This week's picks:

+ PingMag's Best Of Design Week Tokyo 2008, "Just lasting for a couple of days and yet so much to see! Design Week Tokyo 2008 is (sadly) over now, but like every year, cheerful Team PingMag ran tirelessly around town, uber curious to see all the new hot stuff in artful design and designful art.". More at Flickr.

+ Japanese audio company Supercent were at Tokyo Design Week showing Tube-1, an audio system "based on a retro-styled vacuum tube amplifier. Designed by Atsushi Koike, the device has options for playback for radio and CDs as well as a 3.5mm socket in which you can connect a portable audio player.". At designboom.

+ Hiranao Tsuboi's LED watch for 100% at Toyko Design Tide. At designboom.

+ Core77 at Tokyo Design Tide and here. See all the Core77 Tokyo Design Festival coverage here.

+ Coverage of the Interieur 08 biennial in Kortrijk, Belgium at DESIGNWS.COM.

+ The Charles Kalpakian interview at Yatzer. Above Kalpakian's graffititek bookshelf, "Based on Parisian Graffiti art, the bookcase aims to offer new perspective on the craft by reinterpreting it in a three-dimesional way.". Also at DeTank.

+ Jacob Brinck's Clark desk at Designlines features unusual storage for those who have method in their mess.

+ Bram Knaapen's Remote Context Communicator at Dutch Design Week, "This project focuses on the design of a system that is able to communicate the real-time context of a remote user so that the receiving person is able to " feel" as if he/she is there without the translation steps that are required when describing an experience.". Via Yanko Design.

+ Maxim Velčovský/ Studio Qubus' new collection of glasses for Lobmeyr crystal at Vienna Design Week's Passionswege 2008. At DesignEast.

+ Gestalten's video interview with Doshi Levien, "Since 2000, they have brilliantly managed to bring together the best of both worlds - Nipa's Indian upbringing and Jonathan's British background complementary materialize into Eurocentric results.". Via Dezain.