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New Designers 09: Kingston University graduate Michael Antrobus exhibits a range of stationary made of steel bars at graduate show New Designers in London this week. More
New Designers 09: Kingston University graduate Michael Antrobus exhibits a range of stationary made of steel bars at graduate show New Designers in London this week. More
Designer Julien Carretero has created a domestic fan from a wire cage, a motor and an industrial strap. More
Spanish designer Victor Carrasco has designed a wash basin for Italian manufacturers Boffi. More
Royal College of Art graduate Georges Moanack has designed Ultra Lead - an electrical management system that allows electrical devices from around the world to be used without changing their power plugs. More
French designer Amaury Poudray has designed a glass, zeppelin-shaped aquarium supported by a steel frame. More
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have created a series of contemporary objects for Japan Brand, using traditional Japanese craft techniques. More
Royal College of Art graduate Min-Kyu Choi has designed a folding version of the standard UK electrical plug. Update 17/03/2010: Folding Plug has won the Brit Insurance Design of the Year award 2010. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12. More
Royal College of Art graduate Thomas Thwaites has built a working toaster from scratch, extracting raw materials and processing them himself in an attempt to replicate a mass-produced toaster he bought in a shop for less than £5.00. More
DMY Berlin 09: Memory Stücks is a project by Berlin- and London-based design studio Beta Tank that was exhibited at the DMY Allstars exhibition in Berlin earlier this month. More
Here's a selection of projects and products by Brazilian designers Fernando and Humberto Campana that are currently on show at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany, as part of a retrospective of the brothers' work. More
A cable-tidying device called Sling Back (above) is the first product to be launched by Quirky, an new web-based service where product ideas submitted by designers are selected and developed by an online social community. More
London studio Eric Parry Architects have designed a door handle for architectural hardware manufacturers Izé. More
Designer James Cadogan of Baskerville Studio in Cornwall, UK, has designed a bent ruler that's easier for people with arthritis to pick up. More
Dutch design studio Bloomming have designed a modular system where diamond-shaped components can be individually rotated to vary the amount of light allowed to penetrate. More
Milan 09: Dutch designer Dick van Hoff presented wood-burning stoves made of tiles for Dutch ceramic manufacturers Royal Tichelaar Makkum in Milan in April. More
Japanese designer Nosigner has designed Drip Grip and XY, two new concepts for Japanese mobile phone company KDDI. More
DMY Berlin 09: a concept for a dishwasher combined with a sink by designers Peter Schwartz and Helene Steiner is on show at DMY Youngsters exhibition in Berlin this week. More
Architects Stephanie Davidson and Georg Rafailidis of Berlin practice Touchy-Feely have designed heated protrusions from a wall to assist in muscle-tension relief. More
Milan 09: former design-director and co-founder of Established & Sons Mark Holmes launched the first collection for his new brand, Minimalux, in Milan last month. More
Brussels designers Big-game have created a collection of objects with graduated patterns applied to their surfaces that make them appear blurry. More