Engineering student Alejandro Plasencia has created biodegradable fishing nets and tracking tags for fishermen to help stop aquatic mammals getting trapped in lost trawling equipment (+ movie). More about Biodegradable fishing nets could prevent sea mammal deaths
Dutch Design Week 2014: these textiles by Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Alexandra Stück are infused with different remedial herbal scents to make the wearer feel calm, focused or horny. More about Alexandra Stück's Herbal Kneipp Textiles use scent to promote wellbeing
Music: this video by New Zealand musician Nigel Stanford shows a series of experiments that demonstrate how sound waves affect different types of matter. More about Nigel Stanford makes sound visible for Cymatics music video
News: Oslo-based Neue Design Studio has won a competition to redesign Norway's passports and ID cards, a month after graphics by Snøhetta were chosen for the country's new bank notes. More about Norwegian travel documents given a minimal makeover
Designer Ernesto D Morales has proposed a spoon made out of magnifying glass as part of a series of absurd products for his fictional company Object Solutions (+ movie). More about Magnifying spoon designed to detect contaminants in food
Movie: in our next exclusive video interview for Moroso, designers Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien claim that the brand was one of the few furniture companies in Italy that would "dare" to invest in their work. More about Doshi Levien's furniture for Moroso "challenges people's perceptions"
Italian firearms brand Beretta has revealed Marc Newson's reinterpretation of the traditional side-by-side shotgun (+ slideshow). More about Marc Newson's "streamlined" 486 shotgun unveiled by Beretta
One of the UK's oldest food markets created The Real Apple Store to showcase 1,000 British apple varieties as part of its anniversary celebrations (+ slideshow). More about Real Apple Store created for Borough Market's 1000th birthday
Warsaw collective Pangenerator has designed a digital necklace formed using light patterns that are projected onto the wearer's body via their phone (+ movie). More about Pangenerator creates jewellery with projected light
A team of Austrian students installed a model city in the centre of Vienna to show how much housing and infrastructure could be built with the €19 billion (£15 billion) that the government is paying to bail out a local bank (+ slideshow). More about Austrians protest government spending with concrete model city
News: Apple's head designer Jonathan Ive says he struggles to hire young staff as schools are failing to teach them how to make products. More about Design education is "tragic" says Jonathan Ive
News: Eurostar has revealed a fleet of trains by Italian transport design studio Pininfarina that will serve a new range of European cities, marking the cross-channel rail service's 20th anniversary. More about Eurostar unveils train design by Pininfarina to celebrate 20th anniversary
This low-cost centrifugal device by British designer Jack Albert Trew fits onto the wheel of a bicycle, providing a simple blood diagnosis for patients in remote parts of Africa (+ slideshow). More about Jack Albert Trew designs bicycle-powered centrifuge to enable blood testing in rural Africa
Yves Behar's San Francisco studio Fuseproject has designed a machine for a biotech company that will be used for genetic testing experiments (+ slideshow). More about Yves Behar designs DNA testing machine
News: Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde's cycle path, illuminated with patterns based on Vincent van Gogh's painting The Starry Night, officially opens in Nuenen this evening (+ movie). More about Daan Roosegaarde's glowing Van Gogh cycle path to open in the Netherlands
Interview: technological innovation is driving increasingly experimental fashion design at Issey Miyake according to the Japanese brand's womenswear creative director, who has developed a new technique for folding fabric into origami-like patterns (+ movie). More about Issey Miyake's focus is "being innovative with technology" says head of womenswear
Swedish German design firm Kram/Weisshaar has teamed up with car brand Audi to design and develop a "micro-sharing initiative" to encourage drivers in Stockholm to share their cars (+ slideshow). More about Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram design car-sharing programme for Audi
A pair of French product designers have created an inflatable bandage that snaps around the wrist like a slap bracelet so it can be self-administered with only one hand. More about Uflex bandage snaps around a wound and inflates to stop bleeding
Movie: in our next exclusive video interview for Moroso, Dutch designer Tord Boontje explains how the fashion industry has influenced his furniture collections for the Italian brand. More about Tord Boontje and Moroso brought "the excitement of fashion into furniture"
Japanese studio Nendo has released the second watch in its series of designs that takes graphical cues from architectural drawing tools. More about Nendo's second Draftsman watch is based on circular stencils