New Zealand has narrowed down the options for its potential new flag design to include three fern motifs and a traditional koru emblem (+ slideshow). More about New Zealand shortlists four designs for crowdsourced national flag
London Design Festival 2015: Japanese ceramics designer Reiko Kaneko will show the results of three years of experimentation with porcelain glazing at this year's London Design Festival. More about Reiko Kaneko's porcelain ceramic experiments to be presented during London Design Festival
Architecture office Penoyre & Prasad has added an angular studio building clad entirely in zinc panels to the campus of Wimbledon College of Arts in south-west London (+ slideshow). More about Zinc cladding lends "workplace aesthetic" to Wimbledon art studios by Penoyre & Prasad
Graduate shows 2015: these utensils by Bezalel Academy of Art and Design graduate Dana Douiev enable the ceremonial preparation of traditional Ethiopian injera bread in a contemporary city kitchen (+ movie). More about Dana Douiev's Injera collection brings traditional Ethiopian cooking rituals to modern kitchens
Architect Shimpei Oda has renovated a 36-square-metre studio apartment in Osaka, Japan, transforming part of a balcony into an extension of the living room. More about Shimpei Oda creates "inner balcony" in renovated Osaka apartment
The Broad museum designed by Diller, Scofidio + Renfro is set to open in September, heralding an architecture boom in Los Angeles. More about Instagram users offer a preview of The Broad museum in Los Angeles
Chinese firm MAD Architects has proposed a futuristic housing scheme for LA that features sculptural towers wrapped in gardens and connected by sky bridges. More about MAD proposes conceptual "vertical village" for LA as alternative to sprawl
American studio CHA:COL has incorporated modified IKEA products into a unit that serves as an office and apartment for two visual artists in Los Angeles. More about CHA:COL creates a live-work space in LA using hacked IKEA products
Photo essay: British photographer Simon Kennedy documents an old laboratory at University College London in this series of manipulated images, which each come in positive and negative forms (+ slideshow). More about Constructed Images: Simon Kennedy distorts the interior of a disused London laboratory
This family home in Maryland by Office Mian Ye is sheathed in a wooden brise-soleil, enabling views of the landscape while also offering privacy (+ slideshow). More about Office Mian Ye wraps a Maryland home in wood battens made of knotty cedar
Visualisation studio Bloomimages has created a series of hyper-realistic renderings depicting a home and studio for an artist in the ageing concrete structures of an old shipyard on the edge of the North Sea (+ slideshow). More about Photo-realistic renderings depict an imaginary house in a wild seaside landscape
Korean artist Wonmin Park is exhibiting a new table and bookcase from his resin furniture series at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in Paris. More about Wonmin Park adds resin table and bookcase to Haze furniture series
Concrete slabs, translucent glass planks and frameless window walls offer varying degrees of privacy for this house in the Israeli city of Ramat Gan by Pitsou Kedem (+ slideshow). More about Pitsou Kedem brings together translucent, transparent and opaque materials for family house
Photo essay: Canadian photographer NK Guy first went to Burning Man festival in 1998, and has returned to the Nevada desert each year since to shoot the artworks that spring up then vanish just as quickly (+ slideshow). More about NK Guy documents 16 years of creating and destroying Burning Man's temporary "city"
Archiplan Studio has rejuvenated the interior of a villa in northern Italy, reviving original wallpapers and furnishings, and pairing them with contemporary details (+ slideshow). More about Archiplan Studio blends old and new for restoration of early 20th-century Italian villa
London kitchenware brand Joseph Joseph has developed a collection of containers for microwave cooking that can be used to prepare full meals rather than just heating up leftovers (+ slideshow). More about Joseph Joseph aims to reinvent microwave cooking with M-Cuisine collection
Designed to look like a garden wall, this seemingly windowless brick house in Dublin was created by ODOS Architects to reference an orchard that once occupied the site (+ slideshow). More about ODOS Architects creates introverted house on "undevelopable" site in Dublin
Instead of folding against a wall, this space-saving bed by French furniture manufacture Décadrages can be hoisted up to the ceiling to create more room in studio apartments. More about Décadrages' BedUp lifts up to the ceiling when not in use
Artists and designers often chose the most dramatic locations to build their workspaces. We've updated our dedicated Pinterest board with some of the most interesting and beautiful recent examples, including a studio submerged into the side of a cliff and a cabin perched above a babbling stream.
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Aluminium sheets perforated with a geometric pattern create angled facets around the windows of this university student centre in Kortrijk (+ slideshow). More about Golden aluminium featuring cube patterns clads walls of university building by AVDK