Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye and Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House are among the five iconic houses put together from blocks of colour and thick outlines in this short animated film by Italian designer Matteo Muci. More about Iconic 20th century houses are brought to life in Matteo Muci's short animation
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: the advancement and proliferation of 3D-scanning technology means we will soon be able to explore a life-size digital replica of the real world, claims ScanLAB co-founder William Trossell. More about 3D-scanning technology will enable cities to exist in "both a virtual and a physical form"
Graduate designer Marlène Huissoud has used materials made by bees and silkworms to craft a series of vessels and furniture (+ movie). More about Marlène Huissoud creates products with the help of insects
Industrial design studio Priestmangoode has released plans for an aeroplane cabin interior with room for every passenger to store hand baggage in the overhead compartments (+ movie). More about Priestmangoode overhauls aircraft interior to include more carry-on luggage space
Indian company Lucid Design has created a conceptual "bike in a bag" that would quickly dismantle into parts to fit into a backpack (+ movie). More about Kit Bike by Lucid Design packs into a bag
Rolling this clock by Korean design studio 11+ allows you to keep track of the time in different cities around the world (+ movie). More about World Clock by 11+ rolls to change time zones
Amsterdam designer Quintus Kropholler has created this collection of nine products using asphalt concrete to highlight the impact of diminishing petroleum supplies (+ movie). More about Black Gold homeware collection by Quintus Kropholler is made of tarmac
American design studio SOFTlab attached 20,000 translucent flowers to a flexible plastic mesh to create this installation for the Brazilian jelly-shoe brand Melissa's New York flagship store (+ movie). More about SOFTlab installs colourful funneled canopy in Melissa shoe shop
The creators of activity tracking app Human have visualised the routes taken by its users to create moving maps that show the world's cities throughout the day (+ movie). More about Smartphone app Human draws maps of urban movement
Design collective Penda has developed a concept for a flexible, portable hotel made from rods of bamboo, designed to bring guests closer to nature (+ movie). More about Penda's modular bamboo hotel could be expanded horizontally and vertically
Dezeen Music Project: this colourful music video by director Kate Moross for UK band Wild Beasts is overlaid with trippy 90s-style graphics. More about Kate Moross applies "psychedelia" to Wild Beasts music video
Movie: in the final part of our series of exclusive video interviews with Bjarke Ingels, the architect compares his design method to the family game of Twister and claims BIG's Amager Bakke Waste-to-Energy Plant will "transform people's perceptions" about public utility buildings. More about BIG's combined power plant and ski slope is "turning science fiction into fact"
Artist James Bridle has teamed up with architecture studio TDO to build a rooftop hangar on a south London car park, from which a military surveillance balloon makes a daily flight to snoop on the area (+ movie). More about Rooftop hangar by TDO provides launchpad for James Bridle's surveillance balloon
Movie: Bjarke Ingels explains how the $335 million allocated to BIG's scheme to upgrade Manhattan's storm defences will be used to create a flood barrier disguised as a park in our second exclusive video interview with the Danish architect. More about Big U storm defences "will secretly protect Manhattan from flooding" says Bjarke Ingels
A stone comes with this concrete lamp by Bucharest designer Dragos Motica so the user can smash the shade to reveal the reinforcing steel mesh (+ movie). More about Dragos Motica's Slash Lamp is designed to be broken
Movie: in the first of a series of exclusive video interviews with Bjarke Ingels, the Danish architect talks us through three of his practice BIG's current projects and explains why he considers diagrams to be such an important design tool. More about "BIG never makes any design decisions just for fun" says Bjarke Ingels
Movie: in our final exclusive video interview with Alberto Alessi, the president of the Italian design brand recalls the controversy surrounding Philippe Starck's stylish but impractical lemon squeezer, saying he considers it to be "a big joke". More about Philippe Starck's Juicy Salif was "the most controversial lemon squeezer of the century"
Emulsified liquid latex stretches over bodies and fermented dough drips from skin in this movie by graduate textile designer Shai Langen. More about Shai Langen covers bodies in liquid latex fabrics and fermented dough
Movie: Alberto Alessi discusses the popularity of Michael Graves' kettle with a bird-shaped whistle in the penultimate movie from our series of exclusive video interviews with the president of the Italian design brand. More about Michael Graves' kettle for Alessi was "a best-seller for 15 years"
Movie: next up in our series of exclusive video interviews with Alberto Alessi, the Alessi president says that Aldo Rossi's La Conica espresso maker defies the key principle of 20th century design that form should follow function. More about Aldo Rossi "didn't believe that form follows function" says Alberto Alessi