French designer Matali Crasset has designed a series of sculptural outdoor “trees” for a high school in France. More »

Shoe brand Camper has opened a new store in Tokyo by Spanish designer Jaime Hayón. More »

San Francisco industrial designers Mike + Maaike have proposed a self-driving electric passenger vehicle that they claim heralds “the end of driving”. More »

Here’s some pictures of the Architectural Association Summer Pavilion, designed by students from Unit 2, which opened today in London’s Bedford Square. More »

Dezeen podcast: in our latest podcast for the Design Museum in London, Spanish designer and graphic artist Javier Mariscal and curator Daniel Charny show us round the first UK retrospective of Mariscal’s work, called Drawing Life. More »

Danish architects C.F.Møller and Norwegian practice Kristin Jarmund Arkitekter have won a competition to design three office towers in Oslo. More »

Royal College of Art graduate Georges Moanack has designed Ultra Lead – an electrical management system that allows electrical devices from around the world to be used without changing their power plugs. More »

Pond Meadows, a special needs school designed by London architects DSDHA, has opened in Guildford, England. More »

American architects Pugh + Scarpa have sent images of their duplex home design for actor Brad Pitt’s Make it Right charity. More »

French design collective Matière A have designed a kitchen storage system using a tree branch and some timber batons. More »

Royal College of Art graduate Fabien Cappello has created a collection of furniture from unwanted Christmas trees. More »

Brazilian designers Fernando and Humberto Campana have created a range of polo shirts for fashion brand Lacoste. More »

Frank Gehry is one of 14 architects to have designed duplexes for Make it Right, the charity founded by actor Brad Pitt to develop new housing typologies for a hurricane-devastated district of New Orleans. More »

Dutch architects MVRDV have announced plans to extend the city of Almere by creating a series of artificial islands. More »