New York artist Hugo McCloud has created a series of artworks that contain no paint or glue, only thousands of small plastic pieces cut from single-use bags and melted together to form a motif. More about Hugo McCloud’s artworks use plastic bags instead of paint
Mexican design firm Simon Hamui has created bespoke furnishings for a moody and minimalist Mexico City home by Spanish practice Francesc Rifé Studio, using a tactile palette of eucalyptus wood, glass, quartzite, marble and brass. More about Simon Hamui creates clean-lined furniture for minimalist Mexico City house
Dezeen Showroom: Massproductions has released a pop art-informed sofa called BAM! and recruited Swedish DJ and music producer Axel Boman to write a song about it. More about BAM! sofa by Massproductions
Spanish designer Júlia Roca Vera has created a line of cosmetics from fruit that was discarded for purely aesthetic reasons, to encourage people to make use of waste products. More about Júlia Roca Vera turns food waste into skincare
Industrial designer Huisu Jo has created a hooked steel lamp that references the hangers and makeshift hook mechanisms used at Seoul's Dongmyo outdoor market. More about Huisu Jo designs modular Hook lamp informed by Seoul's Dongmyo market
Italian lighting brand Martinelli Luce, ceramicist Raili Keiv and office furniture brand IOC Project Partners are among brands showcasing products on Dezeen Showroom this week. More about Martinelli Luce, Raili Keiv and IOC Project Partners showcase products on Dezeen Showroom
This week on Dezeen, IKEA launched its first line of furniture for PC gaming and we created a guide to wood in architecture, interiors and design. More about This week IKEA released its first range of home furniture for gamers
With Stockholm Design Week ending on Sunday, here's our pick of 10 furniture and lighting designs by Scandinavian brands that have been featured on Dezeen Showroom. More about Ten Scandinavian furniture and lighting products on Dezeen Showroom
Dezeen Showroom: Giovanni Barbieri's Squar(e) collection combines irregular mosaic and standard ceramic tiles that can be used to create customised 3D wall finishes. More about Squar(e) tiles by Giovanni Barbieri
Dezeen Showroom: Split is a demountable partition wall system by IOC Project Partners that is designed to be easily installed and helps users create private spaces even in busy work areas. More about Split partition wall system by IOC Project Partners
The non-profit Vilcek Foundation has created a manga comic starring Zambia-born South African architect Denise Scott Brown as part of its mission to raise awareness of immigrants' contribution to the US. More about Denise Scott Brown's life turned into manga comic
The work-from-home trend accelerated by Covid-19 was the starting point for these versatile furniture designs, unveiled by Beckmans College of Design students during Stockholm Design Week. More about Beckmans students create furniture for the work-from-home era
Dezeen Showroom: Italian lighting brand Martinelli Luce has released Cobra Scorpius, a star-strewn, updated version of its Cobra table lamp that was designed by the brand's founder Elio Martinelli in 1968. More about Cobra Scorpius light by Martinelli Luce
Dezeen Showroom: designer Karim Rashid's Cyborg table lamp for Italian lighting brand Martinelli Luce has a sinuous silhouette reminiscent of a friendly alien creature. More about Cyborg light by Karim Rashid for Martinelli Luce
Dezeen promotion: German watchmaker Nomos Glashütte is offering free, personalised engravings on its watches including the pared-back Orion 33 duo in celebration of Valentine's Day. More about Nomos Glashütte offers complimentary watch engravings for Valentine's Day
Swedish design studio Folkform has teamed up with fashion designer Roland Hjort on L'Art Plissé, a lighting design exhibition of table lamps based on traditional pleating techniques used in fashion. More about Folkform and Roland Hjort launch Plissé table lamps informed by pleated fashion garments
Digital technologies will revolutionise the way that new designs are presented says Tom Dixon, who has sent a hologram of himself to Stockholm to launch a range of accessories due to coronavirus restrictions. More about Tom Dixon finds "more inventive ways of reaching people" by visiting Stockholm Design Week as a hologram
Sweden needs more avant-garde design, according to curator Paola Bjäringer who has brought together eight women designers for an experimental Stockholm Design Week exhibition. More about Misschiefs exhibition presents "a more punk side of Swedish design"
Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat has developed a variable font that hopes to make the urgency of climate change tangible by mirroring the declining amount of Arctic sea ice in its disappearing letterforms. More about Climate Crisis Font visualises melting of polar ice based on real-world data
Dezeen Showroom: French designer Léonard Kadid has created a "radical yet subtle" flat-pack chair for Parisian furniture brand Kann Design. More about Tal chair by Léonard Kadid for Kann Design