The Geometry of Pasta by Here Design

Here Design has created a cookbook that guides readers through the perfect sauce and pasta shape combinations. In The Geometry of Pasta, shapes are illustrated in bold black and white alongside simple methods and instructions, creating a visual and easy to follow guide.

Yellow Owl's Little Prints by Christine Schmidt: book of the week

Yellow Owl’s Little Prints shows parents and children how to create practical hand-printed items, covering the basics of stenciling, stamp and prints with clear instructions, lists of materials and graphic templates for each project.

The Book of Hearts by Francesca Gavin

In the lead up to Valentines Day, publisher Laurence King has released The Book of Hearts by Francesca Gavin, an image-driven exploration into representations and meanings of the heart universally.

The Natural Home by Hans Blomquist

Written by Swedish stylist Hans Blomquist with photos by Debi Treloar, The Natural Home guides readers through different ways to bring nature inside, with sections such as Still Life, Texture, Colour, and Plants and Flowers. A final section called Homes presents in-depth case studies of houses and apartments that epitomise the natural ideal.

Homebuildlife subscribers can explore natural interiors more in our trend report, Natural Structures & Materials.

Tile Pattern Colour: The Tile Art of Dominic Crinson

Currently raising funds on Kickstarter, Tile Pattern Colour by Dominic Crinson will feature over a thousand designs from Crimson's tile collections over the past 20 years.

Interwoven: Kvadrat Textile and Design

A new book about Kvadrat, published by Prestel and designed by Graphic Thought Facility, launched during the London Design Festival last month. Interwoven: Kvadrat Textile and Design tells the story of the Danish textile brand's history, documenting its creative collaborations and its influences on environments from the office to the home.

Best of Italian design: ADI Design Index 2013

Pachamama - Master’s degree dissertation in Ecodesign by Mauricio Carvajal, Tatiana Martínez and Andrés Naranjo

The products selected for this year's ADI Design Index - which selects the best of Italian design to be put into production each year - are currently on show in the exhibition Design|Opera at the Triennale Design Museum in Milan, which runs until November 3.

Essential Vegan Cookbook

Vegan chef Vanessa Almeida has just launched her first cookbook, named after the website she created a year ago, Essential Vegan. The cookbook has a collection of over 60 recipes, all created by Almeida and styled and photographed by her husband, creative director Neni Almeida.

London Design Guide 2014-15: the best of the city's design in your pocket

Max Fraser has released the new version of his London Design Guide to coincide with this year's London Design Festival. The 2014-15 edition includes more than 150 shops, galleries and museums, as well as Fraser's pick of the city's best design-led restaurants, bars and cafes.

Bowerbird by Sibella Court

Interiors stylist Sibella Court's new book, Bowerbird, explores creative ways to display and style collections of objects around the home. Great for still life inspiration, the book includes a wide range of different collections, from scissors and feathers to taxidermy.

Read our previous Book of the Week post, on Sibella Court's Etcetera, here.

Inventario: Everything Is A Project

Inventario (Italian for inventory) is an editorial initiative created and managed by Beppe Finessi, edited by Corraini and promoted and supported by Foscarini. It stems from the idea that every gesture and action, even the simplest, is a project.

For You The Traveller: a human guide to the world

Artist and sculptor Nabil Sabio Azadi has made a limited-edition nomad's travel guide written by the friends he has made during six years of travelling around the world.

Virkkuri by Molla Mills: crochet anything

Helsinki-based designer and maker Molla Mills has published a book that explains how to crochet everything from plant pots and jugs to iPad cases and cable protectors.

Tutti Frutti by Bompas & Parr

Food experience designers Bompas & Parr have launched their new book, Tutti Frutti, which celebrates the global appeal of fruit. Speaking to WGSN, Bompas explained: "We were just so bored of all the 'dude food' restaurants opening in town and wanted to do something as a palate cleanser - and fresh fruit held the key."

The Design Hotels Book: XXL Collector's Edition

The Design Hotels™ Book XXL Collector's Edition

Design Hotels™ has teamed up with Artek to offer customers a collector's edition of the latest The Design Hotels™ Book. For The XXL Collector's Edition, the book is partnered with Artek's famous Stool 60 and a matching coffee table - so that the coffee table book is supplied with its own coffee table.

How to send a piece of city: a project by JoeVelluto

Italian design collective JoeVelluto has designed a way to share the experience of a holiday. Called Piece Of, the project comprises a series of postcards that can be filled with small objects representing the sender's favourite part of a city - such as a feather or a pebble.

A Delicious Life: New Food Entrepreneurs

Gestalten's new foodie book, A Delicious Life, profiles a new generation of cooks, bakers, brewers, bartenders and farmers, who are each on a mission to bring fresh, locally sourced food and drink back to our tables.

Tree Houses: Fairy Tale Castles in the Sky

This book by architectural writer Philip Jodidio brings together photographs, illustrations and mini tours of the 50 best tree houses in the world, from traditional constructions to wildly inventive creations, made by architects and anonymous craftsmen alike.

Published by Taschen (2012), Tree Houses: Fairy Tale Castles in the Sky offers inventive cues for kids' lifestyle and even experience design. For more, see our microtrend, Mobile Environments.

Fortuny Interiors: luxurious fabrics in real homes

New book Fortuny Interiors, written by Brian Coleman and photographed by Erik Kvalsvik, gathers together images of Fortuny textiles in use all over the world, from Venice and Aix-en-Provence to New York, San Francisco and Malibu.

Droulers: feeling at home in Italian style

London, Mayfair 2012. Photo Pietro Savorelli 

Published by Electa, Droulers: Feeling Home is a bilingual volume (in Italian and English) with texts by Francesca Molteni, which recounts the quest for beauty driving the work of Italian architects Nathalie and Virginie Droulers.