IDEO UK design director Tom Hulme advocates that "designers should be more entrepreneurial" and design every part of a business in this movie we filmed as part of the Dezeen Live series of discussions during the talks programme at 100% Design during London Design Festival. More »
To prove that germs aren't all bad, Paris-based studio Bold-design came up with an activity kit that uses bacteria to turn sand from the beach into stone souvenirs (+ slideshow). More »
Product news: these candle holders by French designer Marie Dessuant come with handy inner compartments and were designed for British furniture brand Another Country. More »
London Design Festival: industrial designer Benjamin Hubert has created a trestle table and bench with timber parts held in tension by sheets of bowed steel. More »
London Design Festival: each of these mix-and-match vessels by London design studio Vitamin is fixed together from rings of assorted materials including marble, cut glass, turned wood and 3D printed resin. More »
London Design Festival: these clothes hangers by designer and recent graduate Lisa Marie Bengtsson use charcoal to soak up bad smells so clothes need washing less often (+ movie). More »
Industrial designer Benjamin Hubert's latest chair features a T-shirt-shaped piece of plywood curled smoothly into its solid ash frame. More »
London Design Festival: delicate flowers and foliage are protected by the steel cages around these concrete vases by Korean designer Seung-Yong Song. More »
London Design Festival: London-based industrial designer Samuel Wilkinson has designed stackable wooden seating evoking traditional school furniture for Decode London. More »
Arik Levy's contribution to the Digital Crystal exhibition at London's Design Museum in an interactive installation that uses visitors' body movements to mutate computer-generated crystals (+ movie). More »
London Design Festival: London designer Benjamin Hubert has launched a lighting collection made of underwear fabric (+ audio). More »
London Design Festival: Zaha Hadid teamed up with hairdressing brand Fudge to create a pop-up hair salon in London last week. More »
London Design Festival: designer-makers East London Furniture have temporarily fitted out the interior of London bar DreamBags JaguarShoes using nothing but scrap materials found on the local streets. More »
London Design Festival: Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby, Jasper Morrison and AL_A are among the designers who have created benches with British design brand Established & Sons for the central courtyard of the V&A museum (+slideshow). More »
London Design Festival: every scrap of material and minute of production time was carefully recorded during the manufacturing of these twelve wooden chairs, helping the Royal College of Art students that designed them to measure each one's sustainability. More »
