Design office Made Thought is teaming up with Universal Design Studio and Map Project Office to form a new design collective, after selling a majority share to digital agency AKQA. More about Made Thought to form The New Standard collective with Universal Design Studio and Map
A lamp shaped like the iconic soy sauce packets that come with sushi is among nine new products featured on Dezeen Showroom this week. More about Light Soy lighting by Heliograf among new products on Dezeen Showroom
Dutch designer Antoine Peters has developed a technique for making textiles that appear to change or move when viewed from different angles. More about Antoine Peters creates optical illusions with Lenticular Weave textiles
This week on Dezeen, we covered the news that Off-White founder and Louis Vuitton artistic director Virgil Abloh passed away aged 41. More about This week designers paid tribute to Off-White founder Virgil Abloh
British designer Yinka Ilori has applied his trademark colourful style to a demountable skatepark at the Faena District in Miami Beach during Miami art week. More about Yinka Ilori unveils brightly coloured temporary skatepark in Miami Beach
Dezeen promotion: Dezeen has teamed up with Japanese brand Muji to put together a Christmas gift guide, featuring festive candles, skincare sourced from Japanese mountains and winter accessories. More about Muji's Christmas gift guide features Japanese skincare products and festive candles
Dezeen Showroom: wall and floor tile brand Ceramiche Keope has designed a collection of tiles that have a concrete effect and draw inspiration from urban contexts. More about Ikon tiles by Ceramiche Keope
Dezeen Showroom: British textile brand Camira has launched its first vegan-friendly leather alternative called Deca, which can be used as an upholstery fabric. More about Deca vegan-friendly leather alternative by Camira
Local architect Germane Barnes has worked with students at the University of Miami to create a wireframe sculpture of a conceptual electric car for Lexus at Design Miami. More about Germane Barnes works with University of Miami students to create wireframe Lexus installation at Design Miami
Malaysian gynaecologist John Tang has created a condom made from polyurethane that can be worn by both males and females during sex. More about "World's first" unisex condom created by Wondaleaf
Dezeen Showroom: Z-Bar Gen 4 is a minimalist lamp with flexible joints that users can shape into angular silhouettes, designed by Kenneth Ng and Edmund Ng for lighting brand Koncept. More about Z-Bar Gen 4 lamp by Kenneth Ng and Edmund Ng for Koncept
An autonomous recycling machine designed by Taiwanese company Miniwiz, which can be transplanted into local communities to transform plastic waste into useful products, has received the 2021 World Design Impact Prize. More about Mobile AI-powered recycling plant Trashpresso wins World Design Impact Prize
Oxford-based designer Michael Buick has created a wooden range of furniture that can be easily assembled and disassembled using traditional pegs. More about Pegg is a furniture collection that can be constructed with traditional pegs
Italian designer Davide Groppi has created Origine, a sculptural light designed to illuminates facades and interiors with indirect light. More about Davide Groppi designs Origine light to look like "a bud emerging from the ground"
Visualisation artists Charlotte Taylor and Nicholas Préaud have created an NFT artwork based on an OMA-designed sculpture that will form part of an underwater park near Miami Beach. More about OMA, Charlotte Taylor and Nicholas Préaud create NFT of underwater sculpture for Miami Beach
German car brand Mercedes-Benz has unveiled a solar-cell-powered electric car designed with fashion designer Virgil Abloh, who passed away last weekend. More about Virgil Abloh and Mercedes-Benz create solar-powered car with transparent front hood
Dezeen Showroom: Stella tableware is a handcrafted porcelain dining set with gentle relief lines in a radial pattern by Sieger Design for interiors brand Sieger by Fürstenberg. More about Stella tableware by Sieger for Fürstenberg
Dezeen promotion: visitors to this year's Design Miami will be able to see themselves represented as an array of natural species in an interactive digital projection created by Austrian design studio Mischer'Traxler for French champagne house Perrier-Jouët. More about Mischer'Traxler and Perrier-Jouët present interactive Embodied Nature installation at Design Miami
Dezeen Showroom: Italian wall and floor tile brand Ceramiche Keope has designed a tile collection informed by the veiny appearance of slate. More about Ubik tiles by Ceramiche Keope
A retrospective covering more than 400 projects by architecture firm MVRDV is among the events featured in Dezeen Events Guide this month, alongside major design fairs in Miami and Shenzhen. More about Five architecture and design events in December from Dezeen Events Guide