Dutch Design Week 2015: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Sarah Daher has proposed harnessing airborne molecules released by plants to create pockets of personalised air that could provide health benefits when inhaled (+ slideshow). More about Sarah Daher designs Air Culture concept plant lab to deliver enriched air
New York-based designer Marc Fornes has completed an outdoor installation for a French school, consisting of perforated aluminium plates that cast patterned shadows on the ground below (+ slideshow). More about Marc Fornes creates sculptural installation in France using perforated metal shingles
Visitors to an English forest were able to explore the woods through the eyes of different animals as part of a virtual reality experience by London design studio Marshmallow Laser Feast (+ movie). More about Virtual reality helmets present a forest from an animal's perspective
German sports brand Adidas has unveiled the first image of its lace-free football boots, which are due to be released in 2016. More about Adidas to release laceless knitted football boots in 2016
London design studio Map Project Office has created a minimal compass that pairs with a smartphone app to point cyclists through the city (+ slideshow). More about Map's BeeLine bicycle compass guides cyclists with a single arrow
An image of taxidermy beer-bottle packaging caused controversy over the weekend after we posted it on the Dezeen Instagram account.
Today we're asking readers to tell us what they think of the use of animals in design by commenting on the story and other taxidermy projects in our archives, including a storage cabinet made from a hollowed-out sheep, futuristic hybrid creatures, and headdresses featuring stuffed birds. See all our stories about taxidermy »
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Homeware brand Toast Living has partnered with Hong Kong studio Milk Design to create a five-piece ceramic, glass and copper-coloured homeware range for coffee lovers (+ slideshow). More about Toast Living launches HAND collection for drip-filter coffee connoisseurs
Japanese designer Naoto Fukasawa has applied his trademark minimal approach to a range of wooden tables and chairs for furniture manufacturer Conde House. More about Naoto Fukasawa unveils Kamuy wooden furniture collection for Conde House
New York designer David Weeks has collaborated with German furniture brand e15 to release a decorative wooden character that resembles mythical creature Bigfoot. More about David Weeks' miniature Bigfoot toy folds into a stackable cube
Music: director Alan Del Rio Ortiz transports musician Petite Noir into patterned digital environments for his La Vie Est Belle music video. More about Petite Noir gets lost inside a virtual world in La Vie Est Belle video
American designer Ken Tanabe has used a range of unusual materials including balloons, videotapes and CDs to form alternative Halloween costumes. More about Ken Tanabe creates Halloween costumes from helium balloons and old CDs
Studio Job has teamed up with Italian brand Bisazza to produce a collection of mosaic tiles with spooky graphics that depict bones and animal skeletons, just in time for Halloween. More about Studio Job launches Perished tiles patterned with skeletons
British design studio Horse has created a log-like carton and a Norse-inspired identity for birch-sap drink Tåpped, to help it break into the UK market (+ slideshow). More about Horse's packaging for Tåpped birch water is designed to resemble tree bark
Garments that present different futures for fashion by designers including Viktor&Rolf, Hussein Chalayan and Iris van Herpen are on show at Stockholm's Liljevalchs Konsthall (+ slideshow). More about Utopian Bodies: Fashion Looks Forward exhibition presents futuristic garments
Copenhagen company Biomega is launching a lightweight electric bicycle by KiBiSi, the Danish design supergroup co-founded by architect Bjarke Ingels (+ slideshow). More about KiBiSi introduces lightweight OKO electric bicycle for Biomega
Dutch Design Week 2015: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Dan Adlešič has created a collection of purposefully ridiculous electronic products that only work in response to unconventional movements. More about Dan Adlešič's absurd electronics respond to theatrical behaviour
Fashion designer Hussein Chalayan has created elasticated costumes and sequinned garments for performers in his first self-directed dance production (+ slideshow). More about Hussein Chalayan debuts first dance production at London's Sadler's Wells
Dutch Design Week 2015: Tilburg's TextielMuseum has worked with Dutch designer Hella Jongerius to launch a collection of plaid throws developed by Simone Post and Studio Truly Truly (+ slideshow). More about TextielMuseum collaborates with Dutch designers on plaid textile collection
London designer Paul Cocksedge is exhibiting a series of furniture created by joining different metals through a freezing process at New York's Friedman Benda gallery. More about Paul Cocksedge's Freeze exhibition of metal furniture opens at Friedman Benda in New York
Dutch Design Week 2015: Dutch furniture designer Piet Hein Eek has joined the debate about whether non-architects should design buildings, saying most architects are "not interested" in construction. More about "Most buildings are drawings filled in by engineers" says Piet Hein Eek