

Jony Ive gives Red Nose Day nose a "dramatic" flat-pack redesign
Former Apple designer Jony Ive has reimagined one of the world's most recognisable fundraising products – the nose worn as part of the annual Red Nose Day appeal. More
Former Apple designer Jony Ive has reimagined one of the world's most recognisable fundraising products – the nose worn as part of the annual Red Nose Day appeal. More
Architecture and design studio Snøhetta has created three star-shaped Christmas decorations to raise money for a cancer research charity. More
Promotion: architects and designers from Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, Heatherwick Studio and Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners were among participants in a five-kilometre race that raised £40,000 for the Motor Neurone Disease Association. More
Design studio Formafantasma and architectural photographer Edmund Sumner are among creatives selling work and raising money to help people affected by the ongoing war in Ukraine. More
Designers including Patricia Urquiola, Jaime Hayon and Marcel Wanders have created metal candle holders for a project to raise funds for cancer research, which is currently on show at Milan design week. More
The UK architecture industry's charity run HD5K is going virtual in 2021, calling on people to run or walk five kilometres in their neighbourhoods and raise money to fight motor neurone disease. More
Not-for-profit organisation Estudio Cavernas has built the sugarcane-thatched Green Island community centre for over 400 Burmese children living near the Myanmar border in western Thailand. More
Social enterprise Make Bank has released a collection of 24 prints by British creatives, including textile designer Donna Wilson and graphic designer Peter Chadwick, to help fund arts education for disadvantaged children. More
Scientists have created Atomik, a brand of artisan vodka made from rye grown on land in Ukraine abandoned since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, to help the people living there. More
Fifteen leading textile designers have created their own interpretation of Robin Day's iconic 675 chair, which will be auctioned in aid of the Robin and Lucienne Day Foundation. More
Urko Sanchez Architects has designed a concrete compound in Djibouti for the charity SOS Children's Villages International as a home for vulnerable children. More
Architects from Zaha Hadid Architects, Heatherwick Studio and AL_A were among participants in a five-kilometre race in London's Hyde Park, raising £60,000 for the Motor Neurone Disease Association. More
Secret 7" has invited 10 artists to decorate one-off turntables for the Planar 1/1 exhibition and online auction, with the proceeds going to mental health charity Mind. More
Designer Yinka Ilori worked with volunteers from social enterprise Restoration Station to create this collection of brightly coloured chairs, which were showcased during this year's London Design Festival, before being auctioned off for charity. More
Renowned chef Massimo Bottura has opened an Ilse Crawford-designed community kitchen in Kensington, the London borough that's been in the headlines this week for the fire at public housing block Grenfell Tower. More
IKEA has worked with the Red Cross to build a replica of a real Syrian home inside its Norwegian flagship store. More
A sinuous enclosure that doubles as seating and a shelter inspired by the yin-yang symbol are among the cat houses by Los Angeles architects that were created to benefit an animal welfare organisation (+ slideshow). More
Benjamin Hubert's design agency Layer has created a new ergonomically-shaped change box with a tilted head for UK cancer charity Maggie's. More
Amos Goldreich Architecture and Jacobs-Yaniv Architects have unveiled plans for a purpose-built shelter for women and children suffering domestic abuse in Israel. More
Business news: the former bookkeeper for architecture charity Article 25 has been charged with fraud and false accounting, after £200,000 disappeared from the organisation's accounts. More