Design functions for the Centre Rail in the new Mini Countryman and win a trip to the Paris Motor Show. >

Calling all design students: Can you design the "store of the future" using the Golden Ratio? >

Tokujin Yoshioka’s Living Crystal Chandelier was grown in a mineral bath mixed with Swarovski crystals. >

Nap o'clock? Snack o'clock? Slog o'clock? Martí Guixé's new clocks for Alessi let the user write the time. >

Internationally renowned designer Neville Brody has been named the new Head of Communication Art and Design at the Royal College of Art. >

Africa’s first personal mobile health clinic took first place in the Nokia Africa Calling All Innovators application competition. >

The Earth Awards are looking for your innovative design solutions for the 21st century. >

Peter Rich’s Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre was recognised as World Building of the Year 2009 at the World Architecture Festival. >

Never content to be categorised, Thomas Heatherwick has turned his architectural hand to a biomass-fuelled station and created a masterpiece >

Director of Objectified and Helvetica, Gary Hustwit makes the films that he wants to see but haven't yet been made. >

“Why would an artist risk arrest in order to create?” asked Mark and Sara Schiller of the Wooster Collective. >