Dutch designer Maarten Baas has created a timer in collaboration with with kinetic objects company Laikingland that's specifically designed not to be accurate. More about Just About Now by Maarten Baas with Laikingland
Competition: Dezeen have teamed up with Swiss brand Punkt. to offer readers the chance to win a limited edition version of their clock by London designer Jasper Morrison, created to raise funds for recovery from the natural disasters in Japan earlier this year. More about Competition: limited edition clock by Jasper Morrison for Punkt. to be won
Show RCA 2011: for those who'd rather be woken by a gentle breeze or the smell of coffee than a shrill alarm, Royal College of Art graduate Ki Hyun Kim has designed a clock that wakes users with the electrical appliance of their choice. More about Alternative Alarm Clock by Ki Hyun Kim
Dutch designer Kiki van Eijk has created this series of 14 mantle clocks, each made from a different metal wire or finish. More about One More Time by Kiki van Eijk
Dezeen Screen: here's another chance to see Sweeper Clock, a movie presented by Dutch designer Maarten Baas in Milan in April 2009, featuring two men with brooms pushing lines of debris to form moving clock hands. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12. Watch the movie »
More about Dezeen Screen: Sweeper Clock by Maarten Baas
Milan 2011: Swiss brand Punkt. presented this alarm clock by British designer Jasper Morrison at Spazio Rossana Orlandi in Milan last week. More about Punkt. AC 01 by Jasper Morrison
Designer Sejoon Kim of South Korea has designed a clock where users have to feel the flexible face to reveal the time. More about Vague Clock by Sejoon Kim
Shay Carmon and Ben Klinger of Studio Ve in Israel have created a clock where the two hands are linked by a striped paper-like material, creating ever-changing 3D shapes as the hours go by. More about Manifold Clock by Studio Ve
This belt-driven clock was designed by Argentinian designer Daniel Weil of Pentagram as a gift for an architect. More about Clock for an Architect by Daniel Weil
Vienna Design Week 2010: Vienna designers Mischer’Traxler made batteries from 700 used coffee capsules to power clocks installed in the window of Nespresso Austria during Vienna Design Week. More about Nespresso Battery by Mischer’Traxler
Designers Zerofee have created the identity for Dezeen Watch Store, our new e-commerce venture launching next month during the London Design Festival. More about Dezeen Watch Store identity by Zerofee
Here's another clock designed by Giha Woo and Shingoeun (see their clock with a battery for hands in our earlier story), this time with a single spiralling arm to indicate the time in different countries around the world. More about The Bent Hands by Giha Woo and Shingoeun
Two batteries form the hands of this clock by designers Giha Woo and Shingoeun. More about The Front & Back by Giha Woo and Shingoeun
More from the Stefan Strumbel's Home Sweet Home show at Circleculture Gallery in Berlin (see our earlier story), this time cuckoo clocks representing violence, death and sex. More about Clocks by Stefan Strumbel
Scottish designer Natalie Duckett has created an alarm clock that wakes the user up by acting like a woodpecker. More about The Alarming Clock by Natalie Duckett
Taiwanese designer Yen-Wen Tseng has designed a clock where the hands are linked by two more pivoting arms. More about Hand in Hand Clock by Yen-Wen Tseng
Catalan designer Martí Guixé has created a wall clock for Italian design brand Alessi with no markings and a dry-wipe surface. More about Blank Wall Clock by Martí Guixé for Alessi
Hong Kong designer Leo Yiu has created a clock that protrudes at an angle from the wall it's mounted on. More about Insert by Leo Yiu
London designer Ryan McElhinney has made a grandfather clock covered in discarded plastic toys. More about Westminster Chiming Grandfather Clock by Ryan McElhinney
Designer Kitmen Keung of Hong Kong and Taipei has designed a dual-time wall clock for Taiwanese company Verso. More about Long-d by Kitmen Keung