Dezeen Showroom: Italian brand Poltrona Frau has presented a selection of furniture on Dezeen Showroom, including a leather sofa with smile-shaped armrests and a bookcase with panels that users can slide to create geometric patterns. More
Dezeen Courses: interested in obtaining a design degree in London? We've rounded up five courses available at the University of East London. More
American studio CLB Architects has created a circular wood-and-steel "chapel" in New York City's Times Square to mark the return of the city's annual NYCxDesign festival. More
Promotion: now in its ninth year, Dubai Design Week's Downtown Design trade show has been instrumental in helping the emirate to establish its own contemporary design language, according to local creatives. More
Dezeen Showroom: design duo GamFratesi created the compact Nice chair for Italian brand Poltrona Frau, which is designed for maximum comfort. More
A vase that echoes the colours of Petra and a hot pink piggy bank shaped like a squeezed balloon are among the objects in the Departures collection of Jordanian collectible designs from gallery Adorno. More
American fashion designer Thom Browne's Autumn Winter 2022 show in New York City was an ode to toys and featured sculptural tailoring and an audience of 500 teddy bears. More
International group Design Holding is acquiring a majority shareholding in Denmark-based Designers Company, which owns brands including Menu, from investment company Polaris. More
In this video the founders of Londons studio Tonkin Liu delve into their design of a medical stent with an expanding lace-like structure, which has recently received a patent. More
Dezeen Showroom: a minimal outdoor light that can be placed in the ground, mounted on walls or hung as a pendant is among nine new products on Dezeen Showroom. More
Promotion: online art marketplace Pixels has launched a feature that allows NFT owners to print their artworks as t-shirts, puzzles, canvas prints and other print-on-demand products. More
Snap, the company behind Snapchat, has launched its second piece of hardware – a pared-back and pocket-sized drone called Pixy, designed for taking selfies. More
Dezeen Showroom: based on a design by architect Tito Agnoli, Poltrona Frau's Aurora Tre bed has a curved shape that is meant to harmonise with its quilted headboard. More
Mexican gallery Masa's Intervención/Intersección exhibition showcases pieces by artists and designers including Frida Escobedo and Isamu Noguchi in a former post office in the Rockefeller Center in Manhattan. More
Dezeen Showroom: South African designer Haldane Martin has created Songololo, a segmented outdoor sofa that users can contort into curving shapes. More
Bathing Culture at the Museum of Design and Applied Art in Reykjavík tells the history of geothermal pools in Iceland as part of DesignMarch. Here are five that demonstrate how the culture has changed over the past century. More
Kim Kardashian's shapewear brand SKIMS has released an underwear line for people with disabilities, which combines easy-access closures with a range of sizes and colours to suit different skin tones and body types. More
Multidisciplinary collective Wevolve Labs has created bioplastic skins using local plants for a group of lantern-like sculptures, presented in Austin, Texas. More
Promotion: ROOM, a provider of modular workplace solutions, has announced the European launch of its Botanical Booth, which has a banana leaf-printed interior created by pattern designers Tuppence Collective. More
In this video, Studio BooBoon explains its design for an adjustable OLED display that can be retracted to become a standalone speaker, which is one of the finalists in Dezeen and LG Display's latest OLEDs Go! competition. More