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Product design is a broad field and so it makes sense that related categories like fashion, graphic and jewellery design are also represented at the current DMY International Design Festival in Berlin. A good example of this is provided by the three designers and artists Regine Steenbock/sium (dress and cut), Juro Grau (sketches and embroidery) and Sabine Mohr (objects and jewellery) with their joint project ‘Red Darling’, in which each of them adds an attribute of their work to an object.

Lamp 'blub' and tealight banderole 'Night on earth' by Christian Lessing

The biggest design festival in Germany, the DMY, is taking place for the ninth time tomorrow in the light-flooded halls of Berlin's Tempelhof airport. New designers will be presenting their work alongside established design icons in the field of product/interior design and exhibiting future-oriented multidisciplinary projects.

How much music is concealed in a piece of denim can be seen in this clip by the artist Andrew Huang. The denim samples in ‘Music with 1000 Pairs of Jeans’ are not just a brilliant audiovisual cut-up technique-style hommage to the blue gold, but also happen to be an advert for the US american denim brand M Jeans. The musical contribution to denim culture gets top rating from us.

Artwork by AleXsandro Palombo

The caricatures by Italian illustrator AleXsandro Palombo are providing us with our daily dose of humour. In his blog, 'Humor Chic - The Daily Society Portrait' he comments on events from the world of fashion and glamour with a sharp tongue and even sharper quill. And this is a sector that AleXsandro knows inside out - after all, he not only worked as creative director for the most important luxury fashion houses in Milan, Paris and Hong Kong for many years, but in 1998 he also launched his own fashion line. It's not only fashion designers and editors who find themselves the butt of his black-humoured caricatures, however, but also political personalities like Silvio Berlusconi and Barack Obama.

If you're currently in the Rhineland, this is a sale you definitely shouldn't miss! At the Düsseldorf store Ela, one of Germany's most progressive shops, there is a whopping 50 percent off EVERYTHING from today until the end of June. And by everything we mean the crème de la crème of fashionable avant-garde labels, including c.neeon, Boessert/Schorn, Henrik Vibskov, Hannes Roether, Fifth Avenue Shoe Repair and the list goes on. The reason for the sale is the planned relocation to another part of Düsseldorf, with the reopening planned just in time for the 2011 autumn/winter season. Happy shopping!

Where: Hohe Str. 16, 40213 Düsseldorf
When: Mondays 1:00 pm until 6:30 pm, Tuesdays to Fridays 11:00 am until 6:30 pm and Saturdays 11:00 am until 4:00 pm.

If thoughts of a typical footballer wife’s bling-bling look still spring to mind when you hear the name Victoria Beckham, you’ll be forced to think again as soon as you clap eyes on her bag collection, which was recently launched in Germany.

Three Pilots: Xaver, Andreas and Sepp

After the previously presented psychedelic-influenced Violetta the fashion designer Bernhard Willhelm has provided us with yet another interpretation of the American Dream. In collaboration with Berlin-based glasses manufacturer Mykita he has produced a pair of 80s-inspired sunglasses with a pinch of irony, named 'Xaver', to be added to the pilot eyewear series 'Franz', 'Sepp' and 'Andreas' that's been around for three years now. The new model is more angular than its predecessors and, with 14mm temples, it's the Wambo* of the collection.

* Wambo is Bavarian for 'heavyweight’