Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: New York studio Aranda\Lasch have installed a collection of seating that's made up of foam pyramids at the Venice Architecture Biennale. More about Modern Primitives by Aranda\Lasch
ÉCAL University of Art and Design Lausanne graduate Jennifer Rabatel has taken inspiration from tools such as spanners, spatulas and try squares to create a series of functional everyday objects. More about Extra-ORdinary by Jennifer Rabatel
This music box designed by ÉCAL University of Art and Design Lausanne graduate José Ferrufino uses the movement of the musical mechanism to cause sticks of barley to gently sway. More about Slightly Windy by José Ferrufino
Israeli designer Adi Zaffran Weisler has created a set of tables and stools by combining tree branches, trunks and twigs with plastic during the moulding process. More about RAWtation by Adi Zaffran Weisler
London designer Lee Broom will also launch two faceted pendant lights in white and gold at the London Design Festival next month (see our earlier story on his Architrave collection). More about One Light Only by Lee Broom
London designer Lee Broom is to launch a collection of furniture inspired by architraves, cornicing and mouldings during the London Design Festival next month. More about Architrave by Lee Broom for Heal's
This weekend designer Gareth Neal will create picnic areas around east London with furniture covered in intricate marquetry. More about Urban Picnic by Gareth Neal
New Swedish brand RVW will present their inaugural collection during the London Design Festival next month. More about Inaugural collection by RVW
Loove Broms and Li Jönsson of Sweden's Interactive Institute have devised a system of lamps that visually indicate a factory's energy consumption through spotlights. More about Watt-Lite by the Interactive Institute
Danish bicycle company Biomega launch two new bikes today, one by London designer Ross Lovegrove and the other by Danish design collective KiBiSi. More about LDN by Ross Lovegrove and NYC by KiBiSi for Biomega
Designer Aurélien Barbry of Denmark has created a collection of cork stoppers for design brand Normann Copenhagen. More about Wine & Bar by Aurélien Barbry for Normann Copenhagen
Six shortlisted proposals for the next art installation atop the Fourth Plinth in London's Trafalgar Square have been unveiled today, including a giant blue cockerel, a cash machine that operates a pipe organ and an enormous model of a battenberg cake (above). More about Fourth Plinth proposals unveiled for Trafalgar Square
Here’s another conceptual project from Shenkar College of Engineering and Design student Yaniv Berg (see his coffee machine in our earlier story), this time a digital SLR camera where the lens and body are merged to form a kinked cylinder. More about Periscope Camera by Yaniv Berg
American designer Paul Loebach created this collection of rustic furniture in reference to the country cabins erected in nineteenth-century Adirondack, New York. More about Great Camp Collection by Paul Loebach
Brussels designer Sylvain Willenz drew on cassette tapes and floppy disks for the design of these external hard drives. More about CLS Mobile Drive by Sylvain Willenz
Hong Kong designer Michael Young has designed a showroom in Shanghai to showcase applications for solid surface material Corian. More about Corian Design Studio by Michael Young
Dezeen promotion: British brassware manufacturers Triflow Concepts are calling for designers to enter their Triflow Future Talents design competition for the chance to win £1,500 and see their design put into production. More about Triflow Future Talents design competition
These decanters by London designers Kacper Hamilton and Ezgi Turksoy have stoppers made from found glass scraps. More about Minarets by Kacper Hamilton and Ezgi Turksoy
This wire and concrete seating by London studio VW+BS for design brand Decode is one of ten benches to be exhibited by The Lollipop Shoppe during the London Design Festival next month. More about Solid Shell by VW+BS for Decode at Bench 10
Swedish designer David Ericsson has created a furniture range made from leather, wood and linen for his thesis project at the Carl Malmsten Workshop in Sweden. More about Carl Malmsten made me do it by David Ericsson