Movie: in this movie filmed by Dezeen at today's preview of Heatherwick Studio: Designing the Extraordinary at the V&A museum in London, Thomas Heatherwick demonstrates the machine that dispenses guides to the exhibition from huge rolls of paper, inspired by newspaper printing presses. More about Movie: Thomas Heatherwick at the V&A museum
Designed in Hackney: these side tables by Haggerston designer Corinna Warm feature deep round trays supported on tubular steel legs that make them resemble snare drums. More about Designed in Hackney: Drum tables by Corinna Warm
Japanese designers Nendo wanted their bathroom collection for Italian brand Bisazza Bagno to look as though the whole room has just been unpacked from the crate-like bath. More about Nendo collection by Nendo for Bisazza Bagno
If the year 2012 does bring the world to an end, Mexican branding company Menosunocerouno plan to face the apocalypse in style with a survival kit that includes chocolate and hard liqueur. More about Just in Case by Menosunocerouno
Cologne artist Simon Schubert creates intricate images of stately homes and palaces simply by folding plain white sheets of paper. More about Paper works by Simon Schubert
Designed in Hackney: Hackney designer Gitta Gschwendtner is best known for her anthropomorphic furniture and lamps, and this movie by Justin Anderson brings them to life in a surreal living room setting. More about Designed in Hackney: Living Room by Gitta Gschwendtner
These carafes by Zurich designer Anna Blattert of Swiss collective Postfossil incorporate little baskets to hold fresh ingredients like lemon or mint for making flavoured tap water. More about Stir It by Anna Blattert for Postfossil
Clerkenwell Design Week 2012: last week the Dezeen team were at Clerkenwell Design Week in London, where highlights included an archway clad in wooden hexagons, a tiny mobile theatre and a basket-making machine that stops working when nobody’s looking, as well as our Dezeen Watch Store pop-up. Here's a slideshow capturing these projects and a few more of the best bits. More about Slideshow feature: Clerkenwell Design Week 2012
Following the popularity of the bookcase without shelves that we published earlier this week (above, top right) here's a roundup of the ten most-clicked stories from Dezeen featuring more clever ways to display your reading material. More about Dezeen's top ten: bookcases
Atelier Van Lieshout arranged its new furniture pieces for Dutch company Lensvelt around an enormous blue cannon at Ventura Lambrate last month. More about WWIII by Atelier Van Lieshout for Lensvelt
This week we've created a Pinterest board with all the best images of lamps from Dezeen. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest »
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Dutch designer Maarten Baas has created a timer in collaboration with with kinetic objects company Laikingland that's specifically designed not to be accurate. More about Just About Now by Maarten Baas with Laikingland
Clerkenwell Design Week 2012: Vienna designers Mischer'Traxler present a basket-making machine that stops working when nobody's looking at Clerkenwell Design Week in London this week. More about Collective Works by Mischer'Traxler
Dezeen Wire: Apple designer Jonathan Ive was in London yesterday to receive his knighthood and give a number of press interviews, including this one for the Telegraph in which he says: "Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing. We don't really talk about design, we talk about developing ideas and making products." More about Jonathan Ive receives knighthood
Designed in Hackney: these chandeliers by Hackney designer Stuart Haygarth were painstakingly assembled from found objects like discarded spectacles, plastic bottles or party-poppers. More about Designed in Hackney: chandeliers by Stuart Haygarth
Dezeen Wire: the UK government has announced changes in the law that will extend copyright protection of 'artistic' manufactured goods from just 25 years to the life of the creator plus 70 years, giving design the same term of protection as literature and art. More about UK copyright law changed to protect design classics
Milan 2012: London designers Doshi Levien have designed an armchair and sofa for Italian brand Moroso that's inspired by Modernist architect Le Corbusier and the Indian city of Chandigarh that he masterplanned in the 1950s. More about Chandigarh by Doshi Levien
Dezeen Wire: Japanese designer Takeshi Miyakawa has been accused of planting false bombs and arrested while installing his work in a New York street during the International Contemporary Furniture Fair. More about Designer arrested for "planting false bombs" in New York
Dutch designers Daphna Laurens have created a series of storage containers that partially conceal their contents behind metal grilles. More about Cover collection by Daphna Laurens
French designer Philippe Starck has created an aerosol spray that lets users enjoy alcohol without getting drunk or hungover. More about WA|HH by Philippe Starck and David Edwards