Dezeen Showroom: Japanese designer Keiji Takeuchi has created the "unconventional and cosy" Ripamonti lounge chair for Italian furniture maker De Padova. More about Ripamonti chair by Keiji Takeuchi for De Padova
Dezeen Showroom: Sunset is a wood-frame and leather chair, created by Time & Style for furniture makers Boffi De Padova in homage to a 1960s seating design by Danish modernist Børge Mogensen. More about Sunset chair by Time & Style for Boffi De Padova
Dezeen promotion: Design brand Qeeboo has teamed with fashion photographer Elena Iv-skaya to create a series of colourful images to mark the four-year-old brand's coming of age and renovated its collections catalogue 2021. More about Fashion photographer Elena Iv-skaya makes Qeeboo products "the stars" in colourful photo shoot
US startup Aptera has developed a solar and electric vehicle with a range of up to 1,000 miles on a full battery, which it claims most drivers won't need to charge. More about Aptera unveils three-wheeled solar electric car that "requires no charging"
DAD Agency has eschewed the pared-back palette of traditional perfumeries in favour of kaleidoscopic colours and 3D graphics for its rebrand of independent fragrance start-up Sillages Paris. More about Digital perfumery Sillages Paris receives radical technicolour rebrand
Dezeen Showroom: Japanese brand Time & Style celebrates simple, straight lines in the design of its modular Horizontal Sofa, created for furniture makers Boffi De Padova. More about Horizontal Sofa by Time & Style for Boffi De Padova
Dezeen promotion: a selection of artworks featured in magazines Vogue, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair has been made available to purchase as prints by Fine Art America. More about Artwork from Vogue, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair transformed into prints by Fine Art America
Ultimate Gray and Illuminating, an "optimistic" hue of yellow, are the two shades that Pantone has named as its colours of the year for 2021. More about Pantone selects two shades as its colours of the year for 2021
South Korean designer Donghoon Sohn has pressed plastic slabs together like slices of bread for his latest furniture series, allowing primary coloured, recycled binder to bleed from the cracks as if it was melted cheese. More about Recycled 3D-printing waste oozes from monolithic furniture collection by Donghoon Sohn
Dezeen Showroom: Italian designer Raffaella Mangiarotti has collaborated with office furniture brand IOC Project Partners to create a chair with a curving, slender frame that resembles a line drawing. More about Magenta chair by Raffaella Mangiarotti for IOC Project Partners
Dezeen Showroom: wood, glass and lacquer merge to form the Brera25 desk, which American architecture firm Gensler has created for office furniture brand IOC Project Partners. More about Brera25 desk by Gensler for IOC Project Partners
Dezeen Showroom: Italian designer Raffaella Mangiarotti has collaborated with office furniture brand IOC Project Partners to create a versatile work desk called Sempione. More about Sempione table by Raffaella Mangiarotti for IOC Project Partners
Dezeen Showroom: Polish designer Oskar Zieta of Zieta Studio has developed an ultra-light chair by welding together aluminium sheets and blowing them up as if they were balloons. More about Oskar Zieta's Ultraleggera is an inflated metal chair that weighs less than two kilograms
Balenciaga has released its Fall 2021 fashion collection in the form of a video game, which sees players travel through a wonderland-style future world, passing avatars dressed in ripped jeans and metal-armour boots on the way. More about Balenciaga's Afterworld video game takes players to a secret rave in the forest
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing Foster + Partners withdrawing from climate change action group Architects Declare and sharing their views on other top stories. More about "Refusing commissions on purely environmental grounds cannot be the answer" says commenter
Dezeen Showroom: Moon is an oak coffee table with bevelled edges and a smooth, hand-sanded top created by Japanese brand Time & Style for furniture makers Boffi De Padova. More about Moon coffee table by Time & Style for Boffi De Padova
Dezeen Showroom: Bombori is a lighting design created by Japanese brand Time & Style for furniture makers Boffi De Padova, which is made from traditional materials such as washi paper. More about Bombori handmade washi paper lamp by Time & Style for Boffi De Padova
Continuing our review of 2020, we've rounded up 10 standout projects created by design and architecture students this year, from a high-altitude lavatory to ramen packaging that dissolves to flavour the broth. More about Dezeen's top 10 student and graduate projects of 2020
For the third consecutive year, an audit by environmental initiative Break Free From Plastic has found The Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo and Nestlé to be the companies creating the most plastic pollution. More about Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Nestlé named world's worst plastic polluters for third year running
Swedish studio Front has collaborated with Italian brand Moroso to translate elements in nature into amorphous furniture items using 3D-scanning technologies. More about Front and Moroso's Design by Nature furniture imitates mossy rock formations