Stockholm Design Week: Swedish designers Folkform have launched a furniture range that combines luxury materials such as Carrara marble and vintage leather with cheap imitation products such as laminate and fake leather. More about Unique Standard by Folkform
Dezeen has teamed up with www.pechakucha.com to give away ten copies of the new Pecha Kucha Night book. More about Competition: ten copies of Pecha Kucha Night book to be won
Stockholm Design Week: Xile, a flexible tunnel designed by Swedish designer Mats Karlsson, is one of three winners of the Forum AID Award 2008, announced in Stockholm on Tuesday. More about Xile by Mats Karlsson
Stockholm Design Week: new Swedish lighting brand Wästberg launched last night with task lights designed by Ilse Crawford (above), Claesson Koivisto Rune, James Irvine and Jean-Marie Massaud. More about Wästberg lighting collection
Architect Chris Bosse has sent us some photos of the National Aquatics Centre in Beijing - better known as Watercube - which officially opened on Monday. More about Watercube by PTW Architects
The Design Museum in London has announced the shortlist for the first Brit Insurance Design of the Year Awards - a new annual exhibition and awards programme that replaces the controversial Designer of the Year award. More about Shortlist for Designs of the Year awards
Stockholm Design Week: We're in Sweden this week, and the girls from Front have just completed an installation in the lobby of our hotel, the Nordic Light. More about Front at Nordic Light Hotel
London designers Peter Marigold and Beta Tank have created a chair that uses sensory substitution technology to transmit moving imagery to the sitter's brain. More about Mind Chair by Peter Marigold and Beta Tank
American sculptor Dan Corson created the Empyrean Passage sculpture to mark the boundary between West Hollywood and Beverly Hills, California. More about Empyrean Passage by Dan Corson
Tokyo architects Atelier Tekuto have developed a prefabricated aluminium house with walls that act as both structure and thermal radiators. More about Aluminum house by Atelier Tekuto
Israeli designer Shay Alkalay has sent us an animation and still images of Cut Attachez - a system that allows you to attach a drawer to an existing piece of furniture. More about Cut Attachez by Shay Alkalay
Mark Sanders, designer of the Strida Bike, has given Dezeen access to his archive of drawings, models and photographs (including his very first sketch of the bike, above). Here he tells us how the project came about: More about Interview: Strida bike designer Mark Sanders
Edinburgh architects A+J Burridge have designed a sustainable timber house for Scotland that features lambswool insulation. More about Highland house by A+J Burridge
Yay! We're celebrating our best month ever: we got over 550,000 unique visitors in January. 551,798 to be precise. Thanks everyone!
More about Dezeen's best month ever
Office for Metropolitan Architecture has announced a large residential complex containing over 1,000 apartments in Singapore. More about OMA in Singapore
Architectural photographer Dennis Gilbert has sent us photos of the Irish Aid Volunteering and Information Centre in Dublin, designed by Irish architect Tom de Paor. More about Irish Aid Volunteering and Information Centre by Tom de Paor
Italian designers Gumdesign have designed two new drinking glasses called Swing (above) and Shadow. More about Swing and Shadow by Gumdesign
Rather belatedly, here are some photos of the New Stuff exhibition held at the Johnson Trading Gallery in New York late last year. More about New Stuff exhibition at the Johnson Trading Gallery
Designer Bodo Sperlein has created a new collection for Spanish porcelain brand Lladró. More about Ascot Collection for Lladró by Bodo Sperlein
Sculptor Dylan Kehde Roelofs has created a range of functioning incandescent light-bulbs made of hand-blown glass. More about Hand-blown light bulbs by Dylan Kehde Roelofs