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  • Kunokaiku urns designed to allow "remembering through ritual"

    LA-based travel photographer Marianna Jamadi has collaborated with Mexico City-based ceramic practice Menat Studio to create a collection of commemorative urns. More

    Rheanna Hopkins | 5 March 2023 | Leave a comment
  • Claesson Koivisto Rune designs biodegradable burial urn made from wool

    Swedish architecture and design studio Claesson Koivisto Rune has combined wool and vegetable-tanned leather to craft a cremation urn, which will naturally break down in soil once it is buried. More

    Ali Morris | 24 June 2022 | Leave a comment
  • RCA students develop underwater urns that double as oyster reefs

    Graduates from London's Royal College of Art have developed a way to form artificial reefs called Resting Reefs from cremated ashes, in a bid to provide a "meaningful funeral service" that regenerates endangered ecosystems. More

    Jennifer Hahn | 29 March 2022 | Leave a comment
  • John Booth designs "monumental and bold" flower-shaped cremation urns

    Ceramic designer John Booth has created five contemporary stoneware cremation urns decorated with joyful colours and flowers for death specialist Farewill. More

    Cajsa Carlson | 16 April 2021 | Leave a comment
  • Maria Tyakina designs cremation urns to suit the contemporary home

    Dutch designer Maria Tyakina has reimagined the traditional cremation urn as a futuristic domed vessel, in a bid to better suit the modern-day home. More

    Natashah Hitti | 19 August 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Aleksander Skworz' Urn for Living can be used as a fruit bowl before you die

    An Academy of Fine Arts Poznań graduate has designed a cremation urn that can be purchased before your death and used as homeware, serving as a reminder to live life to the full. More

    Lizzie Crook | 5 March 2017 | 7 comments
  • Lisa Merk's tactile mini urns give mourners one-on-one time to say goodbye

    Lund University student Lisa Merk has designed a series of small urns that can be held during funeral ceremonies to reduce the anxieties of bereavement. More

    Jessica Jones | 1 March 2017 | 5 comments
  • Eight coffins and urns you would want to be seen dead in

    It's Halloween, a time when many cultures honour the dead. To mark the occasion, we take a tour through some of the most interesting final resting places dreamed up by designers, including a biodegradable urn that turns a deceased loved one into a tree and colourful zip-up coffins designed to make death less depressing. More

    Alice Morby | 31 October 2016 | 1 comment
  • Bios Incube turns ashes of cremated bodies into trees

    The developers of a biodegradable urn that turns the ashes of a dead person into a tree have designed an incubator to aid the growth process (+ slideshow). More

    Alice Morby | 12 March 2016 | 10 comments
  • Egg-shaped urns for cremated ashes rock back and forth without falling over

    Wolfgang Natlacen's ovoid funerary urns can rock like a Weeble toy to offer an alternative to the "grey and sad conformism of death" (+ movie). More

    Emma Tucker | 10 November 2015 | 2 comments
  • Sam Jacob Studio creates Lenin's Urn for Soane Museum's "pieces" exhibition

    London Design Festival 2015: the studio run by Dezeen columnist Sam Jacob has designed an urn for Lenin, based on a finial found outside the London house the Russian revolutionary lived in for a short period in 1908. More

    Emma Tucker | 19 September 2015 | Leave a comment
  • 21 Grams is a sex toy that contains the ashes of a dead partner

    Milan 2015: Dutch designer Mark Sturkenboom has created a "memory box" containing a dildo with a compartment for storing the ashes of a deceased partner. More

    Anna Winston | 26 April 2015 | 41 comments
  • Earn/Urn by Neil Conley

    Design graduate Neil Conley has made a series of funerary urns from reclaimed carbon fibre. More

    Rose Etherington | 19 July 2010 | 5 comments
  • Age of the World by Mathieu Lehanneur

    The Age of the World by Parisian designer Mathieu Lehanneur is a set of jars and urns that each map the ages of the population in a given country. More

    Zaynab D. Ziari | 22 July 2009 | 23 comments

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