Maison&Objet 2015: French technology retailer Orée is launching a ballpoint pen that can digitally record and store notes and sketches made in a companion notebook (+ slideshow). More
Behind the crumbling exterior of a 100-year-old cowshed in Japan's Tokushima Prefecture, architect Issei Suma has inserted a glass and steel office for a computing company (+ slideshow). More
This concrete painting studio by Santiago studio Felipe Assadi Architects is half-submerged in the cliffside gardens of a house on the Chilean coastline (+ slideshow). More
Pomo summer: Montreal designers Marie-Pier Guilmain and Maud Beauchamp of MPGMB have created a trio of stacked pedestals influenced by the work of Memphis Group founder Ettore Sottsass (+ slideshow). More
US firm Ross Barney Architects has completed a transit station for an emerging Chicago neighbourhood, featuring a tubular structure made of stainless steel and polycarbonate panels (+ slideshow). More
Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a full-time faculty position in designed objects at the School of Art Institute of Chicago, which is partly housed in the Chicago museum that was extended by architects Renzo Piano Building Workshop (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
Pomo summer: Memphis Group designer Martine Bedin's Super Lamp can be trailed along like a dog on a leash, demonstrating the collective's playful style. This next article in our summer series on Postmodernism tells the story behind one of Memphis' most comical products. More
Berlin architecture firm Atheorem has used dark grey curtains and metallic fixtures to update an apartment that dates back to the late 1800s in the city's Mitte district. More
This pavilion in Holon, Israel, designed by New York-based architects MODU with Geotectura, has a dynamic canopy made of mesh fabric and small balls that move with the wind (+ movie). More
Australian design brand Page Thirty Three has released a range of homeware, including objects that owners are encouraged to "complete" themselves. More
Sheltered beneath an oversized roof, this tiny timber cabin by AA graduate Nozomi Nakabayashi stands on stilts among the oak trees of a wood in Dorset, England (+ slideshow). More
Future Makers: today we're launching a new collaboration with Autodesk exploring the future of making things. In the first movie in the series, Dutch designer Anouk Wipprecht tells us about the digital tools she used to create a collection of interactive 3D-printed dresses for Audi. More
Brazilian firm Vitrô Arquitetura has renovated a 1960s apartment in São Paulo, revealing structural concrete pillars and brickwork walls (+ slideshow). More
The three parallel boxes that form this house in Tel Aviv all culminate in a full-height glazed wall facing the garden, while large square apertures puncture the various side walls (+ slideshow). More
Belgian creative agency Dift has designed the interiors for a loft apartment housed in a former office space in the centre of Ghent (+ slideshow). More
A house-shaped extension protrudes from the side of this children's centre by Seoul studio UTAA, providing a playful space for reading that faces out onto a garden (+ slideshow). More
A requirement for this house in Matsuyama, Japan, was for views of the city's summer firework display, so architect Teruki Takayoshi added a balcony, a roof terrace and a two-storey-high window (+ slideshow). More
Photo essay: London-based photographer John Short was determined to depict the death of New York's creative scene, but his images of its once-legendary arts venues proved that the spaces are far from "lost" (+ slideshow). More
London architect Simon Astridge has renovated the disused basement of a kitchen showroom in Putney, adding textured materials and a spiral-shaped wine vault with a glass trapdoor (+ movie). More
British designer Kris Lamba has folded a 20-metre-long piece of carbon fibre into a chair that facilitates different sitting positions (+ slideshow). More