April 2016 Archive

Melbourne-based designer Rowan Turnham builds a modular plant system that captures trash from an estuary. >

Food designers rethink the meat industry in a series of talks and discussions at the Slagerij de Hamvraag pop up butchery in the Netherlands. >

billionBricks project manager Astrid Hugo shares advice on how to design for the homeless. >

Cooking with fossil fuels over an open flame is harmful to people and the environment, SustainEarth offers a biogas alternative. >

Industrial designer shares blueprints for recycling machines so that anyone can make plastic products at home. >

Using a handful of quirk and a pinch of cheek, Helen Borg’s illustrations question and mock the pleasures and emotions surrounding desire in our society. >

MakeRight is an initiative that gets prisoners to help manufacture “theft-proof” bags that consider the user and the abuser and designs out the crime. >

Mass produced transparent wood material could be used in windows, solar panels and buildings. >

Crystal chandeliers by Iris Cristal express an ancient tradition in exciting new ways. >

University team develops a remote-controlled beetle that could replace mechanical drones. >

Unrecognisable, futuristic faces mark Alma Haser’s Cosmic Surgery series. >