The Dezeen Awards 2019 design shortlist has been revealed. It includes a self-cleaning water bottle, a pendant light made with used coffee grounds, and the world's first silent wireless breast pump. More about Dezeen Awards 2019 design shortlist revealed
Tickets for Dezeen Day, our first architecture, interiors and design conference, are now on sale with the first 100 tickets available at a reduced early-bird rate. More about Save 20 per cent and buy early-bird tickets for Dezeen Day now
Designer Tom Dixon has been awarded the London Design Medal at this year's British Land Celebration of Design Awards, which also sees Vivienne Westwood, Daniel Charny and Ross Atkin commended for their work. More about Tom Dixon awarded London Design Medal 2019
IKEA has committed to becoming a circular business by 2030, by eliminating waste and reusing resources. A year into the project, sustainability head Lena Pripp-Kovac tells Dezeen how they're getting on. More about "We're looking at a change of our total business" says IKEA sustainability chief Lena Pripp-Kovac
Designer Melanie Abrantes has used cork and wood leftover from her old projects to create sculptural vases, canisters and baskets influenced by the colours, forms and textures of California's coast. More about Melanie Abrantes turns material scraps into Modern California homeware collection
Italian curator and critic Beatrice Leanza has joined the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology in Lisbon as its new executive director. More about Beatrice Leanza appointed executive director of MAAT in Lisbon
Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, will give a keynote speech at Dezeen Day, our new international architecture and design conference taking place in London on 30 October. More about Paola Antonelli of MoMA to give keynote speech at Dezeen Day
Benjamin Hubert's design studio Layer has created a series of cocoon-like pendant lights for Danish furniture brand Muuto, inspired by the silkworm's act of "self-wrapping". More about Layer designs pendant lamps based on silkworm cocoons for Muuto
Can fashion ever be sustainable? Dezeen's India Block will be speaking to readers on Twitter this Thursday, 5 September, at 4pm UK time about designers' responsibilities when it comes to fashion sustainability. Join in using the hashtag #dezeenchat. More about Join Dezeen's sustainable fashion chat on Twitter with #dezeenchat
Dezeen promotion: architects, designers and students are invited to submit projects to this year's Tile of Spain Awards. More about Call for entries to the Tile of Spain Awards 2019
An abstracted Lamborghini, a scrunched-up bike and a motorcycle operated by a smartphone are among the pieces showcased in an exhibition at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. More about Designs by Rem D Koolhaas and Joey Ruiter feature in Disruptors exhibition at LA museum
Imperial graduate Nicole Stjernswärd has invented Kaiku, a system that turns plants into powdered paint pigments using vaporisation technology. More about Kaiku turns fruit and vegetable waste into natural pigments
Footwear brand Allbirds uses merino wool to manufacture the textile uppers of its Wool Runners shoes, which also feature laces made from recycled plastic bottles and insoles produced using castor bean oil. More about Allbirds crafts shoes from renewable materials including wool and castor beans
Playground swings, carousels and rolling logs informed this furniture collection designed by Cranbrook Academy of Art graduate Joe Parr.
More about Joe Parr's PlaySetting furniture is influenced by playground equipment
Water rather than air carries sound in designer Rocco Giovannoni's Inmergo headphones, which promise rich audio even for people who are hard of hearing. More about Water-filled Inmergo headphones by Rocco Giovannoni allow immersive listening
To help you travel in style, we’re showcasing the best of modern transport with this week's new Pinterest boards. Ride along with first-class trains, extraordinary Hyperloop systems and car designs to inspire your own Bat-mobile. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest › More about Get behind the wheel and take our new Pinterest boards for a spin
Textile brand Kirkby Design has collaborated with Transport for London to recreate seven heritage moquette designs featured on the city's Underground tube seats. More about Kirkby Design creates fabric collection based on London Underground seats
London design agency Bulletproof has developed a new visual identity for the Football Association of Wales, featuring a modernised version of its red dragon badge. More about Welsh FA unveils simplified dragon as new visual identity
Dedicated Verner Panton manufacturer Verpan has released three pieces of furniture designed by Panton but never before put into production, based on the designer's original sketches. More about Verpan unveils previously unrealised designs from Verner Panton archive
The closure of Design Exchange's permanent collection demonstrates an absence of support for the design industry in the country, says Canadian writer and V&A senior curator Brendan Cormier. More about Closure of Canada's only design museum shows "lack of support for design" says V&A curator