Indian designer Sachi Tungare collected five kilograms of cigarette butts by hand to create her Jugaad collection of multi-coloured bowls and vases. More about Sachi Tungare forms swirly vessels from discarded cigarette butts
Dezeen Showroom: UK textile maker Camira has launched Sumi and Kyoto, a pair of fabrics that combine Japanese and Scandinavian aesthetics. More about Camira launches Sumi and Kyoto fabric collections
Cuban-American artist Edel Rodriguez has created cartoons lampooning president Donald Trump as a toppling statue and a fired employee after he lost the 2020 US election to Joe Biden. More about Edel Rodriguez creates "You're fired" graphic after Donald Trump loses 2020 US presidential election
In our latest competition, we have teamed up with Gubi to give away a Bestlite 90th anniversary floor lamp in nickel. More about Competition: win a Bestlite 90th anniversary floor lamp
Electric-car brand Tesla has launched its own branded tequila, which comes inside a lightning-bolt-shaped bottle, after founder Elon Musk suggested the idea as a joke on 1 April 2018. More about Elon Musk launches 0 Teslaquila following April Fools' Day joke
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Tadeas Podracky rejected formal design methods when creating these unconventional furniture objects, which he made by layering materials like "a bird weaving its nest". More about Tadeas Podracky's The Metamorphosis furniture rejects mass-produced design
Norway's new passports by design studio Neue, which feature illustrations of the country's landscape that change from day to night under UV light, have been realised after six years of development. More about Neue's minimal designs for Norwegian passports go into circulation
Beirut studio T Sakhi has designed a collection of green-hued coffee tables using resin, brass powder and marble offcuts to create the effect of "looking through a microscope". More about T Sakhi's Reconciled Fragments tables emulate decomposing matter
Dezeen Showroom: British brand ON&ON has added a made-to-measure desk, cabinet and clothes hanger components to its modular shelving system More about ON&ON updates shelving system with new modular components
Andreu World, Ross Gardam and Object Carpet are among the latest brands to launch products on Dezeen Showroom. More about Andreu World, Ross Gardam and Object Carpet showcase products on Dezeen Showroom
London designer Max Lamb has created an installation of sculptural items made from three-dimensional tiles he developed for Japanese brand Tajimi Custom Tiles. More about Max Lamb creates sculptural furniture pieces from 3D tiles
American petwear brand Pagerie has released its debut collection Sahara, featuring a leather dog collar, leash and harness treated in the same tannery as Hermès's coveted Birkin bags. More about Pagerie is the "first-ever luxury fashion house for pets"
Rhode Island School of Design is hiring 10 faculty members that specialise in issues of race and decoloniality in the arts, architecture and design as part of its wider plan to tackle systemic racism in the school. More about RISD launches Race in Art & Design cluster-hire for anti-racism initiative
Norwegian multidisciplinary studio ANTI has designed Ventizolve – a portable naloxone product for emergency use that can temporarily reverse the effects of a lethal opioid overdose to provide time for medical attention. More about ANTI designs pocket-sized naloxone kit to prevent opioid overdose deaths
Designers Giorgio Gasco and Gianmaria Della Ratta have created a range of decorative stucco mouldings based on the interior decor of rented chat rooms used by cam girls. More about Decor in cam girls' studios used to inform stucco wall decorations in Digital Muses project
Dezeen Showroom: Melbourne-based designer Ross Gardam has created the Arbour linear light constructed from solid pieces of hardwood over two metres long. More about Arbour linear light by Ross Gardam
Dezeen Showroom: 88-year-old Finnish designer Eero Aarnio has added a minimal cat ornament to the Eero Aarnio Originals collection, informed by the strays he would take in as a child. More about Kisu by Eero Aarnio
In this week's comments update, readers are furiously debating news that Bjarke Ingels is creating a masterplan for redesigning Earth. More about "Lots of good things come from dreaming" says commenter
Dezeen showroom: Swiss bathroom brand Geberit's Sigma80 touchless actuator plate was designed to operate a dual touch flush system and can be adapted to suit the interior design of the user's bathroom. More about Sigma80 touchless actuator plate by Geberit
Mexican artist Stefan Brüggemann has created red, white and blue neon lights of the words truth and lie for an artwork unveiled on the US-Mexico border on the day of the 2020 US presidential election. More about Stefan Brüggemann installs TRUTH/LIE neon lights at US-Mexico border on election day