Danish textile designer Stine Mikkelsen has crushed granite, melted tin and torched rope to create this collection of bizarre-looking furniture for Miami's Aybar Gallery. More about Stine Mikkelsen creates lumpy granite and knobbly tin furniture for Miami gallery
Philippe Starck has teamed up with French tableware brand Degrenne to redesign its range of kitchen tools and cutlery. More about Philippe Starck designs range of cutlery for Degrenne
In the final instalment from our review of 2017, editor Amy Frearson recaps the 10 most-read stories of the year, including a bullied robot, a house of splayed shipping containers and a chair that you wear. More about Dezeen's top 10 biggest architecture and design stories of 2017
We've received hundreds of Christmas cards from architects, designers and brands this year. Here are our favourites, including BIG's Lego House wrapped up like presents, and a festive pineapple by Intervention Architecture. More about Designer Christmas cards 2017
Italian designer Fabio Novembre has created a range of beds influenced by fairytales for mattress brand PerDormire. More about Fabio Novembre designs six beds inspired by "the world of dreams"
Dubai-based designer Aljoud Lootah paid homage to the tradition of palm-leaf architecture in the United Arab Emirates with her latest furniture collection. More about Aljoud Lootah's furniture collection takes cues from traditional areesh structures
Dezeen promotion: a bronze bench that mimics a desert landscape and a sculptural traffic cone are among a range of furniture designs on show at the Cranbrook Art Museum in Michigan. More about Cranbrook Academy of Art showcases experimental furniture designs
British passports will lose their burgundy covers and go back to having dark blue ones after Brexit, the government has confirmed. More about UK brings back blue passports to "restore national identity"
Animal blood, algae and mushroom mycelium are among some of the unconventional materials used in design this year. Continuing our review of 2017, editorial assistant Gunseli Yalcinkaya selects her top 10. More about Dezeen's top 10 unusual materials of 2017
London-based architecture studio Carmody Groarke has teamed up with designer Joe Pipal to produce a seat inspired by early 20th-century bentwood bistro chairs. More about Carmody Groarke's Chair 182 nods to classic bistro seating
OMA's research and design studio AMO has created a display system made up of 43 slim free-standing steel walls for the permanent collection of Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum. More about AMO creates "open-ended" display system for Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum
Vivienne Westwood will present her autumn-winter 2018 collection digitally rather than on a catwalk show – as part of on ongoing bid to make her brand more environmentally conscious. More about Vivienne Westwood axes catwalk show in favour of digital presentation
A machine originally designed for the military, which extracts water from the air, is now being used for humanitarian missions to bring safe drinking water to areas struck by natural disaster or poverty. More about Machine that extracts water from air repurposed for humanitarian efforts
London Design Festival has claimed record visitor figures for 2017, but admitted it counted every person who visited participating museums and passed through public squares hosting installations. More about London Design Festival's "record breaking" visitor figures include people who walked past installations
We can always count on graduate designers to push the industry's boundaries. As part of our review of the year, design editor Alice Morby picks the 10 best projects from the class of 2017. More about 10 of the most innovative graduate designs from 2017
Dezeen has teamed up with Antwerp-based design label Valerie Objects to give away three sets of accessories by Belgian design duo Muller Van Severen, including a stack of colourful food-serving platters and a sculptural trivet. More about Competition: win homeware accessories designed by Muller Van Severen
Aerospace manufacturer Boeing has unveiled a huge military drone that will be used for refuelling fighter jets mid-air. More about Boeing unveils MQ-25 drone that it claims will be "changing future air power"
Movie streaming service Netflix has revealed the process it uses to customise the artworks displayed on its site depending on different users' viewing habits. More about Netflix targets different film artworks to suit users' viewing habits
Furniture and homewares brand IKEA has topped Dezeen Hot List 2017 of the 500 people, brands and organisations our readers most wanted to read about this year. Retailer Muji takes second place while Peter Zumthor is the highest placed architect. More about Dezeen Hot List 2017: IKEA is the most newsworthy force in design, ahead of Muji and Peter Zumthor
Architecture collective Assemble and artist Matthew Raw have refurbished the entrance to Seven Sisters Underground station in London, covering it in thousands of colourful handmade tiles. More about Assemble covers entrance to London tube station in colourful handmade tiles