ThinPlug by Zihni Yalcin
Product designer Zihni Yalcin has designed a three-pin electrical plug that folds up for easy transportation. More
Product designer Zihni Yalcin has designed a three-pin electrical plug that folds up for easy transportation. More
Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has created an installation in Tokyo for fashion brand Hermès, where a movie of a woman appears to blow on a scarf hanging in the window. More
Work by Czech designers including Maxim Velčovský will be displayed alongside tools used to make the pieces at an exhibition in Prague next week, curated by Czech collective OKOLO. More
Parisian art collective Fandango Projects have created an installation for surf brand Quiksilver that reconstructs teenagers' bedrooms from different decades. More
An exhibition of industrial design curated by Munich designer Konstantin Grcic opens at the Serpentine Gallery in London this week. More
Los Angeles designers Deegan Day Design have created an angular installation framing two dual-projection screens at the SCI-Arc gallery in Los Angeles. More
Japanese designers Nendo have designed an exhibition of craft objects at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan. More
An exhibition of new work by Japanese designers Nendo is on show at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. More
A collection of wooden pieces by Italian architect and designer Andrea Branzi will be exhibited at Galerie Azzedine Alaïa in Paris next month. More
A modular construction system for consumers to build anything from furniture to houses by Brussels designer Thomas Lommée is on show at gallery Z33 in Hasselt, Belgium. More
Dutch Design Week 09: Dutch designer Janina Loeve presents bouquets made of vegetables at the Designhuis in Eindhoven. More
Tokyo 09: architect Makoto Tanijiri of Hiroshima architects Suppose Design Office designed an exhibition environment based on clouds for Designtide Tokyo in Japan last week. More
Tokyo practice Klein Dytham Architecture have sent us images of an exhibition of their work that was on show at Gallery MA in Tokyo, Japan, earlier this year (thanks to Jean Snow for pointing out our earlier error!) More
Tokyo 09: here are some photographs of designers' installations inside shipping containers during Tokyo Designers Week earlier this week. More
Polish Design Season: Beata Konarska and Pawel Konarski of Warsaw design studio Konarska-Konarski have created a group of winged horses with screens in their flanks. More
Dutch Design Week: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Guy Königstein presented a project where family members are represented as spools of thread in Eindhoven last week. More
Tinkebell., the Dutch performance artist best known for making a handbag out of her own cat (above), presents an exhibition of her work at Torch Gallery in Amsterdam starting later this week. More
Dutch Design Week: Austrian masters graduate Sonja Bäumel presents a body of work at Design Academy Eindhoven's Graduation Galleries exhibition this week, exploring how bacteria on human skin could be harnessed to create clothing that reacts to the environment. More
Polish Design Season: A collective of young Polish designers presented the Polska Folk exhibition as part of Tent London during the London Design Festival last month. More
Polish Design Season: an exhibition showcasing Polish design took place in London last month as part of the London Design Festival. More