German automotive brand BMW has unveiled a concept car with an entirely carbon-fibre chassis and rear lights that look as if they have been drawn "like calligraphy" (+ slideshow). More about BMW reinterprets 1970s racing coupé as a carbon-fibre concept car
Architect Damien Murtagh has created a three-dimensional modelling system made of ABS plastic for architects and designers that is now on sale as a children's toy, prompting comparisons with iconic Danish building blocks Lego. More about Architect's modelling system hailed as "posh Lego"
New York 2015: Brooklyn studio Workstead has created a range of light fixtures with brass disc-shaped reflectors. More about Workstead's Orbit lights feature movable metal reflectors
Milan 2015: Tokyo-based Schemata Architects created an exhibition stand for Swiss furniture brand Vitra made from Japanese wooden pallets for Milan's 2015 Salone del Mobile design fair (+ slideshow). More about Schemata Architects builds Vitra's Salone stand from wooden pallets
Music: the 3D visuals in this music video by animator Nick Cobby for Max Cooper and Tom Hodge's track Remnants explore the relationship between the human mind and the physical world. More about Nick Cobby explores the human mind in music video for Max Cooper and Tom Hodge
Japanese designer Yu Ito has designed a floor lamp for Italian furniture brand Formabilio with lipped tray-like shelves that move up and down its neck and stack inside the base. More about Shelves slide up and down the stem of Yu Ito's Impila lamp
New York 2015: a new exhibition at New York's Chamber design gallery pairs an installation and furniture built from three-armed modules with a set of phallic tableware. More about This Is Not A Duet exhibition presents unrelated design collections at New York's Chamber gallery
Graduate shows 2015: tailoring influenced by Scandinavian furniture and colours plucked from 1960s supermarket packaging featured among the collections at the 2015 University of Westminster graduate fashion show. Dezeen's Dan Howarth selects his four favourites from the catwalk. More about Dezeen's top four collections from this year's Westminster fashion design graduates
New York 2015: Print All Over Me has launched a range of textiles for the home with a living room installation in New York that changed daily to feature different patterns on every surface (+ slideshow). More about Print All Over Me debuts homeware line with patterned installation
German designer Julian Lechner combined used coffee grounds with natural glues to create a new material, and has designed a set of cups to demonstrate its potential (+ slideshow). More about Julian Lechner turns old coffee grounds into reusable cups
The influence of Chinese culture on fashion design is examined through garments by Alexander McQueen, Yves Saint Laurent, John Galliano and more in an exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art (+ slideshow). More about Met exhibition highlights fashion's obsession with Chinese arts and design
London Festival of Architecture 2015: Turner-nominated architecture studio Assemble has revealed plans to fill a gallery in the headquarters of the Royal Institute of British Architects with a spongy Brutalist-inspired landscape. More about Assemble to fill RIBA gallery with Brutalist Playground
Danish industrial designer Jacob Jensen, best known for his work with audio product company Bang & Olufsen, has died aged 89 (+ slideshow). More about Danish designer Jacob Jensen dies aged 89
Clerkenwell Design Week 2015: Swiss design studio GRUPPE has installed totems of colourful building blocks on the streets of Clerkenwell during the London district's annual design festival (+ slideshow). More about GRUPPE creates pastel-coloured totems to signpost Clerkenwell Design Week
French duo Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have formed aluminium mesh into a chair that is intended to look worn over time. More about Bouroullec's Stampa chair designed to age like a pair of leather boots
Sculptural park benches and a maze constructed of mirrors are among the pieces created by Danish artist Jeppe Hein for an outdoor exhibition in New York (+ slideshow). More about Jeppe Hein creates 18 whimsical installations for Brooklyn Bridge Park
New York 2015: Apparatus has unveiled two new lines of lighting fixtures, along with a table that marks the New York studio's foray into furniture design (+ slideshow). More about Apparatus uses metal cylinders and porcelain chains for new lighting designs
New York 2015: in the first of a series of interviews with prominent New York designers, Lindsey Adelman tells Dezeen about how she became a pioneer of the city's burgeoning lighting scene (+ slideshow + transcript). More about "There's a huge burst of creativity" in New York says Lindsey Adelman
London designer Benjamin Hubert has moulded a range of ceramic containers to leave spiral and criss-crossing seams around the outside (+ slideshow). More about Benjamin Hubert patterns ceramic containers with raised seams
New York 2015: Brooklyn-based lighting designer Bec Brittain has launched a lighting collection called Zelda, based on diamond-shaped forms, as well as a new range of light diffusers. More about Bec Brittain's latest lighting collection features LED tubes arranged in diamond shapes