Designers Oscar Medley-Whitfield and Harry Trimble have turned clay dug from the muddy banks of the river Thames into ceramic tableware (+ movie). More about Oscar Medley-Whitfield and Harry Trimble at Designers in Residence 2012
News: Spanish design brand BD Barcelona Design has commissioned designer Jaime Hayón to hand-paint 40 unique vases in celebration of its 40th birthday. More about BD Barcelona Design celebrates 40th birthday with hand-painted vases by Jaime Hayón
Italian designer Guido Garotti worked with traditional ceramicists to create a hand-painted vase with the appearance of a stereoscopic image and a pair of road signs that look like decorative plates (+ slideshow). More about Deviazione and 3Dzionale by Guido Garotti
Dutch Design Week: architect Brian Peters has adapted a desktop 3D printer to produce ceramic bricks for building architectural structures (+ movie). More about Building Bytes 3D printed bricks by Brian Peters
Istanbul Design Biennial: this project by Antwerp design studio Unfold explores how 3D-printed objects created from identical digital files can be as varied and unique as hand-made objects (+ movie + slideshow). More about Stratigraphic Manufactury by Unfold
Beijing Design Week: A constellation of illuminated ceramic yoghurt pots hangs in the stairwell of a former bicycle factory in an installation by designers Aidia Studio for Beijing Design Week. More about Milkywave by Aidia Studio
London Design Festival: Curator, author and furniture designer Suzanne Trocmé has created a 3D-printed ceramic bowl and egg cup based on the continuous form of a Möbius strip. More about Aspirals by Suzanne Trocmé for 1882 Ltd
The forms of this tea service by design graduate Eunjae Lee are based on the components of an engine. More about Silent Machine by Eunjae Lee
London designer Max Lamb used stonemasonry tools to hand-carve the models for this crockery collection from lumps of plaster. More about Crockery by Max Lamb for 1882 Ltd.
London Design Festival: London designer Tom Dixon will launch a range of iridescent stoneware pendant lights at next month's London Design Festival. More about Lustre pendant lamps by Tom Dixon
Hans Toft Hornemann and Terkel Skou Steffensen of Danish design studio MadeByWho have designed these desk lamps combining a simple maple base with painted ceramic shades. More about Snøvsen by Hans Toft Hornemann and Terkel Skou Steffensen
Turkish designer Yigit Ozer has created a range of three dimensional wall tiles for ceramic company Kutahya Seramik. More about Nexus by Yigit Ozer for Kutahya Seramik
Our coverage of the Royal College of Art graduate show begins with these food storage jars made of radioactive earth from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster area in Japan. More about The Materiality of a Natural Disaster by Hilda Hellström at Show RCA 2012
Polish designer Boguslaw Sliwinski has created a new series of plates to encourage people to play with their food, this time allowing diners to recreate sporting action with their vegetables. More about Sport Plates by Boguslaw Sliwinski
Milan 2012: Dutch designers Scholten & Baijings showed a tableware set based on the archives of hand-painted porcelain company 1616 Arita Japan at Spazio Rossana Orlandi in Milan last week. More about Colour Porcelain by Scholten & Baijings for 1616 Arita Japan
Designed in Hackney: designer Ian McIntyre hand-crafted this pottery collection for furniture brand Another Country at his Hoxton studio in the London borough of Hackney and fired some of the pieces in his own kilns. More about Designed in Hackney: Pottery by Ian McIntyre for Another Country
These five measuring spoons give the correct quantities of flour, water, yeast, sugar and oil to bake the perfect loaf of bread. More about Bread spoons by Niels Datema
If for some reason you'd like to draw pictures with the bottom of your cup, Japanese designer Fumiaki Goto has made these little vessels with the same combination of ceramic and graphite used to make pencil lead. More about Drawing vessels by Fumiaki Goto
Milan 2012: Japanese designers Nendo will present new additions to their 1% products in Milan this April, including this tea set where the lids double as spinning tops. More about 1% products by Nendo
Venetian designer Luca Nichetto presented this table lamp, called Vader after the Star Wars character whose mask it resembles, at Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair earlier this month. More about Vader by Luca Nichetto for David Design