Bruno Chemel: Savorama

Umeboshi, a Japanese salted and dried plum that has been used extensively in Baume's summer menu

Following on from this week's UK launch of Modernist Cuisine At Home, we profile a similarly educational food blog. As the owner of experimental macrobiotic restaurant Baume, Bruno Chemel's blog Savorama takes the Californian restaurant's famously complex dishes and breaks them down to a more comprehensible level. 

With fact files on his favourite and most used ingredients, and information on which fruits and vegetables are in season and when best to buy them, the site's aim is to bring gourmet cuisine to the table of the layman.

Catalina Estrada: fantastical nature

Based in Barcelona, Columbian illustrator Catalina Estrada offers a colourful vision of Latin-American folklore in her wallpapers and panels. With fauna and flora as her main source of inspiration, her work is inhabited by wild creatures and prismatic flowers, rich in colours and textures.

Meo Bau by I-Radium

The Meo Bau heated pet bed from Italian brand I-Radium uses infrared technology to create a portable, heated bed to keep cats and dogs cosy through the colder months.

Halloween 2012: London retail

Chocolate skulls at Fortnum & Mason, London

Gearing up for the spookiest day of the year, London's high street is embracing the spirit of Halloween through devilish food and props. From playful pumpkins to Dracola's Dentures, here are some of the products and displays standing out for shoppers.

Brick by Normann Copenhagen

Normann Copenhagen's latest product launch is a range of geometric cushions designed by Britt Bronnesen. Influenced by patchwork patterns, the cushions use a fabrics that together make up one dominant colour: red, turquoise, green, blue, grey, moss, orange, purple or yellow.

Mauviel: design & heritage

Family-run French cookware manufacturer Mauviel has launched a new casserole dish to showcase its 180 years of heritage and expertise. Featuring three rings of bronze, aluminium and copper on a stainless steel body, the new product symbolises the identity of the brand, a combination of tradition and innovation, while  following the current trend for metallic finishes and materials that take on a different patina the more they are used.

WGSN-homebuildlife subscribers can read our full report on casseroles and cooking pots here, and see more on patinas and ageing finishes in our report, Design with time: materials focus.

Design Academy Eindhoven: Top five graduation projects 2012

Process: the performance of matter by João Abreu Valente

With Dutch Design Week 2012 drawing to a close this weekend, we select our top five graduation projects from prestigious design school Design Academy Eindhoven. Recognised as one of the top design institutions in the world, the school is a great place to spot emerging trends at their birthplace.

Sphere Table by Hella Jongerius for Vitra

One of the product highlights seen at this year's Orgatec, the biennial contract furniture trade show that takes place in Cologne, is the Sphere Table designed by Hella Jongerius for Vitra.

Modernist Cuisine at Home

Sous vide steak; photo by Melissa Lehuta/Modernist Cuisine LLC

Home chefs can now master the key techniques of Modernist cooking, thanks to a comprehensive new guide by Nathan Myhrvold, Maxime Bilet, and The Cooking Lab. Launching in the UK on Monday, Modernist Cuisine at Home shows readers how to use professional tools such as sous vide, dehydrators and injectors, as well as how to achieve similar results using more common kitchen tools.

Danish soda at Skandium

London's leading Scandinavian design store, Skandium, will begin stocking an artisanal Danish soda this autumn, adding beverages to its range of design lifestyle products for the first time.

The drinks, from Ebeltoft Farm Brewery, are brewed by Peder Zacho Hansen using fresh fruit, cane sugar and carbonated water, and are already stocked at leading restaurants across Copenhagen.

Jelly Mould Lights by Piers Saxby Candy

Brighton-based product designer Piers Saxby Candy has created a pair of lamps with plaster fittings cast from an original 1930s jelly mould.

Custom Wedding Wall by Chase Kettl

US graphic designer Chase Kettl created this custom wedding mural using just strong twine and carpenter's pins. The simple but effective installation ties into the ongoing trend for DIY and handmade celebrations; subscribers can read our report on the trend here.