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Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka will launch Bouquet, a new chair for Italian brand Moroso, at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan next month. More »

Young designer Alex Bradley has developed a prototype for a compact cooker for people living alone that combines a hob, chopping board, utensils and a WiFi-enabled screen so that users can call up recipes from the internet. More »

Another chair from Tokyo-based Nendo: the Diamond chair is based on the atomic structure of diamonds. More »

American furniture brand Bernhardt Design, in partnership with Danish brand Danerka, will launch a range of 14 chairs by 11 designers in Milan next month, during the furniture fair. More »

We finally found time to post photos of design folk having fun at the various parties that took place during the Design Indaba conference in Cape Town the week before last. Above: Maxim Velčovský. More »

Here’s another project by Japanese designers Nendo. This time an office space near the Meguro river in Tokyo, which they divided by creating walls with cut-outs that almost reach the floor. More »

Cabbage Chair is a new product by Japanese designers Nendo made of waste paper from the pleated fabric industry. More »

London architects Brisac Gonzalez have completed a multi-purpose hall at Aurillac in France. More »

Stockholm Design Week: Swedish designers Claesson Koivisto Rune have designed a range of bracelets made of sliced extruded aluminium for jewellery brand Collection Pascale. More »

Photographer Iwan Baan has taken a set of photos of the construction of Linked Hybrid in Beijing, a ring of towers linked with aerial bridges designed by architect Steven Holl. More »

Architects DSDHA have created two cafe pavilions at Pottersfield Park in London, England. More »

Stockholm Design Week: Swedish brand Swedese launched Libri shelves by Belgian designer Michaël Bihain at the Stockholm Furniture Fair last month. More »

Architects Schneider+Schumacher have won a competition to design the extension of the Staedel Museum in Frankfurt, Germany. More »

Stephen Lawrence Centre, an educational centre designed by Adjaye Associates, has opened in London, England. More »

Design Indaba 08: here are images of housing designs by teams including Tom Dixon, Shigeru Ban, David Adjaye, Thomas Heatherwick And Klein Dytham for Design Indaba’s 10×10 Housing Project at Freedom Park in Cape Town, South Africa. More »

Designer Moritz Waldemeyer has created Joyrider, a product that creates illuminated smiley faces on rotating bicycle wheels. More »

Designer Marc Newson follows up his exhibition at Gagosian Gallery in New York last year with a new show at Gagosian in London opening this week, with some new pieces. More »

Newton Virus is a computer virus designed by London collective Troika, that causes icons on your computer desktop to fall towards the ground as if affected by gravity. More »

Michael Young has designed a watch for Hong Kong brand o.d.m. to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to Chinese rule, which was celebrated in July last year. More »

Designer Alice Wang has created a range of weighing scales that allow you to deceive yourself about your weight. More »