Dezeen Showroom: Austrian designer Julia Schwarz has released a range of drinkware for her homeware brand Simiæn, which is designed to be used while drinking lichen tea. More about Licking Rocks tea set by Julia Schwarz for Simiæn
The sale of single-use plastic tableware and certain takeaway containers will be prohibited in England starting this autumn, the UK government has announced. More about England bans single-use plastic plates and cutlery to limit "devastating" pollution
Dezeen Showroom: created in 1970 by Italian designer Joe Colombo and released by Danish brand Karakter, the 5-in-1 set features five glasses that stack together to create one sculptural object. More about 5-in-1 glass set by Joe Colombo via Karakter
Dezeen Showroom: Chinese homeware brand Tickle Quo has launched the Slowly Rising collection of glassware, which features textured glass surfaces informed by the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi. More about Slowly Rising glassware collection by Tongqi Lu for Tickle Quo
Dezeen School Shows: we've picked seven student design projects featuring in Dezeen School Shows that refine the storing, preparing and consuming of food. More about Seven student design projects that enhance the process of cooking and dining
Dezeen Showroom: Japanese tableware brand Eterble has released a range of tablecloths made from the brand's own recycled fabric and sustainable cotton. More about Eterble fabric tablecloths by Eterble
Dezeen Showroom: informed by traditional Japanese table settings, Scottish artist and metalworker Kathleen Reilly has designed a knife that features a handle folded 90 degrees from its blade. More about Kathleen Reilly creates folded knife that can be "hooked onto the rim of a plate"
Dutch designers Iris de Kievith and Annemarie Piscaer have created Smogware, a collection of ceramics with a decorative glaze made using common air pollution particles. More about Smogware is a tableware collection glazed with air pollutants
Dezeen Showroom: Stella tableware is a handcrafted porcelain dining set with gentle relief lines in a radial pattern by Sieger Design for interiors brand Sieger by Fürstenberg. More about Stella tableware by Sieger for Fürstenberg
Dezeen Showroom: Cassina has collaborated with porcelain maker Ginori 1735 to create a tableware collection informed by the photography of Charlotte Perriand. More about Le Monde de Charlotte Perriand tableware for Cassina and Ginori 1735
Design studio Barbara Gollackner has presented a collection of homeware items made from industrial and personal food waste at Vienna Design Week. More about Studio Barbara Gollackner exhibits tableware made from food waste at Vienna Design Week
Dezeen Showroom: Berlin glass designer Milena Kling has created a collection of tableware called Sphere Bowls for German homeware label Studio Hausen. More about Sphere Bowls by Milena Kling for Studio Hausen
Brighton College student Pietro Pignatti has designed a compact avocado cutter that can be used to safely open avocados while on the go. More about School student creates travel-sized Avogo tool to "eliminate avocado hand"
In the Centre of the Table is a collection of practical and decorative objects including marble and wood serving plates and wooden dinosaurs made by students from Mexico's CENTRO University. More about Mexican design students fill tables with marble platters and wooden dinosaurs
Dezeen Showroom: Swedish design duo Bernadotte & Kylberg has created Lines, a tableware collection made from Vitro porcelain, for their new lifestyle brand NJRD. More about Lines tableware collection by NJRD
Croatian studio Boir has designed a conceptual tableware collection for dining during the coronavirus pandemic, featuring a series of steel and stone objects that enable food sharing at a safe distance. More about Studio Boir designs New Normal tableware for socially distant dining
Mesh Labs is launching Kosmos, a collection of ceramic tableware, as part of the VDF x Ventura Projects collaboration. More about Mesh Labs' Kosmos tableware reimagines dining experience
Supertopmegacool explores the rhetoric of everyday objects in The Rhetorical Dinner, which it is presenting as part of VDF x Ventura Projects. More about Tableware by Supertopmegacool caters for "a disturbing dinner"
Beirut design studio T Sakhi combined Venetian Murano glass with recycled metal threads and powder to create a pair of textured glassware collections. More about T Sakhi infuses Murano glass with metal wires for Tasting Threads tableware
Ceramicist Gregg Moore has created crockery for the Blue Hill at Stone Barns restaurant outside New York, that is made from the bones of the very cows whose dairy and meat is served. More about Gregg Moore creates restaurant's tableware using waste bones from its kitchen