News: Italy's design manufacturing capability is at risk of disappearing, according to Alberto Alessi, president of design brand Alessi. More about Italian design production "could disappear," says Alberto Alessi
Working with skilled local craftspeople is both a duty and an opportunity for Indian designers, says Prateek Jain of lighting design company Klove, in the third and final movie from BE OPEN's Made In… India Samskara exhibition in New Delhi. More about Work with Indian craftsmen to keep handcrafting skills alive, says designer Prateek Jain
Milan 2014: Nao Tamura drew on experiences from the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami to create an installation of suspended mobiles, intended to evoke a sense of fragility and harmony with nature. More about Moving petals express "fragility of life" in Interconnection by Nao Tamura
Milan 2014: a teaspoon that follows a cup around a table and a clock that mimics the actions of the person in front of it were among projects presented by students from Swiss university ECAL in Milan (+ movie). More about ECAL students design interactive products that address "lack of humanness" in electronics
Milan 2014: Japanese designer Jun Murakoshi's tableware features patterned thread tops that create a geometric lattice for supporting flowers. More about Thread patterns cover blown-glass tableware by Jun Murakoshi
Milan 2014: Japanese design studio Nendo has unveiled several new pieces to accompany the Peg armchair it produced last year for Italian brand Cappellini (+ slideshow).
More about Nendo extends Peg furniture collection for Cappellini
Milan 2014: designer Tom Dixon presented a collection of pendant and table lights that combine geometric brass-plated planes with spherical glass shades in Milan last week. More about Tom Dixon launches "minimal and geometric" Plane light collection
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: created for Lady Gaga, the Volantis is the world's first flying dress and heralds the beginning of a new era for human flight, says designer Benjamin Males. More about Lady Gaga's flying dress offers vision of how "we may all travel in ten years time"
Milan 2014: Anglo-Indian design duo Doshi Levien has created a lounge chair for B&B Italia based on memories of a trip to the Himalaya mountains in India (+ interview). More about Doshi Levien's Almora lounge chair for B&B Italia feels like being "wrapped in a soft, warm blanket"
Milan 2014: Dutch architecture firm UNStudio has revealed a chair with an S-shaped seat that allows its user to move from sitting upright to relaxing with a leg up (+ slideshow). More about UNStudio's Gemini chair "allows a variety of seating positions" for working or lounging
Milan 2014: London studio Poetic Lab has revealed a new iteration of Ripple – a lighting collection that imitates movement on water – at Milan design week (+ movie). More about Ripple effect captured in glass-domed lighting by Poetic Lab
Feature: thirty-three years after designs by the Memphis Group caused a "mass-media event" at the Salone del Mobile, the bold graphic style they created is back in favour in Milan and is appearing in some unusual places, finds Dan Howarth. More about The return of Memphis: "it's something that's in the air"
Milan 2014: Japanese design studio YOY presented a lamp that projects the shape of a shade onto a wall and a rug that doubles as a chair in Milan this week (+ slideshow). More about YOY brings "humour to an ordinary room" with light that projects its shade
Milan 2014: Brooklyn-based designer Marc Thorpe is showing a range of tables inspired by leaves and stems for Moroso in Milan this year (+ slideshow). More about Marc Thorpe reimagines garden vine to create steel table
Milan 2014: German designer Hanna Emelie Ernsting has developed a chair with an integrated red blanket that wraps around the sitter like Little Red Riding Hood's cape (+ slideshow). More about Fairytale-inspired chair shrouds the sitter with a red hood
Berlin-based product designer Mark Braun has created his first watch, with the Metro for fine watchmakers Nomos Glashütte (+ interview). More about Mark Braun celebrates "craft of making" with Metro watch for Nomos Glashütte
Milan 2014: futurist and writer Bruce Sterling was among this week's visitors to the FOMObile in Milan – the first mobile press room for an algorithmic publishing experiment led by Joseph Grima (+ download). More about Download issues four to eight of experimental Milan newspaper FOMO
Milan 2014: Finnish design brand Iittala is showing a collection of boxy shelves, plywood furniture and glass lamps in Milan this week (+ slideshow). More about Theatre box-shaped shelves by Cecilie Manz feature in Iittala's latest collection
Over the last few years Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion has been loaded with junk, and had its pools filled with coffee and milk. Now photographer Jordi Bernadó has taken the doors out and mounted them onto the facade. More about Jordi Bernadó removes doors from Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion
This system of illustrated characters and animations was developed to help people learn to read Chinese, and is one of the 76 projects nominated for Designs of the Year 2014 (+ slideshow). More about Chineasy illustrated characters designed to make learning Chinese easy