Architecture studio Hou de Sousa has built three volumes, constructed rebar and covered in bright cords, to form "gateways, apertures and seating" in front of New York City's Flatiron Building for this holiday season. More about Hou de Sousa wraps rebar in colourful string for installation outside New York's Flatiron Building
Tesla's electric Cybertruck is billed as a radical redefinition of the car, but in fact draws on old-fashioned ideas of escape, argues Elizabeth Bisley, co-curator of the V&A museum's new exhibition about car design. More about "Cybertruck represents a highly conservative continuation of the status quo"
The body of Tesla's radical Cybertruck is made up of straight-edged facets. Here are some other examples of faceted architecture and design. More about 10 architecture and design projects that feature faceted surfaces
For his first footwear design, architect Kengo Kuma has created a trainer in collaboration with Japanese sports brand ASICS that draws on the craft of bamboo knitting. More about Kengo Kuma designs his first ever trainer for ASICS
Designer Shaakira Jassat has created a rain-catcher that is slim enough to fit on the outside of buildings in dense urban environments. More about Rain-harvesting panels would let people in drought-stricken cities catch their own water
Studio Sain worked with one of Austria's last remaining woodturners to develop this collection of hand-turned wooden products that feature moving parts or modular components. More about Studio Sain uses traditional hand-turning process to create products incorporating wooden ball joints
Italian timepiece manufacturer Lorenz has relaunched a clock that was designed by Richard Sapper in 1960 to utilise mechanisms salvaged from second-world-war torpedoes. More about Lorenz relaunches self righting clock that kickstarted Richard Sapper's career
An embroidered floor lamp and eel-skin clad cabinet are among the objects in a collection by US lighting studio Apparatus that took direction from musical scores. More about Apparatus designs Interlude furniture for "imagined, modernist concert hall"
A David Chipperfield-designed candle and a one-handed watch are among our selection of 16 gifts for interior designers this holiday season. More about Dezeen's Christmas gift guide 2019: interior designers
Dezeen promotion: design company Luminaire is hosting an exhibition at its Miami Design District showroom featuring works by industrial designer Konstantin Grcic, architect and designer Piero Lissoni and fashion designer Ann Demeulemeester. More about Luminaire to exhibit works by Konstantin Grcic and Piero Lissoni during Design Miami
After more than a year of prototyping, Savannah studio Donttakethisthewrongway has unveiled its design for a chair that consists of a single cardboard box. More about Savannah design studio reimagines cardboard box as chair
Toy company Lego has reacted to the launch of Tesla's Cybertruck by sharing a picture of a car made from a single plastic brick. More about Lego mocks Tesla with "guaranteed shatterproof" brick model of Cybertruck
Design agency Clever°Franke has created a logo for the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 that combines the flag and year that each of the 41 participating countries first competed. More about Eurovision 2020 visual identity combines song contest participant's national flags
Stacie Woolsey has turned her experience of unaffordable further design education two years ago into her Make Your Own Masters course, which will take on 10 students in 2020. More about Applications now open to Make Your Own Masters course
This year's Global Grad Show in Dubai illustrated how "many small actions come together to create a total picture". Curator Eleanor Watson selects five innovative projects that make a positive global impact. More about Global Grad Show confronts issues you didn't know existed, says curator
Ross Lovegrove has designed this year's Fashion Awards trophy, which consists of a laser-cut DNA double helix that appears to be suspended inside a monolithic crystal. More about Ross Lovegrove creates crystal trophy with internal double helix for Fashion Awards 2019
New York fashion brand The Arrivals has created a puffer jacket with a Faraday pocket that blocks cellular and GPS signals on smartphones, to encourage wearers to switch off and "reconnect with the outdoors". More about The Arrivals designs Aer parka with pocket that blocks mobile phone signal
By voting for Brexit, the British people have shown a greater appetite for risk than the creative sector, which needs to take the public more seriously or risk becoming irrelevant, says Martyn Perks of the Dissenters Design Network. More about "The creative industries are misreading the public"
An exhibition at the V&A Dundee explores the evolving relationship between humans and robots. From 1920s sci-fi films to brain-controlled exoskeletons, curator Kirsty Hassard picks five highlights. More about V&A Dundee curator selects five designs that map the evolution of robotics
New York studio Pelle has created a low table made from pieces of solid aluminium that are milled to a tolerance of one thousandth of an inch and fixed together using traditional Japanese joinery techniques. More about Pelle's aluminium DVN Table is held together by friction