Polish Design Season: Warsaw designer Krystian Kwiecinski has created a dining table where consumers manipulate the dimensions of the finished product via his website. More about Y Parametric table by Krystian Kwieciński
Madrid practice SOMOS Arquitectos have completed a social housing project in Madrid, Spain. More about 123 Social Green Housing by SOMOS Arquitectos
Dutch designer Aldo Bakker has sent us images of his Urushi series of lacquered polyurethane objects. More about Urushi series by Aldo Bakker
New York practice Stan Allen Architects have completed a building for the publishing industry in South Korea. More about Paju Book City by Stan Allen Architects
Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao has designed a music hall and sports centre for Irapuato, Mexico. More about Irapuato Music Hall and Sports Centre by Tatiana Bilbao
Polish Design Season: Rafal Specylak and Kuba Wozniczka of Wroclaw practice KameleonLab have completed an extension to a residence in Wroclaw. More about Black Cube House by KameleonLab
Architects Chiasmus Partners have converted a former factory into a dance centre and theatre in the Dongcheng district of Bejing, China. More about Red Diamond by Chiasmus Partners
Graduate designer Johanna Schoemaker last month won the Braun Prize 2009 for Family of OLED lamps, a range of remote-controlled lamps that open and close like flowers. More about Family of OLEDs by Johanna Schoemaker
Dutch Design Week: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Guy Königstein presented a project where family members are represented as spools of thread in Eindhoven last week. More about Family Stories by Guy Königstein
Japanese designer Teruhiro Yanagihara of Isolation Unit has art-directed a collection of furniture by designers including Big-Game and Sylvain Willenz for traditional Japanese furniture makers Karimoku. More about Karimoku New Standard by Isolation Unit and others
Tinkebell., the Dutch performance artist best known for making a handbag out of her own cat (above), presents an exhibition of her work at Torch Gallery in Amsterdam starting later this week. More about Tinkebell. at Torch Gallery
Polish Design Season: Technical University of Łódź graduate Maciek Grelewicz has proposed a library for the city of Łódź clad in golden lettering. More about Public Library for Łódź by Maciek Grelewicz
Xarchitekten of Linz and Vienna, Austria, have completed a dental clinic that is based on an illustration of a set of teeth. More about GKK Dental Ambulatory by Xarchitekten
Copenhagen designers GamFratesi have designed a prototype desk with a cave-like shield on top to create an intimate working environment. More about Rewrite by GamFratesi
Here's another residential project by Tokyo designers Norisada Maeda Atelier, who designed the Plastic Moon house in our previous story: this time a house near Yokohama, Japan. More about Celluloid Jam by Norisada Maeda Atelier
Japanese designers Nendo have created a chair made of hollowed-out pieces of wood covering a metal frame. More about Cord-Chair by Nendo
Polish Design Season: here's an overview of work by one of Dezeen's favourite Polish design studios, Kompott. More about Studio profile: Kompott
Japanese architects Norisada Maeda Atelier have completed a house that includes a dental practice and swimming pool in Tokyo, Japan. More about Plastic Moon by Norisada Maeda Atelier
Dutch Design Week 09: in Eindhoven this week graduate designer Erik De Nijs of Nieuwe Heren presents a set of suitcases that can be combined to form a sofa when not in use. More about Suited Case by Erik De Nijs
Dezeen and architecture and design book publisher Birkhäuser are offering readers the chance to win one of five copies of Chroma - Design, Architecture and Art in Colour by Barbara Glasner & Petra Schmidt. More about Competition: five copies of Chroma to be won