
Stockholm 2011: Swedish architects TAF presented this collection of lamps based on the shape of a stretched rubber band at Stockholm Furniture Fair last week. More »

Stockholm 2011: Swedish architects TAF presented this collection of lamps based on the shape of a stretched rubber band at Stockholm Furniture Fair last week. More »

Rotterdam studio Pasel Kuenzel Architects have completed another house for MVRDV's masterplan in Leiden, the Netherlands (see the other houses here). More »

Dutch designer Floris Wubben has created a second chair using his method of binding willow branches at they grow (see the first in our earlier story). More »

Architect Carlos Barba of French studio AR+TE Architectes has completed this nursery school with an undulating roof in Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche, France. More »

London designer Moritz Waldemeyer created the laser effects for pop star Ellie Goulding's music video Lights. More »

Italian silversmith Gianfranco Pampaloni celebrates Valentine's day by piercing a real heart with a solid silver arrow and hanging it in the window of his Florence shop. More »

Stockholm 2011: 20 designers presented their work among stuffed animals and dried plants inside the vitrines of the Biologiska museum in Stockholm last week. More »
Dezeenwire: New York Times design critic Alice Rawsthorne discusses German graphic designer Gerd Arntz, who developed the influential Isotype system of graphic symbols in the 1920s and who is the subject of an exhibition at the V&A museum in London. Read the New York Times article.
Isotype: international picture language is at the V&A until 13 March.

Slate roof tiles extend down the exposed north facade of this house in Wales by London studio Feilden Fowles. More »

Stockholm 2011: architects Claesson Koivisto Rune presented this layered lamp for Swedish brand Örsjö Belysning at the Stockholm Furniture Fair this week. More »

We've published a few popular stories about Portuguese architecture recently so here's a roundup of all our stories on projects in Portugal. See all the stories »

Artist Gwen van den Eijnde of France creates these sculptural costumes for his performances as bizarre fantasy characters. More »

Stockholm 2011: German designer Katrin Greiling created the Design Bar at this week's Stockholm Furniture Fair, featuring these orange cardboard hoods suspended over wooden loungers. More »
Dezeenwire: football club West Ham United have won the bid to move into the Olympic Stadium after the London 2012 Olympic Games. More »