Berlin-based designer Sybille Paulsen has worked with people undergoing chemotherapy treatment to create bespoke jewellery from their own hair. More about Sybille Paulsen creates jewellery for cancer patients using their own hair
Japanese artist Takaya has added stuffed dead birds to designs in his latest collection of raw vegetable and flower headpieces. More about Takaya incorporates taxidermy into botanical headdresses
Azusa Murakami and Alexander Groves of Studio Swine have revisited the process they developed to make optical frames from human hair to create a new range of accessories (+ movie). More about Studio Swine extends collection of products made from hair
Amsterdam designer Monique Goossens has made a typeface with strands of human hair. More about Hair Typography by Monique Goossens
Designers Jack Beveridge and Lizzie Reid have adapted the flocking process to make a hairbrush that's coated in human hair. More about Hairbrush by Jack Beveridge and Lizzie Reid
Dezeen archive: this week's stories about hairstyles inspired by architectural forms (top right) and seats filled with hair swept from a salon floor have prompted this archive all about hair. See all the stories » More about Dezeen archive: hair
Portuguese architects and hairdressers have collaborated on these coiffures inspired by architectural structures. More about Hairchitecture by FAHR 021.3 and Gijo
Clumps of human hair are recycled as stuffing for two plastic pouffes by Swedish furniture and product designer Ola Giertz. More about The Bare Hair Project by Ola Giertz
Dezeen Wire: British hair stylist Vidal Sassoon, famous for introducing simple geometric hairstyles in the 1960's, has passed away aged 84.
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Cologne 2012: Chilean studio Great Things to People (GT2P) present this lamp covered in alpaca hair as part of [D3] Talents at imm cologne this week. More about Gudpaka Lamp by Great Things to People
Japanese artist Takaya adorns the heads of models with raw vegetables and blossoming flowers. More about Hanayui by Takaya
Show RCA 2011: Royal College of Art graduates Azusa Murakami and Alexander Groves have made a collection of spectacles from human hair. More about Hair Glasses by Studio Swine
Swedish designers Humans since 1982 have created a hair clip with eyes on to make the wearer look like they're standing the other way round and wearing a niqāb headdress. More about Hair Clip on Hair by Humans Since 1982
London designer Émilie Voirin has created a range of whips, shaving brushes and trinket boxes made of hair. More about Bun Boxes by Émilie Voirin
Professional hairdressing academy Studio Marisol created these photographs featuring huge bonnets made of plaited hair for a workshop with Spanish designers CuldeSac. More about Crazy Hair by Studio Marisol and CuldeSac
Design student Anna Schwamborn has created a range of jewellery made with the hair and cremated ashes of a dead loved one. More about Mourning Objects by Anna Schwamborn