Dutch Design Week: graduate designer Digna Kosse presents a series of dresses made of the smallest amount of fabric at the Design Academy Eindhoven Graduate Galleries exhibition this week. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12. More »

Dutch Design Week 09: graduate designer Anna van der Lei presents a wooden closet containing a bath at the Design Academy Eindhoven this week. More »

In this second in our series of Molteni&C Sofa Chats conducted at 100% Design in London last month, British designer Matthew Hilton talks to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about the re-emergence of national identity in design and the contrasting Italian and British design cultures. More »

Dutch Design Week 09: at Designhuis in Eindhoven this week Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Jephte Francissen presents a system for storing items in crates overhead. More »

American architects Morphosis have completed a floating house for Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation in New Orleans, in collaboration with graduates of the University of California, Los Angeles. More »

Polish Design Season: for his masters project student Adam Wojtalik proposed a conceptual design for the Delft University of Technology‘s Faculty of Architecture, whose previous campus was destroyed by fire in 2008. More »

Sportswear brand Nike have opened a store in a former Jewish bookstore in Paris. More »

Polish Design Season: A collective of young Polish designers presented the Polska Folk exhibition as part of Tent London during the London Design Festival last month. More »

Czech graphic design student Marta Maštálková has designed a typeface by pouring liquid caramel onto glass. More »

In the first of our Molteni&C Sofa Chats conducted at 100% Design in London last month, Arik Levy talks to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about the similarities and differences between the design cultures in Italy and Israel. More »

Dutch Design Week 09: FlexVaas, a vase that comes with three swappable tops to accommodate different types of flowers, won the Best Consumer Product category for designers Vij5 at the Dutch Design Awards on Saturday. More »

Singapore designers Ministry of Design have completed an office interior for an advertising agency that features a drawing of the company’s founder spread across the walls and floor, wielding a scaled-up model of a pencil. More »

Dutch Design Week 09: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Bas van der Veer has won the prize for best project at the school’s Graduation Galleries exhibition, which opened in Eindhoven yesterday. More »

Dutch Design Week 09: Merry-go-round, a museum cloakroom where coats and possessions are suspended from the ceiling on a pulley system, has won the overall prize for the best Dutch design project at the Dutch Design Awards 2009. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12. More »