Designer Michael Young is launching a new drinks brand called Beer Buddy at Design Shanghai, which features QR codes on the packaging that attendees can scan to connect digitally. More
Dezeen Showroom:design brand Mater has launched Mask Stool, made using the spent grain from brewery Carlsberg's beer production, at Danish design festival 3 Days of Design. More
Italian design studio High Society is putting waste from the local beer and coffee industry to good use, by turning it into a range of tubular lights and using profits to fund dependency prevention. More
A collection of beer mats inspired by memorable moments from FIFA World Cup tournaments, created by 20 graphic designers, has been released to coincide with this year's tournament in Russia. More
Scottish brewer BrewDog has released a pink-branded "beer for girls" ahead of International Women's Day, to trigger debate about sexist marketing and the gender pay gap. More
Beer brand Brewdog has released a new drink, featuring both a recipe and packaging designed to raise awareness about the impact of climate change. More
Director David Lynch has collaborated with illustrators Ben Kopp and Keith Shore to design beer can packaging inspired by sketches he created for his cult television show Twin Peaks. More
A long central bar divides this neighbourhood hangout in Seattle into areas for buying sandwiches, drinking craft beer and watching sports (+ slideshow). More
British design legend Peter Saville has adapted his graphic identity for the Tate Modern into a new Switch House beer can. More
Japanese design studio Nendo has combined Japanese and Latin characters to create a crest-style logo and colour-coded packaging for Iwate Kura beer. More
Los Angeles design brand Sempli has launched a set of glasses designed for enjoying different types of craft beer. More
New York-based Marc Thorpe has become the latest designer to produce a compact draught beer dispenser with a design for Stella Artois that was created for small restaurants and bars (+ slideshow). More
In his first interview since joining Apple, industrial designer Marc Newson discusses his latest product – a domestic draft beer machine he says is the equivalent to a Nespresso coffee maker for beer lovers – and the future of the mechanical timepiece in the wake of the Apple Watch (+ interview + slideshow). More
Italian architect Andrea Morgante of Shiro Studio has 3D-printed 25 versions of beer brand Peroni Nastro Azzurro's new bottle design. More
Japanese studio Nendo has designed packaging for coffee-flavoured beer by adding little bean-shaped stickers to the brewer's existing bottles. More
