Dezeen Wire: the UK government has set MPs a homework project over the summer to highlight British design and manufacturing icons. Examples put forward so far include toilet rolls, fish fingers and custard cream biscuits - Management Today
In this final movie from our series filmed at the Design Academy Eindhoven My Way talks in Milan, academy graduate Bas Princen talks about his work as a photographer. More
Thai designer Decha Archjananun has made a series of vases with concrete bases to hold water and wire frames to support flower stems. More
Each bullet-sized hole piercing the skin of this museum by architects WXCA in Palmiry, Poland, represents a Polish civilian murdered there during the holocaust. More
Japanese firm Kazunori Fujimoto Architect & Associates have completed a concrete house in Fukuoka that resembles a half-submerged submarine. More
Show RCA 2011: this modular shelving unit by Royal College of Art graduate Max Frommeld is held together with clips more commonly found on garden hoses. More
This metal house on stilts by Spanish architect Arturo Franco projects over a river valley in central Spain. More
This walnut jewellery case by Munich accessory designer Saskia Diez for German brand e15 separates jewels within carved concentric circles. More
This bright green pavilion by Polish students Wojciech Nowak and Martynika Bielawska provides spectator stands for a football pitch and a basketball court in Ljubljana, Slovenia. More
Swiss designers Big-Game launched an armchair that looks like a quilt-covered deckchair at the Villa Noailles design festival in France this weekend. More
Following the popularity of our story on the Barceloneta Market by MiAS Architects (bottom left), we've compiled all our articles on markets from the Dezeen Archives. See all the stories »
This disco-cum-caravan is one of five timber-clad cabins installed by Swiss architects 1/100 in the garden of the Quai Branly Museum, Paris. More
Show RCA 2011: here's another project by Royal College of Art graduate Ki Hyun Kim: a balsa wood dining chair that weighs just 1.3 kilograms, making it even lighter than Gio Ponti's famous 1.7 kilogram Superleggera chair. More
Introducing a new weekly feature on Dezeen: this time last year Foster + Partners completed the world’s tallest tensile structure in Kazakhstan as its architect Lord Foster surrendered his seat in the House of Lords to avoid paying full British taxes. More
Hong Kong's new design institute by French architects Coldefy & Associés, Architectes Urbanistes features a glazed box raised seven storeys above the ground on four lattice-steel towers that rest on a sloping, grass-covered podium. More
Show RCA 2011: for those who'd rather be woken by a gentle breeze or the smell of coffee than a shrill alarm, Royal College of Art graduate Ki Hyun Kim has designed a clock that wakes users with the electrical appliance of their choice. More
Graphic designer Milton Glaser has created this poster to raise money towards Architecture for Humanity's efforts to rebuild the Tohoku region of Japan, following its devastation by an earthquake and subsequent tsunami in March.
Aluminium shingles resembling shiny fish scales cover this office and apartment block in Vienna by Austrian architects Superblock. More
In this movie filmed by Dezeen at the Design Academy Eindhoven My Way talks in Milan, Dutch designer Eveline Visser talks about the wall of nest boxes she designed for birds in the city. More
Dezeen Wire: AA student Aditya Aachi has been awarded the 2011 Foster + Partners Prize for a sanitation infrastructure concept in Haiti, which was severely damaged by an earthquake in 2010. More
