Competition: win a Sonos One voice-controlled smart speaker
In this competition, Dezeen is giving away a Sonos smart speaker that plays, pauses and changes music in response to voice commands. More
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Anish Kapoor and Es Devlin create secret designs for charity vinyl sleeves
Artist Anish Kapoor, set designer Es Devlin and illustrator Jean Jullien are among the long list of names who have created anonymous, one-of-a-kind record sleeves for charity exhibition Secret 7". More
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Musician-inspired fonts website forced to close after going viral
SongwriterFonts, a website that offered free-to-use typefaces based on the handwriting of famous musicians, has been closed down following legal issues over intellectual-property rights. More
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Kurt Cobain, David Bowie and John Lennon's handwriting feature in new typeface series
French graphic designers Julien Sens and Nicolas Damiens have transformed the handwriting of musicians David Bowie, John Lennon, Kurt Cobain, Leonard Cohen and Serge Gainsbourg into free-to-use typefaces. More
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Rick Banks compiles a visual history of UK club culture
Manchester-based designer Rick Banks has compiled three decade's worth of nightclub graphics into a new book. In a Dezeen exclusive, he picks out five of the most important examples and explains why they were so successful. More
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Movie shows experimental musicians recording inside Philip Johnson's Glass House
This captioned movie shows experimental musicians Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto recording their latest album inside Philip Johnson's Glass House, which at the time was hosting an installation by artist Yayoi Kusama. More
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Kaleidoscopic visuals and choreographed printers feature in OK Go's new music video
The backdrop for OK Go's latest music video is formed from a wall of printers, which were each choreographed to produce hundreds of sheets of colourful paper. More
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Prismatic visuals and floating beings feature in Björk's music video for The Gate
For the music video accompanying her latest single, Björk worked with long-time collaborators Andrew Thomas Huang and James Merry to create her vision of utopia.
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Shigeru Ban's La Seine Musicale incorporates a wall of moving solar panels
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban has completed a music complex near Paris, featuring an egg-shaped auditorium and a wall of solar panels that move to follow the path of the sun. More
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Cover for new Beck album Colors is designed to be customised
British graphic designers Jimmy Turrell and Steve Stacey have created a customisable record sleeve for Beck's new album Colors, which buyers can assemble into whatever pattern they choose. More
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Pentagram gives The National's new album a corporate-looking visual identity as "a bit of a joke"
Pentagram's Luke Hayman has collaborated with American rock band The National to design the album cover and promotional material for new record Sleep Well Beast, out today. More
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Musician's Mirror uses instant feedback to alert performers to bad posture
This camera-style device designed by Royal College of Art graduate Arthur Carabott uses immediate audio and visual feedback to help musicians improve their posture and technique. More
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Weathering steel clads "pop temple" in Leiden by Ector Hoogstad Architecten
A+Awards: this concert venue in the Dutch city of Leiden is clad with panels of weathering steel and was awarded a 2016 Architizer A+Award. More
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David Adjaye creates concrete speaker with "directional form" for Master & Dynamic
Architect David Adjaye used a concrete composite material to create the sculptural form of this wireless speaker, which he designed for New York brand Master & Dynamic. More
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Studio Rik ten Velden's vinyl-storage cabinet doubles as a home DJ booth
Dutch designer Rik ten Velden is targeting home DJs with the Selectors Cabinet – a wooden DJ booth, room divider and record storage unit that he will showcase at Milan design week. More
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Allied Works Architecture creates massive music centre for downtown Calgary
Covering two city blocks, Canada's National Music Centre comprises towering volumes clad in bronze-hued tiles and a refurbished historic brick building. More
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Es Devlin's Grammys stage set for Katy Perry featured picket fence that turned into "divisive wall"
Stage designer Es Devlin has revealed how she worked with Katy Perry to create the backdrop to the singer's politically charged performance at the Grammy Awards last night. More
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Yves Béhar's Love puts a new spin on turntables
Yves Béhar has designed a smartphone-connected compact turntable that plays music by spinning on top of a still vinyl record. More
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Zaha Hadid-designed Brit Awards trophies unveiled
These trophies designed by the late Zaha Hadid to "represent diversity" will be awarded to musicians at next year's Brit Awards. More
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Simon Landrein animates woman falling in love with a stranger for Coco Banana music video
Simon Landrein depicts the chain reaction that follows after a woman falls in love with a random man in Coco Banana's Earthquaker music video. More