Design
London studio creates 3D scan of horse
News: Hackney studio Sample and Hold 3D-scanned a living horse for a new sculpture by Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Wallinger. More about London studio creates 3D scan of horse
News: Hackney studio Sample and Hold 3D-scanned a living horse for a new sculpture by Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Wallinger. More about London studio creates 3D scan of horse
Product news: an extra surface swings out from underneath this coffee table by Italian designer Roberto Paoli (+ slideshow). More about 360 degrés by Roberto Paoli for Ligne Roset
Milan 2013: British designer Ross Lovegrove will unveil a concept car he has designed for French car manufacturer Renault in Milan next month (+ movie). More about Concept car by Ross Lovegrove for Renault
Design Indaba 2013: glow-in-the-dark roads and responsive street lamps were among the concepts to make highways safer while saving money and energy presented by Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde at the Design Indaba conference in Cape Town earlier this month. More about Smart Highway by Studio Roosegaarde
News: a nominee for the Design Museum's Design of the Year award has caused controversy by presenting 3D-printed copies of two of the other finalists' work. More about Design award contender exhibits copies of rivals' objects
Product news: London designer Paul Cocksedge has launched a gadget on Kickstarter that plays music wirelessly through vintage speakers (+ movie). More about The Vamp by Paul Cocksedge
News: American 3D printing company MakerBot has unveiled a prototype of a desktop scanner that will allow users to digitally scan objects they want to replicate with a 3D printer at home. More about MakerBot reveals prototype desktop 3D scanner
Here are some photos from an exhibition of David Bowie memorabilia that opens this week at London's V&A museum, featuring costumes, album artwork and set designs from his personal archive. More about David Bowie is at the V&A
Product news: London print designers Eley Kishimoto teamed up with Icelandic design collective Vík Prjónsdóttir for DesignMarch in Reykjavík last week, where they presented a seal-shaped blanket inspired by an Icelandic folk tale. More about Seal Pelt Remix by Eley Kishimoto and Vík Prjónsdóttir
Dutch designer Hella Jongerius has created a new cabin interior for Dutch airline KLM, including textiles inspired by the Milky Way and carpets made from recycled uniforms. More about World Business Class cabin by Hella Jongerius for KLM
Design Indaba 2013: Dutch trend forecaster Li Edelkoort curated an exhibition drawing parallels between the Italian Memphis movement of the 1980s and contemporary South African design at Design Indaba Expo in Cape Town earlier this month. More about Totemism: Memphis meets Africa at Design Indaba Expo
An exhibition of projects nominated for Designs of the Year including Zaha Hadid's table inspired by a glacier and a stool made on a fishing trawler (above) opens tomorrow at London's Design Museum. More about Designs of the Year 2013 exhibition at the Design Museum
Design Indaba 2013: South African designers presented a wide range of pieces made from metals at this exhibition in Cape Town during Design Indaba earlier this month (+ slideshow). More about Heavy Metal at the Woodstock Foundry
News: graphic designer Thomas Widdershoven of Amsterdam studio Thonik has been appointed creative director of Design Academy Eindhoven after a turbulent period for the Dutch institution. More about New Design Academy Eindhoven creative director announced
Product news: Italian designer Michele Daneluzzo took inspiration from tools used by early humans when designing this stainless steel knife (+ slideshow). More about Primitive knife by Michele Daneluzzo for Del Ben
Designers Kyuhyung Cho and Hironori Tsukue have created tables and chairs that clip together to form an assortment of shelving units. More about Oneness by Kyuhyung Cho and Hironori Tsukue
London designer Craig Green fashioned masks from splintered planks of wood for his Autumn Winter 2013 collection. More about Autumn Winter 2013 collection by Craig Green
Interview: struggling smartphone maker BlackBerry hopes to wrestle back lost market share with a new touchscreen keyboard that will eradicate the "embarrassing" mistakes common on rival smartphones. "Sometimes it's kind of scary when you get your own emails back and you read them," said BlackBerry's head of design Todd Wood. More about BlackBerry aims to end "hilarious misspelled messages"
Milan 2013: London architect Zaha Hadid has designed a limited edition of marble tables. More about Tables by Zaha Hadid for Citco
Milan 2013: the covers of these sofas by Italian industrial designer Giulio Iacchetti look like they're made of crumpled paper (+ slideshow). More about Newcastle sofas by Giulio Iacchetti for Meritalia