibit his new designs for wine consumption at The Aram Gallery in a show called CRU, which opens next week. More »

Architects LAVA have designed a hotel room as part of a research project in collaboration with Fraunhofer IAO (Institute for Work Organisation) in Stuttgart, Germany. More »

London architects Riches Hawley Mikhail have completed an affordable, sustainable housing scheme within an existing village in Suffolk, UK. More »

London and Cape Town-based designer Fly-pitcher has sent us images of Zero Gravity, his stand at Design Tide Tokyo last month. More »

Mayslits Kassif Architects have completed the regeneration of public spaces at Tel Aviv Port in Israel. More »

Lovegrove Studio, the London-based office of designer Ross Lovegrove, have designed a mountain living unit called Alpine Capsule.

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In the third episode of our video interview with the winners of the Designer of the Year award at Design Miami 2008, Brazilian designers Humberto and Fernando Campana talk about how they became designers and discuss their Vermelha chair (above), their first project to gain international success. More »

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Austrian firm Architects Collective have completed Origami, a Corian-clad penthouse on top of an existing building in Mexico City. More »

More from Dutch designer Guus Van Leeuwen: Power Plant is a conceptual device for generating energy from household compost, exhibited at the Design Academy Eindhoven graduation show as part of Dutch Design Week last month. More »

Slovenian architects Ofis Arhitekti have completed the facade of a shopping mall in Ljubljana, Slovenia. More »