Fungi design: The Future of Plastic

Italian designer Maurizio Montalti has created a series of objects made using fungal mycelia, which he proposes as a tangible alternative to plastic.

Booming Vases by Analogia Project & Alessio Sarri

Booming Vases are the result of a collaboration between Italian ceramist Alessio Sarri and Analogia Project (the Italian design duo of Andrea Mancuso and Emilia Serra). The aim of the objects is to explore two opposite essential elements: air and matter, representing power and fragility.

Antic biotec: contemporary vinegar making by eliumstudio

Antic biotec by eliumstudio and Duende Studio - Photo by Felipe Ribon

Multidisciplinary creative agency Duende Studio has invited Parisian designers from eliumstudio to reinterpret the ancestral vinaigrier.

Inside Nacho Carbonell's studio at Dutch Design Week 2013

Nacho Carbonell has opened his studio to visitors for Dutch Design Week this year. Samples, drawings, prototypes, experiments and finished sculptures sit alongside plants, tools and raw materials in the workshop, which is part of Sectie C in the east of Eindhoven.

Blanks In Between by Workshop For Potential Design

Roughed Out Soldiers by Peter Marigold

One of the most interesting exhibitions during the London Design Festival this month was Blanks In Between, a project by speculative design practice Workshop For Potential Design in which six designers considered negative space, unused potential, and the ideas that come from blankness.

OverNight by Odd Matter

Currently on show at west London's Vessel Gallery, this series of lighting by design studio Odd Matter is made of stained glass panels held together by electro-plated copper.

Studio Skandium at LDF 2013

Sketch development by Emma Lonsdale for Studio Skandium

Design store Skandium introduced four new products to its in-house range, Studio Skandium, last week. A mini exhibition at its Brompton Road store showed the making process of the pieces, displaying samples and original sketches next to final fabrics, and foam and paper models next to production ceramic pieces.

Color-Hunting by Dai Fujiwara

Sky Dairy - Photo Dai Fujiwara

Former creative director at Issey Miyake, Dai Fujiwara invented the 'color-hunting' concept. Him and his team reproduce colour on a piece of paper by mixing watercolours, to perfectly match tones that they come accross in the wild. If the swatch disappears into the target, it’s a perfect catch. 

Fujiwara thus went colour hunting amongst wild lions, and used his finds as a base to reinterpret the Camper Pelotas shoes.

Festival des Métiers: Hermès craft processes on show

Imprimeur sur soie tools at Hermès Festival des Métiers

Running at London's Saatchi Gallery until Monday, the Festival des Métiers gives the general public to chance to watch master Hermès artisans at work as they make everything from printed silk scarves to luxury watches.