Fashion designer Ying Gao has fabricated a pair of dresses that writhe around and light up when someone stares at them (+ movie). More about (No)where (Now)here: Two Gaze-activated Dresses by Ying Gao
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: DMY Berlin founder Joerg Suermann gives us a guided tour of this year's design festival in our second report from Berlin. More about "At DMY Berlin we want to support young designers"
A bandage pack containing a bone marrow donor registry kit has won a White Pencil at the D&AD Awards (+ movie). More about Help! I Want to Save a Life by Graham Douglas for Help Remedies and DKMS
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our first movie from the German capital, DMY Berlin founder Joerg Suermann shows us around his favourite neighbourhood of Kreuzberg and tells us why he believes the relaxed atmosphere and low cost of living that attracts many designers to the city can also trap them there. More about "It's easy for young designers to get stuck in Berlin"
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our fourth movie recorded at the MINI Paceman Garage in Milan, MINI head of design Anders Warming introduces the workshops that took place in the space and journalist Justin McGuirk explains why he sees OMA's Tools for Life collection as a nostalgic reaction to the decline of industry in the city. More about OMA's furniture collection for Knoll "turns industry into a fetish"
German designer Philipp Weber's glassblowing pipe with valves like a trumpet won the New Talents Award at DMY Berlin last week (+ movie). More about Strange Symphony by Philipp Weber
These billboards by creative agency Ogilvy & Mather stretch outwards to double as street furniture (+ movie). More about Ads with a New Purpose by Ogilvy & Mather for IBM
Winners of this year's W Hotels Designers of the Future Award have revealed their projects at Design Miami/Basel (+ movie). More about W Hotels Designers of the Future Award 2013 projects at Design Miami/Basel
Clerkenwell Design Week 2013: designers including Patricia Urquiola, Ab Rogers and Jay Osgerby talk about their participation in Clerkenwell Design Week in the first of a series of movies we filmed during the event. More about Clerkenwell Design Week 2013 movie
News: researchers at MIT Media Lab's Mediated Matter group have created a dome from silk fibres woven by a robotic arm, which was then finished by live silkworms (+ movie). Update: this interview is featured in Dezeen Book of Interviews, which is on sale now for £12. More about Silkworms and robot work together to weave Silk Pavilion
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: New York designer Stephen Burks tells us how his once rough-edged city is being tamed by world-class architecture, urban design improvements like the High Line and a European-style bike-sharing scheme in the first of our reports from the Big Apple. More about "New Yorkers all of a sudden are interested in quality of life"
Visitors to the Afrofuture exhibition in Milan built light-up glasses from recycled materials at a workshop organised by Maker Faire Africa (+ movie). More about Maker Faire Africa Workshop at Afrofuture
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our next movie recorded at the MINI Paceman Garage in Milan last month, MINI head of design Anders Warming discusses the design of the new MINI Paceman and design journalist and curator Kieran Long gives us his thoughts on how the current generation of designers compares to the great masters. More about "Young designers have no grasp of design history"
Dutch graphics studio Experimental Jetset has redesigned the logo for the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York as a slender W that changes shape to respond to its setting (+ movie). More about Whitney Graphic Identity by Experimental Jetset
Japanese designer Kouichi Okamoto has made a tape cutter with a curved edge that he uses to create drip-like patterns (+ movie). More about Liquid Tape Cutter by Kouichi Okamoto for Kyouei Design
Plastic extruded from this robotic 3D printer solidifies instantly, allowing it to draw freeform shapes in the air extending from any surface (+ movie). More about Mataerial by Petr Novikov, Saša Jokić, Joris Laarman Lab and IAAC
New York designer Stephen Burks filled the Milan showroom of Italian brand Calligaris with colourful ropes and columns of plastic chairs lashed together last month (+ movie). More about Variations by Stephen Burks for Calligaris
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our second film recorded at the MINI Paceman Garage in Milan last month, MINI head of design Anders Warming describes the centrepiece installation in the space and Joseph Grima, editor-in-chief of Domus magazine, reflects on a difficult period for Italian design. More about "An era is drawing to an end for Italian design"
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: as digital technology changes the way we work and relax, Japanese designer Naoto Fukasawa discusses its impact on furniture design in this movie filmed in Milan last month. Update: this interview is featured in Dezeen Book of Interviews, which is on sale now for £12. More about "In your life, everything is integrated"
Hundreds of cut-out paper letters tell the history of typefaces in this stop-motion animation by Canadian graphic designer Ben Barrett-Forrest. More about The History of Typography by Ben Barrett-Forrest