Finnish design brand Made by Choice has released a series of furniture and products that typifies its playful Nordic style, including a cabinet punctured by hundreds of holes and a collection of colourful wooden boxes. More about Made by Choice launches cartoonish chairs and tables that embody "nordic happiness"
A new range of facade cladding tiles made of recycled PVC construction waste, designed by Dutch studios Overtreders W and Bureau SLA, has been used on a permanent building for the first time. More about Pretty Plastic shingles made from recycled PVC windows and gutters are "first 100 per cent recycled cladding material"
The Swedish Design Museum To Go exhibition can be taken away inside a backpack that visitors can borrow for a week to explore the country with. More about Swedish Design Museum squeezes latest exhibition into a backpack
Creative agency Red Antler has designed a series of pragmatic emergency kits filled with first aid items, whistles and long-lasting food supplies. More about Red Antler creates "no-nonsense" Judy kits for emergency situations
Eindhoven graduate Diego Faivre has coated electrical plugs in brightly coloured, patterned clay, in a bid to inject some fun into these "boring and forgotten" objects. More about Diego Faivre gives extension cables a Memphis makeover
Artist Danielle Baskin has set up Resting Risk Face, a company that will print user's faces on masks so they can use facial recognition technology while wearing them. More about Facial-recognition masks let wearers unlock their phones
Chinese architect Sun Dayong has created a conceptual design for a body shield that would protect a wearer during a coronavirus outbreak by using UV light to sterilise itself. More about Sun Dayong designs wearable shield to protect against coronavirus outbreaks
Wood and wool feature alongside silicone in the Rituals of Sexual Pleasure series of sex toys, designed by Coby Huang as explorative tools rather than solely for penetration and vibration. More about Coby Huang's sex education toys are designed to explore what brings us pleasure
Underwear, vegetables and carrier bags could all be used in the fight against coronavirus, suggests artist Max Siedentopf. More about Max Siedentopf suggests alternative masks to protect against coronavirus
Tech startup Yoto teamed up with Pentagram to develop an interactive audio toy that plays stories, music, radio and podcasts for children without the need for a screen. More about Pentagram and Yoto design screen-free audio player for children
Samsung has launched its first full range of 5G smartphones that have AI-powered camera systems, a 108-megapixel sensor and 100x zoom. More about Samsung launches Galaxy S20 smartphone with 108-megapixel camera
Ahead of Valentine's Day, we've selected seven sex toys for solo pleasure, including a gender-neutral vibrator, a masturbation sleeve for trans men, and a sensation suit for disabled people. More about Seven sex toys for solo play on Valentine's Day
Samsung has brought the early noughties flip phone into the 21st century with its Galaxy Z Flip smartphone, which has a 6.7-inch flexible glass display that folds down to fit in the palm of your hand. More about Samsung releases foldable Galaxy Z Flip smartphone
Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has revealed new details of the Tokyo Olympics 2020 torch, as the country prepares for the games this summer. More about Tokujin Yoshioka reveals new photographs of Tokyo 2020 torch
Industrial designer Lewis Power has won this year's rising star award at Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, with a series of four objects born from an exploration of "material worth". More about Lewis Power's debut collection explores materials "owning" the objects
Swedish design studio Form Us With Love has unveiled Forgo, a mix-it-yourself cosmetics brand that minimises carbon emissions and avoids plastic packaging. More about Form Us With Love launches Forgo soap brand in response to "extremely wasteful" cosmetics industry
Basketball player Stephen Curry and sports brand Under Armour have created a sneaker influenced by architect David Adjaye's Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. More about Basketball player creates sneaker based on David Adjaye's African-American history museum
Science, aeronautics and NASA inspired the Very Polite Agency's packaging design for ALT, a liquid cannabis product for people who want a mind-expanding rather than purely medicinal high. More about ALT uses aerospace-inspired packaging for its "mind-expanding" liquid cannabis
Rotterdam-based Earnest Studio has designed a pair of products for Danish design brand Muuto – a lamp featuring individual lighting units fixed to a metal pole by magnets and a vase with a kinked profile. More about Muuto launches modular lamp and sculptural vase by Earnest Studio
Dezeen promotion: Vicostone has launched ultra-thin quartz surfaces that are available in several colours to suit a variety of purposes in interior design. More about Vicostone introduces versatile Ultrathin Quartz surface collection