Charlotte and Clementine Fiell's book, Women in Design, highlights what made figures like Apple icon designer Susan Kare and architect Zaha Hadid revolutionary. The authors pick five women from the book who transformed design. More about Five female trailblazers who changed the field of design
Next in our high-tech architecture series is Norman Foster's Renault Distribution Centre in Swindon, one of the most expressive and distinctive examples of the style. More about Norman Foster's Renault Distribution Centre is high-tech architecture's most flamboyant structure
Israeli designer Yaara Nusboim has developed a series of wooden toys in collaboration with child psychologists, that can help kids process difficult or repressed emotions as part of the therapeutic process. More about Yaara Nusboim designs therapy dolls for children struggling with emotional trauma
A multifunctional furniture unit made up of raised plywood floors and pegboard walls allows residents in this public-housing complex in Osaka to customise their apartments. More about Plywood furniture "islands" are used to customise public housing in Japan
Dezeen promotion: architects and master planners from across the globe are invited to submit masterplan proposals for three artificial islands that are set to be developed in Penang, Malaysia. More about Penang government seeks architects and master planners to design man-made islands
Los Angeles-based brand Dosist has designed a "sleek and discreet" cannabis dispenser called Dose Dial, which issues dose-controlled tablets. More about Dosist sets out to redefine edible cannabis products with Dose Dial
We've selected the most exciting roles on Dezeen Jobs this week, including vacancies at British studios Ström Architects and David Chipperfield Architects. More about Top opportunities on Dezeen Jobs this week include positions at Ström Architects and David Chipperfield Architects
A spiral cafe with a rooftop garden in Chelsea, London, by architecture studio NEX has curved windows that can retract fully when the weather is good. More about London cafe in spiral concrete shell has retractable windows
A converted schoolhouse and a series of detached cabins forms this boutique hotel in Washington State. More about Waechter Architecture builds ring of cabins on old school campus to create The Society Hotel Bingen
Design gallery The Future Perfect is exhibiting weird and wonderful ceramic homeware and accessories across its locations in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco. More about The Future Perfect celebrates "radical, feckless" ceramics in Mess exhibition
Recycled water from a ground-floor fish pond is used to nourish fruit trees on the roof of a house in Danang City, Vietnam, by Vo Trong Nghia Architects. More about Vo Trong Nghia plants fruit trees on the roof of a house in Vietnam
Ceramicist Madeline Hall's graduation project from Central Saint Martins was this collection of brightly coloured, gravity-defying sculptures based on religious scenes. More about Madeline Hall reinterprets religious imagery as "psychedelic" ceramic sculptures
We're inviting you to step inside renovated Barbican flats with our new Pinterest board, including pale minimalist aesthetics and colourful walls that feature inside homes within the brutalist estate. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest › More about See interior makeovers of Barbican flats on our new Pinterest board
Heavy patterned carpets from Morocco and brass fixtures merge to form the rich interior of this cocktail bar in Warsaw, designed by architect Kacper Gronkiewicz. More about Moroccan carpets line walls of Warsaw's Aura cocktail bar
Tiles strung on steel cables and an inverted roof are among the quirky design features of this home designed by architect Daniel Moreno Flores on the outskirts of Quito. More about Daniel Moreno Flores creates hanging-tile screen as entrance to illustrator's home near Quito
Black mesh screens encase the work cubicles in a co-working space designed by American studio Architecture Office in downtown Syracuse, New York. More about Architecture Office's co-working space in Syracuse "reinvigorates the notion of a cubicle"
Trace Architecture Office designed zigzagging ramps running round Huandao Middle School in Haikou, China, to encourage interaction and play between students outside the classroom. More about Zigzagging white ramps encourage interaction at Huandao Middle School in China
Spanish architect Jesús Perales created rooms that overlap in this house in Catalonia, to help the resident family spend more time together. More about Casa Almudena designed by Jesús Perales to bring a family closer together
This week on Dezeen, a rural house in Northern Ireland by McGonigle McGrath was named as the RIBA House of the Year, and Glenn Murcutt's MPavilion was unveiled in Melbourne. More about This week, the UK's best new house was revealed and the MPavilion opened in Australia
Dutch designer Thom Bindels has developed Ecosystem Kickstarter, a honeycomb-shaped cardboard frame that can help small-scale farmers grow crops in degraded soil. More about Ecosystem Kickstarter is a cardboard structure that fights soil erosion