Design
The Alarming Clock by Natalie Duckett
Scottish designer Natalie Duckett has created an alarm clock that wakes the user up by acting like a woodpecker. More about The Alarming Clock by Natalie Duckett
Scottish designer Natalie Duckett has created an alarm clock that wakes the user up by acting like a woodpecker. More about The Alarming Clock by Natalie Duckett
Dezeen podcast: in this podcast recorded at his London headquarters, fashion designer Paul Smith talks about recent projects, his rise to fame and the weird and wonderful contents of his studio. More about Dezeen podcast: Paul Smith
UK designer Luke Twigger has created a range of skull-shaped containers with cushions for brains. More about The Skullmate by Luke Twigger
Stockholm designer Nicolas Cheng has designed a range of brooches made from bits of loofah, sponge and cotton. More about The Beauty of Nothingness by Nicolas Cheng
A new collection of furniture by Dutch designer Maarten Baas will on show at Mitterrand+Cramer gallery in Geneva, Switzerland, later this week. More about Grey Derivations by Maarten Baas for Mitterrand + Cramer
Eindhoven designers Kiki van Eijk and Joost van Bleiswijk presented glassware produced in collaboration with the glass-makers of Murano in Venice at Sotheby's auction house in London last week. More about Glass Skin by Kiki van Eijk and Joost van Bleiswijk
Artists Studio Job of Belgium have installed pieces from their iconic collections in the rooms of a Belgian stately home. More about Alter Ego by Studio Job
Designer Ronen Kadushin has designed an open-source mallet for smashing up iPhones. More about iPhonekiller by Ronen Kadushin
British designer Thomas Heatherwick has co-designed the replacement for London's iconic Routemaster bus, mayor Boris Johnson announced this morning. More about New bus for London by Thomas Heatherwick
Norwegian designer Daniel Rybakken has installed LED panels replicating daylight on a dark staircase in Stockholm. More about Daylight Entrance by Daniel Rybakken
Norwegian designers Vibeke Skar and Ida Noemi Vidal presented ceramic pendant lights with embossed surfaces in the Ventura Lambrate district of Milan last month. More about Story lamp by Skar+Vidal
Paris design studio A+A cooren have designed a glass vase where the neck has been turned back inside the vessel to support flower stems. More about Air Sundae by A+A cooren
San Francisco designers Mike and Maaike have created a space divider comprising overlapping grids of batons. More about Swarm by Mike and Maaike
A table with interlocking branch-like legs by design collective Outofstock has been put into production by French brand Ligne Roset. More about Black Forest by Outofstock for Ligne Roset
Los Angeles designers Ball-Nogues Studio have collaborated with UCLA Architecture and Urban Design students to create a courtyard stage set made of coffee tables. More about Table Cloth by Ball-Nogues
Eindhoven designer Laurens Manders has created this lumpy safe for stashing possessions with sentimental value. More about Vault by Laurens Manders
Swedish designers Whatswhat Collective have designed a pleated lamp shade that changes shape when its drawstrings are pulled. More about Potential Energy by Whatswhat Collective
London designer Gitta Gschwendtner presented a kitchen island comprising a pile of drawers and a sink at the Wallpaper* Handmade exhibition in Milan last month. More about Drawer Kitchen by Gitta Gschwendtner
Designers Kram/Weisshaar are to install a robotic "octopus" in Trafalgar Square during the London Design Festival in September. More about Outrace by Kram/Weisshaar for Trafalgar Square
German design student Nicole Losos has created a concept for a triangulated wall-mounted structure that you can sit, sleep, read, eat and keep things on. More about Berg Frei! by Nicole Losos