Tom Dixon to skip Milan | Shipping container retreat | Frank Sinatra's home

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Tom Dixon to skip this year's Milan design week

Tom Dixon is to step away from the Milan design week circuit for the first time in 15 years, and will instead launch products during a 90-day world tour. More ›

 
 

Design can help change the system, say speakers at Dezeen's politics talk

Rudy Van Belkom modular voting

Designers can influence politicians by proposing "10,000 little steps" to improve the world, according to speakers at our final Good Design for a Bad World talk at Dutch Design Week. More ›

 
 

Competition: win a Rains jacket and travel bag in camouflage print

win a Rains camouflage jacket and travel bag

Dezeen has teamed up with Danish brand Rains to give three readers the chance to win a camouflage raincoat and matching duffel bag from its Sea Camo range. More ›

 
 

Lotte Douwes celebrates the plug socket with porcelain charging device

Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Lotte Douwes has created an alternative charging solution to a traditional wall socket, which incorporates sockets that hang from the ceiling so that smartphone users aren't restricted to walls.

Dutch designer Lotte Douwes has created a charging solution for Danish brand Menu, which swaps discreet wall sockets for power stations that hang from the ceiling.  More ›

 
 

Studio Edwards uses shipping containers to create getaway on Australia's Great Ocean Road

House 28 by Studio Edwards

A trio of shipping containers has been converted into a weekend retreat set on stilts on a hillside overlooking Australia's Otway Coast by Melbourne practice Studio Edwards.  More ›

 
 

Atelier Pierre Thibault builds geometric white house in Quebec woods

Le Lupin by Atelier Pierre Thibault

This white residence hidden amongst the trees in rural Quebec is shrouded by a grid of white slats, which filters light coming into the home. More ›

 
 

Twin Palms by E Stewart Williams provided a private retreat for Frank Sinatra

Twin Palms by E Stewart Williams

Our series covering the best mid-century architecture in Palm Springs, to coincide with the California city's Modernism Week, continues with the sprawling estate created for music and film legend Frank Sinatra. More ›

 
 

Synthetic Polleniser could help depleting bee population

Brisbane-based artist Michael Candy has proposed a method of artificial pollination using 3D-printed robotic flowers, in a bid to help increase the dwindling bee population. More ›

 
 

Antonio Citterio designs sofa with linear creases for Flexform

Flexform adopts colours inspired by Giorgio Morandi's paintings for Adda sofas

Dezeen promotion: creases are stitched into the cushions of this sofa, designed by Italian architect Antonio Citterio for furniture brand Flexform, to emphasise the natural folds created by sitting. More ›

 
 

Gluck+ designs coastal laboratory in North Carolina to withstand extreme weather

Duke University Marine Lab by GLUCK+ Architecture

The broken-up massing of this Duke University research facility by US firm Gluck+ is meant to help protect the building from storm surge. More ›

 
 

Top five architecture and design jobs this week include roles with MVRDV and Grimshaw

The best new architecture and design roles available via Dezeen Jobs this week include positions with Grimshaw in Sydney, MVRDV in Rotterdam and PLP Architecture in London.  More ›