Design Indaba videos: 5.5 designers

Design Indaba 09: the ninth video in this series from the Design Indaba conference and expo in Cape Town last month features young Paris studio 5.5 designers. More »

Design Indaba 09: the ninth video in this series from the Design Indaba conference and expo in Cape Town last month features young Paris studio 5.5 designers. More »

Designer Anders Wilhelmson, in collaboration with Camilla Wirseen and Peter Thuvander, has developed the Peepoo bag – a single-use, disposable toilet bag intended to improve sanitary conditions in developing nations. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12. More »

Photographer Leonardo Finotti has sent us his set of photographs documenting a recent residential project by Portuguese architect Bak Gordon. More »

London designers Cinimod Studio have completed a lighting installation for SNOG frozen yoghurt shop in Soho, London. More »

Barcelona designers Mediodesign have created a birch plywood chair in homage to the Eames elephant. More »

Dezeen’s top ten: our latest top ten features the most popular Dezeen stories about designs inspired by, created for or made of animals. More »

Amsterdam office VMX Architects have won a competition to design a new Hilton Hotel in Inner Mongolia, China. More »

Hogarth Architects have designed a holiday home in Kilifi, Kenya, that consists of huts on stilts and towers, connected by rope bridges. More »

Designer Edward van Vliet has created a collection of furniture for Italian brand Moroso, called Sushi. More »

Dezeen have got together with publishers a+t to offer readers the chance to win five copies of DBOOK – Density, Data, Diagrams, Dwellings. More »

Designer Ana-Maria Pasescu Stewart has created a light inspired by a hangman’s noose. More »

Milan 09: British designer Tom Dixon will present a collection of furniture and lighting on the theme of ‘utility’ in Milan next month. More »

Following yesterday’s Charcoal House story, here’s another of Terunobu Fujimori’s projects photographed by Edmund Sumner: this time Takasugi-an, a tea house in Chino, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12. More »

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Design Indaba 09: architect Doung Anwar Jahangeer talks about his Spaza-de-move-on project – winner of the inaugural SOUTH award at Design Indaba conference and expo in Cape Town last month – in this eighth movie in the series. More »