Italian designer Andrew Kostman has created a metallic inflatable puffer jacket that is filled with helium instead of down and can be carried around like a balloon. More about Helium-10000 is an inflatable puffer coat that floats like a balloon
Breathing Pavilion by artist Ekene Ijeoma is a temporary installation in Brooklyn made of illuminated inflatable pillars that invite people to breathe along with its pulsing lights. More about Inflatable pillars pulse with light to encourage deep breathing in Brooklyn
Visions of the Future is a showcase of optimistic projects by Singapore designers, including a soap-making machine, an inflatable textile and a paint for repairing broken sneakers. More about Singapore designers create wellbeing and mindfulness tools for pandemic era
Milanese design studio Older has created a series of objects including marble wall-hangings shaped to look like breasts with pierced nipples, and an inflatable chair named after a Blade Runner character. More about Older's "playful" Wide Eye collection features inflatable chair and marble breasts
Spanish artist SiiGii has designed a wearable, inflatable lilo from latex that enables users to lounge on a pool float in the summer without aggravating their allergy to the sun. More about SiiGii designs wearable inflatable latex float for people with sun allergy
Research organisation Mercari R4D and a team including students from the University of Tokyo have jointly developed an inflatable electric-scooter that riders can stash away inside their backpack. More about Poimo is an inflatable electric-scooter that can be transported inside a backpack
MARGstudio, Alessio Casciano Design and Angeletti Ruzza have designed a colourful, inflatable face shield that could be used to allow people to socialise following the peak of the coronavirus pandemic. More about Inflatable face shield designed for socialising post pandemic
For his graduate collection at the London College of Fashion, menswear designer Harikrishnan has matched cropped tailored jackets with billowing latex trousers to create exaggerated silhouettes. More about Harikrishnan's inflatable latex trousers create "anatomically impossible" proportions
This week we're updating our Pinterest boards that celebrate the projects that don't take themselves too seriously. Browse inflatables and bouncy-castle installations, hammocks and swings and slides used as alternatives to staircases. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest › More about Release your inner child with our updated Pinterest boards
Mexican designer Norberto Miranda has designed inflatable structures that look like massive beans to host an exhibition that celebrates the traditions and intersection of Mexican gastronomy, music and culture. More about Norberto Miranda creates inflatable bean galleries for travelling exhibit in Mexico
New Korean Garden is an "Instagrammable" meeting and events space proposed for a rooftop in Seoul, South Korea, which is made from turquoise, pebble-like inflatables. More about SKNYPL designs inflatable rooftop garden for busy Seoul street
University of Westminster student San Kim presented a line of inflatable couture for his graduate fashion collection inspired by Freudian theories of psychosexual development. More about San Kim channels fetishistic Freudian theories in inflatable fashion collection
Architect firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has unveiled a proposal for a permanent community on the moon, comprising inflating pods that balloon up to accommodate more inhabitants as the population grows. More about SOM designs inflatable Moon Village to be first-ever lunar habitat
American artist Trevor Paglen has launched the first artwork into space, but it is yet to be activated because of fallout from the US government shutdown. More about Trevor Paglen's art installation in limbo in earth's orbit
Inflatable architecture is back in fashion says Sharon Francis, author of new book Bubbletecture. She picks out five key examples for Dezeen, including an office with an inflatable facade and a pavilion made out of bubbles. More about Five "bubbletecture" projects that show innovation in inflatables
British artist David Shrigley has filled a gallery in Stockholm's Spritmuseum with giant inflatable swans, which inflate and deflate in cycles of 12 minutes. More about David Shrigley's inflatable Swan-things collapse and spring to life in 12-minute cycles
This year's Antepavilion is an inflatable arts venue on a barge that unfurls in just 12 minutes, created by architects Thomas Randall-Page and Benedetta Rogers. More about Inflatable yellow theatre barge pops-up on east London canal
BIG architects Bjarke Ingels and Jakob Lange have launched a money-raising campaign to install a huge, inflatable mirrored sphere at this year's Burning Man festival, and are offering "juicy perks" in return for donations. More about Bjarke Ingels and Jakob Lange crowdfund for huge mirrored sphere at Burning Man
For Prada's menswear Spring Summer 2019 show, AMO designed a grid that marked out spaces for guests who sat on inflatable Verner Panton stools. More about AMO arranges neon-lit Prada catwalk show on strict grid
This 360-video filmed by Dezeen offers a look inside the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, which is filled with filled with expanding and contracting blobs designed to look like cells. More about Explore the huge cell-like balloons inside the Nordic Pavilion in 360-degree video