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
Dezeenwire: football club West Ham United have won the bid to move into the Olympic Stadium after the London 2012 Olympic Games. More about West Ham United win bid to take over 2012 Olympic Stadium
Dezeenwire: the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) and the Design Council have confirmed that they are to merge from 1 April. More details below. More about CABE and the Design Council confirm merger
Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group have won a competition to design the new National Gallery of Greenland in the country's capital city, Nuuk. More about National Gallery of Greenland by BIG
Stockholm 2011: Swedish designer Jonas Wagell presents this tea set for Danish brand Muuto at Stockholm Furniture Fair this week. More about Bulky by Jonas Wagell for Muuto
Japanese studio Hidehiro Fukuda Architects have completed this house lined with oriented strand board in Hakodate, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan. More about Duplex House in Tokito by Hidehiro Fukuda Architects