Kazakhstani designer Enis Akiev has developed a method for turning single-use plastic packaging into tiles, by emulating the organic process of rock formation. More about Enis Akiev makes marbled tiles from post-consumer plastic waste
This collection of illuminated "totems" designed by Indian lighting brand Klove embodies an unconventional blend of art deco and tribal references. More about Klove's Totems Over Time lights take the form of art deco-style talismans
Creative agency Heimat Berlin used images of lettering graffitied onto the Berlin Wall to create this typeface commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the barrier separating East and West Berlin. More about Heimat creates typeface using street art from the Berlin Wall
London's Design Museum has unveiled its exhibition programme for 2020, with a major show about fashion brand Prada due to open in September. More about Design Museum will showcase Prada, trainers and electronic music in 2020 as visitor numbers rise
Charlotte and Clementine Fiell's book, Women in Design, highlights what made figures like Apple icon designer Susan Kare and architect Zaha Hadid revolutionary. The authors pick five women from the book who transformed design. More about Five female trailblazers who changed the field of design
Israeli designer Yaara Nusboim has developed a series of wooden toys in collaboration with child psychologists, that can help kids process difficult or repressed emotions as part of the therapeutic process. More about Yaara Nusboim designs therapy dolls for children struggling with emotional trauma
Los Angeles-based brand Dosist has designed a "sleek and discreet" cannabis dispenser called Dose Dial, which issues dose-controlled tablets. More about Dosist sets out to redefine edible cannabis products with Dose Dial
Design gallery The Future Perfect is exhibiting weird and wonderful ceramic homeware and accessories across its locations in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco. More about The Future Perfect celebrates "radical, feckless" ceramics in Mess exhibition
Ceramicist Madeline Hall's graduation project from Central Saint Martins was this collection of brightly coloured, gravity-defying sculptures based on religious scenes. More about Madeline Hall reinterprets religious imagery as "psychedelic" ceramic sculptures
Dutch designer Thom Bindels has developed Ecosystem Kickstarter, a honeycomb-shaped cardboard frame that can help small-scale farmers grow crops in degraded soil. More about Ecosystem Kickstarter is a cardboard structure that fights soil erosion
Beirut studio T Sakhi redefined the wall as a hub for social connection with its pavilion for Dubai Design Week, which comments on the "resilience" of Lebanese society in the face of current socio-political unrest. More about T Sakhi's Lebanon pavilion uses walls to activate social interaction
Tbilisi designer Max Machaidze and writer Zurab Jishkariani have produced animated videos to accompany nine music tracks by KayaKata, the hip-hop band they lead. More about KayaKata creates "audiobook" of videos to accompany their hip-hop tracks
An easily biodegradable material that could be "part of a global answer" to single-use plastic pollution has won its inventor, British designer Lucy Hughes, the international James Dyson Award. More about UK student's fish-waste bioplastic MarinaTex wins 2019 James Dyson Award top prize
ArkDes has mounted an exhibition celebrating the role of concrete panels in contemporary architecture, with an exhibition design by Note Design Studio that evokes the dynamism of a construction site. More about Flying Panels exhibition charts the evolution of prefabricated concrete-panel construction
Dezeen promotion: Nomos Glashütte has introduced two Bauhaus-influenced watches, the Tangente midnight blue and the Tangente 38 midnight blue. More about Nomos Glashütte's watches take cues from Bauhaus style
Italian designer Luca Nichetto has created furnishings, including tables, sofas and benches, to be used in workspaces, residences and museum galleries. More about Luca Nichetto designs modular furniture to work in public spaces and the home
Designers in India are rejecting the western canon and instead searching for home-grown approaches to their discipline. More about Indian designers dismiss "design-school propaganda" as they decolonise their work
MAS Architecture Studio favoured passive ventilation over high-tech solutions in this installation for Dubai Design Week, which reimagines Emirati wind towers using 480 layers of recycled cardboard. More about MAS Architecture Studio's wind tower keeps visitors cool without air-conditioning
The Object is Absent is a multi-strand installation that focuses on the designers' bodies rather than the objects they create, to demonstrate a shift in the priorities for the next generation of makers. More about The Object is Absent is a "less materialistic" design exhibition for an overcrowded world
Kids can identify plants, flowers and wildlife in their area while adding to a global biodiversity database that helps monitor the planet's health, using the augmented-reality app Seek by iNaturalist and the WWF. More about Seek app builds biodiversity database as users identify plant and animal species