Here's what we looked at this week:

BMW has revealed their new design direction, and it's good news: The Vision Neue Klasse gets back to design basics.

Turns out the cutouts in this Apogee+ wearable exoskeleton, previously described as being weight-saving, have a secondary application:

A brilliant design for a cat-capturing tool (see video here).

This inelegant CrowView is an extra monitor that clamps onto your laptop.

This series of fantastically minimalist movie posters is by graphic designer Michal Krasnopolski.

This unusual Butler Chair, by industrial designer Rikke Frost, will hold your jacket and bag. Prototyping shots here.

Turns out paper- and plant-based drinking straws contain PFAs (forever chemicals).

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Here's a 19th-century design for a height-adjustable stool, recovered from a farm in Germany's Black Forest. Industrial designers Kyra Heilig and Lenn Gerlach made the find.

A well-designed post makes this Snug Bed, by industrial designer Steffen Kehrle, come together.

There's a strong Tetris-like appeal to this Low Bench, by design studio Destroyers/Builders.

With his Stool #1, designer Thibault Huguet reminds us that there are simple, low-effort ways to achieve curves in wooden furniture.

Schneider Electric's U-shaped surge protector rethinks the form factor of the power strip.

ID student Damian Byland designed this Kai bench to largely be made using a single tool, while generating as little waste as possible.

Ergonomic street furniture: These "lumbo-dorsal support elements" for subway station platforms were designed by architect and ergonomist Antonio Bustamante and industrial designer Marc Llagostera.

ID consultancy Sundberg-Ferar did a thought exercise on the potential impact of robots on the food industry.