London Design Festival 09: London designer Simon Hasan has created a collection of furniture and vases inspired by traditional British crafts. More about Furniture by Simon Hasan for Vauxhall Collective
London Design Festival 09: Spanish designer Oscar Diaz has designed a set of red, green and blue vases that nest inside each other to appear a specific hue of purple. More about RGB Vases – P242 by Oscar Diaz
American designer Paul Loebach has created a series of three saggy-looking vases made of solid wood. More about Wood Vases by Paul Loebach
Milan 09: Japanese designer Jin Kuramoto presents two new projects in Milan this week, at the Complimentary Colors exhibition. More about Plain Lighting and Rock Vase by Jin Kuramoto
Icelandic designer Jón Björnsson has designed a range of vases made of volcanic sand. More about Flower eruption vases by Jón Björnsson
Milan 09: as part of the Design Miami Craft Punk performances in Milan later this month, designers Tim Simpson and Sarah van Gameren of Studio Glithero will present a range of ceramic vases that gradually change colour to a vivid blue when exposed to light. More about Studio Glithero at Craft Punk
A new collection of leather vases by London designer Simon Hasan is on show as part of an exhibition at Sotheby's in London this week. More about Vases by Simon Hasan
More from Isolation Unit: this vase is sliced into layers than can be rotated and rearranged. More about Shifting Vase by Isolation Unit
Design Miami 08: Dutch designer Roderick Vos will present a collection of three ceramic pieces called White Gold at Design Miami this week. More about White Gold series by Roderick Vos
Saudi Arabia-based telecommunications company STC have designed a wireless internet router that can also be used to hold flowers. More about Wireless router vase by STC
Caged Message vases by Cypriot designer Alexis Themistocleous contain a secret message that can only be revealed when they are smashed. More about Caged Message vases by Alexis Themistocleous
Helsinki-based designer Lincoln Kayiwa has designed two multi-functional home and office objects. More about Eemeli and Betty by Lincoln Kayiwa
New Designers 08: graduate designer Laura Cahill presented vases and furniture made from unwanted books at New Designers in London earlier this year. More about Book Vases by Laura Cahill
Czech designer Jan Čtvrtník has won the Climate Competition organised by Droog with a vase based on Alvar Aalto's famous design, but modified to express the effects of global warming. More about Droog Aalto by Jan Čtvrtník
Boaz Cohen and Sayaka Yamamoto of Eindhoven-based design studio BCXSY have created a collection of vases to support cut flowers once they have dried out. More about Distilled Nature by BCXSY
A range of products made from boiled leather by designer Simon Hasan is on show at the Royal College of Art Show Two in London, which closes tomorrow. More about Boiled-leather products by Simon Hasan
Psychomoulages by designer Olivier Peyricot is a series of ceramic vases inspired by "the tragic fragility of motorcycle helmets". More about Psychomoulages by Olivier Peyricot
Milan 08: Moooi showed a set of vases by Marcel Wanders at Superstudio Più in Milan last month. More about Delft Blue vases by Marcel Wanders
Milan 08: Randomly Crystallised is a collection of vases and lighting by Swedish designers Front for Swarovski Crystal Palace. More about Randomly Crystallised by Front
Design Miami 07: Tomáš Gabzdil Libertiny of Studio Libertiny presented a project called Paper Vases at Design Miami last week, which involved laminating 700 sheets of paper into a solid block and then turning this into a vase on a lathe. More about Paper Vases by Studio Libertiny