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Competition: Dezeen and publisher Taschen have teamed up to give away three copies of a book containing 50 remarkable treehouses.

Above: image of a treehouse in the southwest of Irian Jaya, Indonesia by Harald Melcher/Rubinland

Author Philip Jodidio compiled a selection of unusual structures built in, around or on top of trees around the world for Tree Houses: Fairy Tale Castles in the Air.

Above: image of Free Spirit Spheres, Qualicum Bay, British Columbia, Canada by Tom Chudleigh

Several photos of each project are accompanied by information about the design and a short biography of the architect in English, French and German.

Above: image of Terunobu Fujimori’s Teahouse Tetsu, Kiyoharu Shirakaba Museum, Nakamaru, Hokuto City, Yamanashi, Japan by Akihisa Masuda

Illustrated by American artist Patrick Hruby, the hardcover book can be published on the Taschen website for £44.99.

To enter this competition email your name, age, gender, occupation, and delivery address and telephone number to competitions@dezeen.com with “Tree Houses” in the subject line. We won’t pass your information on to anyone else; we just want to know a little about our readers. Read our privacy policy here.

Competition closes 5 March 2013. Three winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeenmail newsletter and at the top of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.

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Competition: it’s coming up to Valentine’s day so we’re giving readers the chance to win one of ten packs of Little Romance paperclips by London designer Lee Washington.

The little red men with cut-out hearts hold pages together by hugging them with flexible arms. Made from laser-cut polypropylene, the clips come in packs of four.

Washington also makes Little Romance bookmarks that are sold alongside the paperclips at his Little Man Shop, where you can also find his original Little Man stationary items.

To enter this competition email your name, age, gender, occupation, and delivery address and telephone number to competitions@dezeen.com with “Little Romance paperclips” in the subject line. We won’t pass your information on to anyone else; we just want to know a little about our readers. Read our privacy policy here.

Competition closes 14 February 2013. Ten winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeenmail newsletter and at the top of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.

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Competition: Dezeen is giving five readers the chance to win two sets of their Instagram photos printed onto custom Polaroid and roll film-style prints.

New printing service Origrami allows users to upload photos from their Instagram aacounts onto the website and pay to have them printed as Polaroid style or on a roll of film, with free shipping worldwide.

Retroprint are double-sided Polaroid-style prints that include a photo on a white background on one side with the date and number of likes on the other.

If the image is geo-tagged, the back of the photo will be printed with a map of the location where it was taken, or a colourful background if not.

The 1.27-metre-long film roll displays a line of photos on translucent film.

Each winner will receive a discount code for one free retroprint set and one free roll-film set, to be redeemed on the Origrami website.

To enter this competition email your name, age, gender, occupation, and delivery address and telephone number to competitions@dezeen.com with “Origrami” in the subject line. We won’t pass your information on to anyone else; we just want to know a little about our readers. Read our privacy policy here.

Competition closes 21 February 2013. Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeenmail newsletter and at the top of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.

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Competition: Dezeen is giving readers the chance to win one of five copies of a limited edition digital artwork by Japanese artist Yoko Ono. Named Painting to Shake Hands, the five-minute-long piece was created specially for digital art platform s[edition] and filmed at the To The Light exhibition of Ono’s work at the Serpentine Gallery in London, which took place from 19 June to 9 September 2012.

The work references a specific instruction from her book Grapefruit, published in 1964, where the artist produced a series of ‘event scores’, which an individual might or might not enact, as follows:

Painting to Shake Hands (painting for cowards). Drill a hole in a canvas and put your hand out from behind. Receive your guests in that position. Shake hands and converse with hands.

Yoko Ono has created conceptual and performance art for over fifty years. The exhibition winners will receive a file that can be downloaded and viewed without a watermark on a TV, iPad, iPhone and other digital screens.

To enter this competition email your name, age, gender, occupation, and delivery address and telephone number to competitions@dezeen.com with “Yoko Ono” in the subject line. We won’t pass your information on to anyone else; we just want to know a little about our readers. Read our privacy policy here.

Competition closes 14 February 2013. Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeenmail newsletter and at the top of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.

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Competition: we’re giving readers the chance to win one of five copies of The New Wave in Danish Architecture, a book featuring contemporary projects by Danish architects such as BIG and NORD.

The book documents the developments in Danish architecture since the beginning of the 21st century.

Projects by 12 Danish architecture studios including BIG, JDS and NORD appear alongside interviews with Bjarke Ingels of BIG, Winy Maas of MVRDV and Shohei Shigematsu of OMA.

Featured projects include the Holmenkollen ski jump by Copenhagen studio JDS and the Danish pavilion for the 2010 EXPO in Shanghai by BIG, among many others.

Edited by Kristoffer Lindhardt Weiss and Kjeld Vindum and written in both English and Danish, the hardback book was first published autumn 2012.

To enter this competition email your name, age, gender, occupation, and delivery address and telephone number to competitions@dezeen.com with “The New Wave of Danish Architecture” in the subject line. We won’t pass your information on to anyone else; we just want to know a little about our readers. Read our privacy policy here.

Competition closes 5 February 2013. Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeenmail newsletter and at the top of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.

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