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Berlin design duo Osko+Deichmann will present a collection of tubular steel and pine furniture at Helmrinderknecht Gallery for Contemporary Design in Berlin later this week. More »

Berlin design duo Osko+Deichmann will present a collection of tubular steel and pine furniture at Helmrinderknecht Gallery for Contemporary Design in Berlin later this week. More »

Australian studio b.e. Architecture have completed a house in Melbourne clad in basalt slabs of varying size and thickness. More »

Icelandic design collective Vík Prjónsdóttir presented a collection of wool blankets at DesignMarch in Reykjavík last week. More »

In our fourth and final movie made to coincide with the Ron Arad: Restless exhibition at the Barbican in London, Arad describes how he tailored the exhibition to the gallery space. More »

Milan 2010: In Milan next month Copenhagen design collective KiBiSi will launch a folded aluminium chair for design brand Quinze & Milan. More »

More Icelandic fashion design: this time a series of concrete belt buckles by Sruli Recht of Reykjavík. More »

French architect Jean Nouvel will design this year’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, the London gallery has announced. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12. More »

Icelandic fashion designer Una Hlin Kristjansdottir presented her first collection at the inaugural Reykjavík Fashion Festival as part of Icelandic design festival DesignMarch at the weekend. More »
Dezeenwire: graphic designer Neville Brody has been appointed head of the department of communication art & design at the Royal College of Art in London. See below for more info. More »

Japanese studio FORM/Kouichi Kimura have completed a house in Shiga, Japan, that spreads out from a central courtyard. More »

San Francisco designer Steve Hoefer has designed a glove that plays Rock Paper Scissors with its wearer. More »

Smolenicky & Partner Architektur of Zurich have completed thermal baths featuring oval apertures between tall wooden columns at Bad Ragaz, Switzerland. More »
Dezeenwire: the Museum of Modern Art in New York has taken the @ symbol into its collection - MoMA

Yves Béhar of San Francisco design studio fuseproject has collaborated with Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake to design a watch where the hour markers fade in and out of view. Update: Vue can now be bought at Dezeen Watch Store. More »

Photographer Fernando Guerra has sent us his photographs of a spiral staircase lined with bookcases by Portuguese architect Manuel Maia Gomes. More »