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 »

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 »

We just learned that Joost van Brug's pioneering and influential design blog reluct.com has closed after four years. More »

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 »

Emmanuelle Moureaux of Tokyo-based Emmanuelle Moureaux Architecture & Design has sent new photos of Stick Chair, a prototype she exhibited at 100% Design Tokyo last month. More »

Interior designer Ben Rousseau has created a suite for the Ice Hotel, which has just opened in Sweden. More »

Design Miami 07: Our fourth movie from Design Miami features designer Stuart Haygarth explaining his Drop Chandelier - a water droplet-shaped light made from the bases of used plastic water bottles (movie length: 1 min 4 secs). More »

New York designers Tronic Studio have launched a mobile display kiosk for the company behind Wired magazine, to temporarily showcase gadgets at West Coast branches of W Hotels. More »

French designers Inga Sempé has updated her website with images of Dual-directional lamp, a freestanding product that can direct light up or down at the flick of a switch. More »

Swiss architects Group8 have won a competition to build luxury villas as part of a new mountain resort called New Andermatt in Switzerland. More »

Silver Ware is a new permanent installation of work by Studio Job at the museum at Bisazza headquarters in Italy. More »

Andreas Bittis has re-launched TranslucentConcrete - load-bearing concrete containing optical fibres that means you can see through it. A bit. More »

Design Miami 07: Our third movie from Miami features Tom Dixon, with his Artek hat on, talking about two related projects the Finnish brand showed at the event last week. More »

Design Miami 07: here is our second short movie from Design Miami last week, this time featuring Fernando and Humberto Campana working with glassmakers at the open-air GlassLab as part of the event's design performances. (movie length: 1 minute 38 seconds). More »