Dezeen promotion: Japanese designer Oki Sato of Nendo will present their inaugural collection for new Singaporean design brand K% at Luminaire's Chicago showroom this month. More about Nendo presents K% collection at Luminaire
Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake has created a range of LED lamps for Italian lighting company Artemide that unfold from flat 2D shapes into 3D shades. More about IN-EI by Issey Miyake for Artemide
London design studio Yang:Ripol have remixed humble stationery items to create a pen that doubles as a pencil case and an eraser-capped pencil with its own brush. More about Pencil-case pen and Pencil V2.0 by Yang:Ripol
A footwear company in Thailand says it has developed a way to bio-engineer stingray skin to produce customised trainers - although the claim has been met with scepticism from scientists and outrage from animal rights campaigners. More about Bio-Customized Sneakers by Rayfish
The Dezeen office reopens tomorrow following the Queen's Diamond Jubilee holiday. Now you can remember the long weekend forever by downloading a free souvenir poster designed by Hackney graphic designer Sarah Hyndman of With Relish. More about Diamond Jubilee Souvenir Poster by Sarah Hyndman
Italian designers Formafantasma have completed a series of objects using various types of discarded leather, including the skin of pigs, fish and cork trees. More about Craftica by Formafantasma
Polish designer Boguslaw Sliwinski has created a new series of plates to encourage people to play with their food, this time allowing diners to recreate sporting action with their vegetables. More about Sport Plates by Boguslaw Sliwinski
After the popularity of our story on Nendo's bathroom for Bisazza Bagno this week, we've compiled over 100 covetable bathrooms from the pages of Dezeen in our latest Pinterest board.
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Dublin creative agency Boys and Girls has installed a new reception desk supported by giant Jenga blocks at one end and balloons at the other. More about Hot Desk by Boys and Girls
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