Design
NASA’s travel posters promote newly discovered planets
Connected pedal protects bicycles from theft
“Copyists are eating away at the creativity of our industry”
Ambra Medda joins Christie’s design department
Illustrators respond to Charlie Hebdo magazine attack
Renaud Defrancesco’s LED lightbulbs are shaped like lampshades
Torafu Architects hides dolls’ house within a wooden chair
Gogoro launches electric smartscooter to combat pollution in megacities
Bertrand Lavier’s “unruly mass” of hoses creates a fountain outside the Serpentine Sackler Gallery
Tim van de Weerd’s Monstera plant pots balance on spindly legs
Hilla Shamia casts tree trunks with molten aluminium to form furniture
10 architecture and design exhibitions we’re looking forward to in 2015
Takaya incorporates taxidermy into botanical headdresses
Studio Swine’s Meteorite Shoes simulate space debris
Nike plans to launch Back to the Future shoes in 2015
Fab co-founder returns with Bezar, a new marketplace for emerging designers
Volkswagen’s latest car has a sunroof that opens with a wave of the hand
Alleles Design Studio turns prosthetic limbs into a fashion statement
Mercedes-Benz’s latest concept car is a driverless “living space”
Yves Behar mounts Samsung’s curved TV on a pedestal
Cocoon-like suit helps protect against Ebola by peeling away to minimise contact
Cauliflowers create moulds for “monster” stool by Studio Pasternak
UM Project designs multi-material mallets for Cooper Hewitt’s museum shop
