London Design Festival 2014: Dezeen has collaborated with designjunction to create a free digital map of West End Design Quarter 2014 – one of the key areas during this year's London Design Festival – including the best fashion and design shops offering discounts to Visa card holders during the festival. More about Dezeen and designjunction launch map of West End Design Quarter 2014
News: British inventor James Dyson has revealed a design for an intelligent vacuuming robot that can be programmed remotely, which has been in development for the past 16 years. More about Dyson launches "most powerful" vacuum cleaning robot
Japanese design studio Nendo has created an ice cream cake, featuring a group of small chocolate houses intended to remind people of returning home for the holidays (+ slideshow). More about Nendo designs ice cream Village cake for Häagen-Dazs
The geometric patterns of bridge structures informed the shapes used to create this wooden furniture by Variant Studio (+ slideshow). More about Structural trusses influence Bridge furniture by Variant Studio
Visitors to Venice's Palazzo Grassi become immersed within a space that appears to have no boundaries in an installation created by American artist Doug Wheeler in the gallery's atrium (+ slideshow). More about Doug Wheeler creates illusion of infinite white space inside Venetian palazzo
Detroit studio Rootoftwo has installed weather vanes shaped like headless chickens on five buildings in Folkestone, England, which spin around and change colour in response to fear levels on the internet rather than the climate (+ slideshow). More about Headless rooftop chickens by Rootoftwo respond to internet panic levels
Maison&Objet 2014: Hem, the brand launched by online retailer Fab.com and Finnish design company One Nordic, has revealed its first collection of customisable furniture (+ slideshow). More about Fab.com and One Nordic reveal first collection under new design brand Hem
Italian illustrator Federico Babina has spliced 25 world-famous paintings, from artists including Picasso, Mondrian and Dalí, with buildings by the 20th century's most prolific architects. More about Federico Babina inserts 20th century architecture into famous artworks
Design collective Outofstock has suspended a closable cupboard within an open display box to form this cabinet for Danish furniture brand Bolia. More about Outofstock's Flag cabinet conceals and displays small objects
Belgian artists Studio Job have designed a collection of feline bronze pieces with lights instead of eyes for London's Carpenters Workshop Gallery (+ slideshow). More about Studio Job's Pussy Cats sculptures capture aggressive feline behaviour
News: a Russian YouTube video claims to show an iPhone 6 created by appropriating different parts from a factory production line. More about Video footage of Apple's new iPhone 6 design leaks
In a market increasingly dominated by websites and blogs, a series of new print titles are offering an alternative approach to writing about design. In the first of a series, Dezeen speaks to Anna Bates about carving out a niche for domestic design criticism with Dirty Furniture magazine (+ slideshow + interview). More about New magazines: "Our goal was to map the domestic landscape"
Maison&Objet 2014: Danish design brand Muuto's latest collection features skinny tables, magnetic ceramic vases and candlesticks with small tabs for easy carrying (+ slideshow). More about Nordic designers create furniture and homeware for Muuto
Maison&Objet 2014: British designer Tom Dixon will launch a home accessories collection including mouth-blown barware and scent diffusers at Paris design show Maison & Objet, which has named him Designer of the Year. More about Tom Dixon to unveil accessories with live "factory" at Maison & Objet
London Design Festival 2014: interior design studio AfroditiKrassa has created a pentagonal pendant light with casing made from mirrored and tinted glass (+ slideshow). More about AfroditiKrassa's Pentagon Pendant is clad in beveled mirrors
Maison&Objet 2014: Dutch designers Studio Makkink & Bey collaborated with a family of craftspeople in northern India to develop a collection of Jaipur-clay ceramics (+ slideshow). More about Studio Makkink & Bey creates Blue Pottery using traditional Indian techniques
Milan designer Paolo Dell'Elce has based the shapes of these mirror-polished spun brass vases for Swedish metalware company Skultuna on vessels in paintings by a 20th century Italian artist. More about Via Fondazza brass vases by Paolo Dell'Elce are modelled on still life paintings
London Design Festival 2014: Bergen Academy of Art and Design student Hedda Torgersen designed this desk lamp to look like a "long-legged character". More about Hedda Torgersen's anthropomorphic Boo lamp to be exhibited at 100% Norway
Dezeen Book of Interviews: in the second extract from our latest book, Dutch industrial designer Hella Jongerius says there's more to design than simply creating more and more new objects. More about Hella Jongerius: "Why make new stuff every year? I'm happy to work on the classics"
Maison&Objet 2014: Stockholm design agency Afteroom has created a coat hook, lounge chair and bar stool for Danish design brand Menu's Autumn Winter 2014 collection. More about "Bauhaus modernism" inspires Afteroom's furniture and home accessories for Menu