Coca-Cola's plans to reduce plastic waste "simply don't go far enough"
Designers and environmentalists have slammed Coca-Cola's efforts to tackle plastic pollution as "greenwashing" and "a huge step backwards in sustainability". More
Subin Seol's furniture fuses art deco and traditional Korean aesthetics
Symmetry and repetition distinguish the work of Subin Seol, who combines and contrasts the distinctive visual language of her native Korean with art deco to create unexpected furniture pieces. More
Primary school children design wooden seats in Grade Three Chairs project
Art instructor Bruce Edelstein has collated a series of "playful, exuberant" chairs, that were designed, built and decorated by children between the ages of seven and ten over the course of a school semester. More
Sneature is a compostable trainer made from 3D-knitted dog hair
German designer Emilie Burfeind has developed a sock sneaker with a mushroom mycelium sole and a knitted upper made from canine hair that was shed while grooming and would otherwise have been discarded. More
Focus Ex is a digital reading aid for people with ADHD
Hungarian designer Vatány Szabolcs has created a font and browser extension to make it easier for people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, to concentrate when reading online content. More
Anna-Sophie Dienemann creates wearable pop-up "distance keepers"
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Anna-Sophie Dienemann has developed a line of accessories to encourage social distancing that can be unleashed by the wearer when others come too close. More
Friedman Benda showcases furniture pieces with a story to tell
A mirror-cum-observatory and a lockdown lounge chair with an integrated bar feature in an exhibition at New York's Friedman Benda gallery that explores the value of design objects beyond just their practical use. More
Five architecture and design events this February from Dezeen Events Guide
Stockholm Design Week, a live-streamed talk with Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and MoMA's exhibition about systemic racism in the built environment are among the physical and digital events listed in Dezeen Events Guide taking place in February. More
Buffalo London sets platform trainers ablaze for first digital-only product release
Shoe brand Buffalo London has teamed up with digital fashion house The Fabricant to create a flaming virtual trainer that can only be "worn" in images for social media. More
Origami crane informs Nendo's minimalist overhaul of Japan Airlines amenity kits
Nendo has completed a comprehensive makeover of all of Japan Airlines' in-flight amenities, from meal trays to slippers and earplug wrappers, which draws on the lines of a paper crane. More
SpaceX launches record number of satellites onboard a single rocket
A rocket by Elon Musk's SpaceX carried an unprecedented number of satellites into space on Sunday, setting a new record for the most spacecraft that have ever been deployed in one mission. More
Casa Etérea is a mirrored off-grid cabin on the slopes of the Palo Huérfano volcano
Solar panels and harvested rainwater power this mirrored holiday home by first-time architect Prashant Ashoka, which was designed to be self-sufficient and in harmony with its surroundings. More
PriestmanGoode models autonomous taxi on London's brutalist architecture
PriestmanGoode has unveiled a concept for a driverless, electric ride-hailing vehicle for London, which the design firm hopes could join the red double-decker bus in the ranks of the city's iconic transport designs. More
Liang-Jung Chen explores vulnerability through 12 precarious egg racks
Eggs are hung from the ceiling, balanced on spinning tops and stacked on top of each other in a series of deliberately perilous contraptions created by industrial designer Liang-Jung Chen. More
Designers including Es Devlin and Tom Dixon customise wooden furniture for lockdown project 19 Chairs
London designers Tom Dixon and Es Devlin and provocateur Max Siedentopf are among 19 makers and artists who have reimagined a simple wooden chair as part of the 19 Chairs charity project. More
Pink seesaws that straddled US-Mexico border named Design of the Year 2020
An installation by architecture studio Rael San Fratello, which connected children in the US and Mexico via a trio of seesaws slotted into the countries' border wall, has been crowned the Design of the Year. More
Nendo designs build-your-own football for kids from impoverished communities
Japanese studio Nendo has developed a football that doesn't need to be inflated and can instead be assembled by hand from 54 interlocking plastic modules. More
Six seminal projects from Bauhaus designers Josef and Anni Albers
Nicholas Fox Weber, a longtime friend of Josef and Anni Albers and executive director of their foundation, has authored a visual biography of the renowned Bauhaus couple and their work. Here he discusses six of the most interesting projects from the book. More
Irene Roca Moracia turns construction waste into "technically illegal" furniture
Central Saint Martins graduate Irene Roca Moracia has created a collection of modular furniture using discarded building materials, as a way of critiquing the wastefulness of the construction industry. More
H-O-TT envisions furniture that turns into exercise equipment
Table legs double up as dumbbells and stools as push-up bars in this conceptual collection of furniture by Amsterdam design studio H-O-TT. More