Competition: we're giving readers the chance to win one of five packs of greeting cards illustrated with buildings by Le Corbusier.

Created by designer Stefi Orazi, the cards portray some of the modernist architect's best-known projects using simple graphics.

Le Corbusier's Notre Dame du Haut chapel in Ronchamp, Villa Savoye in Poissy, Cité de Refuge in Paris and Unité d'Habitation projects in Marseille and Berlin all feature on the front of the cards.

Each pack contains six blank A6 cards and envelopes, which are available at the designer's online store.

To enter this competition email your name, age, gender, occupation, and delivery address and telephone number to competitions@dezeen.com with “Le Corbusier cards” in the subject line. We won’t pass your information on to anyone else; we just want to know a little about our readers. Read our privacy policy here.

Competition closes 28 May 2013. Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeen Mail newsletter and at the top of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.

Orazi has also designed cards depicting modernist buildings in London and prints of the city's BT Tower - see them here.

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Competition: we're giving readers the chance to win one of five copies of a new book of projects by Ma Yansong, director at Beijing architecture studio MAD, including the recently completed China Wood Sculpture Museum in Harbin.

Ma Yansong: From (Global) Modernity to (Local) Tradition is a product of a retrospective exhibition that took place at the ICO Museum in Madrid, documenting eight years of work by the Chinese architect.

The hardback book is curated by Menene Gras and includes essays and photos of the exhibition, as well as images of some of MAD's best-known projects.

Featured buildings include the curvaceous Absolute Towers in Mississauga, Canada, the Ordos Musuem in Inner Mongolia and a concept for a star-shaped mobile Chinatown.

Each project is accompanied by concept sketches, technical drawings and model images, along with final photographs where relevant.

This competition is now closed.

Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeen Mail newsletter and at the top of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.

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Congratulations to the winners! Greet Van der Linden from Belgium, Souzy Tros from Greece, Daan Zandbergen from the Netherlands, Nick Derickx from Australia and Stuart Turner from the USA all won sets of Bookman bicycle lights.

Easily mounted and detached with elastic loops, the lights are turned on and off using buttons large enough to be operated in gloves. Each pack includes a white front light that attaches to the handlebars and a red light that hooks around the saddle post to shine backward.

The battery-powered, water-resistant lights can be set to flash slowly, quickly, or provide a steady glow. Five winners will each receive two packs of lights; one in each colour. We filmed a short interview with Bookman's Johan Lidehäll speaking about the lights at the Interiors UK trade show last year - watch it here.

To enter this competition email your name, age, gender, occupation, and delivery address and telephone number to competitions@dezeen.com with “Bookman bicycle lights” in the subject line. We won’t pass your information on to anyone else; we just want to know a little about our readers. Read our privacy policy here.

Competition closes 30 April 2013. Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeen Mail newsletter and at the top of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.

More cycling accessories on Dezeen include magnetic lights that turn on when they snap to the frame and an inflatable helmet that folds away into a scarf. See all our stories about design for cycling »

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Competition: we're giving readers the chance to win one of five graphic prints that depict iconic buildings by architects including Oscar Niemeyer, Zaha Hadid and Álvaro Siza.

Congratulations to the winners! Oliver Hans from Germany, Ondřej Švancara from the Czech Republic, Gergely Kenéz from Hungary, Alvaro Araico from Mexico and Babita Ram from the UK all won an illustration by André Chiote.

Portugese illustrator André Chiote created the series of architectural illustrations by simplifying images of recognisable buildings to emphasise their form and shadow.

Designs include MAC Niterói by Oscar Niemeyer, Fundação Iberê Camargo by Álvaro Siza, Mercedes Benz Museum by UNStudio, Museum of Islamic Art by I.M. Pei, Ningbo Museum by Wang Shu, Riverside Museum by Zaha Hadid, Whitney Museum by Marcel Breuer, MUSAC by Mansilla+Tuñón and Casa das Histórias Paula Rego by Eduardo Souto Moura.

The minimal graphics are slightly mottled and executed in faded colours to give a vintage feel.

Each poster is printed with the building's name and architect in typography chosen to compliment individual designs.

The posters to be won are 30 centimetres wide by 42 centimetres high, though they also come as 50 by 70 centimetre prints. Both sizes are available from the artist's Cargo Collective online shop.

This competition is now closed.

Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeen Mail newsletter and at the top of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.

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Competition: we’ve teamed up with publisher Wiley to give away five copies of their new book Inside Smartgeometry, about advances in parametric design.

Congratulations to the winners! Dennis Delgado from the USA, Israel Carrion from Mexico, Michael Charters from the USA, Nelson J. Zambrano Rojas from Spain and Ingrid Fallet from Norway all won a copy of Inside Smartgeometry.

Inside Smartgeometry: Expanding the Architectural Possibilities of Computational Design explores the work of the Smartgeometry Group, a network of designers and architects who experiment with parametric software to design spaces, prototypes and buildings.

The book contains computer renderings and photographs that document over a decade of advances in computer software for architecture.

Edited by Brady Peters and Terri Peters, the hardcover book contains contributions from Robert Aish, Martin Bechthold, Mark Burry, Chris Williams, Robert Woodbury and other members of the Smartgeometry community.

The Smartgeometry Group is inviting people to attend a launch party for the book on 21 March at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London - click here for more details.

This competition is now closed. Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeen Mail newsletter and at the top of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.

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