Crystal Bulb Shop by Lee Broom
London Design Festival: Hackney designer Lee Broom has transformed his studio into an old-fashioned grocery store for the London Design Festival (+ interactive image). More about Crystal Bulb Shop by Lee Broom
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Gift by Paul Cocksedge for Hotel Chocolat
London Design Festival: London designer Paul Cocksedge has made a giant chocolate QR code that visitors to The Dock during the London Design Festival can scan to get a free gift (or you could just scan the image in the bottom of this story). More about Gift by Paul Cocksedge for Hotel Chocolat
Mimicry Chairs by Nendo
London Design Festival: white metal chairs are stacked in a tower and clustered on staircases around the V&A museum as part of an installation by Japanese design studio Nendo (+ slideshow). More about Mimicry Chairs by Nendo
Prism by Keiichi Matsuda
London Design Festival: data streams from all over the city are visualised on the faceted surfaces of Japanese/British designer Keiichi Matsuda's installation inside the cupola of the V&A museum for the London Design Festival. More about Prism by Keiichi Matsuda
Seven Designers for Seven Dials installations curated by Dezeen
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
Literature Versus Traffic by Luzinterruptus
Spanish lighting designers Luzinterruptus scattered 10,000 glowing books across the ground at Federation Square in Melbourne this summer for a lighting festival dedicated to reading. More about Literature Versus Traffic by Luzinterruptus
Hardcoded Memory by Troika
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
Knitted tree and creatures by Donna Wilson for the Stepney Green Design Collection
East London designer Donna Wilson will contribute a special installation to Dezeen's Stepney Green Design Collection made up of a 1.8 metre-high knitted tree with a selection of her soft-toy creatures living in it. More about Knitted tree and creatures by Donna Wilson for the Stepney Green Design Collection
Dutch Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale 2012
Curtains glide along tracks on the ceiling to constantly reconfigure the space inside the Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. More about Dutch Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale 2012
Gateway by Norman Foster at Venice Architeture Biennale 2012
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
Water Light Graffiti by Antonin Fourneau for DigitalArti Artlab
Spraying a wall with water creates graffiti with tiny points of light instead of paint in this installation by French artist Antonin Fourneau (+ movie). More about Water Light Graffiti by Antonin Fourneau for DigitalArti Artlab
Arum by Zaha Hadid Architects at Venice Architecture Biennale 2012
Zaha Hadid will present a pleated metal funnel at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012 later this month (+ movie). More about Arum by Zaha Hadid Architects at Venice Architecture Biennale 2012
Reframe by Paul Scales and Atelier Kit
Different views of a courtyard were framed by this temporary installation in Montpellier, France, by Dutch architecture office Paul Scales and French architecture and design studio Atelier Kit (+ slideshow). More about Reframe by Paul Scales and Atelier Kit
Daphne by 24° Studio
Design practice 24° Studio linked together hundreds of hollow paper stars to line a tunnel and stairway in Santorini, Greece. More about Daphne by 24° Studio
A Sign in Space by Gunilla Klingberg
Stars are printed in the sand by a tractor as it drags a giant roller back and forth across the beach, then left to fade at the mercy of footsteps and the tide in this installation by Swedish artist Gunilla Klingberg. More about A Sign in Space by Gunilla Klingberg
Fountain Hacks by LIKEarchitects and Ricardo Dourado
Portugese studio LIKEarchitects and fashion designer Ricardo Dourado have used beach loungers, garden furniture and toys to get the people of Guimarães in Portugal paddling in the city's fountains (+ slideshow). More about Fountain Hacks by LIKEarchitects and Ricardo Dourado
Hypnagogia by Ryo Matsui Architects
Japanese studio Ryo Matsui Architects hung steel chains to create upside-down domes above the stage of a music recital in Tokyo (+ slideshow). More about Hypnagogia by Ryo Matsui Architects
Pulse by Christian Ferrara and Jon McTaggart
Digital data is visualised as kinks in a piece of thread to make an analogue, wall-mounted graph by design students Christian Ferrara and Jon McTaggart (+movie). More about Pulse by Christian Ferrara and Jon McTaggart
Plastic Garbage Guarding the Museum by Luzinterruptus
Plastic carrier bags glow like lamps from within two skips that Spanish lighting designers Luzinterruptus have placed at the entrance to the Gewerbemuseum in northern Switzerland. More about Plastic Garbage Guarding the Museum by Luzinterruptus
Verbandkammer by Nilsson Pflugfelder
This modular container by architects Nilsson Pflugfelder of London and Berlin can be reconfigured to create a workspace, artist's residence, archive or meeting area as required by its host, the FLACC Workplace for Visual Artists in Genk, Belgium. More about Verbandkammer by Nilsson Pflugfelder