Dezeen have joined up with Laurence King Publishing to offer readers the chance to win five copies of Designing Sustainable Packaging by Scott Boylston, plus a 30% discount on the book when ordered from the publisher's website. More
Milan 09: Dutch brand Montis presented a "beanbag on legs" by Dutch designer Bertjan Pot, at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan last week. More
Dezeenwire: Norwegian architects Snøhetta have won the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award 2009, for their Norwegian Opera & Ballet, Oslo. See our story on the building here. See our story on the award shortlist here.
Dublin-based Ailtireacht Architects have recently completed an extension to a Victorian terrace house in Rathgar, Dublin. More
Rojkind Arquitectos and Copenhagen architects BIG have won a competition to design a museum overlooking Mexico City. More
Milan 09: fashion brand Diesel have collaborated with lighting brand Foscarini and furniture brand Moroso to create the Diesel Home Collection of furniture and lighting. More
Milan 09: Spanish designer Nacho Carbonell presented a new furniture collection featuring an elastic outer skin that stretches according to objects placed inside the pieces. More
Here's another project from FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects who designed the House of Vision in our previous story: this time, House of Inclusion in Shiga, Japan. More
Milan 09: Carat is a lamp presented at the SaloneSatellite in Milan by Arihiro Miyake, who designed the extension-cable container in our previous story. More
Milan 09: champagne brand Veuve Clicquot present an exhibition called Out of The Box, showing work by Tom Dixon, Front and 5.5 Designers in Zona Tortona. More
Milan 09: Helsinki-based, Japanese designer Arihiro Miyake exhibits an extension cable that incorporates a fabric container for wires at SaloneSatellite in Milan, which ends today. More
Milan 09: here are the first images of Genesy, a floor light designed by architect Zaha Hadid for lighting brand Artemide. More
House of Vision is a private home in Shiga, Japan by FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects that is designed to shield the client from neighbours. More
Milan 09: it's our last day in Milan and here are our favourite shows we've seen so far. Best of all is Real Time by Maarten Baas at CNC showroom, Via Fogazzaro 23 (above). More on this amazing show soon hopefully. More
American industrial designers fuseproject have launched updated versions of their Jawbone Bluetooth headset for manufacturer Aliph. More
Dezeenwire: Frank Gehry walks off Miami Beach New World Symphony Orchestra project; Jonathan Glancey writes on other famous architect-client rows including Sydney Opera House. The Guardian
Milan 09: young Swedish designer Fredrik Färg presents a range of found chairs rejuvenated with felt coverings at SaloneSatellite in Milan this week. More
Dezeenwire: Reuters reports on the Milan furniture fair, with organisers claiming there are "signs of a small recovery". Reuters
Milan 09: Established & Sons present new work by designers including Sam Hecht of Industrial Facility Alexander Taylor, and Terence Woodgate and John Barnard. More
Prada Transformer, a portable, shape-shifting cultural pavilion designed by Office for Metropolitan Architecture/Rem Koolhaas, will open to the public tomorrow in Seoul, Korea. More