One-minute movie: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Yi-Fei Chen has designed a gun that collects tears, freezes them and then fires them as bullets, in response to a altercation with a tutor. More about Yi-Fei Chen designs a gun that collects tears and uses them as bullets
After an altercation with a tutor, Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Yi-Fei Chen created this visual metaphor to show her personal struggle with speaking her mind. More about Eindhoven graduate designs a gun for firing her tears
Dutch designer Christian Heikoop has created a flat-pack furniture collection that is assembled in the same way as a tent. More about Christian Heikoop's Glissade furniture is erected from metal rods like a tent
Design Academy Eindhoven creative director and chair Thomas Widdershoven has resigned, saying he has "decided not to be available" after the summer break. More about Design Academy Eindhoven creative director Thomas Widdershoven resigns
Milan 2016: in response to the vast amount of finished products on show at Milan design week, a group of graduates from Design Academy Eindhoven decided to exhibit only materials (+ slideshow). More about Design Academy Eindhoven graduates present "everything but the end product" in Milan
Milan 2016: students at Design Academy Eindhoven no longer aspire to be famous designers and instead want to work in industry, according to designer Andrea Trimarchi of Formafantasma, who teaches at the school. More about Design Academy Eindhoven students no longer seek fame, says Andrea Trimarchi
Milan 2016: in response to the "overwhelming presence of technology" in today's society, Design Academy Eindhoven students have created an exhibition in Milan featuring objects and installations that are all designed to be touched. More about Design Academy Eindhoven's Milan exhibition includes a petting zoo and a vagina mirror
Dutch Design Week 2015: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Louisa Zahareas' set of deformed tableware only appears normal when seen on screen (+ slideshow). More about Louisa Zahareas' Screen Mutations ceramics are designed to be viewed on Skype
Dutch Design Week 2015: British designer Allison Crank has created a virtual reality shopping centre that allows users to commission bespoke objects within a world of floating neon signs and stray zoo animals (+ movie). More about Virtual reality mall lets consumers shop alongside digital giraffes and zebras
Dutch Design Week 2015: French designer Capucine Diancourt's series of unconventional playground equipment includes non-fixed rocking items that challenge children to keep their balance. More about Precarious playground structures by Capucine Diancourt rely on users' balance
Dutch Design Week 2015: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate David Roman Lieshout's prototype bicycle has individually foldable components that help it fit into compact storage areas. More about David Roman Lieshout designs semi-foldable bicycle for small apartments
Dutch Design Week 2015: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Bastiaan Buijs has designed a sex toy with a bright pink torso that can be mounted like a vaulting horse. More about Bastiaan Buijs' Satyr sex toy for men is a fleshlight-cum-furniture piece
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
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
Dutch Design Week 2015: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Pim van der Mijl's De Voorkamer project proposes a communal meeting space to help break down barriers between refugees and local communities in Holland (+ slideshow). More about Pim van der Mijl designs "living room" to bring refugees and locals together
Dutch Design Week 2015: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Emmy Polkamp has created a concept for travelling hotel tents that can be used to create accommodation in abandoned structures (+ slideshow). More about Emmy Polkamp's To Many Places nomadic hotel can occupy empty buildings
Dutch Design Week 2015: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Anouk van de Sande has designed a range of patterned garments that produce visual effects as the wearer moves (+ movie). More about Anouk van de Sande's Print in Motion garments create moiré effects
Dutch Design Week 2015: Eindhoven's Van Abbemuseum is hosting an exhibition that brings together experimental objects and installations from designers including Jólan van der Wiel, Studio Drift and MVRDV. More about Van Abbemuseum's Thing Nothing exhibition explores "the value of the physical object"
Dutch Design Week 2015: golf outfits have received a graphic makeover from Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Jason Page, whose collection of alternative attire is designed to make the sport more accessible. More about Bird heads and leaping golfers adorn Jason Page's alternative golfing suits
Dutch Design Week 2015: this "aesthetically pleasing" glass vibrator by Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Bastiaan Buijs is powered by clockwork. More about Bastiaan Buijs creates wind-up sex toy using hand-blown glass