London Design Festival 2011: British design retailer SCP will host new product launches and a seven metre-high installation by Michael Marriott at their east London store as part of Shoreditch Design Triangle during the London Design Festival this month. More about Design Department Store at SCP
These lamps are turned on when you pull their nipples. More about Nipple lights by Naama Arbel
Competition: we've teamed up with Max Fraser, author of the London Design Guide, to give away five signed copies of the brand-new 2012-2013 edition. More about Competition: five copies of the London Design Guide to be won
Berlin designer Ronen Kadushin has made a conceptual, open-source, contraceptive intrauterine device from a one-cent coin. More about Bearina by Ronen Kadushin
Korean designer Joongho Choi designed this chair to be carried over one shoulder like a handbag. More about Bachag by Joongho Choi
Berlin designers Beta Tank want to make scaffolding pretty. Designer Eyal Burstein has started out by casting a series of scaffolding joints in glazed porcelain with gold and platinum nuts and bolts. More about Scaffolding Brut by Beta Tank
Nine designers including Florian Hauswirth, Kaspar Hamacher and Max Lipsey furnished a grain-silo-turned-art-space in Basel in a five-day experimental workshop. More about Prelude 01: a Dialogue at Depot Basel
Here are some images of the five winning projects at this year's INDEX: Awards, including Hövding, an inflatable bicycle helmet (above). More about INDEX: Award winners 2011
London Design Festival 2011: London designer Dominic Wilcox claims he meant to leave these paint brushes unwashed so they would harden into coat hooks. More about Brush Hooks by Dominic Wilcox
These fungus-like purses are made of layers of laser-cut silk. More about Blooming Structures by Sivan Royz
London Design Festival 2011: London designer Oscar Diaz has redesigned the pen pot so there's no need to tip pens all over the desk or jam your fingers down the side to retrieve a paper clip or pencil sharpener that's slipped to the bottom. More about Pen Pal by Oscar Diaz for Doiy
An army of 100 scarecrows dressed in glowing decontamination suits kept a sinister vigil over the Dockville Festival in Hamburg earlier this month. More about Radioactive Control by Luzinterruptus
London Design Festival 2011: British designer Jasper Morrison will show his Lightwood Chair for Japanese company Maruni as part of Shoreditch Design Triangle during the London Design Festival next month. More about Lightwood Chair by Jasper Morrison
These stools by Swedish designers Glimpt are made in Vietnam from rolls of seagrass, bound with the thread that's normally used to make hammocks. More about Superheroes by Glimpt
Planks of a picnic table are draped over the railing at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska. More about Picnic Table by Michael Beitz
These racy figurines by ceramicist Rebecca Wilson are cast from pieces of fruit. More about Dirty Rotten Peaches by Rebecca Wilson
Competition: we've teamed up with new Swedish bicycle accessory brand Bookman to give away five sets of their bicycle lights. More about Competition: five sets of Bookman bicycle lights to be won
Dezeen Screen: Moody Nest is part of Hanna Emelie Ernsting's series of furniture for stroppy people. More about Moody Nest by Hanna Emelie Ernsting
These lamps by Paris designer Arik Levy consist of dark grey ceramic vessels with brightly glazed interiors. More about Well of Life by Arik Levy
Canadian studio Molo has designed a system of paper partitions that provide privacy at shelters in the wake of a disaster. More about Softshelter by Molo
