Tai Ping blends 35 natural fibres to colour rugs without dye
Carpet brand Tai Ping has eliminated "by far the most polluting" part of its production process with the Biophilic rug collection, made exclusively from natural materials that are left raw and undyed. More
Off The Shelf pavilion is made from standardised components that can go back on the shelf
Rio Kobayashi has collaborated with engineering firm Webb Yates on the designer's first-ever pavilion, an abstraction of his childhood home in Japan, as part of the London Design Festival. More
Cake Architecture "exposes the guts" of Rally festival with demountable fibreglass stage
Panels of translucent fibreglass envelop this multi-level stage designed by Cake Architecture for London arts and music festival Rally, revealing the reusable scaffolding structure at its heart. More
IKEA launches online marketplace for second-hand furniture
Swedish furniture brand IKEA has created a peer-to-peer resale platform called IKEA Preowned as part of its aim to become a circular business by 2030. More
Woset creates pared-back art supplies to kickstart children's imagination
Glue made from rice, crayons that draw on any surface and a stool that turns into an easel are among the unconventional craft equipment developed by Tokyo children's brand Woset for the next generation of artists and designers. More
Design Week South Africa launches to showcase "a new wave" of local talent
South Africa is set to host a new design week this October that will be split between Cape Town and Johannesburg to provide a platform for the cities' local design scenes. More
Ini Archibong designs packaging for Snoop Dogg and Dr Dre's Gin & Juice
A hand-drawn lowrider features on the packaging of Snoop Dogg and Dr Dre's premixed drinks brand, envisioned by designer Ini Archibong to "encapsulate the spirit" of 1990s West Coast hip hop. More
Hallmarks of British pubs and French brasseries meet in Henri restaurant interior
French interior designer Dorothée Meilichzon has converted the restaurant of London's Henrietta Hotel into an homage to Parisian bistros for chef Jackson Boxer. More
Eight offbeat red-and-green home interiors that prove opposites attract
Interior designers are finding interesting ways to pair red and green – a combination more typically associated with Christmas – to create quirky colour-block interiors. This lookbook brings together recent examples of how it can be done. More
Paris 2024 Olympics sustainability efforts "not enough" says carbon expert
Although the Paris 2024 Olympic Games have taken an exemplary approach to construction, reusing venues is not enough to make the games truly sustainable, argues Carbon Market Watch's Benja Faecks as part of our Olympic Impact series. More
Furniture made from London's broken bike locks features in People and Places exhibition
Design students from the Chelsea College of Arts have staged an exhibition at Yorkton Workshops in Hackney that acts as "a microcosm of London" and explores the issues keeping its residents up at night. More
"Unparalleled" British industrial designer Kenneth Grange dies aged 95
Pentagram co-founder Kenneth Grange, whose playful and prolific product designs helped to define the face of modern Britain, has died aged 95. More
Architects for Gaza creates fragments of demountable clinic for Gaza
Architects for Gaza has displayed sections of an experimental clinic, which it plans to build in Gaza "as soon as there is a gap" in Israeli strikes, at the London Festival of Architecture. More
Five Glastonbury stages made from ex-military helicopters and other reused materials
This year's Glastonbury festival debuted stages constructed using reclaimed materials, from storm-felled trees and helicopters to pieces of Heathrow's defunct Terminal 1. Here are five of the most interesting. More
Glastonbury's Hayes Pavilion "pushes the boundaries" of what bioplastic can do
Biodesign startup Re:Right Design has reprised its demountable Hayes Pavilion for this year's Glastonbury festival, cladding it in a biomaterial made from seaweed to demonstrate how sets can be built without plastic. More
Nike and Hyperice unveil heated foot-massaging shoes
Sportswear brand Nike and health tech company Hyperice have unveiled a series of wearables that can heat, cool and massage to help athletes recover. More
Natural Material Studio crafts entire home interior from bioplastic
As part of 3 Days of Design, Danish practice Natural Material Studio has created a futuristic fossil-free home interior where all the elements, from the curtains to the sofa, are made from the same bioplastic. More
Five classic chairs making a comeback at 3 Days of Design
If there are two things you are certain to find at Copenhagen's 3 Days of Design festival, it's chairs and reissues of historic design icons. Here we've picked five of the most interesting examples combining both. More
Palestinian architects are "banging on the door" to get into Gaza
As the majority of Gaza's buildings lie in ruins due to ongoing Israeli strikes, architects from across Palestine are trying to gain access to the blockaded territory to support Gazans in starting to rebuild their homes and neighbourhoods. More
The Water Clock installation captures the "torturous experience" of waiting at an embassy
Architect Dima Srouji has used glass bricks to construct a miniature waiting room inside the Fenaa Alawwal cultural centre in Riyadh to visualise the bureaucratic limbo faced by displaced Palestinians. More