Clerkenwell Design Week 2012: British design duo BarberOsgerby talk about designing the London 2012 Olympic Torch in this movie we filmed last week at the Vitra showroom during Clerkenwell Design Week. Update: this interview is featured in Dezeen Book of Interviews, which is on sale now for £12. More about Interview: BarberOsgerby on designing the Olympic Torch
Movie: Ecole Cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL) student Thibault Penven has designed a folding boat. More about Ar Vag by Thibault Penven /ECAL
Designed in Hackney: accessories like lamps and dividers attach to this desk system by Tomás Alonso through a gap in the surface of the table. More about Designed in Hackney: Offset by Tomás Alonso
Dezeen promotion: Designjunction has announced the exhibitor line-up for its next show in a former postal sorting office in central London during the London Design Festival this September. More about Designjunction announces exhibitor line-up
A solo show of work by British designer Thomas Heatherwick opens at the V&A in London this week, featuring prototypes, experiments, material samples and finished works from key projects including UK Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010 and his recent redesign of the double decker London bus. More about Heatherwick Studio: Designing the Extraordinary at the V&A
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