A San Francisco-based footwear startup has launched a flip flop with a sustainable sole made from sugar cane. More about Flip flops with sugar-cane soles released by eco shoe brand Allbirds
Los Angeles architects Kyle and Liz von Hasseln have set up a business that produces 3D-printed sugar sculptures for wedding cakes, table centrepieces and pie toppings. More about The Sugar Lab by Kyle and Liz von Hasseln
Milan 2013: a coffee table topped with a giant hard-boiled sweet and a white chocolate chair are among items in a series of edible furniture by design studio Lanzavecchia + Wai (+ slideshow). More about Austerity edible furniture by Lanzavecchia + Wai
Vienna Design Week 2010: Dutch designers Studio Makkink & Bey present an installation combining sugar and silver at the Liechtenstein museum in Vienna. More about Silver Sugar Spoon by Studio Makkink & Bey
Czech graphic design student Marta Maštálková has designed a typeface by pouring liquid caramel onto glass. More about Karamel Sans CE by Marta Maštálková
Wallpaper designer Linda Florence created a patterned dance floor of sieved icing sugar at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, which served as a stage for a performance by ballroom dancers. More about Sugar dance by Linda Florence
RCA summer show: Greetje van Helmond has sent us some new photos of her Unsustainable range of jewellery made from sugar, which are much better than the ones we took last week. More about Unsustainable by Greetje van Helmond 2
RCA summer show: Design Products graduate Greetje van Helmond has created a range of jewellery using sugar crystals, which she "grows" directly onto cord suspended in sugary solution. More about Unsustainable by Greetje van Helmond