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Hotel design event Sleep returns to London next month
Dezeen promotion: annual hotel design event Sleep is set to take place at London's Business Design Centre on 24 and 25 November 2015 (+ slideshow). More
Dezeen promotion: annual hotel design event Sleep is set to take place at London's Business Design Centre on 24 and 25 November 2015 (+ slideshow). More
Dutch Design Week 2015: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Bastiaan de Nennie has 3D-scanned and re-assembled everyday objects as improbable digital creations. More
Surrounded by farmland in rural Japan, this house by architecture studio Tailored Design Lab features a steeply pointed roof that frames views of the landscape, and an oversized chimney that provides natural ventilation (+ slideshow). More
Sci-fi movie Back to the Future II created a "self-fulfilling prophecy" that helped shape today's interactions and objects, according to contemporary designers. More
Architect Renzo Piano has unveiled designs for another London skyscraper – a 224-metre cylindrical tower expected to do for Paddington "what The Shard did for London Bridge". More
Future Makers: in this movie filmed by Dezeen in London, Suryansh Chandra claims the affordable robotic arm his company Automata is developing could lead to robots becoming as ubiquitous as desktop 3D printers. More
Over the past few years, designers have been exploring ways to use various technologies predicted in the film Back to the Future II. From augmented reality to robots, we've pulled together projects from our archive that echo moments from the film to mark the day that Marty McFly and Doc Brown arrive in 2015. Explore the real-life Back to the Future designs »
Almost 20 years after buying a shophouse in a historic Singapore neighbourhood, local architect Maria Warner Wong and her team have converted the building into a new venue for art and design (+ slideshow). More
Tech company Arx Pax has worked with pro skateboarder Tony Hawk to create a slimmed-down design for its second Hendo hoverboard, released today to mark the exact date travelled to in 1980s sci-fi film Back to the Future II. More
Suppose Design Office has used dim lighting and minimal furnishings to create a theatrical dining space for an intimate sushi restaurant in Tokyo (+ slideshow). More
The Cooper Hewitt museum in New York has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for its Design in the Classroom programme, which it hopes to launch across the US. More
Visitors can clamber to the top of this pavilion by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma in Paris' Jardin des Tuileries, which is made up of a complex lattice of identical timber beams. More
Opinion: as London's Barbican gallery launches a major retrospective on Modernist designers Charles and Ray Eames, Sam Jacob wonders whether it matters that the Eames name has taken on a life of its own. More
From triple-screen films to plywood chairs, the multi-disciplinary careers of American Modernist design duo Charles and Ray Eames are the focus of an exhibition at London's Barbican Centre. More
Movie: German designer Nils Holger Moormann told young designers they must learn to be resilient if they want to have successful careers at this year's Blickfang design workshop. More
Dezeen promotion: Dutch Design Week 2015 is taking place in Eindhoven from 17 to 25 October, and this year's theme focuses on the power of designers' imaginations. More
Comments update: Marc Newson faced a backlash over his decision to use mammoth ivory in an £82,000 tea set this week on Dezeen. Read on for more on this and explore our comments page to keep up to date with the latest discussions. More
Dutch Design Week 2015: each garment in graduate fashion designer Vera de Pont's Pop Up fashion collection can be cut out from a single piece of material by the wearer (+ slideshow). More
One half of this tiny mountain dwelling in western Serbia is faced in white ceramic tiles, while the other is clad in dark timber shingles – a nod to both traditional and contemporary styles (+ slideshow). More
Dutch Design Week 2015: designer Troy Nachtigall has used scans of feet to create a pair of 3D-printed shoes personalised for a Dutch politician, which he claims are more comfortable than typically manufactured footwear (+ slideshow). More