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London Design Festival Highlights and Other Design News

Dezeen's weekly roundup covers the London Design Festival, Dyson's product history, and notable architectural projects.

The London Design Festival featured a pavilion with a bamboo structure topped with police and rain shields. Other highlights included an exhibition by Royal College of Art students and a fictional hotel suite for a new design platform. The Mayor of London described the city's design as an "international success story."

In a review of Dyson's product history, vacuums, fans, hand dryers, and hair care products were identified as successful innovations, while other attempts at revolutionizing products were less so, following the launch of their first toothbrush.

Architecture news included plans for a human-sized, spherical Pokémon-themed hotel guesthouse in Hokkaido, Japan, by Not A Hotel.

At Helsinki Design Week, a Matti Suuronen Futuro House, manufactured for the first time in decades, was presented. Its creation was prompted by a social media post.

Popular projects this week included a holiday home in Sweden, a UK cabin focused on bathing rituals, and a cottage extension in Scotland.

The Dezeen Weekly podcast discussed the key design and architecture stories of the past week, with a focus on the London Design Festival.

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