Recession Design produces beautiful instruction manuals that help you build your very own designer pieces out of materials from your local hardware store.

The world around us is filled with clues and evidence. For icon issue 070 we asked two cataloguers of the curious to open their files.

This fluffy, playful form is a new architectural fabric tile that the Bouroullec brothers have developed for Danish textile company Kvadrat. Not surprisingly it's called Cloud.

Oxford Street fills me with dread, as though something terrible is about to happen.