New York 2016: prolific Japanese studio Nendo has unveiled a collection of furniture and lighting featuring sketch-like outlines that trace the motion of moving elements (+ slideshow). More about Nendo designs collection of movement-tracing furniture
Milan 2016: furniture manufacturer Onecollection has relaunched a 1956 chair by Finn Juhl, which played an important role in the proliferation of Danish design (+ slideshow). More about Onecollection reissues Finn Juhl's Danish mid-century FJ 136 chair
The Shohei Shigematsu-led OMA New York office has used translucent scrim to create a "ghost cathedral" for this year's Costume Institute exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which focuses on the convergence of fashion and technology (+ movie). More about OMA designs The Met's Manus x Machina fashion and technology exhibition
A collective of designers and artists in New York has proposed transforming a shipping barge into a verdant floating farm, with berry bushes, lime trees and swaths of lavender, among many other plants. More about "Floating food forest" proposed for New York's waterways
Milan 2016: Danish studio GamFratesi has borrowed shapes from typical mid-century furniture to create the Voyage chair and Collector desk for Italian brand Porro's 90th anniversary collection. More about GamFratesi designs chair and desk to mark Porro's 90th anniversary
Milan 2016: Australian designer Ross Gardam has created a desk lamp with a mirrored shade that can be rotated to adjust light and shadow (+ movie). More about Ross Gardam's Polar desk lamp has a rotating metallic shade
Canadian design studio Moss & Lam rediscovered a traditional craft process to create this collection of patterned side tables. More about Moss & Lam uses "alchemic" Italian technique to craft marbled W1 tables
New York 2016: Canadian design studio Lambert & Fils has balanced pairs of glass globes within folded metal frames for its Laurent lighting collection, designed as a reinterpretation of classic pendant lighting (+ slideshow). More about Lambert & Fils puts a spin on traditional globe pendants with Laurent lighting collection
Milan 2016: Japanese designer Naoto Fukasawa has created a sheepskin armchair and London studio Doshi Levien has produced footstools shaped like "marine creatures" for furniture brand B&B Italia's 50th anniversary collection (+ slideshow). More about Doshi Levien and Naoto Fukasawa design furniture for B&B Italia's 50th anniversary
New York 2016: New Zealand and Dutch design duo Sabine Marcelis and Brit van Nerven have created a range of mirrors from layers of coloured glass that create ombré effects across the surfaces (+ slideshow). More about Sabine Marcelis and Brit van Nerven's Hue mirrors feature gradients of colour
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