Our most-read stories of the week

1. Zaha Hadid’s Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan has won the Design Museum’s Design of the Year Award 2014.

2. The Design Museum has released images of ongoing construction work at its new Kensington site, which is due to open in 2016.

3. Skype has redesigned its Skype for iPhone product by introducing a new interface and adding functionality that focuses on ‘user conversations and chat’.

Our most popular Tweet of the week

London’s House of Illustration is opening with a Quentin Blake exhibition: http://t.co/ULPxcs5NZU pic.twitter.com/fPKqOoUvLx

— Design Week (@Design_Week) July 2, 2014

Our favourite Tweets of the week

Watch – Paul Cox on the task of converting the Today programme into art http://t.co/4XdYDcO1fH

— BBC Radio 4 Today (@BBCr4today) July 2, 2014

Some famous World Cup goals recreated by the absolutely fantastic @RikkiLeaks. http://t.co/12842o3Ujv

— (via @JonnyGabriel) (@JonnyGabriel) June 27, 2014

A tribute to Bob Bateman, CR’s first art director, who died this week http://t.co/jyldhzWNBP pic.twitter.com/vP4nBIaI2s

— Creative Review (@CreativeReview) June 27, 2014

Image of the week

There are some terrific photos in the upcoming Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. This is NGC 6888 by Mark Hanson.

Quote of the week

‘For probably the last 15 years, Apple’s heads of industrial, packaging and retail design – and the overall brand guardian for Mac – have all been British. It really should say on their products, “Designed in California by a bunch of Brits”.’ Mucho’s Rob Duncan on the US appetite for British design talent.

Our favourite website

What does type taste like? Join the Type Tasting Human Experiment and find out.

Design stories in the national press

Canadian graphic designer Brennan Gleason, who printed his CV on to a four-pack of beer, is dubbed a ‘legend’ by the Metro.

In BBC Radio 4 programme Animal Architecture, Tom Dykhoff explores how we design and build for animals.

The normally prudish Telegraph takes a look at new Lovepalz Ladobi, a pair of headphones designed for watching pornography…