Virgin Hyperloop One and BIG have revealed videos demonstrating how hyperloop passengers will have the illusion they are travelling in a transparent tube (video contains flashing images). More about Zoetrope windows turn hyperloop tubes "transparent"
This year's Venice Architecture Biennale is bursting with models, including several you can touch or inhabit. Dezeen's social media editor Danil Boparai picks 10 of the best examples. More about 10 Venice Architecture Biennale installations that invite you to interact
A forest of trees, artificial snow and a giant cuckoo clock provided the setting for dinners at a pop-up restaurant in Los Angeles, created by German designer Hendrik Müller for kitchen brand Gaggenau. More about Hendrik Müller recreates The Black Forest in LA warehouse for Gaggenau's Restaurant 1683
White-painted wooden shapes are set beneath grey and yellow resin to give a gradient effect to this furniture by Brooklyn-based Facture Studio. More about Facture Studio moulds resin over tiered wooden blocks to pattern Scale furniture
Dezeen promotion: a four-day celebration of design kicks off in Los Angeles today, with exhibitions, talks, workshops and parties taking place across the city. More about LA Design Festival spotlights city's "creative diversity and talent"
When New York lighting studio Apparatus held a party themed around Tehran in the 1970s, guests turned up as camel salesmen and belly dancers. Designers should know better than to resort to such lazy cultural stereotypes, says Sina Sohrab. More about "It is important to be mindful of how we use one another's cultures for our own entertainment"
IKEA has revealed another new product in its hotly anticipated range with fashion designer Virgil Abloh, a rug that looks like a huge shopping receipt. More about Virgil Abloh adds giant receipt rug to upcoming IKEA collection
IKEA has teamed up with Swedish tech creatives Teenage Engineering to design a set of mobile speakers and lights that make it easy to throw a party in any location. More about IKEA and Teenage Engineering create "perfect reason to throw a party" with portable speakers and lights
On the 150th anniversary of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's birth, we continue our roundup of his most influential projects, by taking a look at the chair he created for the Argyle Street Tea Rooms. More about Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Argyle Chair was designed for intimate dining
Italian architect Carlo Ratti and his company Makr Shakr have launched a mass-market robotic cocktail maker. More about Nino robotic bartender can make "any drink in seconds"
Nike has released trainers for Pride Month that feature pink triangles, which have been met with criticism from LGBT advocacy group ACT UP. More about Nike releases trainers featuring pink triangle for Pride Month
Kanye West and Kid Cudi have unveiled album artwork designed by Japanese artist Takashi Murakami for their upcoming collaboration Kids See Ghosts. More about Kanye West unveils Takashi Murakami-designed album art for Kids See Ghosts
In this competition, Dezeen readers have the chance to win one of five tournament wall charts to keep track of results during the 2018 FIFA World Cup in style. More about Competition: win a Russian Suprematism World Cup wall chart
Dezeen promotion: A multicoloured pavilion with a wave-like ceramic facade is one of three projects that manufacturer Agrob Buchtal has named as winners of the Tile Award. More about Agrob Buchtal announces winners of this year's Tile Award
Pentagram has given insurance tech company Cytora an animated visual identity that aims to demystify how the business works. More about Pentagram creates ever-evolving brand identity for tech company Cytora
In the next movie in our Bolon at Heart video series, Michaela Ljungdahl explains why the flooring brand invested in a vinyl-recycling plant for its factory in Sweden. More about Bolon has its own in-house recycling facility to "build on the heritage of the company"
Fashion designer Kate Spade has been found dead at her New York apartment, where she reportedly took her own life. More about Fashion designer Kate Spade dies aged 55 in apparent suicide
Dezeen promotion: designjunction, one of the key exhibitions for the London Design Festival, is moving to three new venues on the South Bank. More about Oxo Tower Wharf to become new London Design Festival destination
Benjamin Hubert's design studio Layer has launched Trove, a digital wallet and app system that allow you to store your cryptocurrency without fear of loss or theft. More about Layer launches "unhackable" wallet for storing cryptocurrency
A faux-sheepskin rug from IKEA and a "dolly wool" sofa from Anthropologie are among the winners in an awards programme by animal rights nonprofit PETA that celebrates the UK's best vegan design for the home. More about IKEA, Anthropologie and Habitat among winners of PETA Vegan Homeware Awards 2018