Design
Bumper Bed by Marc Newson for Domeau & Pérès
Product news: Australian designer Marc Newson has surrounded this bed for French brand Domeau & Pérès with chunky bumpers. More about Bumper Bed by Marc Newson for Domeau & Pérès
Product news: Australian designer Marc Newson has surrounded this bed for French brand Domeau & Pérès with chunky bumpers. More about Bumper Bed by Marc Newson for Domeau & Pérès
Product news: this glass table by Japanese designer Shigeichiro Takeuchi balances on legs formed from a single steel pipe. More about Tricom table by Shigeichiro Takeuchi for COMMOC
Product news: London designer Samuel Wilkinson has launched a blown-glass lamp with a digitally created lozenge pattern for Danish brand &tradition (+ movie). More about BLOWN lamp by Samuel Wilkinson for &tradition
Product news: Milan design studio NVDRS has designed a coffee table with a removable wooden top that doubles as a tray. More about Gergeti Coffee Table by NVDRS
Product news: German designer Daniel Becker has created a series of wall lamps based on the patterns of crystalline structures. More about LEM wall lamps by Daniel Becker
South Korean designer Wonmin Park has created a monotone range of his furniture made from slabs of cast resin (+ slideshow). More about Haze Series in white, grey and navy by Wonmin Park
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our first video report from Singapore, Colin Seah of local architecture studio Ministry of Design tells us how the recent cultural shift away from mass-market shops and restaurants is helping transform attitudes towards design in the city. More about "Most of our parents wanted us to be lawyers or doctors. Not anymore."
Product news: Japanese design studio Nendo has launched a range of cutlery that looks as though it's been carved from flint like prehistoric tools. More about Sekki cutlery by Nendo
Product news: French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have created this range of necklaces for a Parisian gallery. More about Perles necklace collection by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec
News: leading figures from London's design institutions have warned that new immigration rules which make it harder for international students to stay in the UK after graduation could be a "disaster" for the city. More about New immigration rules are "hugely damaging" for design in London
Fashion brand Topshop presented its Spring Summer 2014 collection on an indoor catwalk covered in real grass (+ slideshow). More about Topshop Showspace SS14 by Pernilla Ohrstedt Studio
Product news: industrial designer Konstantin Grcic's Traffic seating collection for Italian design brand Magis has gone into production. More about Traffic by Konstantin Grcic for Magis
News: car brand Bentley has become the latest luxury brand to develop its own furniture line with the launch of the Bentley Home range of sofas, chairs and tables. More about Bentley launches furniture range
London designer Benjamin Hubert created a screen of branching modular structures to surround the auditorium at trade show 100% Design during the London Design Festival (+ movie). More about Amass by Benjamin Hubert for 100% Design
Product news: the Apollo lighting range by east London studio International has gone into production (+ slideshow). More about Apollo lighting range by International
The facade of this house in the English seaside town of Margate appears to slump down into the front yard (+ movie). More about From the Knees of my Nose to the Belly of my Toes by Alex Chinneck
A flightless spaceship is slowly creeping around a former Cold War airbase near Utrecht (+ slideshow + movie). More about Secret Operation 610 by Rietveld Landscape and Studio Frank Havermans
Product news: Californian company Soma has launched an hourglass-shaped carafe and a biodegradable filter to fit in the top. More about Carafe and water filter by Soma
A city for fish modelled on a high-rise development underway in Xi'an, China, has been installed in a gallery next to the construction site (+ slideshow). More about Fishpond City by Lu Yang, Christian Lindle and Raoul Bukor
Amsterdam designer Monique Goossens has made a typeface with strands of human hair. More about Hair Typography by Monique Goossens