Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has arranged 1,005 life jackets from refugees into the shape of lotus flowers for a floating installation in Vienna (+ slideshow). More about Ai Weiwei creates lotus-like installation from refugee life jackets
Australian designer Marc Newson has reinvented Louis Vuitton's iconic trunks, making them lighter and more spacious on the inside (+ slideshow). More about Marc Newson revamps Louis Vuitton luggage in bright colours
Mercedes-Benz has revealed its design for an autonomous bus, which recently made its first self-driven journey along a 20-kilometre-long route in the Netherlands (+ movie). More about Mercedes-Benz unveils its self-driving Future Bus
New York firm Hou de Sousa has created an interactive installation in a Washington DC subway station, using over half a million plastic spheres glued together to form building blocks (+ slideshow). More about Hou de Sousa builds reconfigurable Raise/Raze installation from plastic balls
Just two weeks after the release of Nintendo's mobile game Pokémon GO, designers have created an array of products aimed at making it easier for players to "catch 'em all". More about Five products that have already been designed for Pokémon GO
Amsterdam-based designer Germans Ermičs has created a collection of coloured glass furniture with strong pigments that fade to clear (+ slideshow). More about Germans Ermičs creates coloured glass furniture collection
Brussels-based designer Alain Gilles has created a sound-absorbing screen as his latest product for office acoustics specialists Buzzispace (+ slideshow). More about Alain Gilles designs felt BuzziBlinds to shield workers from office noise
The Design Museum has opened its first ever standalone retail space, moments away from its new west London site (+ slideshow). More about John Pawson creates first standalone shop for London's Design Museum
Danish studio GamFratesi created animals from metal wire for the Apple Watch Hermès window display in Japan (+ slideshow). More about GamFratesi designs animalistic Apple Watch window display for Hermès
Graduate shows 2016: Central Saint Martins graduate Julius Breitenstein has created a device that performs the activities an intern would usually do in a design office. More about Julius Breitenstein creates Unpaid Intern device to aid designers
Dutch designer Nienke Hoogvliet used seaweed to create a furniture collection that highlights its possibilities as a material. More about Nienke Hoogvliet's Sea Me furniture is made from woven seaweed
Luxembourg artist Max Mertens has installed hundreds of swings above a shopping street to offer pedestrians a new experience of a familiar place (+ movie). More about Max Mertens installs sea of swings over a busy Luxembourg street
Lucy McRae's short film The Institute of Isolation is a fictional examination of the ways travellers to outer space could use architecture and design to train their bodies for the challenge (+ movie). More about Lucy McRae film explores how design could prepare humans for outer space
Music: Japanese production studio Party is live streaming its music video for Androp's track Hana onto a bunch of white lilies (+ movie). More about Party live streams Androp music video projected onto flowers
Czech designer Martin Jakobsen has created glowing uranium-glass tumblers, adding to his output of unusual glassware. More about Martin Jakobsen's uranium glassware glows bright green
Nike has redesigned its existing Magista football boot by imagining what a foot would look like had it evolved specifically to play football (+ slideshow). More about Nike's Magista 2 football boots perform as an "organic extension of the foot"
Design agency Pentagram has created a new logo and visual identity for Mastercard, the credit card company's first branding redesign in 20 years. More about Pentagram brings Mastercard into the digital age with pared-back logo redesign
Home-grown Chinese design brands will soon be selling affordable products in the west, according to Italian designer Luca Nichetto, who is creative director of Chinese startup furniture brand ZaoZuo (+ slideshow). More about Luca Nichetto "completely shocked" by the low price of Chinese design products
Movie: in this exclusive video Dezeen produced for Nike, fashion designer Kim Jones unveils his compactable collection of clothes and shoes designed for athletes travelling to the Rio 2016 Olympics. More about Kim Jones reinterprets classic Nike designs to create compact travel kit for Olympic athletes
Brexit crisis: the UK's vote to leave the European Union has led to a sharp fall in architecture and design recruitment activity in the country but has led to a dramatic rise in product sales overseas, according to data from Dezeen Jobs and Dezeen Watch Store. More about Brexit vote bad for design recruitment – but good for exports, Dezeen finds