Humberto & Fernando Campana, Atelier Oï, Patricia Urquiola and Marcel Wanders have all contributed to Louis Vuitton's first collection of decorative leather objects for the home. More about Louis Vuitton launches collection of travel-inspired home accessories
Forensic Architecture's Turner Prize shortlisting is a warning for architects to be vigilant of the arts world co-opting their work as grisly entertainment, argues Phineas Harper. More about "Forensic Architecture winning the Turner Prize would risk turning sensitive investigative work into insensitive entertainment"
Students from Design Academy Eindhoven temporarily revamped a pair of Milan streets, adding a coffee shop where customers have to grind beans themselves and a newspaper stand selling fake news. More about Design Academy Eindhoven students take over Milanese streets to explore how design impacts everyday life
Watercolour illustrations designed by Pentagram provide the new visual identity for Battersea Dogs & Cats Home, now known simply as Battersea. More about Pentagram designs rebrand for Battersea Dogs & Cats Home
Dezeen promotion: we've selected five of the best projects in the launch collection from Made.com's TalentLab, which aims to help emerging designers bring their products to market. More about Five of the best products from Made.com's first TalentLab collection
British architecture studio Foster + Partners has released a video showing its vision for a high-speed freight-carrying hyperloop named DP World Cargospeed. More about Foster + Partners presents vision for hyperloop cargo network
UK scientists have found a way to incorporate wonder-material graphene into concrete, greatly increasing the material's strength and water resistance. More about Graphene-reinforced concrete is "more than twice as strong" say scientists
Designer Asif Khan installed a grid of red-stained timber columns in the courtyard of Milan's Palazzo Litta, to create a place of refuge for visitors to this year's Milan design week. More about Asif Khan creates "something between a forest and an open-air cathedral" within Milanese palazzo
Archive drawings of bygone creatures feature in The Museum of Extinct Animals, a new range of wall coverings and textiles from Dutch brand Moooi. More about Moooi pays tribute to extinct animals with range of wallpapers
American artist and designer Misha Kahn presented a series of new limited-edition pieces at the Nomad Monaco collectible-design fair, featuring colourful jewels, shiny metal and sea shells. More about Misha Kahn unveils jewelled tables and "animated" chairs at Nomad Monaco
The geometric blocks of 1980s video game Tetris are replaced by Soviet-era apartment buildings in Tower Block Tetris, a mobile game by Lithuanian designer Lukas Valiauga. More about Modernist building blocks feature in Tetris-inspired mobile game
NASA has started production of a plane that will fly faster than the speed of sound, but will be almost inaudible from the ground below. More about NASA's "nearly silent" supersonic X-Plane goes into production
The Fearless Girl statue that faces down Wall Street's Charging Bull and the environmentally minded Palau Pledge tourist visa are among the big winners from this year's D&AD Awards, which recognise the best in communication design. More about D&AD Awards 2018 celebrate designs for gender diversity and environmental protection
Sony's latest research suggests that the homes of the future will feature sensors that can turn any object into a light switch or a music system, and lighting and shadows that follow you around. More about Sony creates technological "magic tricks" to show future of sensor technology in the home
White lasers, capable of projecting light 360 degrees, illuminated blacked-out spaces at the Lexus exhibition during Milan design week last month. More about Lasers create effects at Lexus' Limitless Co-existence installation in Milan
IKEA has revealed some of the products set to feature in its long-awaited furniture collection by fashion designer Virgil Abloh, including slogan-covered rugs and a cabinet for storing and displaying sneakers. More about IKEA offers first look at furniture designed for millennials by Virgil Abloh
SongwriterFonts, a website that offered free-to-use typefaces based on the handwriting of famous musicians, has been closed down following legal issues over intellectual-property rights. More about Musician-inspired fonts website forced to close after going viral
Connective joints are "design projects in their own right", according to the curators of the huge U-Joints exhibition during Milan design week. More about U-Joints exhibition examines the diverse world of construction joints
The lamp that Moustache created for French national railway service SNCF is now available to buy and, to mark the occasion, the Parisian design brand has released a series of movies featuring huge furry characters. More about Moustache's lamp for French national railway is now available for the home
Dutch design studio Belén has created a line of all-natural, textile-based products that are designed to be used in place of sunscreen lotions and polyester sunshades. More about Belén presents textile-based alternatives to "harmful" sunscreens