For those who can’t ever have too many shoes, these 16 modular components combine to make 256 different pairs.  More »

Show RCA 2011: Royal College of Art graduate ShiKai Tseng has decorated a range of vases by covering them in photo-sensitive solution then exposing them inside pinhole cameras. Watch the movie on Dezeen Screen » More »

New Designers 2011: design graduate Brendan Magennis has made a collection of flat-packed furniture that has no screws or glue and can be assembled with just a few hearty whacks of a mallet. More »

New Designers 2011: as the value of copper increases, product design graduate Oscar Medley-Whitfield has minted a range of copper-bullion bowls so investors can display their assets at home. More »

Show RCA 2011: footwear designer Victoria Spruce presented these sculptural shoes at the Royal College of Art graduate show earlier this month. More »

Faeces, electric eels and fruit would power conceptual communities designed by Bartlett School of Architecture graduate Catrina Stewart. More »

New Designers 2011: Kingston University graduate Andre Pereira has created a series of products to help with tricky DIY tasks, including these paint brushes that clip onto the edge of a tin of paint. More »

Israeli designer Rachel Boxnboim has cast a ceramic tea service inside fabric moulds. More »

Furniture designers’ obsession with clamps has taken a new turn with this stool held together with one of the woodworking tools. More »

Show RCA 2011: here’s another piece of manufacturing machinery that harnesses sunlight by Markus Kayser – inventor of the Solar Sinter 3D printer in our earlier story – this time a low-tech, low-energy version of a laser cutter. More »

Architecture graduate Stephan Sobl has designed an upside-down skyscraper to hang over the Colorado River in Nevada, right beside the Hoover Dam. More »

New Designers 2011: London Metropolitan University graduate Adrian Bergman has designed a modular retail display system that’s only held together by rubber rings. More »

New Designers 2011: product design graduate Ben Fursdon has created the Broo-ver, a broom converted into a vacuum cleaner. More »

Dezeen Screen: Robots of Brixton is a sci-fi animation by Bartlett School of Architecture graduate Kibwe Tavares in which a downtrodden robot workforce battles with police against a backdrop of dystopian architecture in scenes reminiscent of the 1981 Brixton riots in London.

Tavares, who has now set up animation and architectural imagery studio www.factoryfifteen.com, made the film as his final design project for his masters degree. Watch the movie »

Update 31/07/11: see Dezeen’s top ten stories about robots.