London design studio Study O Portable has created Rubber Rocks, a collection of furniture for Gallery Fumi that is made from rubber but resembles "weathered architectural elements". More about Study O Portable reinterprets ancient ruins as bouncy rubber furniture
Pirelli rubber flooring, raw MDF and galvanised steel define this renovated 1970s Madrid apartment, which the founder of local architecture studio Hanghar designed as his own home. More about Eduardo Mediero designs own apartment in Madrid "to rethink domestic space"
Scallop shells decorate the rubber-painted exterior of The Pottering Shed, an artist's studio overlooking Poole Harbour in England by architecture practice Studio Mutt. More about Studio Mutt covers seaside artist's studio in black rubber and seashells
Impressionist paintings and deep-sea trenches informed the first furniture range from London architecture studio CAN, which combines speckled enamel tabletops with craggy rubber legs. More about CAN forms "otherworldly" Liquid Geology tables from recycled car tyres
New York designer Brecht Wright Gander has created a light that is switched on by sliding a phallic conductor inside of a puckered, rubber opening, in the hopes of maximising the user's feelings of discomfort. More about Brecht Wright Gander designs lamp with rubber orifice that lights up when "turned on"
A patent-pending technology designed by British startup The Tyre Collective to capture the unseen synthetic rubber particles expelled by car tyres has been awarded this year's UK national James Dyson Award. More about The Tyre Collective develops car-mounted device to capture microplastic emissions from tyres
Recycled plastic and rubber make up this unisex trainer by Belgian brand Norm, which has set out to change the "nonsense" manufacturing process of a standard pair of shoes. More about Norm's 1L11 trainer produces 80 per cent less carbon than typical shoes
NABA is exhibiting a student furniture collection called Dots as part of the VDF collaboration with Ventura Projects. More about NABA students create furniture with graphic rubber flooring
Studio Edwards has turned the simple A-frame cabin into a mobile home with a sleek rubber skin. More about Studio Edwards designs minimal house on wheels Base Cabin
Japanese designer Rie Sakamoto replaced yarn with rubber bands for her knitted fashion collection, which aims to showcase this stationary item's overlooked qualities. More about Rie Sakamoto knits rubber bands together like yarn for elastic garments
Central Saint Martins fashion student Fredrik Tjærandsen has presented giant balloons that deflate to form dresses on the catwalk. More about CSM graduate Fredrik Tjærandsen envelops models in rubber balloons
Australian fashion designer Molly Younger has created a range of flesh-like rubber bags and wallets cast from natural latex. More about Molly Younger's washable luggage is made from latex
Artist Rolf Sachs has collaborated with Leica to cover the camera brand's M-System model in the same material used on ping-pong bats. More about Rolf Sachs covers Leica camera in ping-pong rubber
Studio Swine used very hard rubber to craft this black furniture collection, designed for American industrialist Henry Ford's failed utopian city. More about Studio Swine designs furniture for Henry Ford's failed Amazon city
Israeli artist Tsibi Geva has wrapped his country's Venice pavilion in old car tyres and filled it with a mixture of found architectural and household objects to explore ideas about the home (+ slideshow). More about Tsibi Geva hides Israel's Venice biennale pavilion behind a wall of used tyres
Scraps of rubber tyres create a shaggy coat around this narrow tower created by architecture students Matt Ritani and Declan Burn on a countryside sculpture trail in New Zealand. More about Belly of the Beast is a hillside folly with a scruffy coat made from old tyres
Cologne designer Thomas Schnur has created squishy lamps made out of rubber. More about Rubber lamp by Thomas Schnur
Japanese designer Kei Harada has created two chairs made completely out of rubber. More about Chair for Dali by Kei Harada
Rubber pellets made from recycled car tyres form the knobbly surfaces of these bowls and pots by Dutch designer Debbie Wijskamp. More about Black Ruby by Studio Debbie Wijskamp
Hoxton architects Edgley Design have tucked a rubber-clad residence and aluminium artist's studio behind a row of semi-detached houses in Hackney. More about Amhurst Road by Edgley Design