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New Pinterest board: watches
We've added a new board to Pinterest today that showcases all the timepieces in our Dezeen Watch Store collection. Check them out on Pinterest here and shop online here.
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We've added a new board to Pinterest today that showcases all the timepieces in our Dezeen Watch Store collection. Check them out on Pinterest here and shop online here.
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Milan 2012: San Francisco designer Yves Béhar has updated the SodaStream system for making fizzy drinks at home and will present the new product as part of an installation at MOST in Milan this month. More about SodaStream Source by Yves Béhar at MOST
Note Design Studio of Stockholm were inspired by a circus trapeze to create these pendent lamps with aluminium shades that appear to be draped over a wooden pole. More about Trapets by Note Design Studio for Zero
Milan 2012: London designers Studio Toogood will create a "hospital for the senses" at MOST in Milan next month as an antidote to the hustle and bustle of the furniture fair. More about La Cura by Studio Toogood at MOST
Designed in Hackney: the new business class seat and cabin designed by Hackney studio PearsonLloyd for German airline Lufthansa was launched this week. More about Designed in Hackney: Lufthansa Business Class Seat and Cabin by PearsonLloyd
Designed in Hackney: designer Ian McIntyre hand-crafted this pottery collection for furniture brand Another Country at his Hoxton studio in the London borough of Hackney and fired some of the pieces in his own kilns. More about Designed in Hackney: Pottery by Ian McIntyre for Another Country
Dezeen Screen: as we prepare for our relocation to Milan for the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in April, we've paid a visit to British designer Tom Dixon, instigator of new design epicentre MOST at the Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia. More about Dezeen Screen: Tom Dixon at The Dock
Milan 2012: Bangkok designers THINKK Studio and Studio 248 will team up to present furniture and lighting at Ventura Lambrate in Milan next month, including this adjustable lamp that's held together by a single cord slotted through the components. More about THINKK Studio and Studio 248 at Ventura Lambrate
Designed in Hackney: Uniform Wares is one of the best-selling brands on Dezeen Watch Store and happens to be based in the London borough of Hackney. More about Designed in Hackney: Uniform Wares
The Design Museum in London launches its Design Museum Collection iPad app today that features 59 objects from their collection, including interviews with museum director Deyan Sudjic filmed by Dezeen. Download it free from the app store here. More about Design Museum Collection App:driving movies
Closing our series of three movie extracts from the Me Craft/You Industry symposium held by Dutch design organisation Premsela in January, here's part of the final debate focussing on how the proliferation of free software, open-source hardware and peer-to-peer technology will lead to a synthesis of craft and industry, where individuals can use a global production system to create the bespoke goods that they need locally. More about Final debateat Me Craft/You Industry
These souvenirs by Japanese studio Nendo for the Nissin Cupnoodles Museum in Yokohama look like warped reflections in funhouse mirrors. More about Cupnoodle Forms by Nendo
Designed in Hackney: today's instalment in our showcase of creative talent from Hackney is interior design brand House of Hackney, who have named both themselves and their collections after places in the London borough they call home. More about Designed in Hackney: Hackney Empireby House of Hackney
Competition: we're collaborating with the authors of WRAP, an illustration magazine designed to be reused as giftwrap after reading, to give our readers the chance to win one of five copies of their new fourth issue. More about Competition: five copies of WRAP magazine issue four to be won
Dezeen Wire: internet giant Google have honoured eminent German architect Mies van der Rohe by changing their logo to a doodle celebrating his 126th birthday today.
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Dutch designer Pepe Heykoop has made a series of furniture by casting recycled tin around wooden offcuts. More about Bits of Wood by Pepe Heykoop
These gift boxes shaped like little characters by design student Wilda Wongso were on show at Platform 2012 during the International Furniture Fair Singapore earlier this month. More about Vigoo by Wilda Wongso
Designed in Hackney: next up in our showcase of design talent from Olympic host borough Hackney is Stoke Newington studio Loop.pH, who have installed this umbrella-like canopy of illuminated lace at the entrance to London's Kensington Palace. More about Designed in Hackney: Luminous Lace by Loop.pH
In this second talk from our short series filmed by Dutch design organisation Premsela during their January symposium Me Craft/You Industry, software developer and hacker Smári McCarthy uses music sharing platform Napster as an example to explain how in the near future he believes craft productions will move away from centralised industries and challenge their existing authority. More about Smári McCarthy at Me Craft/You Industry
In this movie filmed by Dutch design organisation Premsela during their symposium Me Craft/You Industry in January, Welsh designer Kieren Jones explains how he constructed a miniature factory to transform the uneaten parts of a chicken into a gold leather flying jacket and a bone china eggcup and spoon. More about The Chicken Project by Kieren Jones