Monthly archives: July 2011

Check out all our stories about this year’s Royal College of Art graduate show, including a 3D-printer that uses sunlight to make sand into glass objects, clothes that feed information to smart phones and spectacle frames made of hair. See all the stories »
Dezeen Wire: the UK government has set MPs a homework project over the summer to highlight British design and manufacturing icons. Examples put forward so far include toilet rolls, fish fingers and custard cream biscuits – Management Today
See the full list of products on the Guardian Datablog »

Dezeen Screen: in this final movie from our series filmed at the Design Academy Eindhoven My Way talks in Milan, academy graduate Bas Princen talks about his work as a photographer. Watch the movie »

Thai designer Decha Archjananun has made a series of vases with concrete bases to hold water and wire frames to support flower stems. More »

Each bullet-sized hole piercing the skin of this museum by architects WXCA in Palmiry, Poland, represents a Polish civilian murdered there during the holocaust. More »

Japanese firm Kazunori Fujimoto Architect & Associates have completed a concrete house in Fukuoka that resembles a half-submerged submarine. More »

Show RCA 2011: this modular shelving unit by Royal College of Art graduate Max Frommeld is held together with clips more commonly found on garden hoses. More »

This metal house on stilts by Spanish architect Arturo Franco projects over a river valley in central Spain. More »

This walnut jewellery case by Munich accessory designer Saskia Diez for German brand e15 separates jewels within carved concentric circles. More »

This bright green pavilion by Polish students Wojciech Nowak and Martynika Bielawska provides spectator stands for a football pitch and a basketball court in Ljubljana, Slovenia. More »

Swiss designers Big-Game launched an armchair that looks like a quilt-covered deckchair at the Villa Noailles design festival in France this weekend. More »

Following the popularity of our story on the Barceloneta Market by MiAS Architects (bottom left), we’ve compiled all our articles on markets from the Dezeen Archives. See all the stories »
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This disco-cum-caravan is one of five timber-clad cabins installed by Swiss architects 1/100 in the garden of the Quai Branly Museum, Paris. More »

Show RCA 2011: here’s another project by Royal College of Art graduate Ki Hyun Kim: a balsa wood dining chair that weights just 1.3 kilograms, making it even lighter than Gio Ponti’s famous 1.7 kilogram Superleggera chair. More »

Introducing a new weekly feature on Dezeen: this time last year Foster + Partners completed the world’s tallest tensile structure in Kazakhstan as its architect Lord Foster surrendered his seat in the House of Lords to avoid paying full British taxes. More »