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Central Saint Martins College of Art student Jeremy Innes-Hopkins has developed kits for throwing together meals from ready-prepared raw ingredients. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French designer Paul Coudamy has created this red-gloss sliding wall unit combining a desk, bed and wardrobe for an apartment in Paris. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Timber baton screens surround the new ground and first floor decks of a renovated house in Seoul by Korean studio Moohoi Architecture. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: here’s an animation of the competition-winning proposals by New York architects Work AC to create a cultural hub on a St Petersburg island that has been closed to the public for over 300 years. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Police guarding the Turkish Consulate in Hanover have upgraded their VW bus for a tiny mobile office. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designer Sammy Bikoulis has won the Triflow Future Talents competition to create a kitchen or bathroom tap with this design featuring three stacked coloured blocks. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: in an interview with the Sunday Times, engineer and inventor James Dyson reveals he is to stand down as chairman of Dyson and talks about the Ingenious Britain report commissioned by the Conservative Party, in which Dyson sets out ways to make Britain a leading high-tech exporter – Sunday Times Related stories: Air Multiplier fan by Dyson; The Wind by Issey Miyake with James Dyson. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s an extension to a family home in rural Belgium by Brussels studio adn Architectures. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Lausanne graphic designer Demian Conrad has completed an identity and interior that reference typewriters for a combined library and internet café in Bellinzona, Switzerland. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Belgian designer Hubert Verstraeten of Tamawa will present these watches made of Bakelite at Maison & Objet in Paris this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Following our recent feature about buildings clad in weathered steel, here’s an archive in Essen, Germany, that is clad in Corten. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve teamed up with music and arts enterprise The Vinyl Factory to give away three deluxe triple-gatefold vinyl box-sets of UK band Massive Attack’s latest album Heligoland, with artwork by band member Robert del Naja. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

An explosion created these stools by Israeli designer Guy Mishaly. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The asphalt surface of a car park extends inside this cafe in Shizuoka, Japan, by Japanese architects Suppose Design Office. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese studio FORM/Kouichi Kimura have completed a house in Shiga, Japan, modelled on traditional folk houses. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Israeli designer Itay Laniado has designed a collapsible ladder held together by a strap under tension. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: the Royal Institute of British Architects in London have published a trends survey indicating that a significant downturn in overall levels of business for British architects is expected. See press release below. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Rather belatedly, here’s a pavilion designed by Beijing studio HHD_FUN for Shanghai, with a surface composed of triangles, divided and divided again in a fractal pattern. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designers Nendo of Japan have completed the interior of a showroom in Tokyo for sneaker brand Puma with shoes displayed on a series of timber staircases. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with publishers Laurence King to give Dezeen readers the chance to win one of five copies of Folding Techniques for Designers. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Polish artist Monika Grzymala will fill a London gallery with lengths of black and white sticky tape at an exhibition that opens in October. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architect Daniel Libeskind has been selected to design a peace centre on the site of the notorious former Maze prison in Northern Ireland, according to the BBC. (more…) View the full article

Lyon designers USIN-e have designed an aquarium in the shape of a test tube. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Having designed offices for Facebook and AOL, San Francisco designers Studio O+A have completed the headquarters of another internet company in California – this time web hosts Dreamhost. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

DezeenTV: in the final movie from our series of Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents, Germany-based designer Reinhard Dienes tells us about his design philosophy, his most recent furniture and lighting designs, and the picture he wakes up to every morning. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article