Italian designers Studio06 have created a pendant lamp inspired by light penetrating underground caves. More »

Tokyo 09: designer Arik Levy remembers living in Japan and dreams about making smaller chocolate wrappers in this short interview commissioned by Dezeen for the Tokyo Designers Week guide. More »

Here’s another winner from the Dutch Design Awards last month: graphic designer René Put won the award for best graphic design for a series of braille stamps. More »

San Francisco designer Yves Behar of Fuseproject has designed a sex toy in collaboration with Ethan Imboden of sex toy brand JimmyJane. More »

Tokyo 09: designer Ilse Crawford describes her vision of design that brings people together in this third short interview commissioned for the Tokyo Designers Week guide, produced by Dezeen. More »

Korean architect Hyunjoon Yoo has completed a house overlooking the river Han in Seoul, Korea. More »

Tokyo 09: in this second in a series of short interviews commissioned for the official Tokyo Designers Week guide that Dezeen produced, furniture designer Matthew Hilton talks to Malaika Byng about working with wood and his first experience of Tokyo. More »

Dutch Design Week 09: Dutch designer Kiki van Eijk presented new additions to her Soft collection of ceramic objects in Eindhoven last month. More »

Tokyo 09: Tokyo Designers Week has started and Dezeen produced the official guide to the event. In this first in a series of short interviews commissioned for the guide, architect Shigeru Ban responds to the festival’s theme, green design. More »

Architectural photographer Leonardo Finotti has sent us his photos of a house in Argentina by Estudio Aire, based in Rosario, Argentina. More »

Tokyo 09: London designers Committee launch a collection of lacquered containers with plastic lids for design brand Cibone Editions in Tokyo this week. More »

Photographer Julien Lanoo has sent us his photographs of a community centre near Avelgem, Belgium, designed by Belgian architects Dierendonck Blancke. More »

Swiss designer Andreas Saxer has designed a colection of furniture and lighting inspired by photos he took while living in East Asia. More »

Architect Rem D Koolhaas has completed the interior of a new flagship store in Amsterdam for his shoe brand. More »