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London designer Émilie Voirin has created a range of whips, shaving brushed and trinket boxes made of hair. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

David Mikhail Architects won the New London Architecture‘s Don’t Move, Improve! competition with this project extending a London terraced house by just one metre. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

ADJKM Arquitectos have won a competition to build a music complex in Caracas, Venezuela, with this design covered in a veil of vertical louvres. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French designer Inga Sempé will present these quilted beds for design brand Ligne Roset at imm Cologne next week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: former Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo has been appointed as chairman of the committee for World Design Capital Helsinki 2012. See press release below. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Tokyo firm Naruse Inokuma Architects created these pads of page markers from the waste wood produced during the construction of wooden houses. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A slide is hidden behind the mirrored wall in this Tokyo office by Japanese studio Schemata Architecture Office. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This extension to a family house with marble brise-soleils on the rear façade in New South Wales, Australia, is by Australian practice Carter Williamson Architects. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Upsetters Architects of Japan have completed the interiors for the new offices of visual design studio WOW, located in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

German-Taiwanese designer Béatrix Li-Chin Loos has created this series of spherical vases from layers of scrap wood, glass, cardboard and leather. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This house cantilevering out from the landscape in Schondorf am Ammersee, Germany, is by German architect Bembé Dellinger. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This multi-purpose sports hall by Parisian studio AP 5 Architects has shutters in the facade to open the lower part of the building. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some photographs of the completed Tree Hotel by Tham & Videgård Arkitekter, a mirrored glass box suspended round the trunk of a tree in Harads, northern Sweden. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’re heading to the imm cologne design fair in Germany next week, where once again we’re holding a series of Dezeentalks featuring upcoming and established designers and design-world figures in conjunction with the [D3] Design Talents event. The talks are free so come along and watch! (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These branched pendant lights are by American designer Victor Vetterlein. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French designers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec will present a collection of rugs for Spanish brand Nanimarquina at Maison & Objet in Paris this month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designers Big-Game of Lausanne have made a series of mirrors from car windscreens. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Stripes of paving, plants and lighting form the entrance to Ben- Gurion University campus in Be’er Sheba, Israel, designed by Israeli firm Chyutin Architects. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This tomb for a family on the mountainside in Arganil, Portugal, is by Portuguese architect Pedro Dias. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Stuttgart practice Ippolito Fleitz Group have completed the interiors for a fast-food chicken restaurant in Munich, Germany. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

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…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

An adjacent busy road is screened from this house by Japanese firm FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects, hidden behind a wall suspended over the terrace edge to line up with the boundary wall. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Italian design brand Skitsch have sacked their CEO Renato Preti. See press release below. More about Skitsch on Dezeen » (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Alice Rawsthorn reviews Sustainism Is the New Modernism, a book by cultural theorist Michiel Schwarz and designer Joost Elffers to be released next month - New York Times </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Amsterdam designer Andreas Kowalewski has created a series of lamps shaped like mushrooms. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article