Above: tap gesture

"There are five multi-touch gestures forming the language we use between our fingers and iPhone screens," says Meldaikyte. "This is the way we communicate, navigate and give commands to our iPhones."

Above: scroll gesture

She used wood and acrylic to make five 3D objects that recreate the physical actions required to operate a touch-screen smartphone, using newspaper clippings, book pages and paper maps to represent the data being manipulated.

Above: pinch gesture

"I believe that in ten years or so these gestures will completely change, therefore my aim is to perpetuate them so they become accessible for future generations," she explains.

Above: swipe gesture

The project was presented at the V&A museum during a Friday Late evening event at the end of November.

Above: flick gesture

Originally from Lithuania, Meldaikyte is currently studying on Platform 17 of MA Design Products at London's Royal College of Art, tutored by Ian Ferguson and Martin Postler. She is due to graduate in June.

Other ways of operating a smartphone on Dezeen include Dominic Wilcox's stylus that straps over his nose for using his iPhone phone in the bath.

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News: Dezeen featured in Apple's launch of the iPhone 5 today and makes an appearance in the movie demonstrating the new product.

Our homepage was shown in a video demonstration of the new device as part of a presentation by Apple CEO Tim Cook and colleagues at the Yerba Buena Arts Center in San Francisco.

The movie, which is now up on Apple's website, starts with an introduction by Apple vice president of industrial design Jonathan Ive, and the sequence featuring Dezeen starts at 01.16.

The sequence begins with an iPhone 5 user opening an email titled "Great website" which contains the message: "I just came across http://www.dezeen.com/ and I really think you would enjoy it. It has a lot of the same architectural styles that you love. Dave".

The user then clicks on the link in the email and is taken to our homepage while Apple senior vice president Bob Mansfield describes how LTE technology allows "really fast downloads over your cellular network".

After this the user goes to their bookmarks page, which interestingly already contains Dezeen, and navigates to a different site.

Apple contacted Dezeen earlier this year asking us to create a bespoke version of our home page and an editorial page for a possible future marketing campaign. Apple specified that both had to be free of external advertisements and social media buttons, but they did not give any details of how the pages might be used.

The pages we created for us by our long-term collaborators Zerofee. Besides the iPhone versions of Dezeen, we also created billboard-sized pages that may, or may not, appear in Apple Stores and outdoor advertising hoardings as part of the marketing push for the iPhone 5.

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London designers Zerofee have created a mobile web app for following the #milanuncut project.

To get started on an iPhone or iPad go to http://milanuncut.org and choose Add to Home Screen from your browser menu.

#milanuncut is an experimental, collaborative journalism project that aims to lift the lid on the design world to coincide with next week’s Milan furniture fair. More details »

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The first of our Dezeen Watch Store pop-up shops opens tomorrow at Skitsch as part of the London Design Festival, and our designers Zerofee have designed a free iPhone app featuring the store's clock identity.

The identity is a functioning 24-hour clock that changes shape and colour according to the time of day, time of year and geographical location of the user. See full details of the identity in our earlier story.

The get the app, visit http://www.dezeenwatchstore.com/clock/ on your iPhone and follow the on-screen instructions!

Our Dezeen Watch Store pop-ups are at:

Skitsch, 270 Brompton Road, London SW3 2AW from 18 to 26 September; and

The Tramshed, 32 Rivington Street, London EC2A 3WQ from 22 to 26 September.

See full details of the pop-ups and the watches we'll be showing here.

See our latest newsletter for information about all our London Design Festival activities.

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Designer Ronen Kadushin has designed an open-source mallet for smashing up iPhones.

Called iPhonekiller, the device features 1.6kg of laser-cut steel attached to a wooden handle.

The design can be downloaded and adapted from Kadushin's website.

Photographs are by Chanan Strauss. Above photograph is by Lizzy Kalisvaart.

Here's some more information from the designer:

The answer is always...well...not quite, not yet.... So I was thinking, maybe these guys who make these devices are not looking at the right place for that iPhone killer. Why don’t I scratch that dream product itch, and transform this buzzword into a real product that it’s soul purpose is to do what it claims to be...

I’d like to introduce you to the iPhonekiller... It’s amazing... It is an open design, you can download it from my website, produce and use it. It is 1.6 Kg , 25mm ( 3.5 lbs, 1 inch) of precision laser cut steel, with a fantastic 36 cm wood ax handle. You can just feel the awesome power of it when you hold it in your hand... It’s amazing...

Like most of my designs of the last six years, iPhonekiller is an Open Design, meaning, its design CAD files can be freely downloaded, copied, modified and produced by anyone, without special tooling, under a Creative Commons license. The iPhonekiller is compatible with all iPhone models, also the future ones, and with iPads.

The iPhonekiller is my Open Design reaction to current tech products and personalities status, worshiped by media and public. A buzzword materializing with a function suggested by tech blogs.

iPhonekiller product page

Name of product: iPhonekiller (prototype)
Designer: Ronen Kadushin
Year of design and production: 2010
Materials: 25mm thick laser cut steel. Axe wood handle.

Dimensions: head: 13cm x 7cm, 1.6Kg. Overall length: 34cm

DezeenTV: iPhonekiller movie

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Movie is by Robert Andriessen.

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iPad by Apple	iPhone on Dezeen	Dezeen on iPhone

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