Dezeenwire: Design Museum curator Alex Newson gives a tour of key projects in the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year 2011 exhibition, which opens at the museum today, in this BBC News movie. More about “Best of British: Design Award Highlights” - BBC News
This plastic cutlery that clips together to form little sculptures at the dinner table is by German design studio ding3000. More about Join by Ding3000
Product and jewellery designer Rita Botelho has created a series of earrings featuring tiny figurines, including this one in rock-climbing gear. More about Hanging by Rita Botelho
We've teamed up with publishers Phaidon to offer readers the chance to win one of five copies of their new monograph about Dutch designer Hella Jongerius. More about Competition: five copies of Hella Jongerius: Misfit to be won
Swedish interior designers Guise have inserted these tall black free-standing cabinets throughout a Stockholm apartment. More about Corner project by Guise
Designers Studio XAG have created a window installation in London for French fashion designer Christian Louboutin, spelling out the brand name in bright neon lettering. More about Christian Louboutin Mount Street Window by Studio XAG
Stockholm 2011: Swedish architects TAF presented this collection of lamps based on the shape of a stretched rubber band at Stockholm Furniture Fair last week. More about Rubber by TAF Arkitektkontor for Zero
Rotterdam studio Pasel Kuenzel Architects have completed another house for MVRDV's masterplan in Leiden, the Netherlands (see the other houses here). More about V35K18 by Pasel Kuenzel Architects
Dutch designer Floris Wubben has created a second chair using his method of binding willow branches at they grow (see the first in our earlier story). More about Upside Down 2 by Floris Wubben
Architect Carlos Barba of French studio AR+TE Architectes has completed this nursery school with an undulating roof in Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche, France. More about Le Petit Prince Nursery School by Carlos Barba
London designer Moritz Waldemeyer created the laser effects for pop star Ellie Goulding's music video Lights. More about Moritz Waldemeyer lasers for Lights by Ellie Goulding
Italian silversmith Gianfranco Pampaloni celebrates Valentine's day by piercing a real heart with a solid silver arrow and hanging it in the window of his Florence shop. More about Il cuore è una pompa by Gianfranco Pampaloni
Stockholm 2011: 20 designers presented their work among stuffed animals and dried plants inside the vitrines of the Biologiska museum in Stockholm last week. More about 20 Designers at Biologiska
Dezeenwire: New York Times design critic Alice Rawsthorne discusses German graphic designer Gerd Arntz, who developed the influential Isotype system of graphic symbols in the 1920s and who is the subject of an exhibition at the V&A museum in London. Read the New York Times article.
Isotype: international picture language is at the V&A until 13 March.
More about "Universal symbols that tell the story" - New York Times
Slate roof tiles extend down the exposed north facade of this house in Wales by London studio Feilden Fowles. More about Ty Pren by Feilden Fowles
Stockholm 2011: architects Claesson Koivisto Rune presented this layered lamp for Swedish brand Örsjö Belysning at the Stockholm Furniture Fair this week. More about Baklava by Claesson Koivisto Rune for Örsjö Belysning
This funeral home in Alicante, Spain, is by Spanish studio Cor. More about Funeral Home and Garden in Pinoso by Cor
We've published a few popular stories about Portuguese architecture recently so here's a roundup of all our stories on projects in Portugal. See all the stories »
More about Dezeen archive: Portugal
Artist Gwen van den Eijnde of France creates these sculptural costumes for his performances as bizarre fantasy characters. More about Costumes by Gwen van den Eijnde
Stockholm 2011: German designer Katrin Greiling created the Design Bar at this week's Stockholm Furniture Fair, featuring these orange cardboard hoods suspended over wooden loungers. More about Design Bar at Stockholm Furniture Fair by Katrin Greiling