The Living Points Structure jewellery covers limbs in porcupine-like spines
Translucent tendrils protruding from these body adornments by Polish designer Ewa Sliwinska amplify small movements made by the wearer (+ movie). More
Barbecana by Edward Mascarenhas turns the Barbican into a video game
A graduate from the Bartlett School of Architecture has turned the iconic Barbican Estate in London into the setting for a proposed augmented-reality video game (+ movie). More
Stefan G Bucher animates Wesley Stace in his music video for Goodbye Jane
Dezeen Music Project: American illustrator Stefan G Bucher created an homage to the music video for Take on Me by A-Ha as the starting point for his collaboration with singer and songwriter Wesley Stace, AKA John Wesley Harding. More
OP-light by Bilge Nur Saltik creates luminous optical illusions
London Design Festival 2014: Turkish designer Bilge Nur Saltik has created a wall lamp from textured panels that rotates to form moving light patterns across its surface. More
Advances in digital interfaces will lead to a "new beginning in music"
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: Roland Lamb, inventor of the squishy-keyed Seaboard piano that won the Designs of the Year 2014 product category, claims we are on the cusp of a new generation of "multidimensional" digital musical instruments. More
Two Way reversible sunglasses by HAiK and Kaibosh
Norwegian fashion brand HAiK and eyewear company Kaibosh have collaborated to design a collection of sunglasses that can be worn in two ways (+ movie). More
NYSU imitates classic movies in Philip Selway's Coming Up For Air music video
Dezeen Music Project: Spanish filmmaker NYSU has emulated the dramatic camera movements associated with classic Hollywood cinema to make Philip Selway's new music video. More
Heads explode into pixels in Gal Muggia's music video for Adi Ulmansky
Dezeen Music Project: Israeli director Gal Muggia aimed to create a "fractured reality" with stretched landscapes, digital boxes and pixellated heads in this music video for artist Adi Ulmansky. More
Personalised "bubbles of heat" could replace inefficient central heating
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: architect Carlo Ratti claims the heating system he developed with MIT, which uses motion sensors to focus beams of infrared radiation on people as they move through a building, can be "one order of magnitude more efficient" than traditional methods. More
MAD wants to "invent a new typology" for high-rise architecture, says Ma Yansong
Movie: in this exclusive video interview filmed in Venice, Ma Yansong of Chinese architects MAD explains his concept for a "shan-shui city", a high density urban development inspired by traditional Chinese paintings of mountain ranges. More
Driverless cars will "capture a virtual replica of the real world," says Pernilla Ohrstedt
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: architect Pernilla Ohrstedt's stand design for the Dezeen and MINI Frontiers exhibition will visualise the 3D data driverless cars use to navigate, which she claims will gradually produce a "perfect" digital model of our cities. More
Human bodies are digitally deformed in Hugo Arcier's music video for HNN
Dezeen Music Project: director Hugo Arcier created the moving shapes in this music video for French band HNN by manipulating photo-realistic renders of human bodies. More
3D weaving can "reduce cost and improve structural integrity" in architecture
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: RCA graduate Oluwaseyi Sosanya shows us the 3D-weaving machine he invented, which he claims could be used to create better sportswear, medical implants and even architecture. More
"I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings," says Toyo Ito
Movie: Pritzker Prize-winning architect Toyo Ito tells Dezeen that, while his buildings vary in material and style, the key to all of them is their close relationship with the people that inhabit them. More
Toyo Ito wanted delicate textiles to "float in the air" in his Milan showroom for Kinnasand
Movie: Japanese architect Toyo Ito says his showroom for textile brand Kinnasand was designed to complement the company's "very delicate transparent and semi-transparent fabrics" in this video interview filmed in Milan. More
Omer Polak and Michal Evyatar blow dough into balloons to create colourful snacks
Israeli designers Omer Polak and Michal Evyatar have blown coloured dough into set of edible balloons filled with different odours (+ movie). More
Japan's biennale pavilion challenges architects to "face the real world"
Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: exhibition commissioner Kayoko Ota says Japan's pavilion celebrates the architects that "challenged the status quo" in the 1970s, in this movie filmed by Dezeen in Venice. More
Electronic components "bleed" in Christophe Thockler's music video for Lusine
Dezeen Music Project: a stack of old electronic devices and circuit boards appear to secrete blood in this music video by director Christophe Thockler for US musician Lusine's latest track. More
The "first man-made biological leaf" could enable humans to colonise space
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: RCA graduate Julian Melchiorri says the synthetic biological leaf he developed, which absorbs water and carbon dioxide to produce oxygen just like a plant, could enable long-distance space travel. More
Reacting to the critics would have "ruined" Glasgow School of Art building says Steven Holl
Steven Holl responds to the critics that blasted his controversial extension to Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Glasgow School of Art, saying that adhering to their comments would have "ruined the design", in this series of movies about the building. More