Gravity Sketch VR allows designers to create and alter digital models in mid-air



The team behind the Gravity Sketch iPad app have launched new cross-platform software, which gives designers the option to draw and manipulate 3D objects in a virtual reality environment (+ movie). (more…)

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Job of the week: designer maker at Glithero

Branch Studio Architects revamps 1960s dream house in Melbourne



This 1960s house in suburban Melbourne has been overhauled by Branch Studio Architects to create a contemporary home for the original owners’ granddaughter (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Thomas Feichtner designs set of minimal vessels dipped in gold



Vienna Design Week 2016: Austrian designer Thomas Feichtner has collaborated with silverware manufacturer Jarosinski & Vaugoin to create a set of minimal tableware featuring uneven washes of gold (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Bourgeois Lechasseur’s V-shaped Altaïr House overlooks a Quebec forest



Canadian studio Bourgeois Lechasseur Architects has stacked two wood-and-glass volumes at opposing angles, resulting in a home designed to embrace its picturesque surroundings (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Luis Barragán exhibition in New York examines his use of colour



Drawings and furniture by legendary Mexican architect Luis Barragán are on display in Manhattan, alongside the works of prominent artists who have also used colour distinctively (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Bouroullec brothers create limited-edition Ruutu vases for Galerie Kreo



French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have used wooden moulds to create a series of giant versions of their diamond-shaped Ruutu vases (+ movie). (more…)

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Competition: win a limited-edition V03D-Dezeen watch



Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with Dezeen Watch Store to give away one of only 200 numbered watches designed in collaboration with Void. (more…)

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First photographs revealed of Amanda Levete’s MAAT museum in Lisbon



Photos have been released of the undulating, tile-covered Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology by Amanda Levete’s firm AL_A, ahead of its opening in Lisbon next week (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Dezeen Mail issue 325 features this week’s best stories and discussions