Memorabilia Factory by Bold-design
To prove that germs aren't all bad, Paris-based studio Bold-design came up with an activity kit that uses bacteria to turn sand from the beach into stone souvenirs (+ slideshow). More
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Another Ceramic Candlestick by Marie Dessuant for Another Country
Product news: these candle holders by French designer Marie Dessuant come with handy inner compartments and were designed for British furniture brand Another Country. More
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Bow by Benjamin Hubert for De La Espada
London Design Festival: industrial designer Benjamin Hubert has created a trestle table and bench with timber parts held in tension by sheets of bowed steel. More
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Element Vessel by Vitamin
London Design Festival: each of these mix-and-match vessels by London design studio Vitamin is fixed together from rings of assorted materials including marble, cut glass, turned wood and 3D printed resin. More
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Bird Song with a Found Feather by Martin Smith/Laikingland
London Design Festival: this mechanical contraption by artist Martin Smith and his design company Laikingland will wake you up by chirping like a bird (+ movie). More
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Pelt by Benjamin Hubert for De La Espada
Industrial designer Benjamin Hubert's latest chair features a T-shirt-shaped piece of plywood curled smoothly into its solid ash frame. More
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V4 vases by Seung-Yong Song
London Design Festival: delicate flowers and foliage are protected by the steel cages around these concrete vases by Korean designer Seung-Yong Song. More
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Hatcham chair by Samuel Wilkinson for Decode
London Design Festival: London-based industrial designer Samuel Wilkinson has designed stackable wooden seating evoking traditional school furniture for Decode London. More
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Osmosis Interactive Arena by Arik Levy
Arik Levy's contribution to the Digital Crystal exhibition at London's Design Museum in an interactive installation that uses visitors' body movements to mutate computer-generated crystals (+ movie). More
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Tenda by Benjamin Hubert at designjunction
London Design Festival: London designer Benjamin Hubert has launched a lighting collection made of underwear fabric (+ audio). More
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The Fudge Pop-Up Salon by Zaha Hadid
London Design Festival: Zaha Hadid teamed up with hairdressing brand Fudge to create a pop-up hair salon in London last week. More
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Bench Years by Established & Sons at the V&A museum
London Design Festival: Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby, Jasper Morrison and AL_A are among the designers who have created benches with British design brand Established & Sons for the central courtyard of the V&A museum (+slideshow). More
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Out of the Woods at the V&A museum
London Design Festival: every scrap of material and minute of production time was carefully recorded during the manufacturing of these twelve wooden chairs, helping the Royal College of Art students that designed them to measure each one's sustainability. More
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The Journey of a Drop by Rolf Sachs
London Design Festival: drops of coloured ink fall from the top of a stone staircase into a glass tank six storeys below in this installation at the V&A museum by German artist and designer Rolf Sachs (+ slideshow). More
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Aspirals by Suzanne Trocmé for 1882 Ltd
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
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Prostheses and Innesti by Studio MK27, Manuela Verga and Paolo Boatti
London Design Festival: construction workers made this furniture on show at London's Gallery Fumi, but Brazilian architect Marcio Kogan of Studio MK27 has added small details to embellish each piece. More
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London Design Festival 2012 photographs by Barbara Chandler
London Design Festival: London design journalist and photographer Barbara Chandler has selected ten of her favourite photographs from this year's London Design Festival, including portraits of Martino Gamper, Industrial Facility (above) and Tord Boontje. More
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JAILmake pop-up studio at Tent London
South London designers JAILmake have condensed their 205 square metres studio into just five square metres at design show Tent London, where they'll be working on a new brief every day (+ audio). More
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Dezeen's London Design Festival audio guide
London Design Festival: this week we've been recording short interviews with designers and critics at the top shows of the London Design Festival, and we've now compiled them in a handy audio guide to the festival. More
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Saturday's speakers at Dezeen Live
London Design Festival: we're hosting the last in our series of live shows at 100% Design today from 2:45pm, including talks with designer Clemens Weisshaar, restaurant founder Shamil Thakrar and trend forcaster Li Edelkoort (above). More
