AI-generated brutalist buildings feature in hypnotic Moullinex music videos
Lisbon musician Moullinex has shared an exclusive short music video showing an endlessly changing landscape of brutalist buildings drawn up by a generative design algorithm with Dezeen. More
Chila Kumari Singh Burman overwrites Tate Britain's neoclassical facade with neon Diwali installation
Bollywood posters and fluorescent effigies of Hindu deities have been superimposed on Tate Britain's portico, as part of an installation designed by artist Chila Kumari Singh Burman for the museum's fourth annual winter commission. More
Nseen is a see-through perfume bottle covered in invisible writing
MIT researchers Jiani Zeng and Honghao Deng have developed a "truly minimalist", 3D-printed flacon, which is entirely transparent at first glance and only reveals its branding when it is tilted at just the right angle. More
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How to be at Rest installation features bricolage chairs made by migrants in the UAE
Paint buckets, street signs and beaded car seats feature in a series of found seating designs, made by working-class migrants in the United Arab Emirates and collected by artist Christopher Benton. More
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Ouroboros Steak grow-your-own human meat kit is "technically" not cannibalism
A group of American scientists and designers have developed a concept for a grow-your-own steak kit using human cells and blood to question the ethics of the cultured meat industry. More
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Marcel/a Baltarete uses 3D animation as therapy for gender dysphoria
Royal College of Art graduate Marcel/a Baltarete has created a series of short animations depicting themselves as otherworldly beings to alleviate and interrogate their feelings of gender dysphoria. More
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Building material offcuts from affordable housing project used to create Tempo furniture collection
Mexican industrial design studio Jorge Diego Etienne has created a collection of "unpretentious" furniture for Techo – a non-profit that builds prefabricated housing for people living in slums across Latin America. More
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Sachi Tungare forms swirly vessels from discarded cigarette butts
Indian designer Sachi Tungare collected five kilograms of cigarette butts by hand to create her Jugaad collection of multi-coloured bowls and vases. More
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BLAM app lets users erect augmented reality statues of historical black figures
London non-profit BLAM has developed an augmented reality (AR) app called History Bites, which gives users the chance to see black history memorialised through virtual plaques and sculptures. More
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Pagerie is the "first-ever luxury fashion house for pets"
American petwear brand Pagerie has released its debut collection Sahara, featuring a leather dog collar, leash and harness treated in the same tannery as Hermès's coveted Birkin bags. More
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Decor in cam girls' studios used to inform stucco wall decorations in Digital Muses project
Designers Giorgio Gasco and Gianmaria Della Ratta have created a range of decorative stucco mouldings based on the interior decor of rented chat rooms used by cam girls. More
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BIG, Tatiana Bilbao and Norman Foster donate drawings to Architects for Beirut charity auction
More than 60 international architecture firms have put artworks and signed drawings up for auction, in a bid to raise funds for rebuilding Beirut after the explosion that rocked the city in August and left at least 300,000 people homeless. More
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Ten architecture and design events this November and December from Dezeen Events Guide
Design Shanghai, Design Miami and Dubai Design Week are among the architecture and design events listed in Dezeen Events Guide taking place this winter, alongside a host of virtual programmes including an Archigram symposium and the Dezeen Awards ceremonies. More
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WNDR Alpine replaces plastic with algae in off-piste skis
Utah startup WNDR Alpine has replaced the petroleum-based plastics usually used in skis with algae-based bioplastics that make them "more predictable, stable and durable". More
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Olafur Eliasson perches giant astronomical instrument on top of glacier
Set on the summit of the Hochjochferner glacier in the Italian Alps, the latest artwork by artist Olafur Eliasson invites visitors to see manmade climate change from wider "planetary and glacial perspectives". More
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Yves Béhar designs first product from The Ocean Cleanup plastic
The Ocean Cleanup has teamed up with Yves Béhar to create a pair of sunglasses from plastic that the non-profit has collected from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. More
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Recycled plastic bottle backpack winner of Dezeen Awards public vote
British start-up Groundtruth has used 120 plastic bottles to create the RIKR backpack, which won the public vote in the wearable design category of this year's Dezeen Awards. More
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Game On's neon-filled exhibition design pays homage to 80s video games
Spanish practice Smart & Green Design has re-designed the Barbican's touring Game On exhibition for a former underground cistern in Madrid, using more than 150 LED arches to evoke the neon colours of the 1980s. More
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Wallenius Marine develops world's largest wind-powered vessel to slash shipping emissions
Swedish shipping company Wallenius Marine is developing a ship called Oceanbird, which could transport 7,000 cars and trucks across the Atlantic propelled only by the wind. More
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Designs of the Year 2020 nominees include a Tik Tok dance and the CDC's coronavirus render
Among the 74 projects that have been shortlisted for this year's Beazley Designs of the Year awards is Tik Tok's viral Renegade dance, a steak grown from the eater's own cells and a 3D graphic of the coronavirus particle. More
