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
Dezeen promotion: Dezeen has teamed up with glassware brand LSA to curate a gift guide for the festive season, featuring a decanter inspired by Battersea Power Station and vases designed in partnership with the Eden Project. More about LSA's Christmas gift guide features 15 contemporary glassware designs
South African designer Ricky Stoch has created a scratch-card-style sticker for medicine bottles that "gamifies" taking medication in order to encourage patients to remember to take their daily dose. More about FebriSol is a scratch-card-style sticker that helps people remember to take their medication
GXN, the innovation arm of Danish architecture studio 3XN, has developed a twittering air-quality sensor that hopes to draw attention to the negative effects of air pollution within our homes and offices. More about AirBird is a smart sensor that chirps to highlight indoor air pollution
Dezeen Showroom: office furniture brand Bene has revealed its latest release by London studio Pearson Lloyd, the PORTS Table, an adaptable design for modern workplaces. More about PORTS Table by Pearson Lloyd for Bene
Dezeen promotion: seven multidisciplinary creatives, including interior designer Alessandro La Spada, architect Mauro Lipparini and design duo Draga & Aurel, have contributed to the Beauty collection by Italian "metaluxury" furniture brand Visionnaire. More about Art meets design in Visionnaire's latest furniture collection
As part of our 2020 review, we've rounded up this year's most incisive opinions on how the coronavirus pandemic will impact our lives, courtesy of everyone from Norman Foster to Li Edelkoort and Rem Koolhas. More about Ten predictions of how the pandemic will change the world