American fashion designer Rick Owens has created a modular sofa landscape for Carpenters Workshop Gallery, comprising large plywood units upholstered using French wool army blankets. More about Rick Owens designs monolithic sofa system inspired by Brutalist architecture
Paintings and sculptures collected by the late Mexican architect Luis Barragán are showcased on a stepped wooden platform at his Mexico City house. More about Luis Barragán's personal art collection displayed in Mexico City studio
Rem Koolhaas will explore the radical change in the countryside in an exhibition coming to New York's Guggenheim museum next year. More about Guggenheim New York announces Rem Koolhaas exhibit Countryside, The Future
Good design is about interrogating systems not just creating beautiful chairs, biofabrication designer Natsai Audrey Chieza argued at Dezeen Day. More about "Designers are starting to understand they don't design in a vacuum" says Natsai Audrey Chieza
Designer Irakli Sabekia has developed a device that can turn the border fence between Russia and his native Georgia into a radio transmitter. More about Irakli Sabekia turns razor wire fence into radio transmitter
Swedish company Re:newcell is aiming to disrupt the fashion industry and save natural resources by creating garments from Circulose – a new material made from recycled cotton clothes. More about Re:newcell prepares to launch "world's first clothes made from circular cotton"
Edition Office, Linehouse and Takt Project have been named the best emerging studios of the year at the Dezeen Awards party in London. More about Emerging architecture, interiors and design studios of the year named at Dezeen Awards
Vo Trong Nghia Architects, SevilPeach and Studio Drift have been named best architecture, interiors and design studios of the year at Dezeen Awards 2019. More about Dezeen Awards architecture, interiors and design studios of the year revealed
Studio Tom Emerson and Taller 5, Mediated Matter Group at MIT and Branch Studio Architects have won awards for the best projects of the year at Dezeen Awards 2019. More about Dezeen Awards architecture, interiors and design winning projects revealed
Humans need to design a better future for the planet, and anger can be a good engine for that change, MoMA curator Paola Antonelli told the Dezeen Day audience. More about "The future isn't terrifying. It just needs to be better" says Paola Antonelli
Students from Cambridge University have built an ultra-efficient electric car that drives using only as much power as it takes to boil a kettle. More about Cambridge University team build UK's most efficient electric car
Central Saint Martins graduate Chiara Tommencioni Pisapia has proposed a method for improving the textile recycling process by using moths to break down the natural fibres in discarded clothing. More about Chiara Tommencioni Pisapia uses moths to transform unwanted clothing into "precious" bio-waste material
In the first major exhibition dedicated to 24/7 culture, Somerset House presents "creative responses to this modern malaise" by more than 50 artists and designers, including Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg. More about 50 artists respond to society's struggle to switch off at Somerset House's 24/7 exhibition
The Growing Pavilion is a temporary events space at Dutch Design Week constructed with panels grown from mushroom mycelium supported on a timber frame. More about Pavilion grown from mycelium acts as pop-up performance space at Dutch Design Week
Dezeen Day, our international architecture and design conference, is tomorrow! Didn't manage to get a ticket? Follow along on our Twitter page as we tweet from the event starting at 9am UK time, and join the discussion using #dezeenday. More about Follow the Dezeen Day discussion on Twitter tomorrow!
Oliver Heilmer, vice president of MINI Design, explains how the brand updated the MINI Cooper design to create its first entirely electric car in this video produced by Dezeen for MINI. More about MINI Cooper SE is the brand's first all-electric car
Dutch non-profit The Ocean Cleanup has launched the Interceptor, an autonomous system for collecting plastic pollution from rivers before it reaches the sea. More about The Ocean Cleanup launches system to catch plastic waste in rivers
Indian graphic designer Shiva Nallaperumal has developed a versatile neo-grotesque typeface family that includes nine Indic scripts alongside Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian and Latin versions. More about Oli Grotesk is a modern typeface that can be used to write traditional Indian scripts
Designer Iker Gil and Luftwerk have projected a grid of red lasers across Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House to highlight the building's geometric form and its history. More about Geometry of Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House illuminated with red lasers
Software engineer and US presidential candidate Akiva Leffert has designed a set of IKEA-themed tarot cards that tell your future using assembly manual illustrations. More about Tarot cards predict your future in the form of IKEA infographics