To encourage people to consume more tap water, Dutch designer Lotte de Raadt presents a range of terracotta carafes that naturally keep liquids cool at this year's Dutch Design Week, which starts today. More about Lotte de Raadt's terracotta carafes are designed to encourage people to drink tap water
Dezeen is giving away five copies of Urban Potters: Makers in the City – a book by Katie Treggiden that documents the revival of ceramics in London, Copenhagen, New York, Sao Paulo and Tokyo. More about Competition: win a book exploring the revival of urban ceramics
A group of 13 designers has come together to present a diverse selection of projects all themed around water during this year's London Design Festival. More about 13 Ways with Water exhibition explores "the world's most abundant material"
Italian designer Matteo Cibic imagined futuristic plants when creating these bizarre-looking ceramic and glass objects that puff out perfume, which London gallery Seeds is showcasing during London Design Festival. More about Matteo Cibic envisions plants of the future for London Design Festival exhibition
To "avoid the monotony of batch production", Turner Prize-winning architecture collective Assemble have developed a method for producing tableware items that are unique every time. More about Assemble "squishes" coloured clays to create one-of-a-kind Splatware products
Scholten & Baijings references Renaissance paintings and historic French ceramics in this collection of porcelain plates and vases, which feature pastel tones and gradients. More about Scholten & Baijings reinterprets century-old artworks for collection of vases and plates
Aiming to "push the limits" of porcelain, designer Alissa Volchkova has created a series of bowls that are made by free-pouring the material to form irregular blob-like shapes. More about Alissa Volchkova designs porcelain bowls to look like paint blobs
This delicately ridged pendant light by Australian designer Tom Fereday and artist Susan Chen takes two and a half hours to 3D print from one piece of extruded clay. More about Tom Fereday's Pelo light is made from a single coil of extruded ceramic
Designer Moisés Hernández has created a set of simple, monochrome tableware for the most highly rated restaurant in Mexico. More about Moisés Hernández designs monochrome tableware for Mexico's best restaurant Pujol
London designer John Booth has created three-dimensional versions of his colourful illustrations for this collection of collage-style vases. More about John Booth hand paints abstract faces for Tributes ceramics collection
These anthropomorphic vases, on display during Milan design week, are part of a project by Italian designer Matteo Cibic, who challenged himself to make a new one each day for a year. More about Phallic bumps and curly tails characterise Matteo Cibic's vase-a-day project
The production line of Poland's oldest porcelain factory has been temporarily sabotaged – so one batch of its traditional tableware is stained blue with factory workers' fingerprints. More about The Human Trace is traditional tableware marked with the fingerprints of its makers
These plates by Constance Guisset have the illusion of being soft and malleable, but they are actually solid ceramic. More about Constance Guisset designs puffed-up plates for Moustache
These ceramic vases by Mexico's Esrawe Studio are shaped to show the incremental stages of turning a cylindrical form inside-out. More about Esrawe Studio turns ceramic shapes inside-out to create Fold vessel series
This range of colourful vessels by Swiss designer Dimitri Bähler is intended to "question the concept of usefulness in our homes". More about Dimitri Bähler designs range of irregular ceramic vessels
Martino Gamper and Actant Visuelle has curated an exhibition of unattributed ceramic pieces that questions the importance of identity in the design industry. More about No Ordinary Love project asks buyers to pay more if they want to know who made a piece
London Design Festival 2016: Studio Furthermore injected sponge and foam with porcelain to create this collection of vessels (+ slideshow). More about Studio Furthermore creates ceramic homeware from sponges
Melbourne studio Lightly has released a homeware range featuring spindly floor lamps shaped to resemble Pinocchio and ceramics in a range of earthy hues (+ slideshow). More about Lightly introduces homeware collection with brass stationery and marionette-like lamps
German designer Konstantin Grcic has updated Rado's minimal Ceramica watch with a new case and matt black finish (+ slideshow). More about Konstantin Grcic redesigns Rado's Ceramica watch
Graduate shows 2016: Pforzheim University graduate Roxanne Flick has created a porcelain tea set that resembles the long necks and bodies of flamingoes. More about Roxanne Flick bases ceramic tea set on the shape of flamingos