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We finally found time to post photos of design folk having fun at the various parties that took place during the Design Indaba conference in Cape Town the week before last. Above: Maxim Velčovský. More »

Newton Virus is a computer virus designed by London collective Troika, that causes icons on your computer desktop to fall towards the ground as if affected by gravity. More »

Dezeen has teamed up with Belgian designer Arne Quinze to give away five signed copies of his new book, Cityscape. More »

Film maker Peter Greenaway will create a multimedia event involving Leonardo da Vinci’s painting The Last Supper, as part of the cultural programme of this year’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile (international furniture fair) in Milan in April. More »

Dezeen has teamed up with Pecha Kucha Night to give away ten copies of the new Pecha Kucha Night book. More »

The Design Museum in London has announced the shortlist for the first Brit Insurance Design of the Year Awards - a new annual exhibition and awards programme that replaces the controversial Designer of the Year award. More »

Mark Sanders, designer of the Strida Bike, has given Dezeen access to his archive of drawings, models and photographs (including his very first sketch of the bike, above). Here he tells us how the project came about: More »

Dutch designer Freedom of Creation have sent us a short movie showing the making of Electric Light Shoe, the giant, rapid-prototyped, illuminated trainer containing a miniature city that they designed for footwear brand Onitsuka Tiger (see our earlier story). More »

Troika have sent us a video of Cloud, a digital artwork they designed for the luxury lounges at the new Heathrow Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport near London (see our earlier story). More »

Dutch architects MVRDV have sent us an animation of Gyre, their recently opened retail centre in Tokyo, showing how the building’s volume was generated. More »

Design Miami 07: here is our sixth movie from Design Miami in December, featuring the As Long As It Lasts tattoo parlour set up by Tobias Wong, Josée Lepage and Aric Chen (who is interviewed in this film). Movie length: 38 seconds. More »

David Kohn Architects‘ design for Heterotopia, a zero carbon art garden at the Thames Gateway, has been shortlisted for the RIBA London and Arts Council England ideas competition ‘Arts Space of the Future’. More »

Design Miami 07: the fifth in our series of movies from Design Miami features Tomáš Gabzdil Libertiny of Studio Libertiny talking talking about his Paper Vases performance (movie length: 1 min 15 seconds). More »

Design Miami 07: Our fourth movie from Design Miami features designer Stuart Haygarth explaining his Drop Chandelier - a water droplet-shaped light made from the bases of used plastic water bottles (movie length: 1 min 4 secs). More »

Design Miami 07: Our third movie from Miami features Tom Dixon, with his Artek hat on, talking about two related projects the Finnish brand showed at the event last week. More »

Design Miami 07: here is our second short movie from Design Miami last week, this time featuring Fernando and Humberto Campana working with glassmakers at the open-air GlassLab as part of the event’s design performances. (movie length: 1 minute 38 seconds). More »

If you’re looking for design-related Christmas presents, this makes the perfect gift, etc etc! Twenty-First Century Design by Dezeen edit0r-in-chief Marcus Fairs is an overview of design at the start of the new millennium More »

The AA Hijmans van den Bergh medical faculty in Utrecht designed by Erick van Egeraat Associated Architects is the joint winner of the 2007 Rietveldprijs for architecture. More »

Forum ‘t Zand in Utrecht by architects VenhoevenCS is one of two projects to be awarded the 2007 Rietveldprijs for architecture. More »

Design Miami 07: we were busy filming during our recent trip to Miami and here is the first completed movie - a short interview with Tokujin Yoshioka, Design Miami’s Designer of the Year 2007. More »