London Design Festival: in the first of three posts about the Digital Crystal exhibition at London's Design Museum, we look at a mechanical projector built by London design studio Troika which uses Swarovski crystal lenses and LEDs to create portraits on the gallery wall (+ slideshow). More »
Monthly archives: September 2012
Hardcoded Memory
V&A's new furniture acquisitions to be shown
at London Design Festival
London Design Festival: the V&A museum in London will show off its latest contemporary furniture acquisitions during London Design Festival next week, including Joris Laarman's 2006 Bone chaise and mould (pictured above). More »
Squaring by
Lee Sehoon
The hinged boxes of this bookcase by Korean furniture designer Lee Sehoon can be spun round to create a neat grid or a scattered circle (+ movie). More »
Cutty Sark wins
Carbuncle Cup 2012
News: Grimshaw architects' steel and glass cocoon containing the historic Cutty Sark tea clipper has been named the ugliest new building in the UK, with a juror describing it as "the final death of High-Tech as a design language worthy of respect." More »
Knitted tree and creatures by Donna Wilson
for the Stepney Green Design Collection
East London designer Donna Wilson will contribute a special installation to Dezeen's Stepney Green Design Collection made up of a 1.8 metre-high knitted tree with a selection of her soft-toy creatures living in it. More »
Philippe Starck to complete first prefab
wooden eco-house
News: French designer Philippe Starck and Slovenian engineering company Riko will complete their first sustainable prefabricated wooden house this autumn, as part of a new venture to improve housing standards. More »
Common Ground/Different Worlds
by Noero Architects
This movie by filmmakers Stretch documents the ongoing work by Cape Town studio Noero Architects to create a cultural centre within the barracks of Port Elizabeth that were once used as a concentration camp. More »
Dezeen Jobs redesign
Our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs has been redesigned and is now live! We've refreshed the look and feel of the site with a new colour and font, bigger headlines and text and a number of new features including a Job of the Week slot.
Otherwise the site retains the same simple, clear navigation as before and most importantly, the price of posting a job ad has not changed: it still costs just £100 to post an ad for 28 days!
As well as being posted on Dezeen Jobs, positions are promoted via Twitter, in our feeds, in our weekly Dezeen Mail newsletter and our Dezeen Jobs round-up every Monday on Dezeen.
We believe www.dezeenjobs.com is the world's most effective architecture and design recruitment site - and many companies who've used it agree. Read on for citations by firms that have used Dezeen Jobs: More »
A' Design Award and Competition
call for submissions
Dezeen promotion: the A' Design Award is now accepting architecture, interior and design project submissions for this year's competition. More »
Dezeen Music Project: Seven Years Old
by K H U S H I
We've never shied away from being eclectic on Dezeen Music Project, so after the glitchy, industrial intensity of Yuri Suzuki's track on Monday, we thought we'd change the vibe up completely with this tender pop song by upcoming east London musician K H U S H I.
The track's tone is set by its warm and fuzzy opening keyboard drone, before building to a gentle crescendo with layered vocal harmonies, chiming acoustic guitar hook and increasingly energetic drums.
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Dezeen features in Apple's iPhone 5 launch
News: Dezeen featured in Apple's launch of the iPhone 5 today and makes an appearance in the movie demonstrating the new product. More »
Henning Larsen awarded
Praemium Imperiale
News: Danish architect Henning Larsen is among the five laureates of the Praemium Imperiale arts prize, awarded annually by the Japan Art Association. More »
"An underdose of utopia can be as dangerous
as an overdose" - Reinier de Graaf
In the final movie we filmed with Reinier de Graaf of OMA at the Venice Architecture Biennale, he discusses the firm's fascination with architecture of the late 1960s and how there is an "inherent paradox between the brutal appearance of these buildings and the social mission that they were part of." More »
Bird-apartment
by Nendo
Orfila Flat by
Schneider Colao
Surfaces of marble and hardwood spread through the rooms of this renovated apartment in Madrid by Spanish architects Schneider Colao (+ slideshow). More »








