London Design Festival: drops of coloured ink fall from the top of a stone staircase into a glass tank six storeys below in this installation at the V&A museum by German artist and designer Rolf Sachs (+ slideshow). More about The Journey of a Drop by Rolf Sachs
Here's a movie showing the concept animations, construction and testing of the London 2012 Olympic cauldron by British designer Thomas Heatherwick. More about Making of Thomas Heatherwick's London 2012 Olympic cauldron
London Design Festival: white metal chairs are stacked in a tower and clustered on staircases around the V&A museum as part of an installation by Japanese design studio Nendo (+ slideshow). More about Mimicry Chairs by Nendo
London Design Festival: data streams from all over the city are visualised on the faceted surfaces of Japanese/British designer Keiichi Matsuda's installation inside the cupola of the V&A museum for the London Design Festival. More about Prism by Keiichi Matsuda
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
Dezeen Wire: the famous white suit worn by John Travolta in 1977 film Saturday Night Fever has been rediscovered and will be on show at the V&A museum in London from October. More about John Travolta's Saturday Night Fever suit rediscovered
Here are some photos of a scale model of the London 2012 Olympic Cauldron designed by Thomas Heatherwick, which has now been added to the ongoing exhibition of his work at the V&A museum, plus drawings from the designer. More about London 2012 Olympic Cauldron by Thomas Heatherwick: model and drawings
Architects AL_A have been granted permission to construct a subterranean gallery beneath a new entrance courtyard at the V&A museum in London (+ slideshow). More about V&A Exhibition Road by AL_A
News: the V&A museum in London is to open a new permanent gallery to display over 200 pieces from its collection of furniture spanning 600 years. More about V&A museum to open new permanent furniture gallery
Movie: Thomas Heatherwick talks to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about his top-secret design for the cauldron that will hold the London 2012 Olympic flame in this interview filmed at his ongoing exhibition at the V&A museum in London. Update: this interview is featured in Dezeen Book of Interviews, which is on sale now for £12. More about Movie: Thomas Heatherwick on his design for the Olympic cauldron
Movie: Thomas Heatherwick talks to Dezeen about his design for a riverboat in France in this interview filmed by Dezeen at Heatherwick's ongoing exhibition at the V&A museum in London. More about Movie: Thomas Heatherwick on designing a boat for the Loire
Movie: Thomas Heatherwick talks about his studio's tradition of sending unusual handmade Christmas cards in this interview filmed by Dezeen at Heatherwick's exhibition at the V&A museum in London. More about Movie: Thomas Heatherwick on his studio's Christmas cards
Competition: to coincide with the Heatherwick Studio: Designing the Extraordinary exhibition at the V&A in London, we're giving readers the chance to win a year's membership to the museum plus a copy of the new monogram Thomas Heatherwick: Making. Five runners-up will also receive a pair of tickets to the exhibition. More about Competition: V&A membership, Heatherwick's new book and exhibition tickets to be won
Movie: Thomas Heatherwick talks to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about redesigning the iconic red double-decker bus for London in this interview filmed by Dezeen at the preview of Heatherwick Studio: Designing the Extraordinary at the V&A museum in London. More about Movie: Thomas Heatherwick on designing a new bus for London
A solo show of work by British designer Thomas Heatherwick opens at the V&A in London this week, featuring prototypes, experiments, material samples and finished works from key projects including UK Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010 and his recent redesign of the double decker London bus. More about Heatherwick Studio: Designing the Extraordinary at the V&A
Movie: in this movie filmed by Dezeen at today's preview of Heatherwick Studio: Designing the Extraordinary at the V&A museum in London, Thomas Heatherwick demonstrates the machine that dispenses guides to the exhibition from huge rolls of paper, inspired by newspaper printing presses. More about Movie: Thomas Heatherwick at the V&A museum
Dezeen Wire: here's a round up of design critics' reactions to the retrospective of British design that opens at the Victoria & Albert museum in London tomorrow. More about Critics' reactions to British Design 1948-2012: Innovation in the Modern Age at the V&A
In this movie from the V&A museum in London, Simon Peers and Nicholas Godley talk about the cape they made by harvesting silk from over a million wild spiders in Madagascar. The silk is naturally golden in colour and the spiders take just a week to replenish their supply once released back into the wild. More about Movie: golden spider-silk cape by Simon Peers and Nicholas Godley
A golden cape woven from the silk of over a million wild spiders is on show at the V&A museum in London. More about Spider-silk cape by Simon Peers and Nicholas Godley
Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs will chair a discussion with Milan designer Fabio Novembre at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London tonight as part of Peroni Nastro Azzurro's latest series of talks on Italian design. You'll be able to watch the talk via a live stream on Dezeen Screen from 7pm. More about Peroni Collaborazioni Talk tonight: Fabio Novembre