London Design Festival 2015: an exhibition designed by Turner Prize-nominated architecture collective Assemble at the V&A museum celebrates the heritage of late British furniture designer Robin Day. More about Robin Day's Works in Wood displayed on Assemble's "forest" of columns at the V&A
London Design Festival 2015: the studio run by Dezeen columnist Sam Jacob has designed an urn for Lenin, based on a finial found outside the London house the Russian revolutionary lived in for a short period in 1908. More about Sam Jacob Studio creates Lenin's Urn for Soane Museum's "pieces" exhibition
London Design Festival 2015: artist and designer Seetal Solanki is launching her material consultancy studio Matter with a six-day exhibition and programme of events (+ slideshow). More about Matter's first exhibition will explore the future of materials
Finnish design duo Company has created a range of products combining traditional skills and designs from northern Japan with craft from Finland and has given each one a "spirit" – a person dressed in a costume to represent the soul of the object (+ slideshow). More about Company's Secrets of North Japan includes "spirit" costumes and Japanese roller-skates
The inaugural Dubai Design Week will feature projects from 10 international design schools including London's Royal College of Art and Swiss college ÉCAL for its future-themed Global Grad Show (+ slideshow). More about Dubai Design Week to showcase student work from RCA, ÉCAL and more in Global Grad Show
A new exhibition at the Friedman Benda gallery in New York displays the early work of designer Ettore Sottsass, best-known for the colourful and radical Memphis design movement of the 1980s (+ slideshow). More about New York exhibition examines the pre-Memphis work of Ettore Sottsass
Drones, lightweight furniture, national costumes and astronaut training centres feature in this year's Designers in Residence exhibition at London's Design Museum (+ slideshow). More about Design Museum's 2015 Designers in Residence tackle migration theme
Work from more than 30 Danish furniture designers is on display at the Øregaard Museum in Copenhagen, as part of the 2015 Cabinetmakers' Autumn Exhibition. More about Cabinetmakers' Autumn Exhibition 2015 showcases "petite" Danish furniture design
London Design Festival 2015: an exhibition by Swedish gardening house Coloni and trend forecaster Studio Aikieu will celebrate the potential of "undesirable" and wild-growing species in towns and cities. More about Coloni and Studio Aikieu celebrate weeds with Plants Out Of Place exhibition
Studio Job has created a series of lamps shaped like peeled bananas for an exhibition at Belgium's Samuel Vanhoegaerden Gallery. More about Studio Job's Banana Show exhibition opens in Belgium
Shimmering and billowing garments by Chinese fashion designer Rui Xu will be presented in an exhibition at London's Royal College of Art. More about Rui Xu blends ancient Chinese dress and contemporary couture for fashion exhibition
MAD Architects, Michael Maltzan and wHY are among the studios whose work is showcased in a new exhibition about domestic architecture in Los Angeles (+ slideshow). More about Imaginative housing solutions for LA presented in new exhibition at A+D Museum
American architect Richard Meier has created a private museum and library in New Jersey to house his vast collection of models, sculptures, paintings and books from a career spanning more than five decades (+ slideshow). More about Richard Meier creates private museum in New Jersey to showcase his work
The architecture and design of the counterculture era has been overlooked, according to the curator of an upcoming exhibition dedicated to "Hippie Modernism" (+ slideshow). More about Hippie Modernism exhibition at the Walker Art Center to celebrate design's trippy side
Italian studio Arabeschi di Latte and curator Jane Withers have installed a bar at London's Selfridges that invites visitors to "imagine life without the plastic water bottle" as part of an exhibition about ocean plastic (+ slideshow). More about Selfridges hosts Water Bar for marine plastic exhibition Project Ocean
Belgian duo Studio Job has patterned giant windows at the Faena Art Center in Buenos Aires with coloured symbols and replicated the motifs on the floor of a roller disco inside (+ slideshow). More about Studio Job's Futopia Faena exhibition includes stained glass windows and a roller disco
Instead of applying coloured pigments to these vases, Scottish designer Dean Brown has placed the powder in glass tubes and suspended it away from the undecorated surfaces (+ slideshow). More about Glazing pigments and vases kept separate for A Matter of Colour exhibition
London's Aram Gallery is hosting an exhibition of products by young designers who are working with ordinary materials and processes in "extraordinary" ways (+ slideshow). More about Young designers explore materials, products and processes in Aram Gallery exhibition
Amsterdam exhibition space Looiersgracht 60 is hosting a solo exhibition of work by Dutch designer Aldo Bakker that consists of just five jugs. More about Aldo Bakker takes over Amsterdam exhibition space with just five jugs
World Architecture Festival 2015: Aaron Richardson of Populous explains how the architecture firm used paper and cardboard to create a portable display system to showcase shortlisted projects for this year's World Architecture Festival, in this movie filmed by Dezeen. More about World Architecture Festival 2015 finalists presented at Populous-designed exhibition