News: Dutch designer Merel Bekking has come up with an experiment to find the "perfect" design by scanning people's brains to determine the aesthetic qualities they best respond to. More about Brain scans reveal recipe for "perfect design"
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in the second part of our interview with Craig Robins, the Miami property developer explains how bringing back furniture showrooms was the catalyst for transforming the city's derelict Design District into the thriving luxury shopping destination it is today. More about Craig Robins: "Furniture companies key to regenerating Miami Design District"
The bent plywood back of this chair by Danish design brand ShapingYourDay slots into a hole in the seat and is attached with two screws (+ slideshow). More about Viggo chair made from two curving plywood pieces by ShapingYourDay
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde explains how his installation in Eindhoven consisting of hundreds of glowing LED crystals will change over time as some people steal them and others create new ones of their own. More about Daan Roosegaarde: "People can do what they want with my Crystal installation"
Stockholm 2014: all of the solid wood furniture in Swedish studio Claesson Koivisto Rune's collection for Japanese brand Matsuso T has five sides (+ slideshow). More about Claesson Koivisto Rune to launch pentagonal wooden furniture
Interview: when designer Isabelle Olsson joined the secret Google X lab in 2011, Google Glass looked like a cross between a scuba mask and a cellphone. In this exclusive interview, Olsson tells Dezeen how she turned the clunky prototype into something "beautiful and comfortable". Update: this interview is featured in Dezeen Book of Interviews, which is on sale now for £12. More about Google Glass was designed through "sketching by hand" says lead designer
News: Finnish furniture brand Artek has acquired the production facilities that were used by its co-founder Modernist architect Alvar Aalto to develop his signature bent wood furniture. More about Artek buys factory where Alvar Aalto developed his furniture
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: graduate designer Martijn Van Strien explains that his range of coats made from single sheets of black tarpaulin are designed for an imagined future world where money and resources are in short supply. More about Martijn Van Strien's Dystopian Brutalist Outerwear is "a kind of trend forecast"
German brand e15 has launched a collection of wood and marble home accessories (+ slideshow). More about e15 unveils wood and marble home accessories collection
The faceted forms of these 3D-printed wireframe bowls and vessels by French designer Michaël Malapert are inspired by the Japanese art of origami. More about Dark Side collection of 3D printed vessels by Michaël Malapert
Stockholm 2014: the wooden base of this sofa by Swedish firm Note Design Studio extends outwards to become a side table. More about Side table extends from base of Rise sofa by Note Design Studio
Students from Łódź University of Technology in Poland built this delicate stacked sculpture to demonstrate the structural properties of curve-folded paper. More about Fragile Beasts sculpture made from paper by Łódź University of Technology students
Maison&Objet 2014: Catalan designer Eugeni Quitllet has taken the silhouettes of famous modernist chairs and amalgamated them into the back of this bar stool. More about Famous modernist chair shapes merged into a bar stool by Eugeni Quitllet
News: Danish design brand Carl Hansen & Søn has changed its logo back to one originally created by legendary furniture designer Hans J. Wegner in 1950, in honour of the 100th anniversary of his birth. More about Carl Hansen & Son adopts logo designed by Hans J. Wegner in 1950
Maison&Object 2014: perforated 3D-printed shades diffuse the glow from lamps in this collection by Italian designer Alessandro Zambelli. More about 3D-printed shades diffuse light from Afillia lamps by Alessandro Zambelli for .exnovo
News: New York technology firm Squarespace has published a statement slamming criticism that its new service for creating logos demeans the role of the graphic designer. More about Squarespace rejects claims its online logo design tool is "a replacement for professional designers"
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: Amsterdam designer Pieke Bergmans explains that she used a process similar to glass blowing to create the plastic lighting she exhibited during Dutch Design Week 2013 in Eindhoven. More about Pieke Bergmans' blown-plastic VAPOR lighting "grows like a plant or animal"
Berlin collective The T-Shirt Issue has sliced up jersey fabric to create four faceted garments that capture stages of a sweatshirt melting into the ground (+ slideshow). More about Sweatshirt by The T-Shirt Issue appears to melt
Maison&Objet 2014: each item in this six-piece stationery set by London designer Samuel Wilkinson has a soft faceted body (+ slideshow). More about Samuel Wilkinson designs faceted stationery for Lexon
Maison&Object 2014: French design duo Colonel has launched its third furniture collection, featuring items based on camping equipment (+ slideshow). More about Colonel launches collection based on nomadic furniture at Maison&Objet