Swarovski Crystal Palace video diary day 6: we spent the weekend uploading three more mini documentaries to swarovksisparkles.tv, as part of our project documenting the London Design Festival for festival sponsor Swarovski Crystal Palace. More »

The Hulger Indian Call Centre is an installation running during the London Design Festival by web-phone brand Hulger in conjunction with Beyond the Valley. More »

Welcome to the new-look Dezeen! We hope you like our new design. Thanks to Micha Weidmann who created our new identity and designjunction who designed the site – it’s been a pleasure to work with such talented people.

Read a bit more about the thinking behind the redesign here. Lots more innovations and developments coming soon… meanwhile, enjoy…

It’s not very sunny back here in London but we’re smiling nonetheless, as we’ve reached a major milestone.

We’ve been on holiday for the past ten days – thanks to Chantelle Lue for looking after dezeen for us while we were away.

And we’ve returned to find that at some point during the last week we welcomed our millionth visitor… we’ve now had 1,025,000 visitors since the start of the year.

We’ve also galloped up Technorati’s popularity ranking of all the blogs in the world and are now well within the top 2,500. Thanks once again to all our readers!

AMO and Prada have launched Prada Prototypes, an online auction of limited-edition Prada garments and accessories. More »

Dezeen is mentioned extensively in the new issue of German design magazine Form, which this month focuses on blogs, the internet and all things online. More »

Architecture journalist Kieran Long has been appointed editor of UK weekly magazine Architects Journal. More »

German design magazine Form is celebrating its 50th birthday by putting its entire archive of back issues online. More »

Dezeen has launched a new blog in conjunction with the International Design Forum in Dubai, dedicated to architecture and design projects in the Arab world and news about the forum, which takes place in Dubai next month. More »

Australian architecture and design magazine POL Oxygen has been redesigned to coincide with its 21st issue. More »

Legendary architecture writer and editor Monica Pidgeon has digitised her collection of recordings of talks by architects and designers. More »

We’re celebrating at dezeen, for several reasons. First, because we’ve been named as one of the ten most popular architecture blogs in the world by eikongraphia.com. More »

Dezeen has just reached a milestone – we’ve now had more than 250,000 unique visitors since we started collating visitor statistics at the start of this year. More »

Wallpaper* creative director Tony Chambers has been appointed editor-in-chief of the magazine, it was announced yesterday. More »