London Design Festival: these spinning 'light paintings' made with sparkling crystal beads by designer Philippe Malouin are currently on show in the Digital Crystal exhibition at London's Design Museum (+ movie + slideshow). More about Blur by Philippe Malouin
Victims of human trafficking can find refuge behind the faceted walls of this sheltered housing block in the Netherlands by Dutch firm KAW (+ slideshow). More about Veilige Veste by KAW
London Design Festival: in this movie filmed by Alice Masters for the Design Museum's annual Designers in Residence exhibition, Yuri Suzuki talks about his radio with a circuit board arranged like the London Tube map and his mission to demystify consumer electronics. More about Movie: Yuri Suzuki at Designers in Residence 2012
This shimmering steel house in Kyoto by Japanese architects Alphaville towers above its vernacular neighbours. More about W-Window House by Alphaville
In this second movie that Dezeen filmed with Mischer’Traxler at Clerkenwell Design Week, the Austrian design duo talk to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about their Idea of a Tree machine, which makes benches and lamp shades that are all unique records of the sunlight conditions on the day they were produced. More about Movie: The Idea of a Tree by Mischer'Traxler at Clerkenwell Design Week
Unlike other folding bicycles, this one by Czech designer Mikuláš Novotný has full-size wheels and can be rolled home rather than carried. More about Folder by Mikuláš Novotný
London design brand Hulger has installed a chandelier made from their new Baby Plumen light bulbs in The Changing Room, a former fitting room at Dezeen Super Store. More about Plumen Hive by Hulger in The Changing Room at Dezeen Super Store
Ten conceptual showrooms for the home of the future are presented in this exhibition at temporary arts venue Depot Basel in Switzerland. More about Musterzimmer at Depot Basel
Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza has concealed an office block with walls made entirely of glass behind a sandstone enclosure in the Spanish city of Zamora (+ slideshow). More about Offices for Junta de Castilla y León by Alberto Campo Baeza
London Design Festival: the London Design Festival is underway and the sun is shining so if you're out and about this afternoon be sure to check out the Seven Designers for Seven Dials installations curated by Dezeen (+ map). More about Seven Designers for Seven Dials installations curated by Dezeen
Austrian design duo Mischer'Traxler talk to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about how their basket-building machine will only work when someone's watching in this movie we filmed at Clerkenwell Design Week. More about Movie: Collective Works by Mischer'Traxler at Clerkenwell Design Week
Irish studio Grafton Architects have acknowledged the influence of celebrated Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha on their work by constructing models of his buildings at the Venice Architecture Biennale. More about Architecture as New Geography by Grafton Architects
A geometric sculpture grows from a column and branches across the ceiling of the new designer menswear space designed by architect Alex Cochrane for London department store Selfridges. More about Selfridges Men's Designer Space by Alex Cochrane
A prefabricated concrete cube appears to hover above the wooden base of this house near Amsterdam by Dutch practice Engelarchitecten (+ slideshow). More about Villa Nieuw Oosteinde by Engelarchitecten
German designer Gitta Gschwendtner and Brazilian artist Maria Thereza Alves have planted a garden on a derelict barge in Bristol Harbour using the kinds of foreign seeds that were once mixed up in ships' ballast before being dumped in the river (+ slideshow). More about Seeds of Change by Gitta Gschwendtner and Maria Thereza Alves
Our big news this week is Dezeen featuring in Apple's launch movie for the iPhone 5. The story was picked up by MacRumours last night and was so popular it knocked our servers out for a moment. More about This week on Dezeen
Paris Design Week 2012: architect and designer Jean Nouvel unveiled a collection of aluminium chairs for Emeco at his studio in Paris this week. More about So-So Chairs by Jean Nouvel for Emeco
Competition: Dezeen are giving readers the chance to win one of five copies of architecture and design critic Will Wiles' novel about how interior design affects the way we live, called Care of Wooden Floors. More about Competition: five copies of Care of Wooden Floors by Will Wiles to give away
Horizontal grooves create tactile stripes across the plaster-covered walls of this house in Leiden, the Netherlands, by architects GAAGA (+ slideshow). More about Stripe House by GAAGA
A meeting table with swinging chairs (above) leads the latest issue of Dezeen Mail, which includes the best stories and comments from readers plus new jobs, competitions, movies and more.
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