Milan 08: furniture manufacturers SCP will launch the Soft Rocker by Committee at the Milan Furniture Fair next week, together with new pieces by Matthew Hilton, Russell Pinch and Donna Wilson. More about Soft Rocker by Committee for SCP
Milan 08: designer Maarten Baas will exhibit new work and projects created over the last 5 years at Zona Tortona in Milan next week. More about New work by Maarten Baas in Milan
Milan 08: Designer Philippe Malouin will exhibit his Hanger Chair at Still, the Design Academy Eindhoven exhibition at Spazio Rossanna Orlandi in Milan during the furniture fair this month. More about Hanger Chair by Philippe Malouin
Milan 08: Belgian designer Xavier Lust has designed Flow, an aluminium sofa range for furniture Belgian brand Indera. More about Flow by Xavier Lust for Indera
Milan 08: Dutch designer Jack Brandsma will exhibit his SpareSpace temporary office units in Milan next month. More about SpareSpace crates by Jack Brandsma
Dutch designer Joris Laarman has created a new edition to his Bone furniture range. More about Bone Armchair by Joris Laarman
Milan 08: Canadian designer Geoffrey Lilge will exhibit his L40 lounge chair and L41 dining chair at Salone Satellite at the Milan furniture fair in April. More about L40 and L41 by Geoffrey Lilge
Milan 08: American manufacturers Emeco will launch Nine-0, the last range of chairs and stools by late Italian designer Ettore Sottsass, at the Milan furniture fair next month. More about Nine-0 by Ettore Sottsass for Emeco
Milan 08: industrial designer Konstantin Grcic will launch Myto, a new cantilevered chair for design brand Plank at the Triennale Design Museum in Milan next month. More about Myto chair by Konstantin Grcic
Chinese architect Ma Yansong of MAD has created a public seating concept called Fungus as part of a public art project at the Zhangjiang business park in Pudong, Shanghai. More about Fungus chairs by MAD
German designers Maigrau have won the Blickfang Design Prize, awarded at the Blickfang design show in Stuttgart last week, for two new products launched at the fair. More about Split and Line by Maigrau
Stockholm Design Week: Swedish designers Smånsk showed a prototype of their Skew bookcase at the Greenhouse young designers showcase at the Stockholm Furniture Fair last month. More about Skew bookcase by Smånsk
Betonvorhang, a concrete curtain by design company Memux (above), is one of 676 industrial products awarded in the Red Dot Awards 2008, which have just been announced. The list of winners is huge, so best you visit the Red Dot website for more info as our heads are hurting just looking at it all.
More about Red Dot Awards 2008
100 Chairs in 100 Days by Martino Gamper is one of seven category winners for the first Brit Insurance Design of the Year Awards, organised by the Design Museum in London. More about Category winners of Designs of the Year awards
Design Indaba 08: a space-saving bed system designed Tsai Design Studio of Cape Town was name Most Beautiful Object in South Africa at the Design Indaba Expo last month. More about Nested Bunk Beds by Tsai Design Studio
Designer Martino Gamper has designed every aspect of the Total Trattoria installation at the Aram Gallery in London, including the furniture, tableware, cutlery and food.
Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka will launch Bouquet, a new chair for Italian brand Moroso, at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan next month. More about Bouquet by Tokujin Yoshioka
Another chair from Tokyo-based Nendo: the Diamond chair is based on the atomic structure of diamonds. More about Diamond chair by Nendo
American furniture brand Bernhardt Design, in partnership with Danish brand Danerka, will launch a range of 14 chairs by 11 designers in Milan next month, during the furniture fair. More about Global Edition by Bernhardt Design and Danerka
Cabbage Chair is a new product by Japanese designers Nendo made of waste paper from the pleated fabric industry. More about Cabbage Chair by Nendo