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Dezeen promotion: in this podcast recorded in Milan, Aurel Aebi of multidisciplinary design practice atelier oï describes the scenography they created for Swiss bathroom brand Laufen, while designers Roberto Palomba and Toan Nguyen talk about their latest products. More »
Rhode Island School of Design student Joseph Guerra has designed a flashlight made from CNC-cut cork. More »
Product designer Samuel Wilkinson has created a miniature garden that works like a living Tamagotchi. More »
Dezeen Wire: a system that extracts moisture from air like a desert-dwelling beetle has won this year's James Dyson Award for students working on innovative engineering solutions. More »
Traditional Japanese toys inspired this modular furniture by architects Kengo Kuma and Associates for the East Japan Project. More »
Spanish designer Oscar Diaz has proposed a key-cutting concept that allows owners to duplicate lost keys by 3D-printing, without needing an original to copy. More »
London Design Festival 09: at The Dock in London this week British design office Industrial Facility are showing an alarm clock where the back casing is formed by one large, loud bell. More »
Philips Design in Eindhoven have designed a series of conceptual products for food, including a machine (below) that prints combinations of ingredients into shapes and consistencies specified by the user (above). Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12. More »
Japanese designer Ryohei Yoshiyuki has designed an ash tray made of used coffee grounds. More »
Product designer Yuri Suzuki presented a collection of projects investigating physical representations of sound at the Royal College of Art Show Two in London earlier this month. More »
London-based product designers PearsonLloyd designed the Siren MP3 player for Signeo, which has just been launched in Japan. More »
