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Furniture designer Matthew Hilton has unveiled the new collection of pieces he will launch at 100% Design in London tomorrow. More »

Swarovski Crystal Palace video diary day 3: Zaha Hadid (above) is the subject of today’s movie about the London Design Festival. More »

Swarovski Crystal Palace video diary day 2: the second of our daily movies covering the London Design Festival is now up on swarovskisparkles.tv <<watch the movie>> More »

Here are photos of Urban Nebula, a sculptural installation by Zaha Hadid on the South Bank in London, created as part of the London Design Festival. More »

Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs has teamed up with Swarovski Crystal Palace, sponsors of this year’s London Design Festival, to create a series of short movies recording the highlights of the festival, which started this weekend. More »

Designer Assa Ashuach presents a new body of work at Rabih Hage Gallery in London later this month. More »

Nosigner is a new design brand that will be showing at 100% Design in London later this week, during the London Design Festival. More »

Designers in Residence opened at the Design Museum in London last night, marking the unofficial start of the London Design Festival (which doesn’t officially launch until Monday). More »

Link is a new modular product designed by PearsonLloyd featuring units made of ARPRO expanded polypropylene that join together to create free-standing partitions and room dividers. More »

The Deptford Design Market Challenge is a project exploring how used objects can be “redesigned” to give them new life. More »

Industrial designers Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby of BarberOsgerby have designed a sculptural piece called The Fluke, which will be displayed at the historic Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, London, during the London Design Festival later this month. More »

Greenpeace has commissioned interactive designer Jason Bruges to create an installation using new low-energy lights at the 100% Light show in London later this month. More »

Czech designer Maxim Velcovsky will present a new series of vases at the Mint shop in London next month, during the London Design Festival. More »

Designer Tom Dixon will give away 1,000 low-energy lights in Trafalgar Square, London next month as part of the London Design Festival. More »

New Designers 07: Northumbria University design graduate Christine Misiak takes old tea sets she finds at car boot sales and brings them back to life. More »

Jaime Hayon is back, with a new collection of hand-made vases for mosaic brand Bisazza. More »

Peter Marigold is one of several young British designers showing new work at Grandmateria, an exhibition at Gallery Libby Sellers in London this September during the London Design Festival and the Frieze Art Fair. More »

Designer Ryan Frank has designed a range of furniture made from wood salvaged from old office furniture. More »

Trash Luxe at Liberty is an exhibition celebrating designers use take cheap or worthless materials to make exquisite furniture, lighting and jewellery. More »

Here is a new rendering of architect Amanda Levete of Future Systems’ installation for the London Design Festival this September (see our earlier story for more details and images). The piece, made of Corian, is part of the Size + Matter project that also includes Zaha Hadid’s Urban Nebula (see previous story).