British startup The Tyre Collective has begun to make products from the microplastic particles that come off car tyres as they drive on roads, producing results including jewellery, a lamp and a battery. More about The Tyre Collective turns microplastic tyre-wear particles into objects
Tyre-maker Goodyear has announced it will join aerospace company Lockheed Martin and car manufacturer General Motors to develop a vehicle for NASA's next lunar landing, set for 2025. More about Goodyear to design airless tyres for future lunar vehicle
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
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
Dezeen promotion: Dutch design agencies BART and Ronin have created a digital exhibition for tyre company Vredestein to launch its winter tyre and bring the new visual identity "refined by design" to life. More about BART and Ronin design virtual exhibition New Horizons to launch Vredestein car tyres
Michelin is partnering with General Motors to bring its airless tyre prototype to the roads, potentially saving 200 million punctured car tyres from the scrap heap annually. More about Michelin and GM to bring airless tyres to cars
London industrial designer Tej Chauhan's latest projects include a car tyre imprinted with the Nike swoosh and a smart speaker phone that links up with Amazon Alexa. More about Tej Chauhan designs car tyre based on Nike's Air Force 1 sneaker
This two-in-one concept wheel by tyre manufacturer Goodyear can be used to drive on the road and as a propeller for flying in the sky. More about Goodyear unveils Aero tyre for flying cars of the future
As car brands continue to roll out unusual concept vehicles, tyre manufacturers are developing new wheels to keep up. We've rounded up six of the most innovative examples, including a 3D-printed spherical tyre made especially for self-driving cars, and a moss-filled wheel that converts carbon dioxide into oxygen. More about Six unusual tyre concepts designed for future transport
This 3D-printed concept wheel by tyre manufacturer Goodyear uses living moss to absorb moisture from the road, before converting it into oxygen through photosynthesis. More about Goodyear's "living" car tyre converts carbon dioxide into oxygen
Goodyear has updated its spherical tyres for self-driving cars, adding a "bionic skin" of sensors that reads the road and adapts to suit different terrains. More about Goodyear's spherical tyres shape-shift to suit different terrains
Geneva Motor Show 2016: American manufacturer Goodyear has unveiled a concept for a "visionary" sphere-shaped tyre that could make driverless cars safer and smoother to run (+ movie). More about Goodyear reveals spherical tyres for self-driving cars
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
Design Indaba 2015: Royal Collage of Art graduate Ackeem Ngwenya has designed a set of all-terrain wheels to help farmers in rural Africa carry heavier loads to market and replace the traditional method of "head-carrying" (+ slideshow). More about Roadless wheels aim to help African farmers transport goods from remote villages
Disused materials including tyres, burlap sacks and rope are recycled into footwear for the developing world in this project by Ravensbourne university students (+ slideshow). More about Student project creates template for turning old tyres into footwear