Dezeen promotion: Dezeen’s pop-up retail concept The Temporium is going online this Sunday to guest-curate a collection of homeware by the likes of Jamie Hayon, Paul Cocksedge and Alexa Lixfeld on flash-sales site llustre. More about The Temporium on llustre.com
Hackney designer Philippe Malouin worked with traditional craftsmen from Beirut to create a series of bowls and plinths by shaping wooden blocks made of many smaller, tessellating batons. More about Extrusion by Philippe Malouin for Carwan Gallery at Ventura Lambrate
Milan 2012: these little storage containers by Swedish designers TAF are made of silicone but coloured to look like clay. More about Figurine Containers by TAF
This blanket is embroidered with tiny sensors so it can watch you sleeping. More about Im Blanky by Studio NMinusOne and Rodolphe el-Khoury
Milan 2012: Dutch designers Scholten & Baijings showed a tableware set based on the archives of hand-painted porcelain company 1616 Arita Japan at Spazio Rossana Orlandi in Milan last week. More about Colour Porcelain by Scholten & Baijings for 1616 Arita Japan
These plates by Polish designer Boguslaw Sliwinski turn your meals into hairstyles for the faces they depict. More about FaceOn by Boguslaw Sliwiński
Designed in Hackney: designer Ian McIntyre hand-crafted this pottery collection for furniture brand Another Country at his Hoxton studio in the London borough of Hackney and fired some of the pieces in his own kilns. More about Designed in Hackney: Pottery by Ian McIntyre for Another Country
UK designer Michael Antrobus has created a corkscrew and bottle opener by making just a few twists in flat stainless steel bars. More about Ground Barware by Michael Antrobus
Milan designer Fabio Novembre has created these pill-like vases for Murano glass company Venini. More about Happy Pills by Fabio Novembre for Venini
Dutch designer Jólan van der Wiel has expanded his range of products shaped by magnets with this candle-holder. More about Gravity candle holder by Jólan van der Wiel
Slideshow: Seoul studio Dialoguemethod made this stationery set by layering up birch plywood with coloured paper. More about H-supplies Kit by Dialoguemethod
Slideshow: Israeli studios Monkey Business and Reddish have designed these pins for making little animal characters from wine corks at the dinner table. More about Corkers by Monkey Business and Reddish
These five measuring spoons give the correct quantities of flour, water, yeast, sugar and oil to bake the perfect loaf of bread. More about Bread spoons by Niels Datema
Stockholm designer Anki Gneib challenged artistic collective SX70 Europe to transport her enormous carved candlesticks from their place of manufacture in the woods of Sorvi-Pojat in Finland to her studio in Stockholm. They decided to wear suits for the occasion and photograph the journey. More about Silent Cargo by SX70 Europe for Anki Gneib
If for some reason you'd like to draw pictures with the bottom of your cup, Japanese designer Fumiaki Goto has made these little vessels with the same combination of ceramic and graphite used to make pencil lead. More about Drawing vessels by Fumiaki Goto
Dezeen Platform: in this movie we filmed at our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform last autumn, designer Paulo Benvegnú represents her own family in the shape of her Family Tea set. More about Dezeen Platform: Paula Benvegnú
Milan 2012: Japanese designers Nendo will present new additions to their 1% products in Milan this April, including this tea set where the lids double as spinning tops. More about 1% products by Nendo
Morsels of food complete the drawings on these plates, appearing to be hoisted on cranes and forklift trucks or transported by land, sea and air. More about BS Toy plates by Boguslaw Sliwiński
Stockholm 2012: Londoner Benjamin Hubert has designed a fruit bowl for Swedish brand David Design with concentric circles milled out of a slice of oak, cut deeper as they approach the centre to form a stepped dish. More about Halo by Benjamin Hubert for David Design
Stockholm 2012: Swedish designers Form Us With Love presented vases comprising slabs of quartz compound slotted onto a metal frame in Stockholm last week.
More about Silestone Slab Vases by Form Us With Love for Cosentino