Car manufacturers, including Mercedes-Benz and Toyota, suggest the classic sci-fi film Back to the Future provided the inspiration for the vehicles of tomorrow. More about Car manufacturers show how Back to the Future is influencing vehicle design
Dutch Design Week 2015: Design Academy Eindhoven has undergone a "paradigm shift" with students now more interested in responding to real-world problems such as Europe's refugee crisis than making beautiful objects for collectors, according to creative director Thomas Widdershoven. More about Design Academy Eindhoven students "see crisis in the world and respond to it"
Tokyo 2020 Olympics organisers have launched a public competition to source a replacement logo for Kenjiro Sano's controversial withdrawn design. More about Tokyo 2020 Olympics organisers seek replacement logo through public competition
Dutch Design Week 2015: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Bastiaan de Nennie has 3D-scanned and re-assembled everyday objects as improbable digital creations. More about Bastiaan de Nennie designs hybrid virtual objects for Digital Virtuosity series
Sci-fi movie Back to the Future II created a "self-fulfilling prophecy" that helped shape today's interactions and objects, according to contemporary designers. More about Back to the Future "brought the future closer" say designers
Future Makers: in this movie filmed by Dezeen in London, Suryansh Chandra claims the affordable robotic arm his company Automata is developing could lead to robots becoming as ubiquitous as desktop 3D printers. More about Automata aims to "democratise robotics" with ,000 six-axis robot
Tech company Arx Pax has worked with pro skateboarder Tony Hawk to create a slimmed-down design for its second Hendo hoverboard, released today to mark the exact date travelled to in 1980s sci-fi film Back to the Future II. More about Arx Pax unveils updated Hendo hoverboard on Back to the Future day
The Cooper Hewitt museum in New York has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for its Design in the Classroom programme, which it hopes to launch across the US. More about Cooper Hewitt museum launches crowdfunding campaign to bring design to school classrooms
Opinion: as London's Barbican gallery launches a major retrospective on Modernist designers Charles and Ray Eames, Sam Jacob wonders whether it matters that the Eames name has taken on a life of its own. More about "Eames has become a vaguely suggestive word applied to alchemise junk shop remnants"
From triple-screen films to plywood chairs, the multi-disciplinary careers of American Modernist design duo Charles and Ray Eames are the focus of an exhibition at London's Barbican Centre. More about The World of Charles and Ray Eames exhibition opens at the Barbican
Movie: German designer Nils Holger Moormann told young designers they must learn to be resilient if they want to have successful careers at this year's Blickfang design workshop. More about As a designer you will sometimes "fail completely" says Nils Holger Moormann
Dutch Design Week 2015: each garment in graduate fashion designer Vera de Pont's Pop Up fashion collection can be cut out from a single piece of material by the wearer (+ slideshow). More about Vera de Pont's Pop Up clothing is assembled without stitches
Dutch Design Week 2015: designer Troy Nachtigall has used scans of feet to create a pair of 3D-printed shoes personalised for a Dutch politician, which he claims are more comfortable than typically manufactured footwear (+ slideshow). More about Troy Nachtigall's 3D-printed high heels are "more comfortable than normal shoes"
Architect David Adjaye has introduced a faceted furniture range as the last in his Washington Collection for American brand Knoll. More about David Adjaye's Prism Lounge Series completes his Washington Collection for Knoll
Dutch Design Week 2015: design duo Niels van Eijk and Miriam van der Lubbe have created a concept car made from reflective cuboids, as part of a series exploring the future of vehicles for Swedish company Volvo. More about Van Eijk & Van der Lubbe's mirrored concept car provides "unobstructed views" from inside
Frank Gehry has become the latest architect to design a boat – unveiling an entirely wooden yacht he created for himself. More about Frank Gehry forays into yacht design to create his own boat
Nendo and Thomas Feitchner are among designers that have created products resembling precise line drawings, fluid pen strokes and messy scribbles. See more design that looks like drawings »
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Amsterdam designer Tuomas Markunpoika's collection of lamps project petal-shaped concentric patterns onto vertical surfaces when illuminated (+ movie). More about Tuomas Markunpoika's Distant Lights cast Spirograph-style patterns
Dutch Design Week 2015: Dutch designer Martijn van Strien has launched a fashion company that allows consumers to download, customise, produce and self-assemble clothing designs. More about Martijn van Strien's The Post-Couture Collective provides downloadable fashion designs
Kazakh designer Nissa Kinzhalina has created a pair of chairs that look like unfinished sketches when viewed from the side. More about Nissa Kinzhalina's Gentle Hint chairs resemble incomplete line drawings