In this movie from the V&A museum in London, Simon Peers and Nicholas Godley talk about the cape they made by harvesting silk from over a million wild spiders in Madagascar. The silk is naturally golden in colour and the spiders take just a week to replenish their supply once released back into the wild. More »

Slideshow: people strolling by this brick wall in London might miss the disguised entrance to a secret office and home. More »

Milan 2012: Japanese designers Nendo will present new additions to their 1% products in Milan this April, including this tea set where the lids double as spinning tops. More »

Slideshow: stripy monochrome triangles are folded into facets around the walls and ceiling of this church hall in Linz, Austria, to create a cavernous interior. More »

Venetian designer Luca Nichetto presented this table lamp, called Vader after the Star Wars character whose mask it resembles, at Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair earlier this month. More »

Dezeen promotion: the deadline to apply for this year's A' Design Award is 29 February.  More »

Sarajevo fashion designer Ljiljana Majkić presents her Autumn/Winter 2011-2012 collection of garments with exaggerated geometric silhouettes. More »

Slideshow: the dark-rendered exterior walls of this house in Switzerland screen top-floor terraces at either end. More »

Designers Gabriella Gustafson & Mattias Ståhlbom of TAF have created a collection of storage cabinets and tables for new brand Pieces with large interchangeable feet made from wood, marble or porcelain. More »

Competition: Dezeen and Austrian architect Hans Hollein have teamed up to offer our readers the chance to win one of five copies of his new monograph. More »

Seoul studio Cloud and Co have designed this discrete bottle-shaped desktop humidifier. More »

Dezeen Wire: a London architect has launched a website, named Arch Leaks, where architecture professionals are invited to anonymously comment on the environments of offices in which they've worked.

Initial comments have been made about the studios of Foster + Partners, Zaha Hadid Architects, David Chipperfield Architects and Herzog & de Meuron.

See them all at www.archleaks.com

Two guest suites in the grounds of a ruined Victorian house in Kent are separated by a walkway cast from concrete set against rough planks of wood. More »

Dezeen Platform: in this movie filmed at our micro exhibition Dezeen Platform last autumn, Glasgow designer Fraser Ross presents his series of plant-like sculptures that react to the breath and touch of people around them. More »