DesignMarch 2015: when Greenlander Liss Stender launched her homeware products, she made the national news and created "a kind of shock." She spoke to Dezeen about working in the Arctic and being a design pioneer in a country with a strong craft tradition (+ interview). More about Greenland's first product designer triggers "explosion of new designers" in her homeland
Norwegian designer Per Finne has created a utensil based on traditional Japanese knives that he says offers enough flexibility to be the only knife needed in a home cook's kitchen (+ slideshow). More about Per Finne's Umami Santoku knife combines Norwegian and Japanese design
Mexican design studio Peca has launched a collection of candle holders made from marble spheres that can be split in two. More about Marble candle holder by Peca can be split to create two objects
Brazilian designer Bianca Cheng Costanzo has created a woollen blanket from 180 triangles hand-sewn into tessellated pyramids (+ slideshow). More about Wool pyramids form origami-inspired Bloom blanket
Milan 2015: London designer Philippe Malouin has formed a collection of geometric planters in a range of shapes, textures and colours using quartz surface material Caesarstone. More about Philippe Malouin experiments with Caesarstone to create collection of planters
Caterina Moretti and Ana Saldañan of Mexican design studio Peca have used dark grey volcanic stone to create this collection of plates. More about Peca's Lava plates are made from half-polished volcanic stone
These ceramic bowls by Belgian designer Ilona Van den Bergh are slip-cast in perfect half-spheres and reshaped while still pliable to create one-off pieces (+ slideshow). More about Ilona Van den Bergh's Moon bowls are deformed after casting
Spanish-based designers Kutarq Studio have created a pair of carved bowls based on the shapes left in yoghurt when it is being eaten with a spoon (+ slideshow). More about Carved Bowls store small objects in scooped-out sections
Milan 2015: Fashion brand G-Star RAW has collaborated with furniture company Vitra to update a range of original designs by Jean Prouvé for use in modern offices (+ slideshow). More about G-Star RAW and Vitra join forces to relaunch Jean Prouvé's 1940s office furniture
These three-sided metal shelves by Stockholm designer Kyuhyung Cho stack together in various combinations to separate small objects (+ slideshow). More about Kyuhyung Cho creates colourful three-sided shelves for Menu
A set of stacked terracotta planters, colourful geometric hand-held mirrors and ombre-glazed vases are among the homeware products included in the debut collection by Canadian design duo MPGMB (+ slideshow). More about MPGMB's homeware includes terracotta cacti pots based on desert forms
Dutch designer Gert-Jan Soepenberg has created a concrete vase that mimics a structural element of Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer's Palácio de Alvorada. More about Oscar Niemeyer facade informs cross-shaped concrete vase
Italian designer Moreno Ratti has created a vase from rings of marble offcuts that are piled up like the pieces in a Tower of Hanoi mathematical puzzle. More about Moreno Ratti's marble vase stacks like a mathematical puzzle
Designers Jean-François D'Or and Frédérique Ficheroulle have developed a modular system designed to let users create "a bathroom that does not look like a bathroom" (+ slideshow). More about Vika's modular bathroom range is designed to create comfortable wash areas
Maison&Objet 2015: London studio Poetic Lab has created a collection of desktop accessories with simple shapes and metallic finishes for design brand Beyond Object. More about Beyond Object presents minimal metallic stationery by Poetic Lab
Spanish studio LaSelva has designed a collection of hexagonal encaustic cement tiles with a pattern that joins up regardless of which way round they are positioned (+ slideshow). More about LaSelva's hexagonal Atlas tiles are patterned to match up at every orientation
Maison&Objet 2015: a hand-blown glass vessel with a brass cuff perches on the corner of a black marble cube to form Israeli designer Dan Yeffet's Elements vase (+ slideshow). More about Dan Yeffet stacks brass, marble and glass into Element vase
Dutch designer Lex Pott has created a collection of cylindrical vases from oxidised metals for his first collaboration with Danish design brand &tradition. More about Lex Pott's True Colours vases contrast oxidised and polished finishes
Stockholm 2015: Icelandic designer Katrin Olina has created a set of home products made by shaping steel tubes with an old exhaust pipe bending machine. More about Katrin Olina bends steel pipes into products for reading
Stockholm 2015: Swedish designer Monica Förster has collaborated with Spanish company Cosentino Group to form a collection of outdoor candle holders and trays using new synthetic stone material Dekton. More about Monica Förster creates outdoor candle holders from synthetic stone slabs