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Tokyo Designers Week 09: architect and designer Nigel Coates describes the “complete chaos” of Tokyo in this final installment in our series of short interviews commissioned for the Tokyo Desigers Week official guide, which was produced by Dezeen. More »

Tokyo Designers Week 09: in this short interview commissioned for the Tokyo Designers Week guide, designer Gwenael Nicolas asserts that anything is possible in Tokyo. More »

Hong Kong designer Michael Young has created a dining chair made of recycled aluminium. More »

Tokyo Designers Week 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 »

Tokyo Designers Week 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 »

Tokyo Designers Week 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 »

Tokyo Designers Week 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 »

Dutch Design Week 09: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Bas van der Veer has won the prize for best project at the school’s Graduation Galleries exhibition, which opened in Eindhoven yesterday. More »

Paris architects Laetitia Delubac and Christian Félix have completed a holiday home and guest house in Siwa, Egypt. More »

Boston architects Howeler + Yoon and Los Angeles digital designers Squared Design Lab have designed a conceptual structure for Boston, where an unfinished building would be covered in modular pods growing algae for biofuel. More »

Polish Design Season: Polish design student Ryszard Rychlicki has designed a shopping bag made of folded recycled paper. More »

French automobile brand Renault are showing a range of electric concept cars at the Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung (Frankfurt Motor Show) in Germany this week. More »

French designer Mathieu Lehanneur and Harvard professor David Edwards have launched a filtration system which uses living plants to purify the air indoors. More »

Tokyo design brand Rezon have designed a cotton bag for people to wear over their heads when they see people exhibiting ungreen behaviour. More »

Dutch designer Enina Waelstham of Mormels Design has created a collection of lamps made by covering objects in recycled paper. More »