German car brand Mercedes-Benz has created the Project Mondo G puffer jacket-informed car as its contribution to Moncler's Genius collection, which was unveiled at London Fashion Week. More about Mercedes-Benz creates "caricature-like" car informed by puffer jackets
Designers Inma Bermúdez, Moritz Krefter, Jorge Penadés and Alvaro Catalán de Ocón have created three playful wooden furniture pieces on show at Madrid Design Festival. More about Natural Connections exhibition aims to "help people rediscover nature"
British designer Paul Cocksedge has created a sculpture made from high-carbon coal, which was hung and illuminated inside Liverpool Cathedral as a comment on our fossil fuel dependency. More about Paul Cocksedge suspends over 2,000 pieces of coal in Liverpool Cathedral
Dezeen Showroom: Danish design duo Anker Studio has created the Versale lighting collection for Danish lighting brand Nordlux, which features wide bowl-shaped lamp shades. More about Versale lighting by Anker Studio for Nordlux
Dezeen Showroom: rug company Azmas Rugs has collaborated with computer scientist Craig S Kaplan on the Grid carpet, which has a pattern created by repeating mathematical tiles. More about Grid rug by Professor Craig S Kaplan for Azmas Rugs
Dezeen School Shows: from a "library of blood" to a meat-growing lab, we've picked five of the weirdest student projects featured on Dezeen School Shows. More about Five of the weirdest student design projects featured on Dezeen School Shows
Copenhagen studio Tableau has curated the Funct Feast exhibition of "functional art" and collectible design at the Älvsjö Gård venue as part of Stockholm Design Week . More about Tableau's Funct Feast exhibition aims to "bridge the gap between furniture and art"
Dezeen teamed up with PlasticFree to present its interdisciplinary forum of talks focussing on the climate crisis in New York City. Watch the talks here. More about Watch PlasticFree's inaugural forum of talks on the climate crisis
Dezeen Showroom: British bathroom brand Lusso looked to the interior design of luxury fashion houses to design its Couture range of vanity units, which also includes a beauty storage cabinet. More about Couture bathroom range by Lusso
Swedish designer Christoffer Jansson created a virtual apartment and pretended to live in it for months as part of a social experiment he exhibited at this year's Stockholm Furniture Fair. More about Christoffer Jansson passes off virtual apartment as Instagram home renovation project
Argentinian artist Pilar Zeta and Mexican sculptor Andrés Monnier have created the Antipodes exhibition at Galerie Philia that began during Mexico City's art week. More about Pilar Zeta and Andrés Monnier create contrasting stone installations at Galerie Philia
Dezeen Showroom: Nordic design studio Jacob Jensen Design has created an outdoor lighting collection for Danish lighting brand Nordlux, which features ribbed surfaces that cast patterns of light and shadow. More about Aludra outdoor lighting by Jacob Jensen Design for Nordlux
Kuwait- and Bahrain-based Civil Architecture has created a sundial at the Islamic Arts Biennale in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, that aims to question our relationship with time. More about Civil Architecture reimagines the sundial to express "fractured notion of time"
American producer Pharrell Williams has been named creative director of menswear at French fashion house Louis Vuitton, a position held by Virgil Abloh before his death. More about Pharrell Williams appointed creative director of menswear at Louis Vuitton
Now that Stockholm Design Week has drawn to a close, here's a look at seven rising Swedish design talents that exhibited at the event. More about Seven emerging Swedish furniture designers at Stockholm Design Week
Design studio Loom on the Moon has created three mirrored structures that combine lighting and audio to celebrate the heritage of the city of Zlín in the Czech Republic. More about Trio of mirror-clad installations reflect history of Czech city
Promotion: international design fair Collectible returns to Brussels to present the latest collectible contemporary design, including bespoke commissions, limited editions and one-off pieces. More about Collectible 2023 presents curated selection of designs "where visitors can witness design history in the making"
Production designer John Paino referenced tenement apartments, slums and Gazan camps when creating the set design for dystopian TV show The Last of Us, which also nods to the "fluorescent" colours of fungi. More about John Paino designs The Last of Us as a world where "civilisation is dead"
Researchers from the University of Chicago have invented a cladding material that changes colour to help with heating or cooling and could be retrofitted to improve buildings' energy efficiency. More about "Chameleon-like" facade material could help to heat and cool buildings
Italian designer Gaetano Pesce has launched Dear Future, an exhibition at gallery The Future Perfect's Los Angeles location that presents a range of works created from the 1960s to the present. More about The Future Perfect presents Gaetano Pesce's work at Los Angeles solo show