In this second movie from our series filmed at the Designed in Hackney Day of talks and discussions we hosted in August, technologist James Bridle talks about his recent projects including a series of animations on top of bus shelters that were designed to look "like the internet has escaped out into the street". More »
In this first movie from the series we filmed at our Designed in Hackney Day of talks and discussions, architects Maria Smith and Je Ahn of Studio Weave speak to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about projects including a bench for 300 people and how they believe "a trap that architects can fall into is thinking that they know how to do everything." More »
London Design Festival: designer-makers East London Furniture have temporarily fitted out the interior of London bar DreamBags JaguarShoes using nothing but scrap materials found on the local streets. More »
The sounds of the countryside are amplified when you place your ear towards one of these four enormous trumpets built by architects Studio Weave (+ slideshow). More »
London Design Festival: London designer Paul Cocksedge has made a giant chocolate QR code that visitors to The Dock during the London Design Festival can scan to get a free gift (or you could just scan the image in the bottom of this story). More »
London design brand Hulger has launched a mini version of its award-winning Plumen 001 lightbulb and it'll be available at Dezeen Super Store from Friday. More »
London Design Festival: Shoe designer Tracey Neuls and product designer Tord Boontje have teamed up to design a range of shoes featuring autumn leaves. More »
As London design month continues at Dezeen Super Store, we are now stocking Punkt. alarm clocks and phones by Hackney designer Jasper Morrison. More »
Herringbone parquet covers the walls and floor of this photography studio in east London by local design practice Post-Office. More »
Dezeen Wire: Little Printer, the web-connected gadget we featured earlier this year that prints out personalised messages, news, birthdays and to-do lists collected from the internet on a till-roll, is now going into production. More »
Dezeen Wire: “Software is the most important material we have come across in the last 100 years,” said Matt Jones of London studio BERG at yesterday's Designed in Hackney Day of talks and discussions with some of the most interesting designers and architects from Dezeen's local borough, curated in collaboration with Beatrice Galilee. More »
We're reporting live from Designed in Hackney Day all day today, featuring talks and performances from the best and most interesting architects, designers and makers in the east London borough of Hackney that Dezeen calls home. We'll be compiling the best tweets from the event here so check back as the day unfolds. More »
If you didn't manage to get a ticket for our Designed in Hackney Day tomorrow don't worry, you can still attend the FREE evening event at Hackney House, featuring music by Dalston Superstore DJ Dan Beaumont (below) and electro-indie band Clock Opera (above). More »
After the first allocation of tickets sold out within 24 hours, we have increased capacity and released another limited batch of tickets for our Designed in Hackney Day on 1 August. Click here to register now for this FREE event and read on for more details... More »
Sarcastic Olympic souvenirs for those who are cynical about the games are now available at Dezeen Super Store, 38 Monmouth Street, London WC2. More »
