In a first for the African continent, Cape Town has been named the World Design Capital 2014.

What happens to the stories and belongings of people that die alone? Agata Niemkiewicz's Remember Me, but ah, Forget My Fate considers this sad situation.

Spinning right round: Feats Per Minute have developed a prototype bicycle that has a record player on the back wheel. Long live vinyl!

Pearlfisher designed the packaging for Jamie Oliver's ever-expanding range of food and lifestyle products.

Maarten Baas’s The Curiosities of a Designer exhibition in Paris looks to the surreal and ways of story telling in design.

Talk about protecting your assets, the Lady Killer Vol 1 is a forceful little robot that works to protect your rings.

Traditional net-weaving techniques, as used by local fishermen in India, are used to create large-scale string sculptures.

Ji Lee's Pieces of Mind project uses thousands of little Buddha statues to remind people to live in the moment and get a bit of peace of mind.

Graphic Design: Now in Production is one of the largest graphic design exhibitions of recent years. Curator Andrew Blauvelt tells more.