Dutch Design Week 2015: Arnhem studio Visser & Meijwaard has designed a range of colourful zip-up coffins to help make death less depressing. More about Visser & Meijwaard designs zip-up coffins that you would "want to be seen dead in"
German studio KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten's glass-covered design for the Shenzhen Art Museum and Library complex in China beat proposals from a number of star architects. More about KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten wins competition to design Shenzhen Art Museum and Library
French designer Constance Guisset has created a machine that automatically aerates and adjusts the temperature of individual glasses of wine. More about Constance Guisset's D-Vine tabletop machine speeds up wine tasting
Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for an architect/designer at Abramson Teiger in California, whose Kelly Residence in Culver City is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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Movie: American designer Marc Thorpe reveals which vegetable influenced his Husk chair for Moroso in our next exclusive movie for the Italian furniture brand. More about Marc Thorpe's latest chair for Moroso is based on the shapes of corn husks
Business news: San Francisco studio Wood Thumb is opposing Black Friday's discounting frenzy by upping the price of its products, adding a "Maker's Bonus" for its craftspeople. More about Design company raises prices on Black Friday in support of craftspeople
The last chair designed by late Danish cabinetmaker Frits Henningsen has been put back into production by furniture company Carl Hansen & Søn. More about Frits Henningsen's Signature Chair rereleased by Carl Hansen & Søn
This "floating" art and literary museum by American studio OLI Architecture is housed in a grouping of textured concrete blocks, which are elevated over a lake in China's Zhejiang Province (+ slideshow). More about Mu Xin Art Museum by OLI Architecture sits over a lake in eastern China
The facade of this computer research centre at Hungary's University of Debrecen has been designed to reflect its function, with a grooved pattern inspired by a circuitboard (+ slideshow). More about NAPUR Architect creates circuitboard pattern on facade of Super Computer Centre
Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for an interior architect at Jump Studios, which recently renovated a 19th-century battery factory in Madrid to create the sixth Google campus (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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Reindeer, peacocks and foxes adorn these Christmas stamps designed by Studio Tord Boontje for Dutch national delivery company PostNL. More about Tord Boontje's festive stamps feature "small stories" of animals and people
Chilean architect Felipe Assadi has built a series of wooden hotel cabins on a Chilean hillside, offering guests the chance to glimpse wild llamas, pumas and rheas in their natural habitat (+ slideshow). More about Timber cabins provide guest suites for Patagonia's remote Awasi Hotel
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art is hosting an exhibition of 17 hanging screens created by French design duo Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec. More about Bouroullec brothers design suspended screens for Tel Aviv exhibition
Stone-filled gabions provide the walls of this police training centre by architecture firm Haverstock, helping it camouflage with the craggy walls of a former quarry in Bristol, England (+ slideshow). More about Haverstock uses stone-filled cages to disguise police shooting range in disused quarry
Shanghai office Four O Nine has converted a glass building in Beijing into a cafe, adding walls of plants to purify polluted air. More about Four O Nine transforms greenhouse into plant-lined coffee shop
Opinion: while many architects are designing slippery "architexture", Norman Foster and Alejandro Aravena are unlikely allies in the pursuit of real architecture, says Will Wiles. More about "Foster and Aravena are moving architecture out of the shallows and into deeper water"
Open-source chairs made of puzzle pieces and 3D-printed furniture based on bone growth feature in an exhibition of work by Dutch designer Joris Laarman Lab retrospective at the Netherlands' Groninger Museum (+ slideshow). More about Joris Laarman opens first major solo show at the Groninger Museum
Japanese studio SANAA has seen off competition from Norwegian firm Snøhetta to design a new national gallery in Budapest's City Park. More about SANAA chosen over Snøhetta in Budapest gallery competition
To celebrate the first Thanksgiving since we founded our New York office in May, we've collected together five of the most popular US stories from this year, including the new Google campus and Tadao Ando's first New York building. More about Five of the most popular US projects on Dezeen
This week's Dezeen Mail includes the competition-winning design for a new bridge across London's River Thames, bird-flu furniture and a Swiss mountainside home (pictured).
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