Dezeen promotion: a group of students from Amsterdam's Dirty Art Department have created interactive installations to occupy a building in an abandoned area of Milan during the city's design week (+ slideshow). More about Dirty Art Department fills former slaughterhouse with installations for The Wandering School
Milan 2016: the works of Minimalist sculptor Donald Judd and Italian architect Andrea Palladio have informed the design of this set of tables by Swedish studio Claesson Koivisto Rune for Dutch furniture brand Artifort (+ slideshow). More about Claesson Koivisto Rune's Palladio tables reference Minimalist sculpture
Milan 2016: products made from a new material that uses recycled poo are presented in darkened rooms with crap-covered floors at The Shit Evolution exhibition curated by the Museo Della Merda (+ slideshow). More about The Shit Evolution in Milan presents dung as a "beautiful" material
Milan 2016: Atelier Biagetti invites people to take sanctuary from an over-sexualised world inside a surreal clinic featuring pastel pink furniture, clinical curtains and attendants in nurse's outfits (+ slideshow). More about No Sex by Atelier Biagetti is a "futuristic paradise" for sexual rehabilitation
Milan 2016: London design studio Raw Edges has created a collection of zigzag-patterned furniture using pieces of wood that have been dipped into angled buckets of dye (+ slideshow). More about Raw Edges unveils wooden furniture featuring rainbow-hued zigzag patterns
Milan 2016: as this year's Milan design week gets underway, we've selected our top picks from what's on around the city. More about 10 unmissable exhibitions and installations at Milan design week 2016
Milan 2016: lamps shaped like cherries and chairs modelled on rabbits are among the products that Italian designer Stefano Giovannoni is launching under his new online brand Qeeboo. More about Stefano Giovannoni reveals first product line for new Qeeboo brand
Milan 2016: Stockholm design studio Afteroom's Family benches for Danish brand Menu feature tables that branch from the frames on powder-coated steel rods. More about Afteroom updates collection of tubular steel furniture for Menu
Milan 2016: we're heading to Milan to report on the city's annual festival of design exhibitions, installations and parties next week. Keep up with Dezeen's coverage of the event using our new Pinterest board, which we'll be updating daily.
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Milan 2016: Austrian product designer Thomas Feichtner has collaborated with a group of craftspeople to create a minimal wooden chair using traditional carpentry techniques. More about Thomas Feichtner's minimal A-Chair is made using traditional carpentry techniques
Milan 2016: London studio Industrial Facility has designed a range of desks and tables for American furniture company Emeco based on canteen tables and park benches (+ movie). More about Industrial Facility designs plank-topped tables for Emeco
Australian cycling accessories manufacturer Knog has designed an alternative to the traditional domed bike bell – a donut-shaped device that wraps around the handlebars (+ slideshow). More about Knog creates Oi bicycle bell to replace "ugly" alternatives
Milan 2016: Swiss studio Big-Game has added to the growing list of children's products launching in Milan with a miniature adjustable plastic chair (+ slideshow). More about Big-Game's Little Big Chair for kids can be adjusted as they grow
Sportswear brand Nike has opened a textile design studio in east London to develop new fabrics for its shoes and apparel. More about Nike opens design studio in Hackney to explore advanced textiles
Extra Moooi: in our next movie for Moooi, Dutch designer Marcel Wanders discusses his Space-Frame light, which features dozens of LED lamps supported by a truss-like wire frame (+ movie). More about Marcel Wanders creates lamp for Moooi with "super-thin space-frame structure"
Milan 2016: American designer and architect David Rockwell has created a collection of furniture for Stellar Works, one of a host of Chinese brands due to exhibit during Milan design week (+ slideshow). More about David Rockwell designs Valet furniture for Chinese brand Stellar Works
Chinese consumers are developing a taste for western furniture and lifestyles thanks to IKEA, according to the founders of Danish design brand Hay. More about IKEA fuels demand for western lifestyle in China, say Hay founders
Tokyo 2020 Olympics has unveiled a shortlist of four new logo designs, after the original logo by Japanese designer Kenjiro Sano was abandoned following accusations of plagiarism (+ slideshow). More about Tokyo 2020 Olympics unveils shortlisted logo designs
Dezeen promotion: Japanese brand Maruni Wood Industry will launch products by designers Naoto Fukasawa and Jasper Morrison at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile fair in Milan next week (+ movie). More about Maruni to launch designs by Naoto Fukasawa and Jasper Morrison in Milan
Milan 2016: online furniture brand Hem is launching six new and updated products by designers including Philippe Malouin, Form Us With Love and Max Lamb in Milan next week. More about Hem to present latest furniture range at Ice Cream Social in Milan