Milan 2014: London designer Torsten Sherwood has created a range of wooden furniture influenced by the simple design principles and "common sense approach" of the 19th-century Shaker movement. More
Milan 2014: Dutch designers Laura Lynn Jansen and Thomas Vailly have created a collection of tableware by "growing" stone over a structural skeleton using the same natural process that forms stalagmites and stalactites in caves (+ slideshow). More
Milan 2014: Swedish architecture and design studio Claesson Koivisto Rune has designed a wallpaper collection influenced by the shapes and patterns found in Modern architecture (+ slideshow). More
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: computer scientist Hiroshi Ishii claims MIT Media Lab's Transform project consisting of thousands of physical, motorised "pixels" should be considered a completely new creative medium. More
Milan 2014: collaborative exhibition Low Motion showcased products amongst ambient lighting and sounds to provide a "safe haven" amid the chaos of Milan design week (+ slideshow). More
Milan 2014: Italian manufacturer Zanotta has launched two lightweight and versatile tables by Amsterdam designer Frank Rettenbacher (+ slideshow). More
Milan 2014: German designer Laura Jungmann has collaborated with glassmaker Cornelius Réer to reform mass-produced glass items into sculptural vessels. More
Milan 2014: Brussels-based designer Alain Gilles' extendable table for Italian furniture brand Bonaldo turns its functional mechanism into an aesthetic feature (+ slideshow). More
Milan 2014: students from the Piet Zwart Institute created a series of interactive objects exploring sound in a domestic context for their Instruments Reimaging the Music Room exhibition in Milan last month (+ slideshow). More
Milan 2014: this table by Dutch designer Studio Maks, featuring integrated wireless phone charging pads and WiFi signal enhancers, meandered around a warehouse in the Ventura Lambrate district of Milan last month (+ slideshow). More
Milan 2014: rubbing together wooden tools in this kit by Italian designer Francesco Faccin creates fire in a "primitive manner" (+ movie). More
Milan 2014: the latest collection from Italian design brand Discipline includes chopping boards that look like pebbles and a desk tidy object that resembles an apple. More
Milan 2014: a bookcase with an integrated marble bluetooth speaker and wooden base features in the debut collection from Italian design brand Clique. More
Joseph Grima and Tamar Shafrir of design research collaborative Space Caviar explain why they set up an algorithmic journalism machine to produce magazines on the fly at Palazzo Clerici in Milan (+ movie). More
Milan 2014: Tomas Libertiny's design studio used multiple body casts to dictate the shape of this seat for Dutch brand Tchai International, shown in Milan last month. More
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: the way we interact with technology "needs to be updated", according to Talia Radford of taliaYstudio, who shows us two of her studio's projects that enable people to take a photo by kissing rather than pressing a button. More
Milan 2014: Italian design studio Joe Velluto has collaborated with motorcycle company NorthEastCustom to make a bike-shaped piece of furniture that replaces metal and plastic with glass, wood and wool (+ slideshow). More
Milan 2014: these LED lamps by German graduate designer Theo Möller blow up like balloons to create inflatable lighting. More
Milan 2014: furniture by the late Flemish designer Maarten van Severen was presented against the backdrop of a tromp l'oeil installation developed by Dutch studio OMA at Milan design week earlier this month (+ slideshow). More
Milan 2014: these marble furniture pieces, including a version of Alessandro Mendini's Proust chair, were each carved from a single block of stone for an exhibition by Italian company Robot City in Milan (+ slideshow). More