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Founded by product and furniture designers Robbert Ramaekers and Rogier Rensen, Belgian company MaaK creates modern furnishings that span classification. Some of their products feel mid-century, some feel ultramodern and others are more Scandinavian. You be the judge.

If you've stuffed a Christmas stocking in the last ten years, chances are you've used a product conceived by Knock Knock. You know them, those tongue-in-cheek sticky notes and pre-printed grocery list pads in perky colors. Berkeley, California native Jen Bilik, who founded the company in 2002, achieved her goal, which was to create witty, design-driven goodies. Let's check out her inspirations in this week's Friday Five, some of which should make you smile.

Swedish company Kenjo designs small, cabin-like prefab rooms that can serve as guest houses, offices, studios or any other type of space that you like. Each cabin is built with glass sliding doors providing the openness that smaller module type structures are generally lacking.

This Thanksgiving we know a lot of you will be gathering around food. Some of you will travel to others' homes, but for those who plan to host a dinner, we want to share a strategy to stall your guests on their way to the kitchen. Stop them in their tracks with Pinch Food Design's version of peas and carrots displayed as your centerpiece. Read more for the entire recipe including presentation!

Metal jewelry designer Jamie Spinello's recent creations are inspired by a time that has always intrigued me - ancient Egypt. This is a new fashion trend - you heard it here first. OK, maybe you didn't but I'm putting it out there!

Kristine Five Melvær recently exhibited tableware at Food Work, an exhibition initiated by Torbjørn Anderssen and Espen Voll that features 21 designs by eight Norwegian designers, shown during Designtide Tokyo 2012. These two pieces are part of her Still Life project, in which she reinterprets traditional still life motives.

Color Case for iPhone 5 is a minimal design created Cloud&Co for Korean company 11+. The focus of 11+ is to provide beautifully designed, high-quality products for the masses.

I'm so excited that Society6 has just added pillows to their lineup of artist-designed products. So this week's The Design Milk Dairy is all about that fluffy, comfy home accessory that helps make your couch truly yours. You can order a pillow cover or a cover with an insert in 16"x16", 18"x18", or 20"x20".

This renovation by Michaël Menuet Architecte took a Marseille-based office and re-imagined it into an open office environment but with individualized workspaces. The components are simple and clean with white, light unfinished woods, and a little pop of green for good measure.

This chair makes me want to sing 'I wanna rock right now' really loudly (from Rob Base's song "It Takes Two") and I have the Zurich-based Micasa Lab to thank for that. They developed the iRock, a traditional looking rocking chair with the ability to charge your iPad (or iPhone) just by simply rocking back and forth.

Arguably the greatest painter alive, Chuck Close presents amazing new work at Pace Gallery in New York. His ability to calculate color is super-human and his perseverance in the face of dyslexia, prosopagnosia (face-blindness), and partial quadriplegia (!!!) is nothing short of incredible.

Holly Wick opened her eponymous shop, Holly's House exactly one year ago, motivated by the desire to bring fresh, new design to West London. Wick, who also runs an interior design consultancy, stocks heaps of fantastic items from established brands, including Moooi and Diamantini & Dominiconi, alongside indie talent from the likes of Phoebe Richardson and Andy Macgregor. Let's celebrate Wick's first year of success with a Design Store(y) so we can learn (and see) more.