London Design Festival: the London Design Festival is underway and the sun is shining so if you're out and about this afternoon be sure to check out the Seven Designers for Seven Dials installations curated by Dezeen (+ map). More about Seven Designers for Seven Dials installations curated by Dezeen
Austrian design duo Mischer'Traxler talk to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about how their basket-building machine will only work when someone's watching in this movie we filmed at Clerkenwell Design Week. More about Movie: Collective Works by Mischer'Traxler at Clerkenwell Design Week
Paris Design Week 2012: architect and designer Jean Nouvel unveiled a collection of aluminium chairs for Emeco at his studio in Paris this week. More about So-So Chairs by Jean Nouvel for Emeco
Spanish lighting designers Luzinterruptus scattered 10,000 glowing books across the ground at Federation Square in Melbourne this summer for a lighting festival dedicated to reading. More about Literature Versus Traffic by Luzinterruptus
London Design Festival: in the first of three posts about the Digital Crystal exhibition at London's Design Museum, we look at a mechanical projector built by London design studio Troika which uses Swarovski crystal lenses and LEDs to create portraits on the gallery wall (+ slideshow). More about Hardcoded Memory by Troika
London Design Festival: the V&A museum in London will show off its latest contemporary furniture acquisitions during London Design Festival next week, including Joris Laarman's 2006 Bone chaise and mould (pictured above). More about V&A's new furniture acquisitions to be shown at London Design Festival
The hinged boxes of this bookcase by Korean furniture designer Lee Sehoon can be spun round to create a neat grid or a scattered circle (+ movie). More about Squaring by Lee Sehoon
East London designer Donna Wilson will contribute a special installation to Dezeen's Stepney Green Design Collection made up of a 1.8 metre-high knitted tree with a selection of her soft-toy creatures living in it. More about Knitted tree and creatures by Donna Wilson for the Stepney Green Design Collection
Japanese designers Nendo have created their first watch collection for Danish brand Noon. The collection consists of five watches, which will be available at Dezeen Watch Store and Dezeen Super Store in September. More details soon...
More about Dark Noon by Nendo
The aeroplanes of the future will be catapulted into the sky, fly in formation like birds along "express skyways" and glide into airports with their engines turned off, according to aviation company Airbus. More about Smarter Skies by Airbus
Slideshow feature: Dezeen is at Maison & Objet in Paris this week and we have selected our top ten products exhibited at the design and interiors trade fair, including shelves that look like sheets of paper caught in the wind by Japanese studio YOY (image 1). More about Dezeen's top ten products at Maison & Objet
Static boardroom meetings will swing into action around this table with hanging chairs created by Christopher Duffy for British design brand Duffy London. More about Swing Table by Duffy London
London Design Festival: a series of prints based on sketches by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec and Pierre Charpin will be presented at design store twentytwentyone next week as part of the London Design Festival. More about Wrong Shop Editions at twentytwentyone
London design brand Hulger has launched a mini version of its award-winning Plumen 001 lightbulb and it'll be available at Dezeen Super Store from Friday. More about Baby Plumen 001 by Hulger at Dezeen Super Store
London Design Festival: Japanese designer Yuri Suzuki has made a radio from an electronic circuit board that's arranged to look like the London tube map. More about Tube Map Radio by Yuri Suzuki
This money box by London designer Sebastian Bergne displays your savings on the wall like a picture. More about Wall Saver by Sebastian Bergne for L’Atelier d’Exercises
A pendant lamp made from heat-shrunk plastic cups by east London designer Paul Cocksedge is the next piece for the Stepney Green Design Collection curated by Dezeen. More about Styrene by Paul Cocksedge for the Stepney Green Design Collection
To conclude our series on designs at the London 2012 Paralympics we're focussing on the most talked-about equipment used at the games - carbon-fibre prosthetic blades inspired by the hind legs of a cheetah. More about Paralympic design: Flex-Foot Cheetah blades
German artist Hendrik Beikirch has painted a 70-metre-high mural of a fisherman a few blocks away from Daniel Libeskind's Haeundae I'Park skyscrapers in Busan, South Korea (+ slideshow). More about Asia's Tallest Mural by Hendrik Beikirch
London Design Festival: two ladders are joined by hidden hinges to create this adaptable slimline coat rack by Taiwanese designer Yenwen Tseng. More about Ladder Coat Rack by Yenwen Tseng