Dezeen promotion: Italian ceramic brand Ceramiche Refin has launched a collection of porcelain tiles that reference the textured surfaces and rich colours of traditional frescos. More about Ceramiche Refin designs porcelain tiles that take cues from traditional frescos
For the upcoming holiday season, we've selected 15 environmentally friendly gift ideas for architecture and design aficionados. More about Dezeen's Christmas gift guide for environmentally conscious architects and designers
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Bruno Baietto hopes to highlight the role of bread as a symbol of class, politics and religion, by using it to shape blown glass. More about Bruno Baietto creates symbolic vases by blowing glass inside bread
Dezeen promotion: Dezeen has teamed up with Japanese brand Muji to put together a Christmas gift guide, featuring festive candles, skincare sourced from Japanese mountains and winter accessories. More about Muji's Christmas gift guide features Japanese skincare products and festive candles
Dezeen Showroom: Stella tableware is a handcrafted porcelain dining set with gentle relief lines in a radial pattern by Sieger Design for interiors brand Sieger by Fürstenberg. More about Stella tableware by Sieger for Fürstenberg
Dezeen Showroom: Italian wall and floor tile brand Ceramiche Keope has designed a tile collection informed by the veiny appearance of slate. More about Ubik tiles by Ceramiche Keope
Dezeen Showroom: Italian wall and floor tile company Ceramiche Keope has created a marble and porcelain stoneware collection that takes cues from art deco design. More about 9Cento tiles by Ceramiche Keope
Dezeen Showroom: wall and floor tile company Ceramiche Keope has designed a collection of versatile indoor tiles informed by ancient stone. More about Omnia tiles by Ceramiche Keope
Design studio Studio Agne has created a collection of rugs that were crafted using textile dyes made from byproducts from industrial processing. More about Studio Agne uses waste materials to create dyes for Lutetia and Juno rug collection
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Vincent Dassi has developed a form of papier-mâché that allows anyone to make and repair household objects using recycled cardboard boxes. More about Vincent Dassi uses pulped cardboard to make and repair everyday objects
Design studio GoodWaste has collaborated with Selfridges to give new life to the department store's waste materials, recycling them into lamps, candles and vases for sale in its London location. More about GoodWaste repurposes Selfridges scrap materials to create homeware line
Australian rug brand Armadillo has teamed up with British interior design studio House of Grey to create a collection of minimal rugs that references the tones and textures found in nature. More about Armadillo's Ellipse rug collection is designed to "evoke a sense of tranquility"
Textile-and surface-design studio Kukka has designed five graphic, woven tapestries that can be experienced by people with different forms of colour vision deficiency (CVD). More about Chromarama is a collection of vibrant tapestries designed for people with colour blindness
Dezeen promotion: Byron Bay rug company Tigmi Trading has released its first in-house-designed rug collection informed by brutalist architecture. More about Tigmi Trading designs rug collection that takes cues from brutalist architecture
Dezeen Showroom: Cassina has collaborated with porcelain maker Ginori 1735 to create a tableware collection informed by the photography of Charlotte Perriand. More about Le Monde de Charlotte Perriand tableware for Cassina and Ginori 1735
Design studio Barbara Gollackner has presented a collection of homeware items made from industrial and personal food waste at Vienna Design Week. More about Studio Barbara Gollackner exhibits tableware made from food waste at Vienna Design Week
Dezeen Showroom: Danish design studio Space Copenhagen has put a contemporary spin on the traditional kelim rug for Massimo Copenhagen, creating an accessory that adds texture to minimalist environments. More about Escape Kelim rug by Space Copenhagen for Massimo Copenhagen
Dezeen promotion: Shoppe Object's virtual homeware fair Shoppe Online is presenting Showcase: Japan, a handpicked selection of gifts, homewares and accessories from 25 Japanese brands. More about Showcase: Japan presents contemporary Japanese design in a virtual marketplace
Dezeen has teamed up with Danish design brand Frama and 3 Days of Design to host a talk about how good design can enhance everyday living to mark the launch of Frama's new book Perception Form. More about Watch our talk at 3 Days of Design about Frama's new book Perception Form
Rick Owens' clean, brutalist lines are contrasted against the "childlike touch" of contemporary Italian design in the Rick Owens – Dialog with Emerging Italian Designers exhibition curated by Galerie Philia as part of Milan design week. More about Emerging Italian designers create furniture in response to Rick Owens' work