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
London Design Festival: in the first of three posts about the Digital Crystal exhibition at London's Design Museum, we look at a mechanical projector built by London design studio Troika which uses Swarovski crystal lenses and LEDs to create portraits on the gallery wall (+ slideshow). More about Hardcoded Memory by Troika
London Design Festival: the V&A museum in London will show off its latest contemporary furniture acquisitions during London Design Festival next week, including Joris Laarman's 2006 Bone chaise and mould (pictured above). More about V&A's new furniture acquisitions to be shown at London Design Festival
Dezeen hosts a series of innovative daily live shows at 100% Design from 19-22 September with guests including trend forecaster Li Edelkoort, designers Katrin Olina (above), Philippe Malouin, Benjamin Hubert and Asif Khan, and writers and critics including Sam Jacob and Daniel Charny. More about Dezeen Live at 100% Design
London Design Festival: a series of prints based on sketches by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec and Pierre Charpin will be presented at design store twentytwentyone next week as part of the London Design Festival. More about Wrong Shop Editions at twentytwentyone
London Design Festival: Japanese designer Yuri Suzuki has made a radio from an electronic circuit board that's arranged to look like the London tube map. More about Tube Map Radio by Yuri Suzuki
London Design Festival: two ladders are joined by hidden hinges to create this adaptable slimline coat rack by Taiwanese designer Yenwen Tseng. More about Ladder Coat Rack by Yenwen Tseng
Dezeen promotion: designjunction 2012 will take place at the Sorting Office, 21-31 New Oxford Street, London WC1 from 19 to 23 September during the London Design Festival and registration for free visitor passes is now open. More about designjunction 2012 at London Design Festival
Dezeen Music Project is looking for original music tracks and performers to take part in Dezeen Live, our series of talks at 100% Design from 19 to 22 September during the London Design Festival. More about Dezeen Music Project: special call out for tracks and performers
Dezeen Wire: here's the first image of a new 190-metre skyscraper for the City of London designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox to house the European headquarters for insurance company W. R. Berkley Corporation. More about W. R. Berkley Corporation European headquarters by Kohn Pedersen Fox
London Design Festival: Shoe designer Tracey Neuls and product designer Tord Boontje have teamed up to design a range of shoes featuring autumn leaves. More about Shoes by Tracey Neuls and Tord Boontje for Selfridges
London Design Festival: Seven aerial installations by young designers Faye Toogood (above), Vic Lee, Paul Cocksedge, Philippe Malouin, Aberrant Architecture, Gitta Gschwendtner and Dominic Wilcox will be installed above the streets of Seven Dials in London during the London Design Festival next month, as part of a project curated by Dezeen. More about Seven Designers for Seven Dials: aerial installations curated by Dezeen
Architect Norman Foster (above) has designed the entrance to the Corderie Arsenale exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale, where the names of generations of architects, critics, designers, landscape architects and planners are projected over the floor, columns and visitors. More about Gateway by Norman Foster at Venice Architeture Biennale 2012
Here are some photos of Zaha Hadid's installation in the Arsenale at the Venice Architecture Biennale, comprising a huge pleated metal funnel. More about Arum by Zaha Hadid Architects at Venice Architecture Biennale 2012
Dezeen is in Venice this week for the preview of the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale, which opens to the public on Wednesday and runs until 25 November.
See our photos from the first day on Facebook, see all our preview stories here and watch our interview with director of the biennale David Chipperfield here, in which he urges the profession to address “the 99.99% of the rest of the world which architects are not dealing with” in order to avoid becoming merely “urban decorators.”
Above image: Vessel by O'Donnell + Tuomey Architects in the Arsenale
More about Featured event: Venice Architecture Biennale
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
Dezeen Wire: this year's Venice Architecture Biennale isn't about the genius of any single architects, director David Chipperfield explained today at the press preview of the exhibition. More about "This biennale isn't an X Factor of who's hot right now" - David Chipperfield
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
