Stockholm 2011: designer Mia Gammelgaard of Copenhagen showed this wooden chair with leg warmers for Swedish firm Blå Station at Stockholm Furniture Fair last week. More about Hippo and Potamus by Mia Gammelgaard for Blå Station
Brooklyn studio Interboro Partners have won this year's MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program competition to design a temporary installation in the courtyard of the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre in New York. More about Holding Pattern by Interboro Partners
Stockholm 2011: Swedish designer Jenny Bäck presented this floor lamp at Stockholm Furniture Fair last week. More about Lean by Jenny Bäck
Photographer Fernando Guerra has sent us his images of a public passage and gallery in Vila do Conde, Portugal, designed by Portuguese architect Manuel Maia Gomes. More about Galeria.Solar.S.Roque by Manuel Maia Gomes
Stockholm 2011: designer Thomas Bernstrand of Sweden presented this skewed stackable shelving unit at Stockholm Furniture Fair last week. More about Ivy by Thomas Bernstrand for Swedese
Stockholm 2011: London designer Benjamin Hubert presented this task lamp with a perforated tubular casing at Stockholm Furniture Fair last week. More about Crane by Benjamin Hubert
Dezeenwire: Design Museum curator Alex Newson gives a tour of key projects in the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year 2011 exhibition, which opens at the museum today, in this BBC News movie. More about “Best of British: Design Award Highlights” - BBC News
This plastic cutlery that clips together to form little sculptures at the dinner table is by German design studio ding3000. More about Join by Ding3000
Product and jewellery designer Rita Botelho has created a series of earrings featuring tiny figurines, including this one in rock-climbing gear. More about Hanging by Rita Botelho
We've teamed up with publishers Phaidon to offer readers the chance to win one of five copies of their new monograph about Dutch designer Hella Jongerius. More about Competition: five copies of Hella Jongerius: Misfit to be won
Swedish interior designers Guise have inserted these tall black free-standing cabinets throughout a Stockholm apartment. More about Corner project by Guise
Designers Studio XAG have created a window installation in London for French fashion designer Christian Louboutin, spelling out the brand name in bright neon lettering. More about Christian Louboutin Mount Street Window by Studio XAG
Stockholm 2011: Swedish architects TAF presented this collection of lamps based on the shape of a stretched rubber band at Stockholm Furniture Fair last week. More about Rubber by TAF Arkitektkontor for Zero
Rotterdam studio Pasel Kuenzel Architects have completed another house for MVRDV's masterplan in Leiden, the Netherlands (see the other houses here). More about V35K18 by Pasel Kuenzel Architects
Dutch designer Floris Wubben has created a second chair using his method of binding willow branches at they grow (see the first in our earlier story). More about Upside Down 2 by Floris Wubben
Architect Carlos Barba of French studio AR+TE Architectes has completed this nursery school with an undulating roof in Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche, France. More about Le Petit Prince Nursery School by Carlos Barba
London designer Moritz Waldemeyer created the laser effects for pop star Ellie Goulding's music video Lights. More about Moritz Waldemeyer lasers for Lights by Ellie Goulding
Italian silversmith Gianfranco Pampaloni celebrates Valentine's day by piercing a real heart with a solid silver arrow and hanging it in the window of his Florence shop. More about Il cuore è una pompa by Gianfranco Pampaloni
Stockholm 2011: 20 designers presented their work among stuffed animals and dried plants inside the vitrines of the Biologiska museum in Stockholm last week. More about 20 Designers at Biologiska
Dezeenwire: New York Times design critic Alice Rawsthorne discusses German graphic designer Gerd Arntz, who developed the influential Isotype system of graphic symbols in the 1920s and who is the subject of an exhibition at the V&A museum in London. Read the New York Times article.
Isotype: international picture language is at the V&A until 13 March.
More about "Universal symbols that tell the story" - New York Times