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Stickybones: Animation made easy with this intuitive puppet
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4 Feb 16
The Stickybones puppet is a revolutionary animation-art figure perfectly calibrated to bring your ideas to life.
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A burial suit to better decompose your body
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4 Feb 16
The Infinity Burial Project greens-up your funeral with a suit that devours your corpse.
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Saving food from the fridge
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29 Jan 16
Jihyun Ryou is transferring traditional methods of food preservation through her storage design.
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Emotional objects by .Yuue
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28 Jan 16
.Yuue, a design studio in Berlin, puts hidden messages in their product design.
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Design that forces us to rethink our choices
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27 Jan 16
Dr Matthias Laschke designed "Pleasurable Troublemakers" to create moments where we have no choice but to reconsider our options.
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Quit smoking by locking your cigs away in this smart box
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27 Jan 16
This smart box pairs with an app to form a tech solution to cigarette cravings.
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Surfing into the future on a more eco-friendly board
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27 Jan 16
Surfing might be seen as the environments greenest sport, but building a board has its environmental cost.
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Gideon Roos: Architect, designer-maker, father
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26 Jan 16
South African Gideon Roos manages to hold down a job as a landscape architect in the Middle East while making furniture and raising his son in SA.
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The classic foosball table gets a contemporary redesign
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21 Jan 16
Brussels-based designer Alain Gilles has designed a contemporary high-end soccer table that takes its cues from the Scandinavian design tradition of simplicity.
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Studio Truly Truly's flexible range of LED loops
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20 Jan 16
The Levity range features customisable loops with light that radiates through a woven textile exterior.
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This lamp can lift the winter blues
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14 Jan 16
The Day and Night light designed by Éléonore Delisse is engineered to lift the winter blues and rebalance your natural circadian rhythm.
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This fully customisable modular lamp fits the user's unique style
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13 Jan 16
Plato Design's D-TWELVE is a versatile lighting system that fits in any setting.
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Handstitched leather shoes from Ethiopia
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12 Jan 16
Oliberté shoes, the world’s first Fair Trade certified footwear, are all handstitched in Ethiopia.
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A poncho designed especially for cyclists
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8 Jan 16
The Boncho, by VANMOOF, is a poncho designed especially for cyclists to use in the rain.
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A table to write your thoughts and memories on
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6 Jan 16
The Analogue Table by Kirsten Camara is designed to let you record all the thoughts and ideas that pass through your mind.
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