Fashion designer Matthew Williamson has enlisted his celebrity friends including architect Zaha Hadid, actress Gwyneth Paltrow and singer Mary J Blige to design Christmas tree ornaments, which are on display at The Shard in London and will be auctioned for charity. More about Zaha Hadid among celebrity Christmas bauble designers
London designer Emilie Voirin has created a minimal nativity set where characters in the Christmas story are represented by wooden blocks with their names printed in plain black capital letters. More about Minimal Nativity Set made of plain wooden blocks by Emilie Voirin
Opinion: Sam Jacob argues that as climate change pushes the reality of winter further from the idealised version that appears in Christmas decorations, they begin to represent "a hangover of a vanishing idea remade through other technologies." More about "Christmas decorations are winter as skeuomorphism"
Competition: Dezeen is giving readers the chance to win a set of Christmas cards printed with wintery images of London's Modernist architecture by designer Stefi Orazi. More about Competition: five packs of Modernist London Christmas cards to be won
Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all our readers! To get you in the festive spirit, here's a photograph of a snowman we found amongst the palm trees in Miami earlier this month. Lots of love from the team at Dezeen x
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London designer Sebastian Bergne has created a nativity scene comprising nothing but rectangular wooden blocks. More about Colour Nativity by Sebastian Bergne
Here's a selection of our favourite Christmas cards and movies we've received this year, including this one by photographer Luke Hayes, taken in Sheffield, UK (above). More about Designer Christmas cards 2012
Competition: Dezeen is giving readers the chance to win a set of Stackable Snowmen or Happy Little Trees Christmas decorations, both designed by Fruitsuper Design (+ movie). More about Competition: Stackable Snowmen and Happy Little Trees to be won
Christmas shoppers in Madrid can stroll under glittering circles of LEDs designed by Italian architect Teresa Sapey (+ slideshow). More about Christmas lights in Madrid by Teresa Sapey
Unsure what to ask Santa for? We've made a new Pinterest board full of suggestions for Christmas presents and stocking fillers. Check out Dezeen's Christmas list on Pinterest »
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We wish all our readers a very merry Christmas and happy holidays!
Love from the team at Dezeen x
Thanks for all your Christmas cards - here's our selection of the best (and strangest) including this one from Studioilse. More about Designer Christmas cards 2011
Fallen stars, glowing red dominoes and a vine-covered tree are some of the lights installed by artists, designers and architects in Lisbon this Christmas (photographs by Fernando Guerra). More about Lisbon Christmas Lights by Pedro Sottomayor, José Adrião and ADOC
Designer Kiseung Lee of Helsinki wants people to fill stockings with more vital gifts this Christmas: donations to the blood bank. More about Blood pack of Santa Claus by Kiseung Lee
Still not sure what to do with your left-over Christmas tree? Royal College of Art student Tom Hatfield has turned a few of them into a sledge. More about Christmas Tree Sledge by Tom Hatfield
Merry Christmas! Here’s a selection of our favourite Christmas e-cards this year, including this one from UK designers d.studio. More about Designer Christmas cards 2010
Merry Christmas to all our readers! We're taking a couple of days off - we hope you'll excuse us! We hope all your Christmas dreams come true. Love from all of us at Dezeen.
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Here's a selection of our favourite Christmas e-cards sent in by designers and photographers, including this one from Duccio Malagamba.
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Manchester designers Dorothy have designed a set of Christmas baubles shaped like hand grenades for social initiative Ctrl.Alt.Shift and British design brand Suck UK. More about Xmas Declarations by Ctrl.Alt.Shift
Royal College of Art graduate Fabien Cappello has created a collection of furniture from unwanted Christmas trees. More about Christmas Tree Furniture by Fabien Cappello