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Work by Czech designers including Maxim Velčovský will be displayed alongside tools used to make the pieces at an exhibition in Prague next week, curated by Czech collective OKOLO. More »

Work by Czech designers including Maxim Velčovský will be displayed alongside tools used to make the pieces at an exhibition in Prague next week, curated by Czech collective OKOLO. More »

Israeli designer Noam Bar Yohai has created a series of task lamps made of wooden components held together with elastic bands. More »

London designer Tim Fishlock has put together a limited-edition book for design brand Habitat, featuring twenty removable large-format prints by artists including Anthony Burrill and Shepard Fairey. More »

Brooklyn designers Sergio Mannino Studio have completed the interior of a shoe shop in New York where the walls are covered in interchangeable panels. More »
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Japanese interior design company Wonderwall have completed a chocolatier’s shop in Harajuku, Japan, where chocolate seems to drip from the walls and ceiling. More »

Dezeen and publisher Conran Octopus are offering readers the chance to win one of ten copies of designer Tom Dixon’s new book The Interior World of Tom Dixon, each book specially packaged in a gold Tom Dixon-branded bag. More »

London designer Dominic Wilcox has spent 75 hours wrapping multi-coloured cotton thread around five walking sticks, which are on show at the YCN gallery in London. More »

Here are some more images of a noodle bar in Las Vegas by Japanese studio design spirits co., ltd, one of the winning projects at The Great Indoors Awards last week (see our previous story). More »

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Dezeen podcast: in this podcast for the Design Museum curator Gemma Curtain talks to Fergus Bisset of Brunel University about the exhibition Ergonomics-Real Design, on show at the museum in London. More »

Dutch architects Vasd have completed the interior of a doctor’s surgery in the Hague, the Netherlands. More »

A project envisaging coastal defense towers that can be used as book depositories will be announced as one of the winners of the RIBA President’s Medals Student Awards at a ceremony in London tonight. More »

German artists Coarse of Hamburg and Hong Kong have created two vinyl figurines depicting a rabbit crossed with a monkey and a human character dressed as a rabbit. More »

London architects Haworth Tompkins have completed a building to house the painting department of the Royal College of Art in London. More »

Designer Kitmen Keung of Hong Kong and Taipei has designed a dual-time wall clock for Taiwanese company Verso. More »