Design Indaba 08: here are images of housing designs by teams including Tom Dixon, Shigeru Ban, David Adjaye, Thomas Heatherwick And Klein Dytham for Design Indaba's 10x10 Housing Project at Freedom Park in Cape Town, South Africa. More about 10×10 Housing Project by Tom Dixon, Shigeru Ban, David Adjaye etc
Designer Moritz Waldemeyer has created Joyrider, a product that creates illuminated smiley faces on rotating bicycle wheels. More about Joyrider by Moritz Waldemeyer
Designer Marc Newson follows up his exhibition at Gagosian Gallery in New York last year with a new show at Gagosian in London opening this week, with some new pieces. More about Marc Newson at Gagosian Gallery in London
Newton Virus by Troika from Dezeen on Vimeo.
Newton Virus is a computer virus designed by London collective Troika, that causes icons on your computer desktop to fall towards the ground as if affected by gravity.
Michael Young has designed a watch for Hong Kong brand o.d.m. to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Hong Kong's return to Chinese rule, which was celebrated in July last year. More about Euclide watches by Michael Young
Designer Alice Wang has created a range of weighing scales that allow you to deceive yourself about your weight. More about Asimov's First Law scales by Alice Wang
UK print magazine Design Week has published its Hot 50 list of the people and organisations making the biggest impact on the UK design scene - and we're in it! More about Design Week Hot 50
Design Indaba 08: continuing our series of stories about the 10x10 Housing Project in Cape Town, South Africa, here are the latest photos showing progress constructing the first sand-bag house. More about Sand-bag houses by MMA Architects 3
Spanish designers Luis Eslava and Diego Ramos created an installation of objects made of Tyvek for the Casa Pasarela pavilion at the ARCO contemporary art fair in Madrid last month. More about Tyvek World by Luis Eslava and Diego Ramos
American architect Neil Denari has designed HL23, an apartment building for New York. More about HL23 by Neil Denari
Photographer Teun van den Dries has sent us these photos of Maff Apartment, a bed and breakfast attic flat by Queeste Architecten in the Hague, the Netherlands. More about Maff Apartment by Queeste Architecten
Austrian designer Robert Stadler has designed Corso, a new restaurant on Avenue Trudaine in Paris. More about Corso restaurant by Robert Stadler
Stockholm Design Week: French designer Marc Sadler created the Fibre Evolution installation at the Input Interiör showroom in Stockholm earlier this month. More about Fibre Evolution by Marc Sadler
Architects Broadway Malyan have completed the renovation of Rossio railway station in Lisbon, Portugal. More about Rossio railway station by Broadway Malyan
Stockholm Design Week: Swedish designers Per Emanuelsson and Bastian Bischoff exhibited the Surveillance Light lamp at Stockholm Furniture Fair earlier this month. More about Surveillance Light by Per Emanuelsson and Bastian Bischoff
Design Indaba 08: the first sand-bag house designed by Cape Town architects MMA is taking shape (see earlier post). More about Sand-bag houses by MMA Architects 2
Anglo-Indian architects Serie have completed the Blue Frog acoustic lounge and studios in Mumbai, India. More about Blue Frog Lounge by Serie Architects
Towel With Further Options by Japanese designers NIIMI is designed to be recycled as a bath-mat and a cleaning cloth as it wears out. More about Towel With Further Options by NIIMI
Steven Holl Architects has been commissioned to build a complex of five linked towers surrounding a public plaza in Chengdu, China. More about Sliced Porosity Block by Steven Holl Architects
Design Indaba 08: Cape Town architects MMA have started work on a pilot project of ten affordable houses built using a sand-bag construction system. More about Sand-bag houses by MMA Architects