Cologne 2015: the first collaboration between German designer Sebastian Herkner and Danish furniture manufacturer Gubi has resulted in a minimal pendant lamp. More about Sebastian Herkner's Collar Lamp pairs hand-blown glass with a spun aluminium shade
Fashion studio The Unseen will present a sculptural jacket that changes colour depending on the wearer's mood during this month's London Fashion Week. More about The Unseen creates "coded couture" to read wearers' auras
Researchers from Swiss technical university Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have created a prototype for telescopic contact lenses, and have developed the technology to allow them to be controlled by winking. More about Telescopic contact lenses zoom in and out with right and left winks
News: a "zero-emission" electric black taxi design has been approved to operate on London's roads and could replace the city's famous diesel-fuelled cabs (+ slideshow). More about London's first electric black cab approved for fare-paying passengers
News: electronics company LG has unveiled an updated version of its G Watch R smartwatch that is designed to look like a luxury timepiece (+ slideshow). More about LG targets luxury market with metal smartwatch
Belgian studio Muller Van Severen will debut its latest pieces of furniture and lighting that "ooze a sort of fruitiness" at London gallery Viaduct next month (+ slideshow). More about Muller Van Severen to present new furniture at Viaduct exhibition
Stockholm 2015: Japanese designer Yuki Yoshikawa of Nanashiproducts used layers of acrylic gouache paint to highlight wood grains on the seat and back of these simple chairs. More about Yuki Yoshikawa accentuates Grain Chair with painted patterns
Stockholm 2015: furniture design students from Helsinki's Aalto University have used blue-coloured plywood and black tubular steel to form sculptural chair prototypes. More about Aalto University students design chairs from bright blue plywood
Stockholm 2015: Swedish designers Siri Bahlenberg and Sofia Bergfeldt have created a lampshade made of ice that slowly melts back into its mould so it can be re-frozen and used again (+ movie). More about Icy pendant lamp drips back into its mould for refreezing
News: technology giant Apple is designing an electric vehicle that could revolutionise automobiles and challenge electric car manufacturer Tesla, according to reports that emerged over the weekend. More about Apple rumoured to be working on an electric car
Maison&Objet 2015: a hand-blown glass vessel with a brass cuff perches on the corner of a black marble cube to form Israeli designer Dan Yeffet's Elements vase (+ slideshow). More about Dan Yeffet stacks brass, marble and glass into Element vase
Fashion designer Pauline van Dongen has developed a knitted cardigan with integrated stretch sensors that measures the movement of elderly wearers (+ movie). More about Pauline van Dongen's Vigour cardigan senses how well its wearer is moving
Dutch designer Lex Pott has created a collection of cylindrical vases from oxidised metals for his first collaboration with Danish design brand &tradition. More about Lex Pott's True Colours vases contrast oxidised and polished finishes
Interview: Robert Melville, chief designer at supercar brand McLaren, explains how bird wings, artificial hearts and spy planes are among the inspirations for vehicles where "everything is there for a reason" (+ slideshow). More about Designing a McLaren is about creating "efficiency through the air"
Music: director Matteo Zamagni – also known as øøøø – created landscapes of imagined planets by manipulating photographs of cabbage, plastic bags and broccoli in his video for TSVI’s song Malfunction (+ movie). More about Photos of cabbage and plastic bags used to create fantastical alien landscapes in TSVI music video
London-based German designer Jule Waibel has launched a collection of seats made from 100 per cent wool felt that has been three-dimensionally folded under steam to create flexible pleats (+ slideshow). More about Jule Waibel’s pine cone-shaped seats are made by steam-folding wool felt
Competition: to celebrate Valentine's Day, Dezeen has teamed up with UK studio Dorothy to give readers the chance to win one of five posters filled with suggestive vocabulary (+ slideshow). More about Competition: five Periodic Table of Sexual Terminology posters to be won
Opinion: why did the Postmodernist design movement flounder at the end of the 1980s? Will Wiles finds the answer in popular Hollywood movies. More about "Postmodernism was typecast as soon as it made it out of the Italian magazines"
News: supercar brand McLaren is exploring ways of developing shape-shifting "transformer" vehicles that morph from self-driving city cars to low-slung racers in the countryside, according to chief designer Robert Melville. More about McLaren investigates driverless supercars that change shape
A pedestrian bridge in Bristol, England, is the latest architectural landmark to be enveloped in fog by Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya (+ slideshow). More about Fujiko Nakaya hides Bristol bridge inside a blanket of fog