Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: in the first of a series of preview movies running up to the Dezeen and MINI Frontiers exhibition next week, designer Dominic Wilcox shows us the car he is making out of stained glass for the show. More about Behind the scenes with Dominic Wilcox making his "stained-glass driverless car"
Design duo Something & Son has created a sustainable farming initiative on a rooftop in Folkestone, England, but has concealed it behind a traditional fish and chip shop facade (+ slideshow + interview). More about Rooftop fish and chip shop by Something & Son is (slowly) growing its own produce
News: Korean architect Seung H-Sang is set to be officially named as Seoul's first city architect this week, in a move to re-establish the city's "architectural identity" after decades of unchecked development (+ interview). More about Seoul names Seung H-Sang as its first city architect
While blogs and online magazines have come to dominate coverage of design news, the internet has also made it more feasible for anyone to launch a print magazine and created a demand for a more considered approach says Katie Tregidden, co-founder of Fiera magazine (+ slideshow + interview). More about New magazines: "A lasting record of the world of design at a point in time"
London Design Festival 2014: in this movie produced by Dezeen for Perrier-Jouët, glass artist Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert shows us the factory where the glass is being made for his upcoming installation at the V&A. More about Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert to create mouth-blown glass installation at the V&A
London Design Festival 2014: Patrizia Moroso, the creative director of Italian design brand Moroso, spoke to Dezeen about her relationship with London and designers including Ron Arad, Ross Lovegrove and Tord Boontje, in this interview conducted to coincide with the Moroso loves London exhibition (+ slideshow). More about "It was Ron Arad's first experience of industrial design"
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"
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: Francesca Rosella of interactive fashion brand CuteCircuit claims advances in digital "smart" fabrics will revolutionise the fashion industry, allowing us to download new styles for our clothes rather than buying new garments. More about With smart textiles we can "download new colours or patterns" to our clothes
News: construction has begun on the Lego visitor centre in Billund, Denmark, designed by architect Bjarke Ingels, who told Dezeen that Lego bricks provide the ultimate tool for testing architectural ideas (+ interview). More about "Lego proportions are the golden ratio of architecture," says Bjarke Ingels
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: Roland Lamb, inventor of the squishy-keyed Seaboard piano that won the Designs of the Year 2014 product category, claims we are on the cusp of a new generation of "multidimensional" digital musical instruments. More about Advances in digital interfaces will lead to a "new beginning in music"
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: architect Carlo Ratti claims the heating system he developed with MIT, which uses motion sensors to focus beams of infrared radiation on people as they move through a building, can be "one order of magnitude more efficient" than traditional methods. More about Personalised "bubbles of heat" could replace inefficient central heating
Movie: in this exclusive video interview filmed in Venice, Ma Yansong of Chinese architects MAD explains his concept for a "shan-shui city", a high density urban development inspired by traditional Chinese paintings of mountain ranges. More about MAD wants to "invent a new typology" for high-rise architecture, says Ma Yansong
Dezeen Book of Interviews: in the first extract from our new book, Israeli designer Ron Arad explains how his career began with the chance discovery of a car seat in a scrapyard. More about Ron Arad: "The Rover chair sucked me into the world of design"
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: architect Pernilla Ohrstedt's stand design for the Dezeen and MINI Frontiers exhibition will visualise the 3D data driverless cars use to navigate, which she claims will gradually produce a "perfect" digital model of our cities. More about Driverless cars will "capture a virtual replica of the real world," says Pernilla Ohrstedt
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: RCA graduate Oluwaseyi Sosanya shows us the 3D-weaving machine he invented, which he claims could be used to create better sportswear, medical implants and even architecture. More about 3D weaving can "reduce cost and improve structural integrity" in architecture
Movie: Pritzker Prize-winning architect Toyo Ito tells Dezeen that, while his buildings vary in material and style, the key to all of them is their close relationship with the people that inhabit them. More about "I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings," says Toyo Ito
Movie: Japanese architect Toyo Ito says his showroom for textile brand Kinnasand was designed to complement the company's "very delicate transparent and semi-transparent fabrics" in this video interview filmed in Milan. More about Toyo Ito wanted delicate textiles to "float in the air" in his Milan showroom for Kinnasand
Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: exhibition commissioner Kayoko Ota says Japan's pavilion celebrates the architects that "challenged the status quo" in the 1970s, in this movie filmed by Dezeen in Venice. More about Japan's biennale pavilion challenges architects to "face the real world"
Writer Geoff Manaugh and designer John Becker have imagined a scenario in which genetically modified bees could be trained to print detailed concrete structures rather than produce honey (+ interview). More about Bees could 3D-print "concrete honey" to form architectural structures
Bamboo architects: groundbreaking bamboo architect Simón Vélez, who describes the material as "vegetable steel", has built a trio of experimental structures at Domaine de Boisbuchet in France (+ slideshow + interview). More about The architecture of Simón Vélez pioneers "new ways of using giant bamboo"