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IKEA has released a set of furniture hacks that anyone can download and 3D-print to make their products more usable by people with disabilities. Read more

With the UK mired in Brexit crisis, this is a good time to revisit this design submitted for our Brexit passport design competition, which seems to sum up how a lot of people feel about the political situation. Read more

Contraceptives and other drugs could be administered through an earring, using a method invented by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Read more

Twenty-one designers have explored the rituals of the dinner table for an exhibition inside an Austrian castle. Read more

This captioned movie shows catwalk footage of Central Saint Martins graduate Fredrik Tjærandsen's colourful bubble outfits, which have become a viral sensation around the world. Read more

IKEA has unveiled a collection of customisable 3D-printed accessories created to help people play video games at home in greater comfort and style. Read more

Products infused with CBD are dotted throughout sparse gallery-like rooms inside west London's The Drug Store, which has been designed by the brand's co-founders. Read more

WOHA has revealed visuals of the self-sufficient Singapore Pavilion for the Dubai Expo 2020, which will have plant covered walls and hanging gardens. Read more

From millennial pink bathrooms to totems in clashing multi-colours, maximalist design is on the rise, says Claire Bingham, author of More is More. Here she picks out five contemporary designers piling on the pattern. Read more

New York's Architecture and Design Film Festival founder has picked out five screenings to get in the diary ahead of the event's opening next week, including movies that explore the lives and works of architect Denise Scott Brown, Bauhaus educator László Moholy-Nagy and 20th-century architect Bruce Goff. Read more

The Church of the Penitent Thief in Bologna, Italy, is housed in a gabled white volume cleaved in two by a glazed crack and was built with the help of inmates of La Dozza prison. Read more View the full article

The Object is Absent is a multi-strand installation that focuses on the designers' bodies rather than the objects they create, to demonstrate a shift in the priorities for the next generation of makers. Read more View the full article

With activities kicking off in Miami for this year's art week, including Art Basel and Design Miami, we've selected the exhibitions and installations not-to-be missed, including an inflatable bubble gallery and a sand-covered traffic jam. Read more View the full article

FreelandBuck has installed a pavilion in a Palo Alto plaza comprising triangular panels imprinted with images of the public enjoying the same site on a day last year. Read more View the full article

A courtyard with a concrete pool sits at the centre of a house on Phillip Island in Australia, designed by Branch Studio Architects and illuminated by large skylights. Read more View the full article

In our latest competition, Dezeen has partnered with David Village Lighting to give away an Artemide Tolomeo Micro Bicolor desk lamp in one of four colours options. Read more View the full article

Glenn Howells Architects has built a dance school for the English National Ballet, with windows in its translucent white cladding that give glimpses of rehearsals. Read more View the full article

Spanish designer Francesc Rifé has created a distinctive interior for a shoe store in Mallorca, using shades of soft pink and pale grey. Read more View the full article

Passaro Edizioni has designed a sustainable toy called Paesaggio con figure, which it is presenting for the VDF x Ventura Projects collaboration. Read more View the full article

Multidisciplinary design consultancy Matter has designed three conceptual cervical cancer examinations that women could carry out themselves at home to break the taboo of smear tests. Read more View the full article

The next part of today's VDF collaboration with ArkDes features a video interview with Australian artist Linda Tegg, who has temporarily rewilded the car park outside Sweden's national centre for architecture and design. Read more View the full article

French designer Mathieu Lehanneur will present a series of metal storage units with quilted surfaces at Tools Galerie in Paris next week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We need to provoke discussion, not anger, when it comes to talking about diversity, says Michelle Ogundehin, who shares her personal experiences with racism, views on positive discrimination and ways in which individuals can make a difference. Read more View the full article

An exhibition featuring architectural compositions made of household objects by Canadian artist Dave Trautrimas will open at LE Gallery in Toronto later this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This house constructed within the Barbican gallery in London by architects Carmody Groarke contains an exhibition of Surrealist art. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article