Betonvorhang, a concrete curtain by design company Memux (above), is one of 676 industrial products awarded in the Red Dot Awards 2008, which have just been announced. The list of winners is huge, so best you visit the Red Dot website for more info as our heads are hurting just looking at it all.
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Japanese designer Kimihiko Okada has created an installation called Another Geography at the Diesel Denim Gallery in Aoyama, Tokyo. More about Another Geography by Kimihiko Okada
100 Chairs in 100 Days by Martino Gamper is one of seven category winners for the first Brit Insurance Design of the Year Awards, organised by the Design Museum in London. More about Category winners of Designs of the Year awards
Extra ID jewellery by Dutch designer Anke Weiss imitates the security tags attached to items of clothing in shops to prevent them from being stolen. More about Extra ID by Anke Weiss
Design Indaba 08: a space-saving bed system designed Tsai Design Studio of Cape Town was name Most Beautiful Object in South Africa at the Design Indaba Expo last month. More about Nested Bunk Beds by Tsai Design Studio
Design Indaba 08: IDEO cofounder Bill Moggridge presented this concept tricycle that purifies water as the rider pedals, at the Design Indaba conference in Cape Town last month. More about Aquaduct by IDEO
Designer Martino Gamper has designed every aspect of the Total Trattoria installation at the Aram Gallery in London, including the furniture, tableware, cutlery and food.
More from Tokujin Yoshioka: this time the Swarovski flagship store in Ginza, Tokyo. More about Crystal Forest by Tokujin Yoshioka
Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka will launch Bouquet, a new chair for Italian brand Moroso, at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan next month. More about Bouquet by Tokujin Yoshioka
Young designer Alex Bradley has developed a prototype for a compact cooker for people living alone that combines a hob, chopping board, utensils and a WiFi-enabled screen so that users can call up recipes from the internet. More about Single Person Cooker by Alex Bradley
Another chair from Tokyo-based Nendo: the Diamond chair is based on the atomic structure of diamonds. More about Diamond chair by Nendo
American furniture brand Bernhardt Design, in partnership with Danish brand Danerka, will launch a range of 14 chairs by 11 designers in Milan next month, during the furniture fair. More about Global Edition by Bernhardt Design and Danerka
Here's another project by Japanese designers Nendo. This time an office space near the Meguro river in Tokyo, which they divided by creating walls with cut-outs that almost reach the floor. More about Meguro office space by Nendo
Cabbage Chair is a new product by Japanese designers Nendo made of waste paper from the pleated fabric industry. More about Cabbage Chair by Nendo
Stockholm Design Week: Swedish designers Claesson Koivisto Rune have designed a range of bracelets made of sliced extruded aluminium for jewellery brand Collection Pascale. More about Eve bracelet by Claesson Koivisto Rune
Stockholm Design Week: Swedish brand Swedese launched Libri shelves by Belgian designer Michaël Bihain at the Stockholm Furniture Fair last month. More about Libri by Michaël Bihain
Designer Moritz Waldemeyer has created Joyrider, a product that creates illuminated smiley faces on rotating bicycle wheels. More about Joyrider by Moritz Waldemeyer
Designer Marc Newson follows up his exhibition at Gagosian Gallery in New York last year with a new show at Gagosian in London opening this week, with some new pieces. More about Marc Newson at Gagosian Gallery in London
Newton Virus by Troika from Dezeen on Vimeo.
Newton Virus is a computer virus designed by London collective Troika, that causes icons on your computer desktop to fall towards the ground as if affected by gravity.
Michael Young has designed a watch for Hong Kong brand o.d.m. to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Hong Kong's return to Chinese rule, which was celebrated in July last year. More about Euclide watches by Michael Young