Music: director Ben Jones has collaborated with experimental rock band Battles on a riotous animation-heavy film that questions society's addiction to "screen time". More about Ben Jones' Dot Net video uses animation to recreate Battles' "technicolour sounds"
Vienna Design Week 2015: Vienna design collective Breaded Escalope has created a clock that uses shadows to display the time when a finger is placed within its face (+ movie). More about Breaded Escalope's touch-responsive clock tells the time with shadows
Future Makers: in this movie filmed by Dezeen in London, Suryansh Chandra claims the affordable robotic arm his company Automata is developing could lead to robots becoming as ubiquitous as desktop 3D printers. More about Automata aims to "democratise robotics" with ,000 six-axis robot
Movie: German designer Nils Holger Moormann told young designers they must learn to be resilient if they want to have successful careers at this year's Blickfang design workshop. More about As a designer you will sometimes "fail completely" says Nils Holger Moormann
Researchers and students from the University of Stuttgart used 30,000 spiky components and a robot to create a pavilion described as the "first architectural structure realised with a designed granular system" (+ movie). More about Robot uses stacked spiky particles to build groundbreaking ICD Aggregate Pavilion 2015
Music: animator and director Danny Madden of Ornana Films referred to the design of old French lithograph posters to create this multi-layered illustrated video for Pink Floyd vocalist and musician David Gilmour. More about Danny Madden animates a vintage jazz club for David Gilmour's music video
As SelgasCano's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion closes this weekend, this movie by Stephenson/Bishop takes a closer look at the details of colourful plastic structure, which will now move to a permanent home in Los Angeles (+ movie). More about SelgasCano's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion closes this weekend after attracting 170,000 visitors
Aerospace company Boeing has released a film that demonstrates the properties of what it describes as "the lightest metal ever" (+ movie). More about Microlattice metal is "world's lightest material" says Boeing
Music: director Kévin Bray used face-tracking and 3D-scanning technology to create digital doubles of musician Gwilym Gold for the video to accompany his Greener World track. More about Kévin Bray uses 3D scanning to duplicate Gwilym Gold for his Greener World music video
The "world's first smart menstruation cup" links with a phone app to provide women with information about their periods (+ movie). More about Looncup tracks menstruation and sends vaginal updates to your phone
Future Makers: industrial designer Sebastiaan Deviaene explains how he works with digital tools more commonly used by video game developers to create 3D-printed implants for bone reconstruction in this movie. More about Sebastiaan Deviaene designs medical implants using video game development software
Movie: architect David Adjaye tells the story behind his first seating range for Moroso in our latest exclusive movie for the Italian furniture brand. More about David Adjaye's Double Zero chair for Moroso celebrates "the power of welding"
Chicago Architecture Biennial 2015: Bangkok studio All(zone) has conceived a small temporary home intended to be set up inside unfinished high-rise buildings in tropical cities (+ movie). More about Micro dwelling by All(zone) could be erected within abandoned towers
This 18-metre-high light installation was created by Dutch designer Dennis Parren for the Lowlands music festival in The Netherlands (+ movie). More about Dennis Parren installs illuminated tower at Lowlands music festival
Movie: in the next instalment of our exclusive video series with Julia Peyton-Jones, the Serpentine Gallery director recalls her trip to Brazil to convince Oscar Niemeyer to design the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in 2003. More about Oscar Niemeyer "took the brief very seriously" for 2003 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
Fibreglass petals overlap to create the transparent roof of Amanda Levete's forest-inspired MPavilion, which opened to the public today in Melbourne's Queen Victoria Gardens (+ movie). More about Amanda Levete's tree canopy-like MPavilion opens in Melbourne
Music: Amsterdam material designer Shai Langen made sculptural headpieces and covered models in hand-painted patterns for Jo Goes Hunting's Run Away music video. More about Shai Langen daubs bodies with paint for Jo Goes Hunting's Run Away
London Design Festival 2015: the studio launched by London designer Benjamin Hubert has partnered with environmental consultancy Carbon Trust to produce a concept wearable that could track individual carbon footprints (+ movie). More about Layer's concept wearable tracks personal carbon consumption
Graphic designer Neville Brody has worked with in-house team 4Creative, director Jonathan Glazer and agency DBLG to create a new visual identity for UK broadcaster Channel 4 (+ movie). More about Neville Brody designs bespoke typefaces for Channel 4 rebrand
Vienna Design Week 2015: a hammer that persistently strikes a stone and a "breathing" vacuum-packed sponge are among the moving sculptures that Norwegian studio Kneip has installed at a Viennese workshop (+ movie). More about Kneip creates miniature motorised sculptures from found objects