Squaring by Lee Sehoon
The hinged boxes of this bookcase by Korean furniture designer Lee Sehoon can be spun round to create a neat grid or a scattered circle (+ movie). More about Squaring by Lee Sehoon
The hinged boxes of this bookcase by Korean furniture designer Lee Sehoon can be spun round to create a neat grid or a scattered circle (+ movie). More about Squaring by Lee Sehoon
This movie by filmmakers Stretch documents the ongoing work by Cape Town studio Noero Architects to create a cultural centre within the barracks of Port Elizabeth that were once used as a concentration camp. More about Common Ground/Different Worlds by Noero Architects
In the final movie we filmed with Reinier de Graaf of OMA at the Venice Architecture Biennale, he discusses the firm's fascination with architecture of the late 1960s and how there is an "inherent paradox between the brutal appearance of these buildings and the social mission that they were part of." More about "An underdose of utopia can be as dangerous as an overdose" - Reinier de Graaf
Reinier de Graaf of OMA talks to Dezeen about "architecture with a degree of social conscience" by anonymous local authority architects in France and Italy in the second of three movies we filmed at the firm's Public Works exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012. More about Reinier de Graaf of OMA presents "architecture with a social conscience"
In the first of three movies filmed at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Reinier de Graaf of OMA talks about Pimlico School, a brutalist building in London that was demolished last year and which features in OMA's Public Works exhibition of "masterpieces by bureaucrats" at the biennale. More about "Bloody fools, bloody fools"
In case you missed it yesterday, designer Dominic Wilcox has created an animation that links together some of his illustrations of absurd inventions, including a reverse bungee jump (above). More about Variations on Normal by Dominic Wilcox
Competition: Dezeen and designer Dominic Wilcox have teamed up to give readers the chance to win one of five copies of his new book that features over one hundred drawings of his "odd yet strangely logical" inventions (+ movie). More about Competition: five copies of Variations on Normal by Dominic Wilcox to be won
In a movie Dezeen filmed at his Golden Lion-winning installation in collaboration with Justin McGuirk and Urban-Think Tank at the Venice Architecture Biennale, architectural photographer Iwan Baan talks about how residents have built their own homes between the columns and floor plates of the unfinished Torre David skyscraper in Caracas. More about Iwan Baan on "architecture without architects"
British designer Ben Pawle has come up with a condom wrapper for people with disabilities that can be opened with a simple finger-clicking action (+ movie). More about One Handed Condom Wrapper by Ben Pawle
In the final movie in our series filmed with Marc Newson at his London studio, he tells us about lesser-known projects - including a six-wheel Aston Martin for a member of a Middle Eastern royal family - that "for one reason and another didn't get out there." Update: this interview is featured in Dezeen Book of Interviews, which is on sale now for £12. More about Marc Newson on the projects that got away
In this next movie in our series filmed with Marc Newson in his London studio he tells us about the watches he's designed, including the first ones that he built himself in the late 1980s. Update: this interview is featured in Dezeen Book of Interviews, which is on sale now for £12. More about "I pre-dated the trend for large watches by about a decade" - Marc Newson
FAT director Sam Jacob explains why he believes that "copying is both fundamental to how architecture develops and something that threatens its foundational belief in originality," in this movie we filmed at the Venice Architecture Biennale, where the firm has created an installation called The Museum of Copying. More about "Copying is both fundamental and dangerous to architecture" - Sam Jacob of FAT
Curator Justin McGuirk tells us why his Golden Lion-winning installation about a community living in a vertical slum in Caracas could set an example for new forms of urban housing, in this movie we filmed at the Venice Architecture Biennale. More about "Why should the poor live in slums if there are empty offices in the city?" - Justin McGuirk
In this third movie Dezeen filmed with industrial designer Marc Newson at his London studio, he talks about his designs for transport and how a car should have as few controls as possible, saying "I don't really believe in instruction manuals. I tend to throw them away." Update: this interview is featured in Dezeen Book of Interviews, which is on sale now for £12. More about "I don't really believe in instruction manuals" - Marc Newson
Industrial designer Marc Newson has famously tried his hand at designing pretty much everything. In the second of five movies Dezeen filmed to coincide with the publication of a major book on his work by Taschen, Newson talks us though a range of his projects that takes in mobile phones, knives, beds, clothes, packaging and a surf board so slick it was sold as a sculpture. More about Movie: Marc Newson on designing nearly everything
In the first of five movies Dezeen filmed with industrial designer Marc Newson to coincide with the publication of a major book on his work by Taschen, he talks about the early days of his career when he made everything himself - including one of his most famous pieces of work, the Lockheed Lounge chaise longue. Update: this interview is featured in Dezeen Book of Interviews, which is on sale now for £12. More about "I was obsessed by the idea of making things myself" - Marc Newson
In the next movie in our series of interviews we filmed for the Design Museum Collection App for iPad, Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic talks about iconic kitchenware products in their collection. More about Design Museum Collection App: kitchenware
In the third movie we filmed at Clerkenwell Design Week pop-up shops, Etsy UK marketing manager Georgina Blain explains how their global online marketplace is helping designers such as Sandra Dieckmann (work pictured) to expand from a local customer base to promote and sell their work internationally. More about Etsy at Clerkenwell Design Week
In the second movie in our series we filmed at pop-up stores during Clerkenwell Design Week, UK director of self-publishing platform Blurb Teresa Pereira talks about how designers are bypassing traditional publishing houses and using the internet to create, publish and sell their own books. More about Blurb at Clerkenwell Design Week
With the Venice Architecture Biennale opening next week, here's a full transcript of our interview with its director David Chipperfield, who explains the thinking behind this year's theme, Common Ground.
Chipperfield stresses the need for the profession to address "the 99.99% of the rest of the world which architects are not dealing with." Otherwise he says, architects risk being relegated to being "urban decorators." Update: this interview is featured in Dezeen Book of Interviews, which is on sale now for £12. More about Architects risk becoming "urban decorators" - David Chipperfield