Milan 2016: Danish firm BIG has created a modular lighting system that can be rearranged to form different letters of a bespoke typeface. More about BIG designs modular Alphabet of Light for Artemide
Opinion: designers can't save the world, but even the smallest intervention could help improve the conditions faced by the unprecedented number of refugees flooding Europe, says Richard van der Laken. More about "Designers cannot just stand by and watch as the refugee crisis unfolds"
Competition: London-based designer Phil Cuttance has teamed up with Dezeen to give one reader a handmade vase, featuring a raised herringbone pattern. More about Competition: win a hand-cast Herringbone vase by Phil Cuttance
Denmark's Normann Copenhagen is set to become the latest furniture brand to launch a range of stationery and accessories, echoing strategies used by the fashion industry with its Daily Fiction collection (+ slideshow). More about Normann Copenhagen to launch Daily Fiction range of accessories and stationery
Milan 2016: New York lighting designer Lindsey Adelman explains how she used motors to create a vibrating chandelier for Nike in this movie filmed by Dezeen at the sports brand's The Nature of Motion exhibition. More about Lindsey Adelman creates quivering tree-like lighting installation for Nike
Milan 2016: rotating arms complete loops of copper to switch on these lights, which were designed by Odd Matter Studio to resemble electrical diagrams (+ slideshow). More about Odd Matter Studio's Jesmonite and copper Node lights are modelled on circuit diagrams
Reebok has been criticised for only releasing male sizes of the boot-like sneakers worn by actress Sigourney Weaver in 1986 sci-fi film Aliens. More about Reebok blasted for releasing Alien Stomper trainers exclusively in male sizes
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with UK studio Chisel & Mouse to offer one reader the chance to win a model from its Cityscapes collection (+ slideshow). More about Competition: win a minature cityscape by Chisel & Mouse
Milan 2016: Belgian architect Vincent Van Duysen has created a cast-concrete lamp as part of a range of designs for Italian brand Flos (+ slideshow). More about Vincent van Duysen designs concrete LED lamp for Flos
Milan 2016: Italian lighting design firm Nemo has reissued Le Corbusier's Borne Béton lamp, originally designed by the architect in 1952. More about Nemo reissues cement lamp designed by Le Corbusier
Dancers dressed in bright red jumpers, ballet leggings and oversized pearls promenade and gesticulate within a distorted architectural setting created by artist Pablo Bronstein for his new Tate Britain show (+ slideshow). More about Pablo Bronstein manipulates architectural imagery for choreographed Tate commission
Rio 2016: Adidas has unveiled its kits for the Team GB athletes competing in the Rio 2016 Olympics, designed by fashion designer Stella McCartney around a new coat of arms. More about Adidas unveils Team GB kits for Rio 2016 by Stella McCartney
It's World Stationery Day! We've pencilled in designs for unusual writing accessories, including a pen for architectural drawing by Shigeru Ban and a desk tidy set that resembles a still-life painting. See more stationery »
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Milan 2016: Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek has launched a range of new furniture and accessories, which includes a simple table lamp with a moulded ceramic shade (+ slideshow). More about Piet Hein Eek expands range of moulded ceramic lamps as part of 2016 collection
Engineer and inventor James Dyson has revealed a design for a hairdryer that is silent to human ears and controls its own temperature to protect hair from heat damage (+ movie). More about Dyson's first hairdryer emits a sound "beyond the audible range for humans"
Milan 2016: this year's Dutch Invertuals exhibition in Milan featured tactile objects designed as physical representations of emotions, beliefs and even galactic phenomena (+ slideshow). More about Dutch Invertuals' Advanced Relics exhibition displays intangibles as physical items
Milan 2016: from the end of the fame-chasing student, to the rise of creative directors at furniture brands and the future of the kitchen, Dezeen editor Anna Winston highlights eight trends from this year's Milan design week and Salone del Mobile that could have much wider implications for the industry. More about Eight trends from Milan design week that will impact the future of the industry
Milan 2016: German lighting designer Ingo Maurer turned Milan's Torre Velasca into a glowing red beacon with an installation for car brand Audi during Milan design week (+ slideshow). More about Ingo Maurer bathes Torre Velasca in red light for Audi's City Lab event
Opinion: three years ago Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs wrote an impassioned article complaining about the frustrations of visiting Milan during its annual design week. This year he found more to smile about. Here's his take on the 2016 fair. More about "Could joined-up thinking finally be breaking out in Milan?"
EU referendum: German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans has designed a set of posters to encourage UK residents to vote to stay in the European Union, after branding the official Remain campaign "lame" (+ slideshow). More about Wolfgang Tillmans designs posters opposing Brexit vote