Following the popularity of our Designer Christmas Cards post, here are a few New Year cards we've received from designer folk out there. Above: Kam Tang. Meanwhile Happy New Year from us, thanks for visiting and see you in 2008! More about Designer New Year cards
Design Miami 07: here is our sixth movie from Design Miami in December, featuring the As Long As It Lasts tattoo parlour set up by Tobias Wong, Josée Lepage and Aric Chen (who is interviewed in this film). Movie length: 38 seconds. More about Movie: pop-up tattoo parlour at Design Miami
Amer Alhassan of AAArchitects has renovated the auditorium at the Royal Institution of Engineers in the Netherlands (KIVI NIRIA) in The Hague. More about KIVI NIRIA auditorium by AAArchitects
Designer and illustrator Katrin Olina created a mural called Spur for the VIP room at 100% Design Tokyo last month. More about Spur by Katrin Olina
Oktokki Space Center is the third of our trio of projects by Korean architects Mass Studies. More about Oktokki Space Center by Mass Studies
The second of our three recent buildings by Korean architects Mass Studies is the Xi Gallery in Pusan. More about Xi Gallery by Mass Studies
Here is the first of three recent projects by Korean architect Minsuk Cho of Mass Studies: the Ann Demeulemeester Shop in the Gangham district of Seoul. More about Ann Demeulemeester Shop in Seoul by Mass Studies
Interior architects Universal Design Studio have completed a new flagship store in London for clothing brand Reiss. More about Reiss flagship store by Universal Design Studio
Designer Ross McBride of Tokyo-based Normal presented a new collection of clocks and watches at 100% Design Tokyo last month. More about Normal timepieces by Ross McBride
David Kohn Architects' design for Heterotopia, a zero carbon art garden at the Thames Gateway, has been shortlisted for the RIBA London and Arts Council England ideas competition 'Arts Space of the Future'. More about Heterotopia by David Kohn Architects
Norwegian architects Snøhetta have completed Petter Dass Museum, a building cut into solid rock on a remote Fjord in Norway. More about Petter Dass Museum by Snøhetta
Reborn is the name of a bath and water faucet developed by Chinese designers Being Object. More about Reborn by Being Object
Japanese lighting designer Chihiro Tanaka has produced two new products, one inspired by cherry blossom and one by "shimmering aurora and sublime mountain folds". More about Onduler and Sakulight by Chihiro Tanaka
A 1927 tea infuser by Marianne Brandt has sold at auction for $361,000, breaking the sale record for Bauhaus design. More about The 1,000 teapot: Marianne Brandt breaks Bauhaus auction record
Design Miami 07: the fifth in our series of movies from Design Miami features Tomáš Gabzdil Libertiny of Studio Libertiny talking talking about his Paper Vases performance (movie length: 1 min 15 seconds). More about Movie: Studio Libertiny at Design Miami
Design Miami 07: designers WokMedia presented a new shelving system called Between Lines at Design Miami earlier this month. More about Between Lines by WokMedia
Design Miami 07: Constantin and Laurene Boym showed a limited gold-plated edition of their Buildings of Disaster series at Design Miami earlier this month. More about Buildings of Disaster in gold by Constantin and Laurene Boym
When we were young we used to hang our favourite Christmas cards on a length of string pinned to the wall. We thought we'd do the digital equivalent with our favourite e-cards this season. More about Designer Christmas cards 2007
We just learned that Joost van Brug's pioneering and influential design blog reluct.com has closed after four years. More about Goodbye reluct.com
Here are a couple of images of Eden Bio by French architect Edouard Francois, a social housing development in Paris set in organic gardens. More about Eden Bio by Edouard Francois