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"
Lund University student Lisa Merk has designed a series of small urns that can be held during funeral ceremonies to reduce the anxieties of bereavement. More about Lisa Merk's tactile mini urns give mourners one-on-one time to say goodbye
The inaugural Desert X art festival is underway in Southern California, where visitors are using Instagram to share images of installations including an entirely mirrored cabin and a seemingly infinite tunnel into the earth. More about Instagram users capture Desert X installations in California's Coachella Valley
American artist Doug Aitken has built a small house-shaped structure, clad top-to-bottom in mirrors, in the desert outside Palm Springs. More about Doug Aitken installs entirely mirrored cabin in the Southern Californian desert
Floors, tables and walls can be transformed into iPad-like touchscreens using Sony's new projector, which launched at this week's Mobile World Congress. More about Sony launches Xperia Touch projector that turns any surface into a touchscreen
A driverless electric race car that could "open a new dimension" in motorsport has been revealed at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. More about World's first driverless race car unveiled at MWC 2017
The rumours are true: the bestselling phone of the early 00s, the Nokia 3310, is making a comeback, complete with the game Snake. More about New-look Nokia 3310 mobile phone revealed
To coincide with this year's Design Indaba, Dezeen is giving away five copies of Africa Rising, a book documenting work by the continent's architects, designers and photographers. More about Competition: win a book documenting the work of Africa's designers
How do you design a passport? How do you prevent forgeries? And why do they all look the same? Following the launch of our Brexit passport design competition we spoke to Julian Payne, creative director at the world's biggest producer of passports and banknotes. More about New UK passport "likely to become a defining symbol of Britain's new identity"
A group of researchers at MIT has created a new material that expands and contracts when exposed to different temperatures. More about MIT researchers develop material that tightens in cold weather to keep in warmth
Slovakian designer Šimon Kern's Beleaf chair is made from a mixture of recycled leaves and bio-resin. More about Šimon Kern makes chair from recycled fallen leaves
Stockholm designer Thomas Bernstrand has created an outdoor stool that locks up like a supermarket trolley to keep parks and public spaces tidy. More about Thomas Bernstrand's coin-operated Share Stool is an alternative to fixed street furniture