International font company Monotype has worked with Google to create one typeface that can be used by everyone in the world, writing in any language. More about Google and Monotype collaborate on font that spans all written language
Dezeen has teamed up with Biennale Interieur to give away five travel packs to this year's event, including transport, accommodation and dinner. More about Competition: win a trip to Biennale Interieur 2016
EU students are deferring or cancelling their offers from UK design schools over Brexit with major implications for the future of the sector, according to London Design Festival co-founder and UAL governor Ben Evans. More about Brexit's impact on education is a disaster for design says Ben Evans
Architect Bing Thom, designer of several major buildings in Vancouver, has died aged 75 following a brain aneurysm. More about Vancouver architect Bing Thom dies aged 75
A house with a climbing wall up one side and a home wrapped around a giant boulder both feature in this Wyoming-focused edition of our series about residential architecture from different US states. More about Five of the best houses in Wyoming on Dezeen
Dezeen promotion: this year's Global Futures Forum will feature workshops, debates and presentations lead by creative industry professionals, including London Design Festival director Ben Evans and Wired UK editor David Rowan. More about LDF director and Wired UK editor to speak at Global Futures Forum 2016
Wilkinson Eyre created a dramatic lightwell and a rooftop reading room for its revamp of a Giles Gilbert Scott-designed library at the University of Oxford – one of the six projects vying for the Stirling Prize later today. More about Wilkinson Eyre inserts contemporary details into Giles Gilbert Scott's Oxford University library
Designer Richard Clarkson has created a small, remote-controlled cloud for the home that plays music and flashes while hovering a few centimetres from the ground. More about Richard Clarkson disguises Bluetooth speaker as levitating indoor cloud
The Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology by Amanda Levete's firm AL_A has opened to the public, coinciding with the start of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale. More about Amanda Levete's undulating MAAT museum opens on Lisbon waterfront
A translucent fold-up doorway separates a studio from a living room in this apartment created for a São Paulo-based illustrator who works from home. More about Apartment in São Paulo transformed to create home and studio for an illustrator
British designer Tom Dixon has launched his first collection of office furniture, which includes a minimalist lamp and a workstation based on archetypical Victorian school desks. More about Tom Dixon launches first range of office furniture
This 120-year-old Kyoto townhouse was once used as a seed plantation, but has been carefully restored to create an events venue that celebrates Japanese interior design traditions. More about Events space opens inside revamped century-old machiya house in Kyoto
US studio Abramson Teiger has created a rural Wyoming home that consists of low-lying volumes made of glass, concrete and weathering steel. More about Abramson Teiger builds steel-clad residence in a Wyoming meadow
Google has upgraded its thrifty cardboard VR headset with a fabric version named Daydream View, which is designed to work with the company's first own-brand smartphone. More about Google's fabric VR headset is based on the "clothes we love to wear"
It may look like a minimal speaker, but this new product from Google promises to harness the search giant's data troves to provide all-knowing assistance in the home. More about Google launches omniscient voice-controlled Home device
The contrasting halves of these perfume bottles can be repurposed separately, or in combinations as vases and incense holders. More about Esrawe Studio and Cadena stack two hemispheres to form reusable perfume bottle for Xinú
A "data centre" provided the backdrop for Chanel's spring summer 2017 show, which included models dressed as robots and bags with flashing LED displays. More about Robots walk the runway at Chanel's Spring Summer 2017 show
Google has made a push for Apple's significant share of the smartphone market with the launch of its self-branded Pixel and Pixel XL. More about Google launches own-brand smartphone to rival Apple's iPhone
ABIR Architects used pebbles found on the beach to create the layered facade of this house in the English seaside town of Shoreham – which featured in last night's episode of UK television show Homes By The Sea. More about Shoreham Beach House by ABIR Architects features gabion walls filled with beach pebbles
London's latest crop of skyscrapers don't give enough back to the city according to British sculptor Antony Gormley, who claims the British capital is growing at the expense of its citizens. More about London needs to address its profit-and-loss skyline, says Antony Gormley