Christien Meindertsma: Beyond the Surface, at the Vitra Design Museum in Basel examines the designer's work with wool, flax, incinerator ash and recycled wool. More about Christien Meindertsma exhibition explores the potential uses of four materials
American designer Anna Meddaugh has created a personal urinal that women in refugee camps can use in shelters at night to avoid the threat of sexual violence outside. More about Night Loo is a safe portable toilet for women in refugee camps
Smokey black walls, old chimneys and machinery surround this exhibition of design collective EWE Studio's works inside a 17th-century mint in Mexico City. More about Blackened Mexico City coin factory provides moody setting for EWE exhibit
London newspaper the Evening Standard has named Dezeen founder Marcus Fairs as one of the city's 1,000 most influential figures. More about Dezeen founder Marcus Fairs named one of London's most influential people
Lighting brand Plumen has launched an LED light bulb that offers a more sustainable alternative to its 001 bulb, which was named the Design of the Year by London's Design Museum in 2011. More about Plumen creates LED version of Design of the Year-winning 001 light bulb
British artist David Shrigley has filled a gallery in Stockholm's Spritmuseum with giant inflatable swans, which inflate and deflate in cycles of 12 minutes. More about David Shrigley's inflatable Swan-things collapse and spring to life in 12-minute cycles
Designer Seetal Solanki has released a book exploring natural and manmade materials that could be used to reduce human impact on the planet. In a Dezeen exclusive, she picks out five of the most innovative examples. More about Five materials that could help us design a more sustainable future
One for Hundred is a furniture brand based in Austria that produces more wood than it uses. More about One For Hundred plants 100 trees for every piece of wooden furniture sold
Esrawe Studio is launching a collection of simple, stained black furniture at its showroom during this year's Design Week Mexico in the country's capital. More about Esrawe Studio exhibits black wooden furniture for Design Week Mexico
Fashion For Good is an interactive museum that aims to teach visitors about innovations in the fashion and textiles industry, designed by US-based studio Local Projects. More about Fashion For Good museum in Amsterdam promotes responsible fashion
Researchers at Melbourne's RMIT University Behavioural Business Lab have combined design and psychology principles to create a typeface that helps students to remember what they have read. More about Sans Forgetica is a font that aids memory
Chinese product designer Sheng Yin collaborated with artist Kai Yi to create this entirely black series of wood and leather furniture. More about Black Dream is a series of "furniture with soul" by Sheng Yin and Kai Yi
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has revealed that its major fashion exhibition next year will explore the ostentatious and humorous aesthetic of "camp". More about The Met's Costume Institute announces "camp" as Spring 2019 exhibition theme
The "desirable" aesthetic of a standard mass-produced tin can has informed the shape of this stool designed by Lennart and Lauren Leerdam. More about Paperthin stool celebrates "the essence of the classic tin can"
British designer Faye Toogood has teamed up with estate agency The Modern House to curate a moving-in box, with six objects designed for the modern homebuyer, including a keyring and an apron. More about Faye Toogood assembles moving-in box for design-conscious homebuyers
The United Nations says we have 12 years to take action against climate change, to avoid global disaster. It's the greatest design challenge in history, says Nicolas Roope. More about "Let's start designing the future that gives us a future"
Design Academy Eindhoven graduates Christian Hammer Juhl and Jade Chan have created a series of whimsical furniture items that respond to people's changing requirements. More about Responsive Furniture expands and contracts according to users' needs
The mineralogy collection at the Melbourne Museum inspired Australian designer Leah Heiss' Facett hearing aid, which aims to shift talk "from disability to desirability". More about Facett hearing aid takes inspiration from precious gemstones
London-based Aseptic Studio has designed an ergonomic cushion in the shape of a headless torso to provide physical and emotional support for lonely millennials living in cities. More about Headless human-shaped pillow by Aseptic Studio designed to reduce urban loneliness
The bulbous black base of this table, which Bandido Studio is launching at this year's Design Week Mexico, is sculpted using a traditional technique developed by the country's stone artisans. More about Bandido Studio's Mura table features droplet-shaped marble base