Design collective WMB Studio has created a miniature modular park that monitors air quality and offers plant-covered seating for passersby (+ slideshow). More about Portable "parklet" by WMB Studio adds greenery to London's streets
Dutch Design Week 2015: Arnhem studio Visser & Meijwaard has designed a range of colourful zip-up coffins to help make death less depressing. More about Visser & Meijwaard designs zip-up coffins that you would "want to be seen dead in"
French designer Constance Guisset has created a machine that automatically aerates and adjusts the temperature of individual glasses of wine. More about Constance Guisset's D-Vine tabletop machine speeds up wine tasting
Movie: American designer Marc Thorpe reveals which vegetable influenced his Husk chair for Moroso in our next exclusive movie for the Italian furniture brand. More about Marc Thorpe's latest chair for Moroso is based on the shapes of corn husks
Business news: San Francisco studio Wood Thumb is opposing Black Friday's discounting frenzy by upping the price of its products, adding a "Maker's Bonus" for its craftspeople. More about Design company raises prices on Black Friday in support of craftspeople
The last chair designed by late Danish cabinetmaker Frits Henningsen has been put back into production by furniture company Carl Hansen & Søn. More about Frits Henningsen's Signature Chair rereleased by Carl Hansen & Søn
Reindeer, peacocks and foxes adorn these Christmas stamps designed by Studio Tord Boontje for Dutch national delivery company PostNL. More about Tord Boontje's festive stamps feature "small stories" of animals and people
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art is hosting an exhibition of 17 hanging screens created by French design duo Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec. More about Bouroullec brothers design suspended screens for Tel Aviv exhibition
Open-source chairs made of puzzle pieces and 3D-printed furniture based on bone growth feature in an exhibition of work by Dutch designer Joris Laarman Lab retrospective at the Netherlands' Groninger Museum (+ slideshow). More about Joris Laarman opens first major solo show at the Groninger Museum
A white chocolate shell forms a calendar on top of this year's Häagen-Dazs Christmas cake by Italian interior designer Paola Navone. More about Paola Navone designs edible Christmas calendar for Häagen-Dazs
Plane manufacturer Airbus has continued its run of unusual patent filings, proposing a detachable passenger cabin designed to speed up embarkation. More about Airbus patents removable aeroplane cabins for faster boarding
Happy Thanksgiving! Tuck into our archive of designs that could make your dinner table more interesting, including teardrop-shaped plates, stackable tea sets and cutlery that is deliberately difficult to eat with. See more tableware »
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Brazilian studio Rain has created a collection of six tables designed to look like miniature swimming pools. More about Swimming pool-shaped tables by Rain include removable ladders
South Korean designer Seung Jin Yang has coated brightly coloured balloons in resin to create these inflated seats. More about Seung Jin Yang's Blowing chairs are made from party balloons
The RCA is set to expand with another new campus near its existing buildings in Battersea, after the UK government pledged to contribute funding for the project in its autumn spending statement. More about Royal College of Art to build £100 million design and technology campus in south London
New York studio Apparatus has unveiled a marble lantern and vessel that embody "the visual language of ceremonial objects" (+ slideshow). More about Apparatus creates Neo Marble collection influenced by ancient rituals
Self-driving cars could disrupt the airline and hotel industries within 20 years as people sleep in their vehicles on the road, according to a senior strategist at Audi. More about Driverless cars could spell the end for domestic flights, says Audi strategist
Dutch Design Week 2015: Dutch designer Emilie van Spronsen harvested feathers and bones from the corpses of bird flu-infected chickens to create this stool and urn. More about Slaughtered bird flu-infected chickens transformed into furniture by Emilie van Spronsen
Barcelona design studio Goula/Figuera has created a collection of hanging lights that are based on thousands of drawings. More about Goula/Figuera's modular lights resemble geometric ink illustrations
Writing implements shaped like paintbrushes and squeezable tubes of paint feature in a collection of pencils designed by students from the Holon Institute of Technology. More about Holon Institute of Technology students create alternative pencil designs