Oslo design studio Anderssen & Voll has designed a watering can with a long, precise spout and plant pots especially for cacti and herbs, as part of a collection of tools for indoor gardening (+ slideshow). (more…)
Maison&Objet 2015: Copenhagen designers Aleksej Iskos and Boris Berlin have created an injection-moulded wood-fibre composite chair that is 100 per cent recyclable for Danish design brand Muuto (+ slideshow). (more…)
Royal College of Art student Paul Gong has imagined how synthetic biology could be used to modify the human body so it can consume and digest rotten food. (more…)
Dezeen promotion: the programme of talks, conferences and exhibitions for this month’s Munich Creative Business Week is now available to view on the event’s website. (more…)
Business news: Berlin-based retailer Monoqi has acquired the assets of former online furniture marketplace Mydeco to help its expansion into the UK market. (more…)
Comments update: readers were quick to pass judgement on Frank Gehry’s newly opened business school in Sydney this week, which had been described as “the most beautiful squashed brown paper bag”. (more…)
News: 40 projects have been shortlisted for the European Union’s 2015 architecture prize – the Mies van der Rohe Award – including a woodland crematorium in Sweden and a rowing centre in a Portuguese wine region (+ slideshow). (more…)
Business news: furniture brand Hem has acquired the rights to over 200 products from Italian design company Discipline (+ slideshow). (more…)
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