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Designers take on Ebola

A weekend design challenge hosted by Jhpiego and John Hopkins University has come up with some promising ideas for protecting people treating those affected with Ebola

The Artful Project reinvents the gift certificate

The online photography gallery has created a a gift certificate that it says is a work of art in its own right.

Daniel Libeskind’s ‘Counting the Rice’ table

Moroso has made a limited edition of 30 of Daniel Libeskind’s desks, which are designed especially for performance artist Marina Abramovic’s meditative ritual performance Counting the Rice.

Photographer Iwan Baan takes Chicago from the air

Baan’s visual essay on the windy city will go on display as part of next year’s Chicago Architecture Biennial

Designs for the future of marriage, by Alice Wang

Designer creates object such as a ring with a divorce date and a computer mouse that discourages online infidelity, in a new collection that explores the changing nature of marriage.

My first building, by Hugh Broughton

We ask architects to tell us the story of their first completed building and what it felt like to see it take shape. This time, Hugh Broughton of Hugh Broughton Architects on his South Wimbledon District Guides Building

Inflatable incubator wins James Dyson Award

The potentially lifesaving device was designed by 23 year-old Loughborough University graduate James Roberts

Making London’s poppies

888,246 ceramic flowers have been placed at Tower Hill in London to mark the centenary of the First World War and those that died in the conflict. Each flower had to be made by hand, with time manufacturer Johnson Tiles joining in the effort

Is this the world’s most beautiful bike?

Italian car designer Pininfarina has created a bike with all the panache of a 1930s Italian automobile

V&A to stage Architects as Artists exhibition

Exhibition of work from the V&A and RIBA archives plus new work to explore the relationship between art and architecture