Dezeen Showroom: architect and designer Umut Yamac has created a lighting collection made from tightly strung threads for Barcelona-based brand Vibia. More about Array lighting by Umut Yamac for Vibia
Dezeen Showroom: a wooden step stool made from underutilised timber is among eight new products featured on Dezeen Showroom. More about +52 stool by Studio Plastique among eight new products on Dezeen Showroom
London studio Pearson Lloyd has teamed up with furniture brand Profim to create a workplace seating system that is both reconfigurable and recyclable. More about Pearson Lloyd looks to circular economy with reconfigurable Revo seating
Design studio Formafantasma has used a shower head with three different aerators to turn a garden hose into an al fresco shower for Italian manufacturer Quadro. More about Formafantasma designs "nomadic" outdoor shower powered by garden hose
Old and new blurred together in this exhibition at Paris' GSL Gallery, which celebrated contemporary creatives who observe design traditions of the past. More about Traditional design techniques are "alive and well" in Le Salon de Septembre exhibition
Surfacing brand Armourcoat has launched a range of textured, biodegradable wall plaster surfaces that combine the natural appearance of clay with enhanced durability. More about Armourcoat creates durable clay wall covering as "ecological alternative to paint"
Italian lighting brand Lodes has collaborated with Tokyo-based design studio YOY to create Hover, a lamp with a shade designed to look as though it's floating. More about Hover lampshade appears to be "magically hovering in the air"
Dezeen Showroom: Italian brand Fiandre Architectural Surfaces has added three new colours to its Marmi Maximum surface collection, which are unified by stone-like patterns. More about Marmi Maximum surfaces by Fiandre Architectural Surfaces
Swedish studio Form Us With Love has worked with Scandinavian brand Savo to create an office chair that can be endlessly reconfigured. More about Form Us With Love designs adaptable Spine office chair for Savo
The Las Vegas Sphere could set a new standard for tour design much like the iPhone did for mobile phones, set designer Es Devlin tells Dezeen in this interview. More about Las Vegas Sphere represents the "iPhone-ification" of tour design says Es Devlin
Snaking "rivers" of embedded lighting flow through the alleyways of a development in Oslo in the Delta installation by local studio Void, which incorporates motion-detecting sensors to create ripples of illumination as people walk past. More about Void installs rippling "rivers" of light in Oslo neighbourhood
Dutch designer Christien Meindertsma has developed a robot that can build three-dimensional volumes out of wool. More about Christien Meindertsma invents technique for 3D printing with wool
Designer Tom Dixon's eponymous homeware brand has created rechargeable battery-powered versions of three of its most popular lamps. More about Tom Dixon launches Portable lamps to make homes more flexible
New York design studio Stickbulb has launched Treeline, a series of lighting created using wood sourced from trees that had been removed from New York City's "urban forest". More about Stickbulb creates light fixtures using wood from salvaged New York trees
Designer David Taylor has created Knuckle, a duo of lighting designs for Swedish furniture brand Hem that are characterised by their crimped corners made by forcibly bending square aluminium tubing. More about David Taylor forms "the world's most anonymous material" into aluminium lighting
To conclude our Designing for Disaster series, we round up 10 design and architecture projects that aim to prevent, manage or aid recovery from natural-hazard events. More about Ten designs and buildings that reduce the impact of environmental hazards
Dezeen Showroom: Greek designer Yiannis Ghikas and Italian furniture brand Miniforms have released two new versions of the Soda glass coffee table called Oval and Square. More about Soda Oval and Square tables by Yiannis Ghikas for Miniforms
On the heels of taking home this year's Pulitzer Prize for illustrated reporting, journalist Mona Chalabi discusses the pitfalls of visualising skewed data and the Israel-Hamas conflict in this exclusive interview. More about "Data replicates the existing systems of power" says Pulitzer Prize-winner Mona Chalabi
Judges and winners discuss highlights from Dezeen and Bentley's Future Luxury Retail Competition in this video, which was filmed on a trip to Bentley's headquarters in Crewe, UK. More about Dezeen and Bentley's Future Luxury Retail Design Competition sought "exciting new visions for the future"
Industrial designer Arik Levy has created Ice of Genesis, a collection of decorative surfaces for Spanish brand Compac that was informed by the Arctic's frozen lakes. More about Arik Levy designs quartz surface collection to mimic "the sensation of walking on ice"