The fiddly ritual of assembling IKEA furniture is set to become a thing of the past as the furniture giant introduces products that snap together "like a jigsaw puzzle". More about IKEA switches to furniture that snaps together in minutes without requiring tools
Australian designer Trent Jansen has created a collection of furniture shaped to resemble scaly and hairy monsters from his country's myths. More about Trent Jansen bases Broached Monsters furniture on creatures of Australian folklore
An Academy of Fine Arts Poznań graduate has designed a cremation urn that can be purchased before your death and used as homeware, serving as a reminder to live life to the full. More about Aleksander Skworz' Urn for Living can be used as a fruit bowl before you die
Mexican designer Moisés Hernández' dipped his Immersed Birds collection in dye to emulate the plumage of tropical fauna. More about Moisés Hernández designs minimal dip-dyed versions of tropical birds
Lund University graduate Anna Gudmundsdottir created this homeware collection "backwards" by starting with the manufacturers' input rather than the design. More about Anna Gudmundsdottir turns design process back to front for Beyond Local homeware
A science-fiction staple has inched closer to reality with the reveal of a prototype in-ear wearable that translates languages almost instantly. More about Waverly Labs' Pilot earpiece promises to translate languages in real time
A dining table surrounded by cartoon-like chairs features in the latest exhibition at New York gallery Chamber, which opened last night without its founder after he was denied entry into the US. More about Cartoon furniture among unconventional domestic items on show at New York's Chamber gallery
The consolidation of the Italian furniture industry continues with the announcement that Tecno has become a majority shareholder in Zanotta. More about Tecno acquires majority stake in fellow Italian brand Zanotta
Naive sketches are transformed into three-dimensional brass furniture in the latest collection from Dutch designer Maarten Baas. More about Maarten Baas extrudes his sketches to create Close Parity furniture collection
Accessories brand Ally Capellino has released a range of colourful bags based on plastic chairs, which have been shot inside Ernö Goldfinger's Haggerston School. More about Ally Capellino looks to colourful plastic chairs for Spring Summer 2017 bag collection
A group of MAarch students from the Bartlett School of Architecture have devised a method of turning felt into load-bearing structures that they hope to build into an fabric pavilion. More about Bartlett students propose self-supporting pavilion made from felt
British furniture brand Heal's is to begin offering its customers the option to create their own furniture from scratch, working alongside designer Matthew Elton. More about Heal's launches bespoke service to "counteract flat-pack, off-the-shelf culture"
Today is World Book Day. To mark the occasion we've rounded up 10 of the best ways designers have stored books, from bookshelf staircases to a huge concrete case that spans the wall of a Mexico City home. More about 10 shelving designs that are perfect for book lovers
Fish, clothing, architecture and bicycles come with embedded screens in the future imagined by British digital design studio Universal Everything. More about Universal Everything explores potential to turn 13 everyday objects into screens
An exhibition exploring the journey from maker to market in Norway is set to take place during this year's Milan design week. More about Everything Is Connected brings work of 30 young Norwegian designers to Milan
In the next instalment of our exclusive video series with Bolon, directors Marie and Annica Eklund explain how the Swedish brand's Stockholm Design Week exhibition marked the start of "a new chapter" for Bolon. More about Innovators at Heart exhibition sets out Bolon's ambition to move beyond flooring
A brand design for a sealant company that lifted sales revenue by 744 per cent has been named the winner of the Grand Prix in this year's DBA Design Effectiveness Awards. More about DBA Design Effectiveness Awards honour year's best branding and packaging
Yves Béhar's studio Fuseproject worked with robotics company Cobalt to create this robot security guard, designed to be in "stark contrast to the Hollywood dystopian Robocop". More about Yves Béhar creates unthreatening design for Cobalt security robot
Dezeen has teamed up with Aram Store to offer our UK readers a chance to win a lounge chair designed by Le Corbusier, a side table by Eero Saarinen or a table lamp by Achille Castiglioni. More about Competition: win furniture designed by Le Corbusier, Eero Saarinen and Achille Castiglioni
The Shakers are on the verge of extinction following the recent death of one of the sect's three surviving members. So why is their austere style having yet another revival? More about Shaker style is back again as designers celebrate "the first minimalists"