Eric Treillard designs mobile kit for turning unused plots into playgrounds
An empty site can be transformed into a basketball court using this mobile kit designed by Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Eric Treillard. More
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Petite Friture to showcase "unconventional" designs at BDNY
Promotion: French design brand Petite Friture will showcase its furniture, lighting and accessories collections at US interiors trade fair BDNY this month. More
Elements Hush Blocks by 3form
Dezeen Showroom: American materials brand 3form has recently launched its highest-rated acoustic product, Hush Blocks – a chunky and fun extension to its Elements series. More
"The trees themselves" raise wildfire alarm in ForestGuard detection system
Wildfires can be detected before they spread or even before they start using a new satellite-enabled sensor system created by a group of Turkish recent design graduates and spotlighted by Dezeen as part of our Designing for Disaster series. More
Honoka 3D-prints furniture that "re-weaves Tatami into modern life"
At Designart Tokyo, Japanese design collective Honoka exhibited furniture and lighting made by 3D printing a material made from discarded Tatami mats. More
EchoPanel acoustic panels by Woven Image
Dezeen Showroom: Australian brand Woven Image has added five colourways to its collection of EchoPanel acoustic wall treatments. More
Solid+ tiles by Undefasa
Dezeen Showroom: Spanish tile brand Undefasa has released a range of mass-coloured technical porcelain tiles named Solid+, which have a flecked appearance reminiscent of natural stone. More
Kinky Kashayam creates portable black cat radar to explore superstitious beliefs
New York City and Toronto-based design studio Kinky Kashayam has created a conceptual, hand-held radar that generates black cats in order to "protect one's luck". More
Full Spectrum collection by Carnegie Fabrics
Dezeen Showroom: American brand Carnegie Fabrics brought some of its leading high-performance fabrics together and added new colours under the banner of the Full Spectrum collection. More
Modular waste bins by Group Project distributed across New York City
Modular waste bins designed by local industrial design studio Group Projects to be recyclable and assist sanitation workers have begun to be distributed across New York City's five boroughs. More
Vruit vibrator doubles as artificial insemination device
Design graduate Juliane Kühr has presented a set of sex toys for self-insemination at Dutch Design Week, which were devised to be used during sex to help pleasure take its rightful place in the assisted conception process. More
Henry K Wein designs portable treehouse that can be towed by bicycle
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Henry K Wein has developed Trunk Bunk, a treehouse that allows its occupant to sleep in a different tree every night. More
Laero develops at-home system for turning wastewater into drinking water
US tech startup Laero has unveiled a compact water treatment system at Dutch Design Week, which it claims can be installed under any sink to recycle up to 80 per cent of the water. More
PulpaTronics tackles single-use electronics with paper RFID tags
A group of design graduates from London's Royal College of Art have come up with a way to make RFID tags entirely from paper, with no metal or silicon components in a bid to cut down on waste from single-use electronics. More
British student's wearable CNC machine gives makers "superhuman" abilities
Aiming to bridge the worlds of human and robotic construction, product design engineer Jasper Mallinson has created a wearable CNC machine that he believes could one day be used on worksites to help realise parametric designs. More
Desso and Patricia Urquiola carpet tiles by Tarkett among new products on Dezeen Showroom
Dezeen Showroom: a collection of textural carpet tiles informed by knitwear is among six new products featured on Dezeen Showroom. More
Six surfaces and tiles designed to enhance floors in interiors
Dezeen Showroom: a collection of carpet tiles designed to mimic the way landscapes fade into each other is among the latest surfaces to be featured on Dezeen Showroom. More
Craig Green launches "multi-un-functional" wooden tools for Dover Street Market London
British fashion designer Craig Green has designed 11 limited edition wooden "tools" that resemble sex toys for London's Dover Street Market store. More
Marvel Meraviglia tile collection by Atlas Concorde
Dezeen Showroom: Italian brand Atlas Concorde has released Marvel Meraviglia, a new range of tiles with ultra-realistic finishes reminiscent of marble. More
Desso and Patricia Urquiola carpet tile collection by Tarkett
Dezeen Showroom: Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola collaborated with Tarkett-owned carpet brand Desso to create a carpet tile collection with "the lowest possible environmental impact". More