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VDF products fair: Elastic belts dressed with colourful yarn decorate Paola Lenti's playful Telar collection of matching outdoor furniture. Read more View the full article

Milan 2010: German design studio Ett la Benn present a collection of lamps made by drying out sponge cloths over moulds in the Zona Tortona district of Milan this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

CES 2015: Taiwanese company Gogoro has revealed what it describes as the "world's first Smartscooter", with a network of battery-swapping stations that could allow its power cells to be changed in just six seconds (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Scottish designer Natalie Duckett has created an alarm clock that wakes the user up by acting like a woodpecker. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Danish bicycle company Biomega launch five city bikes in their 2010 collection for sports brand Puma today. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve just sent out the latest issue of Dezeenmail – take a look at it here. Dezeenmail is sent out roughly every two weeks and contains a selection of Dezeen’s best stories and comments, along with all our latest competitions and jobs. You can subscribe here. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival 2010: in case you missed it elsewhere, Patricia Urquiola’s Bend-Sofa for B&B Italia is on display at their London showroom for the London Design Festival. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

At Dutch Design Week designer Pepe Heykoop presents a collection of leather lampshades made by underprivileged women in Mumbai. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Amsterdam studio Chops and Moxie have shared with us this short film representing the concrete interior of a boutique by Japanese architect Kumiko Inui as though it’s being inflated from soft materials. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Stockholm 2011: Swedish designer Jenny Bäck presented this floor lamp at Stockholm Furniture Fair last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Berlin designer Michael Hilgers talks to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs in this movie interview filmed as part of our Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents in Cologne earlier this year. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch designer Maarten Baas designed this chair with a ladder-back reaching into the sky for human rights charity Amnesty International. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Amsterdam studio Sander Architecten have completed a cardboard bank in the Netherlands. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: here’s a movie about the almost invisible installation by Japanese architect Junya Ishigami that’s on show at the Barbican art gallery in London. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A cross-shaped window in the sliding door of this Belgian pharmacy transforms into a green sign during opening hours. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Russian architect Peter Kostelov has slotted a timber structure into a two-storey apartment in Moscow to create two extra floors. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Traditional Japanese toys inspired this modular furniture by architects Kengo Kuma and Associates for the East Japan Project. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this interview filmed at Dezeen Space, street artist Stewy talks about painting indigenous British animals in unexpected areas of the city, including one side of Dezeen Platform. Watch the movie. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year an orchestral academy designed by Frank Gehry opened in Florida, while architects Scott Brownrigg completed the London offices for internet giant Google. Meanwhile, Black Eyed Peas frontman Will.i.am was appointed director of creative innovation at technology company Intel, OMA published a report claiming the world could be free from fossil fuels by 2050 and a restaurant designed by Tom Dixon opened at London’s Royal Academy of Arts. Dezeen readers debated whether designs for a power plant that will blow smoke rings and double up as a ski slope were bonkers or brilliant, but questioned the sustainable credentials of a chair carved from a tree trun…

Slideshow: car brand Mini will present a panel-van version of the Mini Clubman at the International Geneva Motor Show next month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This vase by Charlie Guda for Rotterdam company The Cottage Industry combines a test-tube with a magnifying lens to show off tiny single blooms. (more…) View the full article

London College of Fashion graduate Ana Rajcevic has created a series of tusks, horns and spines for the human body. (more…) View the full article

Pete Oyler of American design studio Assembly has created these stacking candle holders from aluminium and brass. (more…) View the full article

Almost everything that goes on inside this house in Valencia by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos is on show to visitors though a transparent glass facade (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Our special issue of Dezeen Mail for the London Design Festival includes our free map of all the events taking place around the city, which has already been viewed by 35,000 people, plus details of the installations we commissioned in Seven Dials, the Dezeen Live series of talks at 100% Design and all of our pop-up shops this week. Read the Dezeen Mail special | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article