Traditional Dutch porcelain company Royal Delft have launched a new contemporary brand, Blue D1653, including this set by Arian Brekveld that looks as though the blue emblems have slipped down the rim of each dish. More
London Design Festival 2011: cakes decorated like creepily realistic babies and pencils with the alphabet painstakingly carved into their tips are among the exhibits at power of Making, which opened at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London yesterday. More
Industrial design graduate Florian Schmid made these stools by folding fabric that's impregnated with cement then drenching it in water. More
Milan 2011: Eindhoven designers BCXSY present a collection of rugs woven by Bedouin women in Israel at Spazio Rossana Orlandi in Milan this week. More
Milan 2011: Swedish collective Front will present a series of vases that tell the stories of five women living in remote villages in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. More
American designer Louie Rigano has created a range of teapots that combines mass-produced wooden handles and lids with individual hand-thrown bodies. More
Dutch designer Hella Jongerius presents 300 porcelain vases coloured with layers of mineral and chemical glazes at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. More
More design for the kitchen: these cooking vessels by Paris designer Laurent Corio are made of white clay with coloured enamelled interiors. More
Tokyo 2010: Spanish designer Jaime Hayón has designed a range of objects for traditional Japanese porcelain company Choemon. More
Frankfurt designer Kai Linke has created a series of vases and side tables by sand-blasting timber to enhance the texture of the grain then casting the resulting shapes in ceramic. More
Milan 2010: Viennese designers Mischer'Traxler presented a collection of bowls cast from vegetables in Milan last month. More
More from Alexa Lixfeld: the Hamburg designer has collaborated with Sri Lankan company Selyn to create a range of dolls adapted from drawings by children. More
Dutch designers Studio Makkink & Bey have created a furniture collection in which every element - from carpentry to embroidery - is produced in their studio by a hired team of artisans. More
London-based designer Yu Jordy Fu has produced a range of hand-cut paper lampshades called Cloud Lamps. More
French designer Paul Coudamy of art collective Elegangz has created these wooden shoes for footwear brand K-Swiss. More
