Lab Craft at Tent London
26 designers including Tord Boontje, Timorous Beasties and Michael Eden (above) will show work marrying craftsmanship with digital technology at Tent London later this month. More »
Exhibitions
Movie: Snow by Tokujin Yoshioka
DezeenTV: here’s a movie showing Tokujin Yoshioka‘s tank of flying feathers on show at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. More »
Modern Primitives by Aranda\Lasch
Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: New York studio Aranda\Lasch have installed a collection of seating that’s made up of foam pyramids at the Venice Architecture Biennale. More »
Fourth Plinth proposals unveiled
for Trafalgar Square
Six shortlisted proposals for the next art installation atop the Fourth Plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square have been unveiled today, including a giant blue cockerel, a cash machine that operates a pipe organ and an enormous model of a battenberg cake (above). More »
Heroes at Křehký Gallery
New exhibition space Křehký Gallery has opened inside a former ham factory in Prague. More »
Charlotte Perriand: designer, photographer, activist
at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
An exhibition of furniture, photography and artworks by pioneering Modernist designer Charlotte Perriand is on show at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich in Switzerland. More »
Takashi Murakami at the Château de Versailles
Work by Japanese artist Takashi Murakami is to be shown at the Château de Versailles in France. More »
The Snow by Tokujin Yoshioka
Feathers fly around this 15 metre-long tank installed by Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. More »
Transformations by Tjep.
This sculpture in the Netherlands countryside by Dutch designers Tjep. comprises a series of steel elements that when viewed from a certain point form the outline of a traditional farm building. More »
The Lacemaker by Tord Boontje
Dutch designer Tord Bootje presents a collection of work made with lace-making techniques from materials including grass and raffia at the Marsden Woo Gallery in London. More »
If You Build it, They Will Come… by Ben Faga
Royal College of Art graduate Ben Faga is encouraging bees in London to swarm and set up new hives. More »
Movie: Tokujin Yoshioka – Spectrum
DezeenTV: Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has sent us a movie about an exhibition of his work on show in Seoul, which includes this 9-metre window made of 500 glass prisms (above). More »
Tea House for Robots by Rootoftwo
and PLY Architecture
Michigan studios Rootoftwo and PLY Architecture have housed their conceptual models of future kitchen appliances in a paper teahouse at the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, Japan. Update 31/07/11: see Dezeen’s top ten stories about robots. More »
Alfa Romeo Centenary Sculpture by Gerry Judah
Designer Gerry Judah has created this bright red looping structure for Alfa Romeo at Goodwood Festival of Speed, which took place in West Sussex last weekend. More »
New Designers 2010 Part 2 Awards
The winners of the UK graduate exhibition New Designers Part 2 awards were announced at the opening of the show on Wednesday night, with Tortie Hoare being awarded the New Designer of the Year prize for her boiled leather furniture (above). More »