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Dezeen have arrived in Milan for the Salone Internazionale del Mobile and we have just delivered our Dezeen Book of Ideas to three shops across the city.
You can pick one up at:
The Dezeen Book of Ideas features a selection of the best ideas for buildings, interiors and products from the pages of Dezeen. The book is also available to order online.
www.dezeenbookofideas.com
Milan 2012: this inkjet printer has been adapted by Ecole Cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL) student Christophe Guberan to print patterns that contort pieces of paper into specific 3D forms. More »
The Design Museum Collection App for iPad is now available to download, featuring interviews filmed by Dezeen with Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic about 59 objects from their collection. Download it free from the app store here.
In this film we’ve compiled extracts focussing on how design has shaped the way we listen to music over the last century, including iconic devices like the Ecko AD-65 radio from the early 1930s, SK5 Phonosuper from Braun in the 1950s and Sony’s experiments from Walkman to Discman to MiniDisc towards the end of the twentieth century. More »
Slideshow: Japanese firm Schemata Architecture Office have perched a cabin on top of a small woodland cliff in Chiba, Japan. More »
Slideshow: just like the museum we published yesterday, this library in Worcester, England, by architects Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios is covered with shimmering squares of golden metal. More »
Dezeen Wire: architecture and design blog Designitecture have published an update to YAMoPo, a list of the most popular architecture and design websites in the world, and have ranked Dezeen in sixth place. See the results in full here.
The YAMoPo (Yet Another Most Popular) list was originally created by architecture blog Archdaily but hadn’t been revised since 2009.
Competition: Dezeen Watch Store have teamed up with Tokyo designer Ross McBride of Normal Timepieces to offer readers the chance to win one of four new brightly coloured Vivid watches. More »
This school table by industrial design students graduate Arthur Brutter and professor Ido Bruno is specifically designed to form a safe shelter for pupils during earthquakes. More »
Competition: we’ve got together with online magazine Sight Unseen to give away five copies of a special printed edition called Paper View, created as part of the Unfiltered initiative by Karlsson’s Vodka. Both Paper View and Unfiltered launch tonight in New York. More »
Milan 2012: in this teaser movie by Gwenael Lewis for Canadian lighting brand Bocci we see glass blowers making the 38 series chandelier designed by Omer Arbel.
Bocci will exhibit the chandelier at Spazio Rossana Orlandi during the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan next week. See all our stories about Milan 2012 here.
Watch this and more movies from Bocci on Dezeen Screen.
Competition: we’ve got together with Italian product brand and Dezeen regular NAVA Design to give away three copies of Denis Guidone‘s books designed for writing stories. More »
Here are some photos from a walking architectural tour of Reykjavik in Iceland, taken while we were visiting for DesignMarch last month. More »
Last month Dezeen visited a selection of Icelandic design studios as part of DesignMarch in Reykjavik. Here are some photos from the tour taken with the Pentax K-01 camera designed by Marc Newson, which was kindly given to us by Pentax for the trip. More »
Milan 2012: in this interview filmed by Dezeen at Tom Dixon‘s London studio he introduces MOST, the new design epicentre that he’s instigated at the Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia in Milan during the Salone Internazionale del Mobile from 17 to 22 April. More »
Competition: we’ve teamed up with Israeli design brand Monkey Business to offer readers the chance to win one of five silver pencil sharpeners by Noam Bar Yochai that resemble clockwork keys. More »