Dezeen promotion: ten Dezeen readers can receive a 25% discount when booking their place for this year's Global Design Forum, taking place on 16 and 17 September in London. More about Dezeen reader offer for tickets to Global Design Forum
Ithaca design studio CODA has installed a wall that squirts water and is clad with skateboard offcuts in the courtyard of MoMA PS1 in New York. More about Party Wall by CODA at MoMA PS1
Adornments that deploy robotic wings when someone gets too close or change colour when the wearer is embarrassed have been designed for introverts by Goldsmiths graduate Lilian Hipolyte Mushi. More about An Introvert's Transformation to Extroversion by Lilian Hipolyte Mushi
A long white staircase leads straight to the top floor of this small house in Tokyo by Japanese office Apollo Architects & Associates. More about Arrow by Apollo Architects & Associates
This woven rattan tunnel by Dominican designers Natalia Ortega Gámez and Jose Thén offered a secluded hangout at Caribbean music festival Bacanalia (+ movie). More about Rattan Tunnel at Bacanalia by Natalia Ortega Gámez and Jose Thén
It's the time of year for graduate shows and summer workshops, and our World Design Guide update picks out the New Designers exhibition in London and Domaine des Boisbuchet classes in rural France. More about World Design Guide update: July 2013
London studio AY Architects has constructed a small wooden nursery in a public garden in Camden. Scroll down to see a pair of cute axonometric drawings (+ slideshow). More about Montpelier Community Nursery by AY Architects
Royal College of Art graduate Jeongwon Ji has made her own bioplastic from crab shells. More about BioElectric by Jeongwon Ji
News: London firm Allford Hall Monaghan Morris has applied for planning permission to construct a 27-hectare headquarters for Google in London's King's Cross. More about AHMM submits plans for Google's new London headquarters
Product news: French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has created a glass with a stem that holds exactly one measure of alcohol for liqueur brand Ricard. More about Carafe and glass by Mathieu Lehanneur for Ricard
Argentinean studio Adamo-Faiden has overhauled an ageing townhouse in Buenos Aires with the addition of a rooftop courtyard and an underground yoga room. More about Venturini House by Adamo-Faiden
The platform heels of these shoes by graduate fashion designer Laura Papp are moulded from porcelain (+ slideshow). More about Porcelain Shoes by Laura Papp
As we've published a couple of tiny architecture and interior projects this week, here are all our stories about micro homes. See more micro homes »
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Product news: Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec's minimal suspension lamps that create a tangle of wires to produce a climbing plant effect have gone into production. More about Aim lamps by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec for Flos
In this movie filmed at Clerkenwell Design Week last month, BarberOsgerby's Jay Osgerby tells Dezeen that he wanted to design comfortable, understated sofas rather than statement pieces for their new collection for American furniture brand Knoll. More about "We designed a sofa that we would want in our own home"
This tricycle designed for children by Vietnamese firm a21studio has been crafted from bamboo and finished with ropes. More about Bamboo tricycle by a21studio
News: Italian firm Mario Cucinella Architects has won a competition to design a telecommunications agency headquarters in Algeria with proposals for a fin-like form referencing sand dunes and traditional Mediterranean architecture (+ slideshow). More about ARPT Headquarters by Mario Cucinella Architects
We've recently featured a 1920s styled bar by Herzog & de Meuron in Basel and the creation of an Italian restaurant by Neri&Hu in Shanghai, so our latest Pinterest board gathers together eclectic bars and restaurants from all over the globe.
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A jumble of wooden boxes provide a compact storage solution in this São Paulo micro apartment by Brazilian architect Alan Chu (+ slideshow). More about AP 1211 by Alan Chu
This micro house in Beijing by Chinese architect Liu Lubin comprises three cross-shaped modules that can be flipped around to turn a living room into an office or bathroom (+ slideshow). More about Micro House in Tsinghua by Studio Liu Lubin