Five years ago this week Olafur Eliasson and Snøhetta unveiled their proposals for the 2007 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion and Herzog & de Meuron announced plans to create a new football stadium for English team Portsmouth FC that were abandoned shortly after. More about Five years ago...
Milan 2012: Bangkok designers THINKK studio have created a lamp that slots together like a children's toy. More about CONST lamp by THINKK studio at Ventura Lambrate
Milan 2012: today’s edition of our daily TV show from Dezeen Studio at MOST is all about performance. First up Faye Toogood tells us how she's curing visitors with clay in a soothing pavilion called La Cura, then Sheridan Coakley of London design brand SCP shows us round their stand where one chair is upholstered using traditional methods each day. More about Dezeen Studio: Saturdayat MOST
These reconstituted-stone sails belong to the second museum we've featured this month dedicated to ill-fated liner the RMS Titanic, following one shaped like four hulls. More about SeaCity Museum by Wilkinson Eyre Architects
This week last year two architectures students unveiled plans for a company that enables illegal migration and our most popular and controversial story was about a giant, latticed canopy by J. Mayer H. that was described as clumsy, grotesque and overbearingly monumental, as well as sublime and gutsy. More about One year ago...
Milan 2012: process and outcome are literally given equal weighting in this installation of work by Vienna designers Mischer’Traxler, shown on weighing scales at Wait and See shop in Milan this week. More about Balanced by Mischer’Traxler at Wait and See
Dezeen Wire: in an interview with Guardian journalist James Ball, technological rights campaigner John Perry Barlow of Electronic Frontiers Foundation (EFF) discusses the importance of establishing peer-to-peer frameworks of power and explains why he is forming an organisation to fund information hackers - The Guardian
Hacking culture and open-source production has been one of the hottest topics at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan this year. Listen to our interview about it with design critic Justic McGuirk from Thursday's Dezeen Studio TV show, or see pictures from the Hacked Lab.
More about "Hacktivists in the frontline battle for the internet" - The Guardian
Designed in Hackney: today's featured designers from the London borough of Hackney are graphic designers Multistorey, who created the geometric interiors and branding for accessories boutique Darkroom. More about Designed in Hackney: Darkroom by Multistorey
In case you hadn’t noticed, this week we've been in Milan for the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, where we've been filming a daily TV show from Dezeen Studio powered by Jambox at MOST. Highlights include interviews with Zaha Hadid, Tom Dixon and Faye Toogood, plus we've been talking to journalists about this year's hot topics, giving away prizes and touring exhibitions at MOST and elsewhere in the city. Catch up with all the episodes here. More about This week on Dezeen...
Milan 2012: 14 young designers come together to create an ideal living space for an exhibition called The Front Room: Geometry and Colour inside a listed Milanese house this week. More about The Front Room: Geometry and Colour
Milan 2012: it's Friday and Japan is hot on the agenda for today's edition of our daily TV show from Dezeen Studio, as we chat to architect and Pecha Kucha founder Mark Dytham about the design scene in Tokyo and our guest journalist Elle Decoration UK editor Michelle Ogundehin tips Japanese design and manufacturing as the hot story at Milan this year. Ogundehin also tells us about the campaign the magazine is launching to protect the rights of UK designers, which you can find out more about here. More about Dezeen Studio: Friday at MOST
Dezeen Wire: the winners of the fiftieth D&AD Awards have been announced. See press release below.
See all the winning projects on the D&AD website. More about D&AD Awards 2012 winners announced
Milan 2012: British designer Lee Broom is showcasing furniture and lighting at an exhibition styled like a British public house at Ventura Lambrate in Milan this week. More about Public House by Lee Broom at Ventura Lambrate
Slideshow: in our second project this week by Madrid studio Exit Architects, the designers teamed up with architect Eduardo Delgado Orusco to create this civic and cultural centre inside a former prison in Palencia, Spain. More about Civic Centre in Palencia by Exit Architects and Eduardo Delgado Orusco
Milan 2012: weary fair-goers in Milan can relax and recharge at an installation by Studio Toogood at MOST this week, guided through a healing performance by mysterious helpers dressed in white. More about La Cura by Studio Toogood at MOST
Milan 2012: the 400 wooden slats of this table top by Mauricio Affonso allow it to expand, contract and fan out into a full circle. More about Fan Table by Mauricio Affonso at Ventura Lambrate
Slideshow: there are no horizontal crossbeams to interrupt the vertically striped wooden batons that clad this house outside Munich by German architects Titus Bernhard. More about House 11x11 by Titus Bernhard Architekten
Milan 2012: this lamp by Swedish designers Front blows a bubble every few seconds to form a transparent shade round an LED. More about Surface Tension Lamp by Front
Designed in Hackney: Shoreditch-based interactive designers Jason Bruges Studio are presenting a lighting mobile that moves around to map its surroundings at Light+ Building in Frankfurt this week. More about Designed in Hackney: Scan Mobile by Jason Bruges Studio
Dezeen Wire: Design Miami/Basel have announced that Tom Foulsham, Markus Kayser and Philippe Malouin are the winners of the 2012 W Hotels Designers of the Future Award. More about W Hotels Designers of the Future Award winners