Engineering student Alejandro Plasencia has created biodegradable fishing nets and tracking tags for fishermen to help stop aquatic mammals getting trapped in lost trawling equipment (+ movie). More about Biodegradable fishing nets could prevent sea mammal deaths
Music: this video by New Zealand musician Nigel Stanford shows a series of experiments that demonstrate how sound waves affect different types of matter. More about Nigel Stanford makes sound visible for Cymatics music video
Designer Ernesto D Morales has proposed a spoon made out of magnifying glass as part of a series of absurd products for his fictional company Object Solutions (+ movie). More about Magnifying spoon designed to detect contaminants in food
Movie: in our next exclusive video interview for Moroso, designers Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien claim that the brand was one of the few furniture companies in Italy that would "dare" to invest in their work. More about Doshi Levien's furniture for Moroso "challenges people's perceptions"
Warsaw collective Pangenerator has designed a digital necklace formed using light patterns that are projected onto the wearer's body via their phone (+ movie). More about Pangenerator creates jewellery with projected light
World Architecture Festival 2014: Johanna Hurme of Canadian firm 5468796 explains the use of wooden "quills" in the proposed art gallery extension that was named Future Project of the Year 2014 (+ movie). More about Gallery extension proposal by 5468796 "recreates the quality of light of a rainforest"
News: Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde's cycle path, illuminated with patterns based on Vincent van Gogh's painting The Starry Night, officially opens in Nuenen this evening (+ movie). More about Daan Roosegaarde's glowing Van Gogh cycle path to open in the Netherlands
Interview: technological innovation is driving increasingly experimental fashion design at Issey Miyake according to the Japanese brand's womenswear creative director, who has developed a new technique for folding fabric into origami-like patterns (+ movie). More about Issey Miyake's focus is "being innovative with technology" says head of womenswear
Movie: in our next exclusive video interview for Moroso, Dutch designer Tord Boontje explains how the fashion industry has influenced his furniture collections for the Italian brand. More about Tord Boontje and Moroso brought "the excitement of fashion into furniture"
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: teaching young designers computer code will have profound consequences claims Technology Will Save Us, whose DIY Gamer Kit was acquired by MoMA last week. More about Integrating programming and design will "totally change the world"
Music: director Christophe Thockler used "10 litres of gasoline" to create this fiery stop-motion music video for avant-pop duo Victoria+Jean. More about Christophe Thockler plays with fire for Victoria+Jean music video
Movie: London designer Ross Lovegrove explains how Moroso helped boost his career in the second of our exclusive video interviews filmed for the Italian furniture brand. More about Moroso "gave me a chance," says designer Ross Lovegrove
News: research group Future Cities Catapult and tech company Microsoft have developed a headset that sends the wearer three-dimensional sound information in a push to make urban areas more navigable for blind people (+ movie). More about Headset creates "3D soundscape" to help blind people navigate cities
Movie: in the first of a series of exclusive video interviews filmed for Moroso, Ron Arad tells the story behind his first collection for the Italian brand, which he says helped it become "one of the leading firms in contemporary furniture." More about Ron Arad's Spring furniture collection "turned the direction of Moroso"
Interieur 2014: antique objects from a Belgian museum's permanent collection appear as ghostly apparitions in an exhibition by London studio Glithero (+ movie). More about Glithero exhibits artefacts as spectral illusions for Fantoom exhibition
Water flows both up and down from this dual-nozzled faucet designed by ECAL graduate Alice Spieser, which combines the functionally of a standard tap with a drinking fountain (+ movie). More about Alice Spieser's 3D-printed tap aims to make drinking from the faucet more dignified
Strips of pre-rusted Corten steel run in vertical columns around this Belgian house by DMOA Architecten (+ movie). More about The Corten House by DMOA architecten is surrounded by weathered steel fins
Music: the story of Adam and Eve is told through acid-colour graphics in this music video for electronic artist Zhu by director Tomek Ducki. More about Tomek Ducki animates Adam and Eve's sinful story like an "underground party"
World Architecture Festival 2014: Australian landscape architect Perry Lethlean explains the concept behind the Canberra park named World Landscape of the Year 2014 in our next movie from World Architecture Festival. More about Canberra's National Arboretum features "100 forests from around the world"
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: playfulness is essential to creativity claims London designer Dominic Wilcox, who says that creatives should not "worry about what other people think" (+ movie). More about Dominic Wilcox: "I'm deadly serious about being playful"