Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: digital technology is infiltrating all aspects of design and making, according to Dries Verbruggen of Belgian design studio Unfold, who has transformed a set of wood and brass tools into digital measuring instruments (+ movie). More about Boundaries between analogue and digital tools "are becoming irrelevant"
Photo essay: French photographer Ann Ray provides a personal insight into the life and career of British fashion designer Alexander McQueen, in this essay written exclusively for Dezeen to accompany a selection of photographs acquired by the V&A. More about Ann Ray shares intimate behind-the-scenes photographs of Alexander McQueen
Stockholm designer Monica Förster has created wooden furniture and accessories for Bosnian company Zanat, using a hand-carving technique that could soon become protected by UNESCO (+ slideshow). More about "Bosnian handicraft meets Scandinavian design" in Monica Förster's range for Zanat
British sculptor Antony Gormley has filled a Parisian gallery with an impenetrable structure made from grids of steel, and an army of figures made from stacked metal cubes (+ slideshow). More about Antony Gormley occupies French gallery with monumental metal sculptures
The exhibition of work by fashion's late enfant-terrible Alexander McQueen first shown in New York has been expanded for London's V&A museum (+ slideshow). More about Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty opens at London's V&A
Prolific Japanese design studio Nendo has produced a line of T-shirts aimed at making the Hello Kitty cartoon character palatable for a male audience. More about Nendo rethinks Hello Kitty for men's T-shirt range
Milan 2015: Paris-based designer Arik Levy will present a seating range supported by split wooden legs in Milan next month (+ slideshow). More about Arik Levy's colourful chairs for TON have legs that split in two
China's days as a major producer of fake designer goods are numbered, according to Design Shanghai's creative director Ross Urwin. More about "China's copying days are coming to an end" says Design Shanghai creative director
Swathes of lace and satin textiles were tied into stuffed bundles and bows to create Japanese fashion house Comme des Garçons' Autumn Winter 2015 collection shown at Paris Fashion Week. More about Comme des Garçons swaddles models in fabric cocoons for Autumn Winter 2015
Design Indaba 2015: jewellery items in this collection by South African designer Ashley Heather are made from silver salvaged from discarded electronic products. More about Ashley Heather reclaims precious metal from circuit boards to create jewellery
Opinion: it's time for designers to start thinking more like businesspeople, says Bradford Shellhammer, creator of new design e-commerce site Bezar and co-founder of Fab. More about "You're a design entrepreneur, not a designer"
Geneva Motor Show 2015: car manufacturers are helping to change outdated perceptions of hybrid and electric vehicles by using the technologies in faster, sleeker cars, finds Dezeen's motoring correspondent Ross Bryant. More about Six of the best electric and hybrid car designs from the 2015 Geneva Motor Show
Voluminous origami-influenced garments and headdresses featured in Japanese fashion designer Junya Watanabe's catwalk show during Paris Fashion Week. More about Junya Watanabe folds textiles into mathematical patterns for Autumn Winter 2015
London's Royal College of Art has been hit by more senior staff changes, with Ab Rogers (above) stepping down as head of the Interior Design programme, Clare Johnston retiring as head of Textiles and Jeremy Myerson departing as head of research institute the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design. More about "Changing of the guard" as more senior staff step down at Royal College of Art
Japanese studio Nendo has turned woven bamboo baskets into backrests for chairs and storage compartments for tables in this furniture range (+ slideshow). More about Nendo's Tokyo Tribal furniture incorporates bamboo baskets
Design Indaba 2015: designer Kathryn Fleming has presented prototypes for new organisms that could be created using synthetic biology, including a cat-dog hybrid with reflective fur and a tightrope-walking herbivore. More about Kathryn Fleming proposes engineering animals to thwart extinction
Swedish designer Stefan Borselius has created a modular sofa system for Fogia, based on the Tondo chairs he designed for the Swedish furniture brand last year. More about Stefan Borselius develops Tondo chair into sofa system for Fogia
Tiny Shoreditch gallery Kemistry is rebranding itself as the UK's first public institution dedicated to graphic design, and is staging a retrospective exhibition as part of its funding bid. More about London gallery to re-launch as UK's first public institution of graphic design
Apple has revealed its latest laptop computer, which weighs only two pounds and comes in colours to match the tech giant's iPhone 6 (+ slideshow). More about Apple's thinnest and lightest MacBook comes in gold
Italian designer Piero Lissoni has paired a round-edged cube seat with a vertical rectangular back to create this upholstered chair for furniture brand Viccarbe. More about Season chair by Piero Lissoni comprises two simple volumes