London Design Festival: drops of coloured ink fall from the top of a stone staircase into a glass tank six storeys below in this installation at the V&A museum by German artist and designer Rolf Sachs (+ slideshow). More about The Journey of a Drop by Rolf Sachs
This golden library in Copenhagen by architects COBE and Transform is meant to resemble a pile of books (+ slideshow). More about The Library by COBE and Transform
Rooms are shared between two matching concrete blocks at this house in Israel by architects Shilo Benaroya. More about Ben Ami House by Shilo Benaroya
Here's a movie showing the concept animations, construction and testing of the London 2012 Olympic cauldron by British designer Thomas Heatherwick. More about Making of Thomas Heatherwick's London 2012 Olympic cauldron
Dutch designer Ka-Lai Chan has wrapped a whole wall, furniture and ornaments behind an all-encompassing layer of sticky tape at an abandoned apartment in Utrecht. More about PLAY Project by Ka-Lai Chan
News: online homeware retailer Made.com has opened a physical showroom on the ninth floor of a west London office tower, featuring QR codes and miniature 3D-printed models of furniture. More about Online retailer Made.com opens physical showroom
Dezeen promotion: the exhibitor line-up has been announced for the 23rd Biennial of design (BIO23), taking place from 27 September to 11 November 2012 at the Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana, Slovenia. More about BIO23 exhibitors announced
News: the Dutch city of Almere has won a bid to host the World Horticultural Expo in 2022 with proposals by MVRDV for a square-shaped peninsula covered in gardens. More about MVRDV to create Almere peninsula for World Horticultural Expo
News: online design retailer Fab.com is closing its UK site and relocating up to 35 staff from London to Berlin as part of a move to create a single European e-commerce site based in Germany. More about Fab.com launches "shopfront for the whole of Europe"
An undulating golden plane blankets the new Islamic art galleries at the Musée du Louvre in Paris, which opened to the public this weekend (+ slideshow). More about Department of Islamic Arts at Musée du Louvre by Mario Bellini and Rudy Ricciotti
London Design Festival: Curator, author and furniture designer Suzanne Trocmé has created a 3D-printed ceramic bowl and egg cup based on the continuous form of a Möbius strip. More about Aspirals by Suzanne Trocmé for 1882 Ltd
London Design Festival: construction workers made this furniture on show at London's Gallery Fumi, but Brazilian architect Marcio Kogan of Studio MK27 has added small details to embellish each piece. More about Prostheses and Innesti by Studio MK27, Manuela Verga and Paolo Boatti
A chequerboard of solid and void cloaks the tapered glass walls of this bank in Innsbruck by Austrian architect Rainer Köberl (photographs by Lukas Schaller + slideshow). More about BTV Branch Innsbruck by Rainer Köberl
The sounds of the countryside are amplified when you place your ear towards one of these four enormous trumpets built by architects Studio Weave (+ slideshow). More about The Hear Heres by Studio Weave
London Design Festival: London design journalist and photographer Barbara Chandler has selected ten of her favourite photographs from this year's London Design Festival, including portraits of Martino Gamper, Industrial Facility (above) and Tord Boontje. More about London Design Festival 2012 photographs by Barbara Chandler
In the second movie Dezeen filmed with designer Erwan Bouroullec at Clerkenwell Design Week, he flicks through the new book documenting 15 years of work by him and his brother Ronan and talks about his favourite project ever. More about Movie: Erwan Bouroullec on his favourite project ever at Clerkenwell Design Week
The latticed facade of this Tokyo bookstore by Klein Dytham Architecture comprises hundreds of interlocking T-shapes that subtly reference the logo of entertainment retailer Tsutaya (+ slideshow). More about Daikanyama T-Site by Klein Dytham Architecture
South London designers JAILmake have condensed their 205 square metres studio into just five square metres at design show Tent London, where they'll be working on a new brief every day (+ audio). More about JAILmake pop-up studio at Tent London
The buildings of Lyon are pulled apart in these impossible photographs by Norwegian artist Espen Dietrichson. More about Variations On a Dark City by Espen Dietrichson
London Design Festival: this week we've been recording short interviews with designers and critics at the top shows of the London Design Festival, and we've now compiled them in a handy audio guide to the festival. More about Dezeen's London Design Festival audio guide