London-based designer Nir Meiri has created a series of table lamps using mushroom mycelium, as an alternative to synthetic materials. More about Nir Meiri makes sustainable lamps from mushroom mycelium
Dezeen promotion: tiles by Dutch manufacturer Hakwood have been used to create a striking monochromatic kitchen with tricoloured floors inside a home in the Netherlands. More about Hakwood's wooden tiles can be arranged to form patterned floors
A smart ring developed by New York-based designer Hussain Almossawi allows people with sickle cell disease to monitor and detect low oxygen levels in their blood. More about Oxygem smart ring helps people with sickle cell disease monitor blood oxygen levels
The designers of an electric wheelchair share scheme and two exoskeletons are among the five finalists of the Mobility Unlimited Challenge who will be given $500,000 each to develop their prototypes. More about Five designers awarded 0,000 each to develop mobility devices for lower-limb paralysis
Copenhagen-based designer Thomas Bentzen has designed a wooden lounge chair for Danish brand Muuto, informed by a traditionally simple Scandinavian aesthetic. More about Thomas Bentzen's wooden Cover Lounge Chair for Muuto celebrates Scandinavian style
Large-scale coloured mirrors recreate the iridescent beauty of Johannesburg's toxic sunsets in this installation by architecture studio Counterspace. More about Folded Skies installation mimics the light created by Johannesburg's mine dust
London-based designer Robin Grasby uses offcuts from luxury marble workshops to create a terrazzo material he calls "beautifully chaotic". More about Altrock is a terrazzo made using waste from the marble industry
Rubber flip flops have been designed by Sam Morrison with contradictory tweets posted by Donald Trump over the years on each foot. More about Trump's contradictory tweets emblazoned on President Flip Flops
Toy company MGA Entertainment has preemptively sued Louis Vuitton in an attempt to prevent the fashion house from taking actions that might impact sales of its slime-filled children's purse Pooey Puitton. More about Pooey Puitton toy purse makers file lawsuit against Louis Vuitton
British-Ghanaian fashion designer Joe Casely-Hayford has passed away aged 62, after losing a three-year fight with cancer. More about Fashion designer Joe Casely-Hayford dies at 62
Fashion label Hugo Boss has launched a range of vegan men's shoes made from a natural material consisting of pineapple leaf fibres called Piñatex. More about Hugo Boss designs vegan shoes that replace leather with pineapple-based material
Engineers at Columbia University have 3D-printed a block of "digital wood", using a voxel technique that enables the creation of objects with rich internal textures. More about Columbia University researchers create 3D-printed "wood" with realistic internal grain
A British Army recruitment campaign targets "snowflakes, selfie addicts, class clowns, phone zombies, and me, me, millennials" in boring jobs, with a design that draws on first world war recruitment posters. More about British Army calls on "snowflakes" and "millennials" in recruitment drive
French designer Sacha Walckhoff has created a series of curvy vessels for Czech glass company Verreum using blown and metallic glass, based on equipment used in alchemy. More about Sacha Walckhoff designs bulbous Double Jeu glassware inspired by chemistry apparatus
Representatives of rock band Nirvana are suing Marc Jacobs for using its copyrighted smiley face logo in the fashion designer's latest collection and campaign. More about Nirvana sues Marc Jacobs for using iconic smiley face logo
Designers need to think of bigger, more ambitious solutions to the world's problems, according to speakers at Dezeen's talk about design in the anthropocene era during Dutch Design Week. More about "More science fiction" needed to save planet earth, say designers at Dezeen talk
French designer Philippe Starck has developed a GPS-tracking wristband that allows people who enjoy water sports to alert the coastal rescue to their location in an emergency. More about GPS-connected wristband allows swimmers who run into difficulties to alert rescue services
Serbian artists Ivana Jelić and Pavle Petrović have reimagined Van Gogh's famous painting The Starry Night as an LED installation over the canals of Amsterdam, to highlight the issue of light pollution in urban areas. More about Serbian artists turn Van Gogh's Starry Night into canalside light installation
An embroidered computer and a sound recorder made from yarn are among the products produced as part of Ebru Kurbak's research project into the use of traditional textile techniques to manufacture electronic objects. More about Ebru Kurbak uses traditional textile techniques to create embroidered computer
Iraqi-born UAE-based designer Layth Mahdi debuts a series of marble vases and tables with contoured surfaces milled by robots and designed using algorithms. More about Robot-made tables and vases feature surface textures created using algorithms