London startup the Hummingbird Bike Company has designed a folding carbon-fibre bike that weighs just 6.5 kilograms. More about "World's lightest" folding bicycle weighs less than the average watermelon
Carbon fibre is ideal for furniture design due to its light weight relative to its high strength. Nendo recently embedded the material into expandable shelves, while designers including Kris Lamba, Thomas Feichtner and Marcel Wanders have all used carbon fibre to create sculptural chairs. See more design with carbon fibre »
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London Design Festival 2015: Japanese studio Nendo has created a sliding shelving unit strengthened with carbon-fibre sheets, which will debut at London's Somerset House next week (+ slideshow). More about Nendo's expandable Nest shelves are embedded with carbon fibre
British designer Kris Lamba has folded a 20-metre-long piece of carbon fibre into a chair that facilitates different sitting positions (+ slideshow). More about Kris Lamba's RV1 Carbon Chair is made from a single carbon-fibre sheet
Erik Andersson Architects has unveiled plans to build a circular carbon-fibre bridge across a historic moat in Sweden's second-largest city. More about Designs revealed for carbon-fibre bridge across a Gothenburg moat
Milan 2015: Vienna-based designer Thomas Feichtner has created a chair by laying sheets of woven carbon fibre over a mould and coating them with epoxy resin. More about Thomas Feichtner sculpts chair from carbon-fibre sheets
London Design Festival 2014: London designer Michael Sodeau has created a lightweight circular chair from Hypetex, a coloured carbon-fibre material developed by racing car engineers. More about Michael Sodeau uses Formula 1 engineering to create carbon-fibre Halo chair
A robotically woven carbon-fibre pavilion based on the lightweight shell encasing the wings and abdomen of a beetle is the second structure revealed this week from the team of architects and engineers at the University of Stuttgart (+ movie). More about University of Stuttgart unveils carbon-fibre pavilion based on beetle shells
South Korean designer Il Hoon Roh has created a chair by intertwining carbon fibre strings into a pattern designed to resemble the branches of trees (+ slideshow). More about Il Hoon Roh weaves carbon fibre string into curved armchair
Milan 2014: a three-metre-long sofa created by Peugeot Design Lab splices together a piece of volcanic stone and carbon fibre to create a mix of the old and new (+ slideshow). More about Ancient volcanic rock and carbon fibre spliced together in Onyx sofa by Peugeot Design Lab
News: American supermarket giant Walmart has unveiled a prototype for a fuel-efficient truck with a streamlined cab and the first trailer made entirely of carbon fibre. More about Walmart unveils concept for energy efficient carbon-fibre truck
Dutch designer Marcel Wanders has created an ultra-lightweight carbon fibre chair formed around party balloons. More about Marcel Wanders wraps balloons in carbon fibre to create lightweight chair
Researchers at the University of Stuttgart programmed a robot to wind 60 kilometres of carbon and glass fibre filaments into this pavilion inspired by a lobster's exoskeleton (+ movie + slideshow). More about Research Pavilion by ICD and ITKE
To conclude our series on designs at the London 2012 Paralympics we're focussing on the most talked-about equipment used at the games - carbon-fibre prosthetic blades inspired by the hind legs of a cheetah. More about Paralympic design: Flex-Foot Cheetah blades
ECAL graduate Kacper Hamilton has designed a luxury axe with carbon-fibre in its handle and interchangeable heads. More about Zai CORE Axe by Kacper Hamilton
This stacking chair by New York designer Victor Vetterlein has an x-shaped frame and razor-thin legs. More about X-Federation by Victor Vetterlein
The first-ever building to have a carbon fibre structure is a mobile studio-cum-stage by Japanese architects Atelier Bow-Wow, which just opened in New York. More about BMW Guggenheim Lab by Atelier Bow-Wow
Audi Concept Design Munich have developed a carbon ski design that combines technology from the motorsports and winter sports industries. More about Audi Carbon Ski by Audi Concept Design Munich
Design graduate Neil Conley has made a series of funerary urns from reclaimed carbon fibre. More about Earn/Urn by Neil Conley
Dutch designer Bam Geenen of Studio Geenen has designed a chair using hanging chains to determine its form. More about Gaudi Chair by Studio Geenen