Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Mark Henning has created an experimental toolkit for testing and training the perfect handshake, which he imagines being used in an immigration office. More about Mark Henning creates handshake training station that could be used to help immigrants integrate
Dezeen promotion: Cecilie Manz has been named Designer of the Year for Maison&Objet's January 2018 edition, and will present her body of work in a self-designed space at the fair in Paris. More about Cecilie Manz named Maison&Objet 2018 designer of the year
Dezeen promotion: design company Luminaire is organising a retrospective of work by Shiro Kuramata, one of the 20th century's most important Japanese designers, at one of its space in Miami Design District. More about Luminaire to host Shiro Kuramata exhibition during Design Miami
Dezeen promotion: Spanish studio MUT Design has created a range of colourful sound-absorbing wall panels inspired by beetle shells for furniture brand Sancal. More about Sancal's fabric acoustic panels are designed to look like beetles
Artist Anish Kapoor has created a blocky red trophy with the Brittania figure trapped in its centre for winners at next year's Brit Awards. More about Anish Kapoor designs sculptural red trophy for Brit Awards 2018
Bowls made from recycled metals and seating inspired by traditional Arabic Majlis featured in an exhibition of emerging talent from the Middle East and North African regions at this year's Dubai Design Week. More about Nomadic design exhibition showcases new talent from the Middle East and North Africa
Tim Rundle stripped-back traditional furniture typologies to create this collection for Australian brand SP01, which pairs plush fabrics with exposed metal frames. More about Tim Rundle reinterprets furniture archetypes for SP01 collection
Czech glass brand Lasvit and design firm Yabu Pushelberg have created an illuminated glass Christmas tree for the lobby of Hong Kong's Upper House Hotel. More about Lasvit and Yabu Pushelberg unveil illuminated glass Christmas tree
Designer Klemens Schillinger has created a set of therapeutic phone-like objects, to help smartphone addicts cope with being away from their devices. More about Klemens Schillinger's Substitute Phone aims to help overcome smartphone addiction
Studio Nick Verstand has created an immersive audiovisual installation that reinterprets people's emotions as pulsing light compositions. More about Audiovisual installation translates emotions into beams of light
Single plant stems fit neatly into openings in these copper pipes, created by Brazilian designer Guilherme Wentz as minimal vases. More about Curved copper pipes form Solo Vases by Guilherme Wentz
The UK has been disqualified from hosting the European Capital of Culture in 2023, as a result of Brexit. More about Creative sector "gutted" as EU disqualifies UK cities from European Capital of Culture contest
Dezeen has teamed up with architect Sam Jacob to give away five of his Citizen of Nowhere passport covers, which reference a comment made by UK prime minister Theresa May after the Brexit vote. More about Competition: win a post-Brexit passport cover designed by Sam Jacob
A Japanese manufacturer has developed an odourless paint that can be peeled off surfaces, leaving behind no scratches or marks. More about Peelable Belay paint is designed to protect surfaces from scratches and stains
Trompe l'oeil illusions from the renaissance era influenced the design of this ceiling installation by American studio FreelandBuck, now on view in a Smithsonian museum in Washington DC. More about FreelandBuck combines historic ceiling designs for Smithsonian museum installation
Dezeen has teamed up with German design brand Pulpo and designer Sebastian Herkner to give away five Oda lamps, which are made from a handblown glass shade propped upon a steel frame. More about Competition: win an Oda lamp designed by Sebastian Herkner for Pulpo
With its latest budget announcement, the UK government has failed to recognise the importance of the design industry to the country's economy, according to the Design Council and the Creative Industries Federation. More about UK government undermines design with "disappointing" budget, say industry organisations
To tackle "death anxiety" among terminally ill hospital patients, designer Frank Kolkman has created a device that simulates a near-death experience using virtual reality. More about Frank Kolkman creates death simulation machine using virtual reality
Austrian product designer Klemens Schillinger has created a lamp that only lights up once the user is willing to surrender their smartphone. More about Klemens Schillinger's Offline lamp illuminates in exchange for a smartphone
Dezeen promotion: flooring company Shaw Contract looked to the patterns and textures found in natural landscapes when creating its latest range of carpet tiles. More about Remote landscapes inform textural floor-tile collection by Shaw Contract