The showpieces for Icelandic designer Sruli Recht‘s first menswear collection are made of 21 blackbirds and 27 stillborn lambs. More »

Milan 2011: More about Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec in Milan – this time a wooden bird for design brand Vitra. More »

Stockholm 2011: 20 designers presented their work among stuffed animals and dried plants inside the vitrines of the Biologiska museum in Stockholm last week. More »

New Zealand designer Chris Waind has created this set of decorative paper butterflies. More »

These photos from British designer Austin Houldsworth show the results of his machine, featured in our earlier story, built to fossilise a partridge (above) and a pineapple. More »

These bird and bug boxes have been installed by art and architecture collective London Fieldworks around trees across London in clusters inspired by neighbouring housing. More »

London designer Tithi Kutchamuch has added new pieces to her Secret Friend collection of jewellery, including this wooden necklace with a deer-shaped base to keep it on.  More »

Scottish brewery BrewDog have packaged their latest range of beers inside dead animals. More »

Royal College of Art graduate Ben Faga is encouraging bees in London to swarm and set up new hives. More »

DMY Berlin 2010: Portuguese designer Rui Alves of My Own Super Studio presented this herd of benches at last week’s DMY Berlin. More »

Lyon designers USIN-e have designed an aquarium in the shape of a test tube. More »

Milan 2010: Paris designer Constance Guisset presented a combined bird cage and fish tank at Spazio Rosana Orlandi in Milan last week. More »

Milan 2010: Dutch designer Frederik Roijé will present a home for chickens called Breed and Retreat in Milan next month. More »

London designer James Laurie has cut the top of a drinking glass into a point so that it can be used to trap spiders in the corner of a room. More »