There is not much time left to enter the Dezeen x Samsung Out of the Box Competition to design household objects made from repurposed cardboard packaging. The contest closes for entries at 23:59 BST on Friday 29 May. More about Last chance to enter Samsung and Dezeen's contest for innovative recycled cardboard designs
Martina Guandalini is launching Soulmate, a range of collectable furniture pieces, for VDF's collaboration with Ventura Projects. More about Martina Guandalini introduces collectable Soulmate furniture
Isac Elam Kaid uses waste material to create his Crushed Lamps and Pulp series, which are both launching at the VDF x Ventura Projects collaboration. More about Isac Elam Kaid uses discarded aluminium and paper to create homeware
Loyal Loot is introducing its Design + Craft for Life homeware collection as part of the VDF collaboration with Ventura Projects. More about Loyal Loot introduces handcrafted Design + Craft for Life furniture
Ruben van Megen invites users to co-create the Sandcastles homeware, which is launching for the VDF x Ventura Projects collaboration. More about Ruben van Megen's Sandcastles homeware references childhood memories
Viivi Lehto is introducing a range of playful glass sculptures entitled Garden Series during VDF's collaboration with Ventura Projects. More about Viivi Lehto's Garden Series glassware takes cues from nature
Slovenian brand Folds is exhibiting a range of products that are made from a single piece of folded steel at VDF x Ventura Projects. More about Folds uses single pieces of folded steel to create homeware collection
Mesh Labs is launching Kosmos, a collection of ceramic tableware, as part of the VDF x Ventura Projects collaboration. More about Mesh Labs' Kosmos tableware reimagines dining experience
Egg Vessels are a series of porcelain ceramics, which Mari JJ Design is launching during the VDF x Ventura Projects collaboration. More about Egg Vessels by Mari JJ Design act as "conversation pieces"
Studio Kali is presenting two collections of handmade homeware as part of the VDF collaboration with Ventura Projects. More about Studio Kali introduces handmade homeware collections
Stockholm's Studio EO marries handblown glass with fragments of discarded marble found in quarries to form its colourful Drill Vases. More about Studio EO's marble and glass Drill Vases are "part chaos and part control"
Samsung and Dezeen have teamed up to launch a global contest seeking innovative designs for the home that can be made by repurposing cardboard packaging. More about Samsung and Dezeen launch ,000 Out of the Box Competition
Architecture studio Red Deer and designer Jan Hendzel Studio have developed a series of valet stands for the renovated Birch hotel in Hertfordshire, England, featuring hand-crafted details that make each one unique. More about Red Deer and Jan Hendzel Studio combine ceramics, beaten copper and recycled plastic for hotel valet stands
Architect Kourosh Asgar-Irani has created a collection of hand-knotted rugs featuring traditional Persian patterns that have been digitally altered to match a room's architectural elements. More about Kourosh Asgar-Irani uses parametric software to distort traditional Persian rug patterns
Spanish architect Marta Armengol has created a collection of lights and vases called the Four Folds for Brussels gallery Maniera, which are made of borosilicate glass that has been blown into imperfect shapes. More about Marta Armengol's glassware resembles amorphous bubbles
Sebastian Wrong has created a collection of rugs called the Wrong Angle series, that are designed to be layered in interconnected grids to frame a floor or furniture item. More about Sebastian Wrong's modular rugs can be connected into an "endless field"
Stockholm-based designer Julia Olanders has used construction materials that are usually hidden in buildings to create a series of decorative vases for her Betweenness project. More about Julia Olanders makes "toxic" vases from insulation foam and concrete
Dutch designers Iris van Daalen and Ruben Thier's The Plastic Mine is a series of home accessories made from plastic clumps gathered from a factory floor. More about Thier & van Daalen's The Plastic Mine homeware reveals hidden patterns in factory waste
Ceramicist Gregg Moore has created crockery for the Blue Hill at Stone Barns restaurant outside New York, that is made from the bones of the very cows whose dairy and meat is served. More about Gregg Moore creates restaurant's tableware using waste bones from its kitchen
From minimalism to maximalism, rugs to suit every taste are being presented at the first furniture fairs of 2020. Dezeen editor-at-large Amy Frearson picks out seven of the most eye-catching examples. More about Seven of the best new rugs around