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Dishlamp from Belenko Interiors.

Limited Edition Design Dolls is a series of three figurines of famous designers, featuring Zaha Hadid (above), Jaime Hayon and Karim Rashid (below).

They are the creation of recent Central St Martins graduate Olivia Lee.

I love Zaha’s sweeping, organically architectural hairstyle, though disappointed that Philippe Starck isn’t amongst the crew..!

Via Dezeen.

I’m loving the work of Danish designer Philip Dam Roadley-Battin.

The Constant Garden is a desktop device designed by Vitorio Benedetti to combine relaxation and information. When it’s not helping you during the day to keep track of your appointments it emits nice garden sounds inside the office to remind you that there is more to life than work.

Great portrait work from UK photographer Laurie Fletcher in a simple but effective HTML folio site.

With work this good you don’t need to dazzle with Flash bells and whistles.

The Kartell Componibili modular storage system is a timeless classic that has earned exhibition space at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and also the Pompidou Centre in Paris.

First designed by Anna Castelli Ferrieri for Kartell more than thirty years ago, it is still available today.

Spooky Tooth Cycles is a radical Tucson based company selling an awesome range of motorised, hybrid and human powered bicycles, perfect for urban transportation needs.

Liking very much this DigiMech Clock from recent industrial design graduate, Duncan Shotton.

Numbers are printed on vertical sliders and only reveal themselves when shifted into perfect alignment with the ‘display box’. When not aligned they look like random, alien forms.

Need a tent for Glasto..? Go all out stealth throughout this summer’s festival season with the Limited Edition Addict X Vango Sigma 200 two man tent, featuring original Addict She Camoâ„¢ pattern designed by She One.

+ Addict X Vango Sigma 200 tent

Phillipe Starck is doing a ‘Siralun’ and teaming up with BBC Two for a brand new TV series to find the next great British designer, heading up a specially created School of Design in Paris.

Ten aspiring designers with the talent, drive and vision to create the next ‘must have’ products of the 21st Century will be given the unique opportunity to learn and work alongside Starck and his team over a period of several months.

A shortlist of the most promising applicants will be invited to Paris to be interviewed by Philippe, after which he will select the ten who will be offered a place at the school.

At the end of the series Philippe Starck will decide whom he wants to become part of his ‘tribe’ - the chance to stay on in Paris working in his office for a further six months.

For further information and the chance to become a contender, go here - closing date for applications is 22nd August 2008.