Portuguese studio LIKEarchitects has created a steel structure for Porto from a series of stairs and balconies, in celebration of the two architectural elements the designers consider crucial to the city's vernacular (+ slideshow). More about Tripod installation by LIKEarchitects is all stairs and balconies
Extra Moooi: explore Moooi's new collection as well as its signature products in this interactive slideshow, which features all 21 sets of furniture and lighting the Dutch design brand showcased in Milan last month. More about Interactive slideshow: explore all the products showcased at Moooi's Milan exhibition
Clerkenwell Design Week 2015: British designer Sebastian Cox has collaborated with sculptor Laura Ellen Bacon to create The Invisible Store of Happiness – a large wooden installation comprising a skeletal frame and intricate ribbon-like swathes. More about Cox and Bacon build wooden structure with a lower carbon footprint than an iPhone 6
Milan 2015: Polish designer Martyna Barbara Golik has created a collection of textiles based on the different categories of flavour the mouth can taste (+ movie). More about Martyna Barbara Golik translates tastes into textiles
British artist Steve Messam has installed a weight-bearing bridge across a stream in the UK's Lake District using 20,000 sheets of bright red paper (+ slideshow). More about Steve Messam creates crimson bridge from 20,000 sheets of paper
These clothes by Dutch designer Jeffrey Heiligers are structured to correct poor posture caused by slouching while typing. More about Jeffrey Heiligers tailors Posture garments to prevent hunched backs
Music: French director Porthé has animated a series of cubes to zoom out from the scale of an atom to a whole universe for this video for producer 20syl. More about Porthé's cubic animation for 20syl music video zooms from micro to macro
Porto studio Moradavaga has built a tower covered in tin cans that can be rotated to create pixellated messages, resembling those on train station departure boards (+ slideshow). More about Moradavaga uses spinning tin cans to turn a tower into an interactive billboard
British designer Sebastian Bergne has created a "micro laboratory" that enables users to form different beverage flavours by adding aromas, spices and other ingredients to heated milk (+ slideshow). More about Sebastian Bergne's Hot Milk Lab encourages flavour experiments
Google's self-driving car, a proposal for clearing plastic waste from the world's oceans and a concrete university building in Santiago are among the category winners for this year's Designs of the Year awards. More about Designs of the Year 2015 category winners announced
British architect David Adjaye has filled the largest exhibition space at the Venice Biennale with a temporary museum and has also created a live events space for a seven-month reading of Karl Marx's Das Kapital (+ slideshow). More about David Adjaye creates temporary museum for Venice Art Biennale 2015
Milan 2015: bike manufacturer AERO created this prototype bicycle frame from layers of birch to test wooden structural techniques that can be applied to architectural projects (+ slideshow). More about AERO designs wooden bicycle frame to explore techniques for architecture
New York 2015: Brooklyn industrial design student Kai Lin has created a contemporary furniture set for jail cells in juvenile detention centres in the US. More about US student Kai Lin designs furniture for youth prison cells
Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has designed a temporary addition to a 17th-century Venetian palazzo, featuring a curved structure covered with 90,000 empty containers usually used to hold eyeshadow. More about Shigeru Ban's Venice biennale installation is made from thousands of makeup cases
Milan 2015: British architecture firm Foster + Partners has created a minimal pendant lamp from two metal discs for Italian lighting manufacturer Lumina. More about Foster + Partners designs simple disc-shaped pendant lamp for Lumina
Opinion: Elon Musk is a real-life Tony Stark – a billionaire CEO who wants to change the world. With the launch of his energy-storing batteries for powering our homes, he may actually be developing the technology to do it, says Dan Hill. More about "Elon Musk's Powerwall could change the carbon footprint of entire societies"
Interview: hybrid and electric technologies are changing the way cars are designed after decades of stagnation, according to BMW's Benoit Jacob, speaking exclusively to Dezeen about the i8 sports car (+ slideshow). More about Hybrids have "changed the constraints" of car design says head of BMW i
Israeli artist Tsibi Geva has wrapped his country's Venice pavilion in old car tyres and filled it with a mixture of found architectural and household objects to explore ideas about the home (+ slideshow). More about Tsibi Geva hides Israel's Venice biennale pavilion behind a wall of used tyres
Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola has attached two long cushions to the back of this outdoor chair with coloured straps. More about Patricia Urquiola straps cushions to Roll chair for Kettal
New York 2015: textile designer Dusen Dusen has used magnetic wallpaper to create an interactive mural for the 2015 Wanted Design show in Brooklyn (+ slideshow). More about Dusen Dusen creates ever-changing magnetic mural for Wanted Design show in Brooklyn