All Other Things Being Equal by Studio Jenk
Stockholm 2012: Oslo designer Thomas Jenkins of Studio Jenk presents a series of candle sticks made of three different metals but with exactly the same weight at the Greenhouse exhibition of young designers at Stockholm Furniture Fair this week. More
Form Us With Friends by Form Us With Love
Stockholm 2012: Swedish designers Form Us With Love present five new projects at the Swedish Museum of Architecture as part of Stockholm Design Week this week. More
Hoof by Samuel Wilkinson for &tradition
Stockholm 2012: London designer Samuel Wilkinson presents a table with legs that are sharpened like pencils at the Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, which opens today. More
W103s by Inga Sempé for Wästberg
Stockholm 2012: French designer Inga Sempé presents a collection of LED pendant lamps for Swedish lighting brand Wästberg at Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair this week. More
Luminaire and Salvatori
Dezeen promotion: design brand Luminaire announce their collaboration with Italian stone company Salvatori. More
Buoy by TAF for Zero
Stockholm 2012: Stockholm designer Mattias Ståhlbom of TAF presents this pendant lamp inspired by the fenders and buoys that hang down from the side of boats at the Stockholm Furniture Fair and Northern Light Fair this week. More
Fang by Iris van Herpen and United Nude
Ten fangs protrude from the sole of each of these shoes, worn by models at the Spring/Summer 2012 show of fashion designer Iris van Herpen. More
Field Dressing by Sruli Recht
The latest menswear collection by fashion designer Sruli Recht of Iceland features leather made from dolphin skin, fabric woven from horse hair and silk extracted from a spider's gland implanted in a goat. More
Faceture by Phil Cuttance
London designer Phil Cuttance has built a machine to cast faceted vases that are unique every time. More
K01 by Marc Newson for Pentax
Australian designer Marc Newson has launched a camera for Japanese brand Pentax. More
REK coffee table by Reinier de Jong
This coffee table by Rotterdam designer Reinier de Jong can be expanded by sliding the middle sections outwards in either direction. More
Stockholm Design Week 2012
Dezeen promotion: Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair takes place from 7-11 February and is the world's largest event for Scandinavian design. More
Designjunction 2012 - call for exhibitors
Dezeen Wire: design show Designjunction 2012 will take place at the Sorting Office, 21-31 New Oxford Street, London WC1 from 19 to 23 September during the London Design Festival and the organisers are now accepting applications from exhibitors. MoreBento by Form Us With Love for One Nordic Furniture Company
New design brand One Nordic Furniture Company will launch during Stockholm Design Week next week with an inaugural collection by Swedish studio Form Us With Love. More
FuelBand by Nike+
This wristband by sports brand Nike tracks your movement throughout the day and gives you points for being more active. More
"Turning inwards, going backwards": new student immigration rules
Dezeen Wire: Tom Campbell of BOP Consulting has published an article on the company's culture and creative industries blog slamming the UK government's new student immigration rules as "a potential disaster for the UK's creative and design sector."The new regulations are due to come into effect in April and mean non-EU students will no longer have the right to apply to stay in the UK upon completing their studies, instead returning home and "taking their talents, intellectual property and entrepreneurial energies with them." Read the full article here.
"Nendo hones its unusual charm" - New York Times
Dezeen Wire: design critic Alice Rawsthorn interviews Japanese designer Oki Sato of Nendo about how the company got its name, the humour and stories behind their work and his current preoccupation with glass-blowing - New York TimesNendo presented two exhibitions of their work in Paris last week: furniture that's only stable when objects are placed on it and another collection at Carpernters Workshop Gallery that includes containers made of agricultural netting, tables with glass tops that have been allowed to flow outside their frames and huge blown-glass bubbles trapped in steel coffee tables.
See all our stories about Nendo here and watch our interview with Oki Sato on Dezeen Screen.
Plissè by Hay
Paris 2012: get yourself organised with these colourful accordion-pleated document wallets by Copenhagen brand Hay, presented at Maison & Objet in Paris last week. More
Breeze by HawaSoo
Seoul designers HawaSoo have designed a clothes rail, a lamp and a stool that are styled like components of a bicycle. More
This week on Dezeen
Our most controversial story this week announced writer Alain de Botton's plans to erect temples for atheists across the UK - read the story and join the debate here. It also emerged that Disney were selling a T-shirt inspired by the 1979 album cover of Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division, but don't rush to order one as they've all sold. We also showed a robe made of golden silk harvested from over a million wild spiders and a tower built by flying robots. More