Debuting at Milan's Salone del Mobile this year, Lusitanic product design brand Tusse is a delicate and sophisticated mix of theater, craftsmanship, and painting, with a Portuguese twist.

Gentle and gruesome, meek and aggressive, simpering and irreverent. The young British illustrator explores obscure and ambiguous subjects with a versatile and brillian style and technique.

One designs while the other builds. Their names are Cairn Young and Ian Spencer, and their Yard Sale Project teams modern materials and designs with more traditional manufacturing skills.

They live in a mysterious prefabricated squat on a digital hill. They have somewhat enigmatic identities and they want to expand the concepts of net art and digital art. Welcome to the Computers Club.

Design is becoming more animated and intimate. Think of a collection of coffee tables as a family of ducks following you around the house or lamps similar to friendly spiders. The idea? By the Korean Jongho Park.

Ceiling lamps like vessels wrapped with kilometre-long bundles of nickel chains. Tables, mirrors and sculptures made of ancient or petrified wood. His name is Barlas Baylar, from Hudson Furniture, and he only designs precious pieces of furniture.

Galileo Galilei said that the book of nature is written in triangles, circles and obscure geometric labyrinths. Today, they call them fractal formulas and we rediscover them in Nuala O'Donovan's ceramics.

Hanne Mannheimer starts with a recovered object. With a piece of fabric, a yarn or a china figurine. Pieces of stories that he puts together into tales and sensations in the form of fragile ceramics to be touched.

At Design Miami/Basel 2011, Nacho Carbonell explores the bonds between memory, senses and emotions with "Playground at Dusk", a collection commissioned by the Rossana Orlandi gallery.

The Alecci and Di Paola studio in Rome creates interiors. Project planning, furniture, storation, up to the creation of brand new furnishings. Their calling card? The play in contrasts, amid irony and the surreal.