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Product designer Yuri Suzuki presented a collection of projects investigating physical representations of sound at the Royal College of Art Show Two in London earlier this month. More »

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New Designers 08: here are some more pictures of Oliver Bishop-Young’s SkipWaste project, which suggests new uses for dumpsters. More »

Here’s a second new project by Dutch architets UNStudio: these images show a proposed flagship store for fashion house Louis Vuitton in Japan.

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The Toyota iQ, a compact city car that is thought to be the smallest four-seater on the market, is about to go into production. More »

Construction is underway on the Sinosteel International Plaza in Tinajin, China designed by Beijing-based architects MAD. More »

Readers have been asking for interior photos of the toy library at Bonneuil-sur-Marne, France by LAN Architecture – so here they are. More »

Here are a few shots of Herzog & de Meuron’s National Stadium in Beijing, China by architectural photographer Iwan Baan. More »

Ribbon is the title of a new candelabra by Japanese designer Shin Azumi for British homeware brand Innermost. More »

Dezeen has teamed up with Tent London to offer young graduate designers the chance to win one of 15 free exhibition spaces at Tent London’s Talent Zone during the London Design Festival in September. More »

ChargerFrame is a device that charges electrical devices in a wall-mounted frame, created by new Shanghai-based design studio Naolab. More »

London-based product designers PearsonLloyd designed the Siren MP3 player for Signeo, which has just been launched in Japan. More »

Architects UNStudio have released images of their competition-winning redevelopment of a former post office in Rotterdam.

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Architects Atelier Brückner of Stuttgart have designed the new BMW Museum, which opened in Munich last month. More »

Dezeen is curating a design exhibition at The Jones hotel in London this September and October, exploring contemporary designers’ fascination with animals. Update 09/09/08: we are disappointed to announce that this exhibition has been postponed due to a flood at The Jones. More info coming soon – for updates please check here. More »

Motorlight is a motorised uplighter that casts a variable angle of light, designed by Jake Dyson. More »