Bird sNest Box by All Lovely Stuff
Product news: British design brand All Lovely Stuff have created a bird box inside a flowerpot. More
Product news: British design brand All Lovely Stuff have created a bird box inside a flowerpot. More
Design Miami: architects and designers including Kengo Kuma, Toyo Ito, Shigeru Ban, MVRDV and Konstantin Grcic have designed a series of downloadable architectural structures that are just for dogs (+ slideshow). More
Movie: Brazilian architect Marcio Kogan of Studio MK27 used cinematic techniques he picked up in his early career as a movie director to film one of his latest projects through the eyes of the client's pet cat. More
The popularity of a staircase designed for dogs (bottom right) we published this week reminded us that pets often creep into architecture and interior photo shoots on Dezeen, so we've compiled them all into our latest Pinterest board dedicated to animals. Over 26,000 people now follow us on Pinterest - join them here.
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There's a special staircase for dogs at this renovated house in Ho Chi Minh City by architecture studio 07Beach. More
German designer Johanna Schmeer has created a set of traps for catching genetically modified mice. More
Designer Marguerite Humeau has reconstructed the vocal tracts of prehistoric creatures to capture the shrieks and grunts they might have made (+ slideshow + movie). More
These felt elephant toys by German designer Daniel Böttcher are available at our pop-up design emporium Dezeen Super Store at 38 Monmouth Street, Seven Dials, Covent Garden, London WC2. More
Canadian designer Maskull Lasserre has created a series of shoes that leave animal footprints. More
This chicken coop by Swedish architect and designer Torsten Ottesjö is designed to look like the protective wing of a mother hen. More
New York-based Icelandic designer Jóhanna Methúsalemsdóttir of Kria based this collection of jewellery on the shapes of cod fish bones. More
Designed in Hackney: next up in our showcase of local designers is Roger Arquer and his non-lethal mousetraps, first published on Dezeen in 2007 and still one of our most-clicked stories of all time. More
In this movie filmed by Dutch design organisation Premsela during their symposium Me Craft/You Industry in January, Welsh designer Kieren Jones explains how he constructed a miniature factory to transform the uneaten parts of a chicken into a gold leather flying jacket and a bone china eggcup and spoon. More
Milan 2012: the design world flocks to Milan next month and designer Craig Alun Smith plans to splatter the city with bird poo in every colour of the rainbow by planting dyed bird feeders around the Piazza del Duomo. More
Slideshow: Israeli studios Monkey Business and Reddish have designed these pins for making little animal characters from wine corks at the dinner table. More
In this movie from the V&A museum in London, Simon Peers and Nicholas Godley talk about the cape they made by harvesting silk from over a million wild spiders in Madagascar. The silk is naturally golden in colour and the spiders take just a week to replenish their supply once released back into the wild. More
It may look like a giant bird’s nest but this stick-covered dome is actually a horse-riding arena in the Czech Republic. More
A golden cape woven from the silk of over a million wild spiders is on show at the V&A museum in London. More
The Temporium: today is your last chance to visit our Christmas shop The Temporium - we close at 3pm - and the final window in our Advent calendar features ceramics and glass by Londoner Shan Valla. More
Dezeen Platform: in this interview filmed at Dezeen Space, street artist Stewy talks about painting indigenous British animals in unexpected areas of the city, including one side of Dezeen Platform. More