Dutch designer Maarten Baas has been named Design Miami/ Designer of the Year, and will present a new body of commissioned work at the fair in Miami this December. More about Maarten Baas named Design Miami/ Designer of the Year
Dutch designer Jurjen van Hulzen has designed a collection of office furniture for people to hide inside when they want to avoid working. More about It Hûske by Jurjen van Hulzen
Greek architects KLab Architecture have completed an extension to a bar in Athens with a facade clad in rusted steel. More about Bar Guru Bar by KLab Architecture
London Design Festival 09: London designer Benjamin Hubert will launch a concrete desk lamp for design brand Decode London at 100% Design in London this week. More about Heavy Desk Light by Benjamin Hubert for Decode
London Design Festival 09: a temporary tower made of paper tubes designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has been erected on the South Bank in London. More about Paper Tower by Shigeru Ban
Slovenian architects Bevk Perovic have designed a range of skinny lamps for Slovenian brand Vertigo Bird. More about Slim by Bevk Perovic for Vertigo Bird
London Design Festival 09: artist Nik Ramage will present a mechanical copy of his own hand that continually drums its fingers at 100% Design in London next week. More about Fingers by Nik Ramage for Laikingland
London Design Festival 09: Berlin design studio Osko+Deichmann will present a range of seating inspired by a pebble at The Dock in London next week. More about Pebble by Osko+Deichmann
London Design Festival 09: London designer Benjamin Hubert has created a collection of clay pendant lamps for British design brand Viaduct. More about Chimney by Benjamin Hubert for Viaduct
London Design Festival 09: The Tournament, a giant chess set by Spanish designer Jaime Hayón, opened in Trafalgar Square in London today. More about The Tournament by Jaime Hayón
London Design Festival 09: an exhibition of six extruded aluminium furniture pieces by British designer Thomas Heatherwick has opened at Haunch of Venison in London. More about Extrusions by Thomas Heatherwick
London Design Festival 09: Ilse Crawford of London designers Studioilse will launch a collection of wooden seating inspired by vernacular English furniture next week. More about Seating for Eating by Studioilse
Dezeenwire: designer Konstantin Grcic will curate an exhibition entitled Design Real at the Serpentine Gallery in London, opening 26 November 2009 - Serpentine Gallery
Dezeen and the organisers of the imm cologne furniture fair have got together to give away five copies of Interior Trends 2010, an annual design trends publication. More about Competition: five copies of imm cologne Interior Trends 2010 book to be won
Zurich and London designers Aekae have designed a collection of glasses made of water buffalo horns. More about SIRE glasses by Aekae
French automobile brand Renault are showing a range of electric concept cars at the Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung (Frankfurt Motor Show) in Germany this week. More about ZE by Renault
London designers StudioSuperniche have designed a series of structures made of the blue fence that surrounded the Olympic Park site in east London during construction. More about The Blue Fence Project by StudioSuperniche
Work has started on a new headquarters building for a bank in Oslo, Norway, designed by Dutch architects MVRDV. More about DnB NOR headquarters by MVRDV
Students of the ALICE studio at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have built a wooden structure for viewing the surroundings next to a lake in Zermatt, Switzerland. More about Evolver by students from ALICE studio at EPFL
Architectural photographer Roland Halbe has sent us his photographs of a house on a golf course in Aranjuez, Spain, designed by Eduardo Arroyo of NO.MAD Arquitectos. More about Zafra-Uceda by NO.MAD Arquitectos