Italian designers Lucidi and Pevere designed a funnel-shaped lamp made of concrete for Italian brand Foscarini. More »

Scottish designer Natalie Duckett has created an alarm clock that wakes the user up by acting like a woodpecker. More »

We've teamed up with Richard Meier & Partners Architects to give away five copies of the firm's latest monograph Richard Meier Architect: Volume 5, each of which will be personally inscribed to the winner by Richard Meier. More »

London studio Gundry & Ducker have completed the interior for a Thai restaurant in Soho, London, featuring moulded oak panelling. More »

The Royal Institute of British Architects in London have announced 102 winners of this year's RIBA Awards, including projects by Rick Mather Architects, Heatherwick Studio and Caruso St John Architects. More »

Creative agency iris has unveiled Wenlock (right) and Mandeville, the mascots for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. More »

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Dezeen podcast: in this podcast recorded at his London headquarters, fashion designer Paul Smith talks about recent projects, his rise to fame and the weird and wonderful contents of his studio. More »

French architect Stephan Ricci AKA Architerroriste has designed a conceptual house shaped like a pair of binoculars and surrounded by a nest. More »

UK designer Luke Twigger has created a range of skull-shaped containers with cushions for brains. More »

Here's another student project that involves filling stitched structures with concrete (see Grompies by AA students in our earlier story), this time by architecture students Kyle A. Sturgeon, Chris Holzwart and Kelly Raczkowski from the University of Michigan. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12. More »

Stockholm designer Nicolas Cheng has designed a range of brooches made from bits of loofah, sponge and cotton. More »

A new collection of furniture by Dutch designer Maarten Baas will on show at Mitterrand+Cramer gallery in Geneva, Switzerland, later this week. More »

Chilean studio Duarte Arquitectos have designed an apartment building for a hill-top in Valparaiso, Chile. More »

Zurich designer Claudia Meier has completed a hairy hair salon in Zurich, Switzerland. More »