Design
Mr. Cube by Héctor Serrano
London Design Festival 2010: London designer Héctor Serrano will present these reconfigurable wooden figures at 100% Design this week. More about Mr. Cube by Héctor Serrano
London Design Festival 2010: London designer Héctor Serrano will present these reconfigurable wooden figures at 100% Design this week. More about Mr. Cube by Héctor Serrano
London architect Julian Hakes is to reveal the realised Mojito shoe (see the first experiments in our earlier story) in two catwalk shows for London Fashion Week, which starts today. Update: watch an interview with Hakes on Dezeen Screen. More about Hakes shoes SS11 by Julian Hakes
London Design Festival 2010: London designer Charlotte Kingsnorth will present a collection of fat chairs at Designersblock in London next week. More about Hybreed by Charlotte Kingsnorth
London Design Festival 2010: London designers Studio Toogood have collaborated with hardware brand Izé to create a range of handles and hooks shaped like sticks, stones and bones. More about Sticks and Stones and Broken Bones by Studio Toogood and Izé
London Design Festival 2010: at the Sunbury Workshops Open Studios in east London next week designer Alex Hulme will present this calculator that has two programmable LCD buttons for storing useful figures. More about Calculator by Alex Hulme
These mirrored benches by Japanese firm Mount Fuji Architects Studio sit beneath cherry trees at the Towada Art Centre in Japan. More about In Flakes by Mount Fuji Architects Studio
Blankets hang from wooden frames to represent a rural village in this installation at Helmrinderknecht gallery in Berlin by Dutch designers Studio Makkink & Bey. More about WashHouse by Studio Makkink & Bey
This collection of necklaces and brooches by Swedish jewellery artist Hanna Hedman is currently on display at the Soda gallery in Istanbul. More about Escape by Hanna Hedman
Hong Kong department store Lane Crawford invited eight designers including Tom Dixon (above), Michael Young, Jaime Hayón and Ilse Crawford to revamp the Chinese ming-style chair for an exhibition currently on show at the ifc mall in Hong Kong. More about Dynasty Revival by Lane Crawford
Italian designer Mario Trimarchi of Fragile has created this range of glass vases suspended in wire frames for Italian design brand Alessi. More about Intanto by Mario Trimarchi for Alessi
This bench made of three pop-riveted aluminium sheets is by Swedish designers TAF and one of ten benches to be exhibited by The Lollipop Shoppe during the London Design Festival this month. More about Pop Rivet by TAF at Bench 10
This waterproof sex toy has been designed by San Francisco designer Yves Béhar of fuseproject for sex toy brand JimmyJane. More about Form 3 by fuseproject for Jimmyjane
Frankfurt designer Kai Linke has created a series of vases and side tables by sand-blasting timber to enhance the texture of the grain then casting the resulting shapes in ceramic. More about Blasted Vase and Side Table by Kai Linke
London design brand Hulger has launched Plumen, a product it describes as "the world's first designer low-energy light bulb". More about Plumen 001 by Hulger
Israeli designer Itay Laniado has created a range of stainless steel garden tools with oak handles wrapped in red thread. More about Garden Tools by Itay Laniado
Here's another project using old carpets (see our earlier post on a chair made of rolled-up carpet), this time handbags by Spanish initiative Maam Project, manufactured by prisoners. More about Bags by Maam Project
Finnish Lahti University of Applied Sciences students Arttu Kuisma and Janne Melajoki have rolled up 250 square-metres of recycled carpet to create this multicoloured chair. More about Rrround by Arttu Kuisma and Janne Melajoki
French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have created a collection of tableware for Italian brand Alessi. More about Ovale by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec for Alessi
These bird and bug boxes have been installed by art and architecture collective London Fieldworks around trees across London in clusters inspired by neighbouring housing. More about Spontaneous City in the Tree of Heavenby London Fieldworks
Dezeen have teamed up with Brands, UK distributors for Emeco, to offer our readers the chance to win one of three Emeco 111 Navy Chairs made of recycled plastic bottles to celebrate the chair's UK launch during the London Design Festival. More about Competition: three Emeco 111 Navy Chairs to be won