Designed in Hackney: our pick of design talent in the London borough of Hackney today is East London Furniture, a company that makes all its products from scrap materials found in the local area surrounding its shop on Hoxton Street. More »
Milan designers Spalvieri / Del Ciotto have created a range of calculators, clocks, torches and radios that are made of corn starch. More »
San Francisco studio fuseproject have unveiled the OLPC XO-3, a tablet computer for the next generation of the One Laptop Per Child project to distribute robust, cheap, self-powered computers for education in the developing world. More »
What if plastic polluting the seas could be harvested by a retired fishing trawler, then transformed into chairs by an onboard factory? More »
An undulating landscape made of 65,000 discarded CDs carpets the floor of the Centquatre art space, housed in a former funeral home in Paris. More »
Show RCA 2011: Royal College of Art graduate Ariane Prin uses waste from college workshops as the raw material for her on-site pencil factory More »
Show RCA 2011: German designer Markus Kayser has built a 3D-printing machine that uses sunlight and sand to make glass objects in the desert (update 30/06/11: watch the machine in action in this movie on Dezeen Screen). More »
Royal College of Art student Dan Watson has designed a trawling net that filters young and endangered fish from the catch. More »
Dezeen Screen: This movie by Adam Mufti features supermodel Erin O’Connor wearing a dress that incorporates a catalytic converter. This is the first part of a collaboration between designer Helen Storey and chemist Tony Ryan to create clothes that filter pollution from the air. Music is by Radiohead. Watch the movie on Dezeen Screen. More »
Rotterdam studio STAR Strategies + Architecture have photoshopped green walls over images of iconic buildings to poke fun at the way architects believe cladding a building in plants makes it sustainable. More »
Competition: we have teamed up with The Architecture Foundation in London to give away five copies of their book Union Street Urban Orchard, which charts the transformation of a disused London plot into a public garden. More »
San Francisco designers fuseproject have designed packaging and a grating tool for hardened pure cacao, which is farmed among the natural ecosystem of the Costa Rican rainforest. More »
Milan 2011: Designers Peter Bottazzi and Denish Bonapace presented this exhibition of recycled furniture used as planters, in Milan earlier this month. More »
Designer Nitipak Samsen has created a measuring tape to translate the amount of carbon stored in a tree into the amount of carbon emitted by activities like breathing and car journeys. More »
Dutch company OAT have designed a range of biodegradable shoes with seeds embedded in the tongues. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12. More »