Milan 2014: these lamp shades by Eindhoven design graduates Sander Wassink and Ma'ayan Pesach are made from vintage and discarded glass stuck together with brightly coloured resin that creates a tinted light. More about Stacked Lights by Sander Wassink and Ma'ayan Pesach combine vintage glass with coloured resin
Israeli ceramicist Michal Fargo produces these vases by ripping blocks of spongy foam into rough shapes before dipping them in porcelain and firing them (+ slideshow). More about Else vases by Michal Fargo moulded from torn foam blocks
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in the second part of our interview with Maarten Baas, the Dutch designer reflects on how his career has progressed since the burnt furniture he developed for his 2002 graduation project immediately brought him to the attention of the design world. More about Maarten Baas: "My Smoke furniture was an instant success"
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Matthias Borowski has created a range of furniture that resembles oversized confectionary (+ slideshow). More about Furniture that looks like giant sweets by Matthias Borowski
Blood appears to drip from display units and garments hang from meat hooks in this installation at the London flagship store of French fashion house Hermès by designers Studio Toogood (+ slideshow). More about Studio Toogood creates a blood red installation for Hermès
London Design Festival 2013: Japanese architect Jo Nagasaka has developed a range of resin and wood furniture for Established & Sons. More about New Resin Series by Jo Nagasaka for Established & Sons
London Design Festival 2013: Amsterdam designer Roel Huisman has created a desk with an ash lamp and glass vase embedded in a thick slab of resin. More about Resin Tables by Roel Huisman
Industrial design graduate Andrey Grishko of new Tel Aviv studio AndreyAndShay has designed a machine for printing furniture and products by winding resin-soaked thread round a mould (+ movie). More about Woven Furniture by AndreyAndShay
South Korean designer Wonmin Park constructed these chairs and tables from slabs of coloured resin (+ slideshow). More about Haze Series by Wonmin Park Studio
Finnish design graduates Arttu Kuisma and Juho Kruskopf have produced a set of ceramic pots and vases that look deceptively squidgy. More about Drapery vases by Kruskopf and Kuisma
London-based Latvian designers Arthur Analts and Rudolph Strelis have made a series of bowls from shredded money. More about Money bowls by Arthur Analts and Rudolph Strelis
Italian designers Formafantasma have completed a series of objects using various types of discarded leather, including the skin of pigs, fish and cork trees. More about Craftica by Formafantasma
Dutch designer Jólan van der Wiel has expanded his range of products shaped by magnets with this candle-holder. More about Gravity candle holder by Jólan van der Wiel
These vases made of sand are shaped according to the principles of an old Japanese game. More about Sand by Yukihiro Kaneuchi
Show RCA 2011: Royal College of Art graduates Azusa Murakami and Alexander Groves have made a collection of spectacles from human hair. More about Hair Glasses by Studio Swine
Japanese designer Jo Nagasaka of Schemata Architecture Office presented this series of wooden tables with fluorescent resin encasing their gouged-out tops at Spazio Rossana Orlandi in Milan last month. More about Shrine Flat-table by Schemata Architecture Office
Fashion designer Hussein Chalayan presents work including these moulds used to make his Inertia series of dresses (see our earlier story) at Spring Projects in London. More about B-side by Hussein Chalayan at Spring Projects
Royal College of Art student Eliot Postma has created a conceptual project where pets could be used to harvest human organs for transplants. More about Human Body Shop by Eliot Postma
Lighting and furniture that appear to be covered in ice will be on show at Galerie Kreo in Paris later this week as part of an exhibition of new work by Dutch designers Studio Wieki Somers. More about Frozen in Time by Studio Wieki Somers at Galerie Kreo
Icelandic designer Jón Björnsson has designed a range of vases made of volcanic sand. More about Flower eruption vases by Jón Björnsson