If your mind was awash with royal weddings and bank holidays and you missed British Designer, Simon Hasan's collaboration with Fendi in Selfridges this April, the good news is that you can catch it in Rome this week, and then again at Fendi's temporary store on Sloane Street throughout May.

Award-winning Hasan will be creating his trademark vessels made by exploring the medieval process of Cuir Bouilli- boiling leather to transform it from its normal pliable self into something irreversibly rigid and hard. But this time vases made in his studio will be developed further in-store in Rome with a Fendi artisan and embellished with off-cuts of Fendi Selleria leather

Simon has set up his own workshop in Fendi's temporary store on Sloane Street where he will be designing, modeling and developing new mannequins commissioned by Fendi. The installation will see him using his boiled leather, but combined with sheet metal this time (steel and brass) and all the new creations will be revealed when their new Sloane Street store opens in September.

This incredible project really explores the relationship between fashion and design, material and process, and flies the flag for collaboration between colossal brands and young experimental designers.

Simon has become incredibly sought-after and his vases very collectable since his wonderful MA graduate show in 2008 draw the attention of galleries and collectors and were snapped up for exhibitions all over the world.

As the design world starts to descend on Milan for the Salone del Mobile kicks off on Wednesday, there's much we're looking forward to seeing and doing. This week we're dedicated to sharing the best and most interesting new talents to watch out for.

Stockholm-based Daniel Rybakken has actually been a top tip of ours since his graduation show three years ago, but this year he's proving us right with new concepts and launches in numerous different locations across the fair. Having made a name for himself in the art and installation design worlds for his uncanny ability to replicate the feeling of natural, direct sunshine through his products, finally we are now seeing his wares hit the market as manufactured goods.

While most designers think about light in terms of lamps and lampshade, in Rybakken's products the idea is to make the light itself the main material, his aim is to challenge the way we think about light and what a lamp can be.

This year the designer has completed a commissioned by Cosmit, the organizers of the Salone del Mobile, to celebrate the 50-year anniversary of the fair in SaloneSatellite, where he will also feature new prototypes for a table and a task-light. Elsewhere in town Rybakken is also showing new work at Rossana Orlandi's gorgeous concept store.

This is the Book of Job. Complete with gilded, letterpressed pages, the first monograph of Dutch design duo Studio Job is biblical, enclosed in a foil stamped slipcase, and featuring a signed bookplate, four gatefolds, two ribbon markers, and a foil stamped case. Just 3,000 of the leather-bound edition are available, and we're guessing, so praiseworthy is the effort that's gone into it all, they're not going to end up in the bargain bin.

Job Smeets and Ny Tynagel have amassed a cult following for their work, which includes monumental (often dramatically larger than life) everyday objects, often infused with grand historical themes while still remaining primarily functional. No process is too laborious or luxurious for Antwerp-based Smeets and Tynagel, who have been known to explore a religious devotion to craftsmanship with collections in stained glass and marquetry as well as extensive use of precious materials.

In this beautiful tome interior spreads feature new specially commissioned photographs and gatefold tableaux created using special dies. Contributors include Victor & Rolf, Murray Moss and Nadja Swarovski - all giving a rare insight into Studio Job's quite particular approach to design and pattern-making, the result is a collectible and highly rarified book. A signing is planned in London for January - watch this space.