News: trainers with rubber loops on the soles to give extra spring have won the product design prize at a Swiss design awards (+ slideshow). More about Running shoes with rubber loops on the soles win Swiss design prize
Spanish designer Jorge Penadés has devised a chair made from simple wooden boards that collapses into a backpack (+ slideshow). More about Nomadic Furniture by Jorge Penadés
This Greek olive oil comes in simple circular bottles and stripped-back packaging. More about FIVE Olive Oil bottles and packaging by World Excellent Products
This lapel pin by Israeli designer Omer Polak incorporates a miniature vase to hold tiny blooms (+ slideshow). More about Boutonnière lapel pin vase by Omer Polak
A capsule that will float passengers to the edge of space and offer views of the Earth's curvature has been designed by British studio Priestmangoode (+ movie). More about Journey to Space capsule for space tourists by Priestmangoode
British designer Tom Dixon has launched a tea set made of spun brass. More about Form Tea Set made of brass by Tom Dixon
These shoes by Australian design studio Sibling allow the wearer to instantly erect a temporary shelter by unfurling a tent from round their ankles and pulling it over their head. More about Walking Shelter shoes by Sibling transform into a tent
Chilean studio Great Things to People (GT2P) has built a machine to generate pottery objects using an analogue version of parametric design. More about Catenary Pottery Printer using analogue parametric design by GT2P
Our new Pinterest board features a number of storage designs, including staircases that double as bookshelves, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec's Corniches shelves and a writing desk in the form of a life-sized mule. See our new storage Pinterest board»
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Swiss designer Florian Hauswirth has designed a collection of bedroom furniture including an ash shelving unit with components made by a bookbinder. More about Bookbinder Shelf and bedroom furniture by Florian Hauswirth
Shrouds of latex cast from derelict buildings hang in this installation by Amsterdam design studio KNOL Ontwerp, forming ghostly recreations of spaces (+ slideshow). More about Skinned by KNOL Ontwerp features latex casts of derelict buildings
Dutch designer Ineke Hans plays on traditional Canadian furniture as part of these collections for remote artists' community Fogo Island (+ slideshow). More about Fogo Island Furniture by Ineke Hans
Dutch Design Week 2013: graphic designer Kok Pistolet painted over sections of 40 posters around Utrecht to turn them into directions from each location to a venue for a music festival (+ slideshow). More about Waar is Ekko? combined posters and signage for a music festival by Kok Pistolet
Each of these resin pots by London-based New Zealand designer Phil Cuttance is embellished with a unique iridescent sheen on its lid. More about Aurora Pots with iridescent lids by Phil Cuttance
London designers Studio Swine built a mobile foundry and used it to cast aluminium stools from drinks cans they collected on the streets of São Paulo (+ movie). More about Can City mobile aluminium furnace by Studio Swine
Dutch Design Week 2013: graphic design graduate Evelien Crooy has made her own ink from insects and used it to screen-print the cover of a book about the creatures. More about Ink made from insects by Evelien Crooy
The pieces in this chess set by American designer Stefan Gougherty are formed from voids drilled into transparent acrylic blocks (+ slideshow). More about Negative Space Chess Set by Stefan Gougherty
Dutch Design Week 2013: Amsterdam designer Pieke Bergmans developed a technique similar to glass blowing to create these plastic lighting installations (+ slideshow). More about VAPOR blown-plastic lighting collection by Pieke Bergmans
Opinion: in his latest Opinion column, Sam Jacob argues that objects tell us more about ourselves than literature or imagery and sets out his manifesto for "a culture of design informed by archeology and anthropology". More about "The history of human culture is written not in text but in objects"
Our second story today featuring products presented like model kits is Italian designer Fabio Novembre's window installation for Tommy Hilfiger at La Rinascente department stores. More about I Have a Lifestyle model-kit window installation by Fabio Novembre for Tommy Hilfiger