Clerkenwell Design Week is now a firm fixture in London’s design calendar and the third instalment of the festival is the biggest yet. Here is our preview.

On 22 May, Icon and Vitra will be hosting the UK Premiere Showroom Screening of Eames: The Architect and the Painter. Enter now to win an invitation.

This collection by a Korean designer challenges our restricted thinking about an everyday object – the chair – and gives it multiple uses.

The Norwegian chemist specialises in capturing the smell of places and is passionate about the social implications of her unusual line of work.

A Dutch team led by Hella Jongerius is redesigning the room where the world’s biggest decisions are made.

Pei Zhu, one of China’s most prominent architects, has landed a new intergalactic museum on the waterfront in Shenzhen.

Artist Mary Ellen Carroll worked with British studio Simon Dance Design and a mathematician to create a set of furniture that lets you manipulate conversation.

Icon's parent company, Media 10, has acquired 100% Design, which runs alongside the London Design Festival and William Knight, former deputy director of LDF, is the new man in charge

This London duo’s fixation with the art of creation is challenging the notion that product designers should focus on the end result.

French designer Sibylle Delclaux has stripped down high-tech electronics to their basic elements to create an elegant, functional and intuitive range of products that has educational as well as practical value.

The dingy packages, parcels and envelopes of the Royal Mail get a makeover, to make the experience of visiting a post office almost as exciting as receiving a letter – even if the actual post office remains the same.

From land mines to financial crises, this year’s batch of graduates has taken a step away from the conceptual to tackle real-life problems.

Mieke Meijer and Dutch firm Vij5 have invented a process to make wood out of paper and invited other designers to test out the new material.

Unless you’re the proud owner of “BIG DAV 1”, the code on the front of your car doesn’t tell the world much about you or your vehicle. Paris-based studio Artworklove has a plan to change that.

The Turner-prize nominated sculptor is inspired by classic pieces of modernist furniture and reinterprets them to make "places, not things".

A cookery class for the visually impaired inspired Neora Zigler’s range of safety-conscious kitchen tools that engage with the user’s sense of touch.

Studio Nucleo’s range of furniture made from transparent cubes of resin is handcrafted but has a distinctly digital aesthetic.

Artist Jeremy Hutchison explores the nature of mass production by getting factory workers from around the world to throw a spanner in the works.

The Italian design duo’s Botanica range of vases reinvents plastic as a craft material by using long-forgotten plant and animal polymers.

Vienna’s Mischer Traxler twists an ostensibly prosaic basket-making project into a deft comment on the ambivalence of automation.