This week a sharp-sided museum dedicated to ill-fated ship the RMS Titanic reminded readers of an iceberg and a Japanese house with a bookcase covering an entire wall raised concerns about the danger of falling books during an earthquake. 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 »
These plates by Polish designer Boguslaw Sliwinski turn your meals into hairstyles for the faces they depict. More »
Dezeen promotion: this week saw the launch of Llustre.com, a new design blog and flash-sales site offering its members a mixture of exclusives, limited editions, new launches and discounts on products by new and established designers. More »
Designed in Hackney: these crochet pendant lamps by Dalston designer Naomi Paul are made of mercerised cotton and surplus silk from the fashion industry. More »
Milan 2012: this table with folding trestle legs by Spanish designer Tomás Alonso is one of nine new products that Japanese furniture brand Karimoku New Standard will present at Erastudio Apartment Gallery in Milan later this month. More »
Dezeen promotion: Austrian brick manufacturer Wienerberger will reward the most innovative contemporary brick architecture at the fifth biennial Wienerberger Brick Award ceremony in Vienna next month. More »
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We’ve just sent out the latest issue and you can check it out here for interviews with Tom Dixon, an “utterly jaw-dropping” concert hall and a museum of the RMS Titanic with four hulls.
This artist’s studio by Mexican practice FRENTEarquitectura is folded into a small space between three existing buildings in Mexico City. More »
Designed in Hackney: next up in our showcase of local designers is Roger Arquer and his non-lethal mousetraps, first published on Dezeen in 2007 and still one of our most-clicked stories of all time. 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 »
Dezeen promotion: an exhibition of products for the garden designed by students from Rotterdam’s Piet Zwart Institute will take place at the Ventura Lambrate design district in Milan later this month. More »
Slideshow: a wooden library climbs the walls of this four-storey house in Kanagawa, Japan. More »
Designed in Hackney: next up in our selection of creative talent from the London borough of Hackney is up-and-coming design studio International, who have designed a lightweight transportable desk that accommodates all of the facilities needed by a printmaker. More »