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London Design Festival 2011: London designer Ilse Crawford presents a new collection of furniture for manufacturer and distributor De La Espada at Tramshed this week. More »
London Design Festival 2011: London designer Ilse Crawford presents a new collection of furniture for manufacturer and distributor De La Espada at Tramshed this week. More »
London Design Festival 2011: audiences sit inside the 238 pockets of a giant red dress worn by performers at York Hall in London this week. More »
London Design Festival 2011: designer Lee Broom launches a collection of upholstery with studded detailing at his east London studio this week. More »

British industrial design brand Dyson have unveiled their latest product: a fan heater. More »
Designer Arik Levy presents a pebble-shaped device for opening water bottles at Maison&Objet in Paris this week. More »

Japanese designer Hiroyuki Miyake‘s calendar works like a retractable tape measure, with one centimetre for each day of the year. More »
Competition: we’ve teamed up with the makers of Sugru to give away ten packs of their plastic modelling clay for hacking products. More »
Berlin designer Ronen Kadushin has made a conceptual, open-source, contraceptive intrauterine device from a one-cent coin. More »
London Design Festival 2011: London designer Oscar Diaz has redesigned the pen pot so there’s no need to tip pens all over the desk or jam your fingers down the side to retrieve a paper clip or pencil sharpener that’s slipped to the bottom. More »
Competition: we’ve teamed up with new Swedish bicycle accessory brand Bookman to give away five sets of their bicycle lights. More »

London designer Héctor Serrano presents a series of paper accessories for turning balloons into animal heads at the New York Gift Fair this week. More »

London designer Paul Cocksedge moulds discarded vinyl records into a range of amplifiers for smartphones. Update: see an interview with Cocksedge on Dezeen Screen.

Can’t get enough concrete? Here’s a range of concrete stationery by London designer Magnus Pettersen. More »

Japanese designers Nendo have combined a USB stick with a giant paperclip. More »

Seoul designer Jeongmi Lee has designed a conceptual domestic robot that steals your duvet in the morning and poos all over the floor. Watch the movie on Dezeen Screen. Update 31/07/11: see Dezeen’s top ten stories about robots. More »