Branding agency Pearlfisher has redesigned the packaging at fast-food chain McDonald's to incorporate illustrations of the restaurant's classic menu items. More about McDonald's unveils graphic packaging to reflect brand's "playful point-of-view"
Creative consultancy The Liminal Space has designed Life Support, a mobile-first website designed to help people deal with death using their smartphones. More about Life Support is a digital tool to help users cope with death
Dutch designer Ward Wijnant has created a bench made of two types of steel decorated with welded patterns to mimic wood grain and tempered to reveal their "crazy, hidden colours". More about Ward Wijnant's Carbon bench is an "organic object" made from steel
In our latest competition, we are giving readers the chance to win a Louis Poulsen Panthella 320 table lamp in opal white. More about Competition: win a Louis Poulsen Panthella 320 table lamp
Amsterdam-based UNStudio has unveiled its Van B residential building in Munich, which will have plug-in furniture modules so that its apartments can be reconfigured. More about UNStudio designs Munich apartment block with reconfigurable interiors
Creative agency Wide Eye has redesigned the White House logo to symbolise US president Joe Biden's "desire to bring the country together" after Donald Trump. More about Wide Eye creates "dynamic and architectural" White House logo
American architecture office Studio Gang has unveiled plans for a hotel in Denver with a white facade punctuated with window openings designed to recall the bark of a tree. More about Studio Gang reveals design for hotel with scalloped facade in Denver
Dezeen promotion: House by Urban Splash is adding two new products to its family of modular housing: a modern mews called Row House, and Mansion House – European-style, mid-rise apartments. More about House by Urban Splash approaches housebuilding like product design
Dezeen Showroom: Studio Irvine has created the S 5000 Retreat office chair system based on a design by its late founder James Irvine for German furniture makers Thonet. More about S 5000 Retreat seating system by Studio Irvine for Thonet
Swedish architecture studio ASKA designed a set with terracotta colours, architectural shapes and real sand to create a sense of escapism for live interviews conducted during Stockholm Design Week. More about ASKA creates escapist TV set for Stockholm Design Week interviews
German architect Ole Scheeren will be joined by designers Kelly Wearstler and Chrissa Amuah as well as structural engineer and design director Hanif Kara to judge Dezeen Awards 2021. More about Kelly Wearstler and Ole Scheeren named judges for Dezeen Awards 2021
MVRDV has revealed visuals of Marble Arch Mound, a temporary landscaped viewpoint that will be built in central London to attract people back to the Oxford Street shopping district following the coronavirus pandemic. More about MVRDV to build artificial hill alongside London's Marble Arch
Dezeen has hit an important milestone today, welcoming our three millionth follower on Instagram. More about Dezeen now has three million Instagram followers!
Textile design duo Röd Studio has collaborated with Copenhagen studio Tableau to create a series of steel and wool vases informed by the art of pastry decoration. More about Steel and wool Cornucopia vases are designed to outshine the flowers they hold
Aretz Dürr Architektur has added a rational, double-height extension to a pitched-roof house in the town of Biberach an der Riss, Germany. More about Aretz Dürr Architektur adds geometric steel and glass extension to House B
Architecture firm BIG has topped out a 314-metre-high supertall skyscraper in New York that is set to become the headquarters of coronavirus vaccine maker Pfizer. More about Supertall skyscraper The Spiral by BIG reaches full height in New York
In this week's comments update, readers are questioning who should design the Aboriginal Art and Cultures Centre in Adelaide and sharing their views on other top stories. More about "It is not cultural appropriation to take cues from the local culture" says commenter
Architect Bjarke Ingels ranks alongside 20th-century greats such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen and John Lautner, according to USModernist director George Smart. More about Bjarke Ingels is "this century's Frank Lloyd Wright" says USModernist director
We were shocked to learn that Dezeen has been ranked last in a survey of websites' carbon emissions. We are determined to improve, says founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs. More about "The carbon footprint of our website will no longer be pushed to the back of our minds"
Greek studio Mold Architects has completed a house on the island of Serifos that is partially submerged into a rocky hillside and features glazed openings that look straight out to sea. More about Mold Architects embeds cave-like house in hillside overlooking the Mediterranean Sea