News: researchers at the University of St Andrews in Scotland have rearranged the letters on a split-screen keyboard to almost double users' typing speed on a tablet. More about New keyboard layout promises to increase tablet typing speed
Dezeen Mail issue 149 leads with OMA's Shenzhen Stock Exchange (above) and designers discussing copying in Milan. It also features all the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen.
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News: UK government ministers are to scrap the draft design and technology syllabus for secondary schools amid claims by industry figures including inventor James Dyson (pictured) that the curriculum had been "diluted" with skills such as cooking and gardening. More about "Dumbed down" design and technology curriculum scrapped by UK ministers
UK studio Universal Everything motion-captured a dancer to make this animation, which is projected onto the world's highest-resolution screen (+ movie). More about Made by Humans by Universal Everything
Tokyo-based Klein Dytham Architecture has used the television-shaped icon of YouTube's logo to decorate the walls of the video website's new production studio in the Japanese capital (+ slideshow). More about YouTube Space Tokyo by Klein Dytham Architecture
News: American furniture brand Herman Miller has agreed to acquire New York-based textile manufacturer Maharam in a deal worth about £101 million. More about Herman Miller acquires Maharam for £101 million
Milan 2013: French design brand La Chance launched its second collection in Milan earlier this month, featuring a bright red winged bench by Luca Nichetto and a fragmented coffee table by Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance (+ slideshow). More about New collection by La Chance
Milan 2013: Robert Bronwasser of Amsterdam design studio Smool presented a television set wrapped in fabric at Ventura Lambrate in Milan earlier this month (+ slideshow). More about Homedia TV by Robert Bronwasser
Interiors firm Studio Linse selected classic furniture by celebrated Dutch designers for the cafe of the recently reopened Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. More about Rijksmuseum Café by Studio Linse
New York design studio FormNation has proposed a redesign for two US income tax forms to make them clearer and easier to use (+ slideshow). More about Tax Forms by FormNation
Barcelona studio Hidalgo Hartmann Arquitectura has completed a concrete house with a triangular profile in the rural outskirts of Girona, Spain (+ slideshow). More about Casa Montfullà by Hidalgo Hartmann Arquitectura
Dutch firm MVRDV has won a design competition for a new business district in Shanghai, which is already under construction near the city's Hongqiao Airport. More about Central Business District at Shanghai Hongqiao Airport by MVRDV with Aedas
Six architecture studios present window installations created for stores along London's Regent Street in this movie filmed by Dezeen. More about RIBA Regent Street Windows Project 2013
This family house in Athens by Greek office Tense Architecture Network comprises a boxy concrete upper floor perched atop a glazed living room and kitchen (+ photographs by Filippo Poli). More about Residence in Kato Kifissia by Tense Architecture Network
News: Danish firm Henning Larsen Architects has designed a headquarters for software giant Microsoft as part of plans for a new university and business district north of Copenhagen, Denmark. More about Henning Larsen Architects plans Microsoft headquarters outside Copenhagen
Fashion designer and 3D printing pioneer Iris van Herpen tells us how printing and scanning technologies could transform the fashion industry in an exclusive interview for our print-on-demand publication Print Shift. Update: this interview is featured in Dezeen Book of Interviews, which is on sale now for £12 (+ transcript). More about "Everybody could have their body scanned and order clothes that fit perfectly"
Milan 2013: leafy forests and palatial interiors become visible under different coloured lights in the latest series of wallpapers and screens by Milan design studio Carnovsky (+ slideshow). More about RGB Fabulous Landscapes by Carnovsky
Timber louvres and shutters form a protective shell across the exterior of this apartment building in Istanbul by Turkish studio Alataş Architecture & Consulting. More about Ipera 25 by Alataş Architecture & Consulting
Milan 2013: wingback armchairs by Spanish designer Jaime Hayón for Danish brand Republic of Fritz Hansen were unveiled in Milan earlier this month (+ slideshow). More about Ro armchair by Jaime Hayón for Republic of Fritz Hansen
News: the American Institute of Architects (AIA) has named its top ten sustainable projects of the year, including a university building made from timber, concrete and Corten steel in Minnesota (above) and a series of prefabricated houses in Tennessee. More about AIA names top ten green projects of 2013