Competition: five 21st Century Lighting Design books to be won
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with publishers Bloomsbury to give readers a chance to win a guide to 21st century lighting design by Dezeen contributor Alyn Griffiths. More
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Competition: five Synthetic Aesthetics books to be won
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with publishers MIT Press to offer readers the chance to win one of five copies of a new book about developments in synthetic biology, by researchers including Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg. More
Competition: three "design dictionaries" by Deyan Sudjic to be won
Competition: Dezeen has partnered with publisher Particular Books to give away three copies of B is for Bauhaus – a "personal dictionary of design" by Deyan Sudjic, director of London's Design Museum.
Competition: five PK Arkitektar monographs to be won
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with publishers Arvinius + Orfeus to give readers the chance to win five monographs of work by Icelandic architect Pálmar Kristmundsson. More
Competition: five copies of Trenton Oldfield's prison diary to be won
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with publishers Myrdle Court Press to give readers the chance to win books about Trenton Oldfield's time spent behind bars after disrupting the Oxford-Cambridge boat race. More
Competition: five Formafantasma monographs to be won
Competition: Dezeen is giving readers the chance to win one of five copies of a book released to coincide with a retrospective exhibition of work by Eindhoven designers Formafantasma. More
Competition: Mies van der Rohe monograph to be won
Competition: Dezeen and publishers Phaidon have teamed up to give one reader the chance to win a monograph of work by Modernist architect Mies van der Rohe. More
Competition: five Marcel Wanders monographs to be won
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with Frame Publishers to give readers the chance to win one of five books released to coincide with Dutch designer Marcel Wanders' retrospective exhibition at Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum. More
Competition: five GamFratesi monographs to be won
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with publishers Summit to give readers the chance to win a book full of projects by design duo GamFratesi. More
"First 3D-printed book cover" created with a MakerBot
News: US publisher Riverhead has collaborated with 3D-printing firm MakerBot to create the first printed book sleeve. More
"To stick it to The Man, first you have to let him trouser your money"
Opinion: now we buy everything from Amazon, where does that leave the counterculture? A new attempt to revive the spirit of the Whole Earth Catalog is "about as counter-cultural as a Happy Meal," argues Justin McGuirk. More
Jony Ive "more important to Apple now than Steve Jobs was"
News: Jony Ive is now more important to Apple than Steve Jobs was when he died and the company "would be in trouble if he left", according to the author of a new biography of the computer giant's chief designer (+ interview). More
Competition: three 3XN monographs to be won
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with Danish architecture studio 3XN to give away three copies of the firm's new monograph. More
Competition: five Al Bahr Towers books to be won
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with publisher Wiley to give away five copies of a book about the construction of the Al Bahr Towers in Abu Dhabi. More
Competition: five Hadid Complete Works 1979–2013 books to be won
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with publishers Taschen to give readers the chance to win one of five copies of a new Zaha Hadid monograph (+ slideshow). More
Naar Inkt Vissen book printed with squid ink by Today Designers
Utrecht studio Today Designers has created a book of nautical tales that smells like the sea because it's printed with squid ink. More
The knitting collection of Loes Veenstra by Christien Meindertsma
Dutch Design Week 2013: designer Christien Meindertsma has compiled photographs of hundreds of jumpers knitted by an elderly woman into a book and organised a flashmob in her honour (+ movie). More
Competition: five books about Wilkinson Eyre's cooled conservatories to be won
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with publishers ORO Editions to give away copies of a book about British firm Wilkinson Eyre Architects' cooled conservatories at Gardens by the Bay in Singapore (+ slideshow). More
Complete an Archidoodle drawing for the chance to win architecture books
Dezeen promotion: Dezeen readers can enter a competition to win a set of architecture books published by Laurence King by completing one of three drawings from its new Archidoodle title. More
Competition: five copies of Dutch Design Yearbook 2013 to be won
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with publishers nai010 to give readers the chance to win a copy of a book full of innovative projects designed in the Netherlands over the past year. More