2016 Archive

Pedestrian and bicycle tunnel opens underneath Amsterdam Central station

Design Frontiers • 25 Mar 16

A beautiful and advanced tunnel for cyclists and pedestrians has opened underneath Amsterdam. >
Blurring the lines between art, architecture and design

Design Frontiers • 24 Mar 16

A design studio in Italy known for their anamorphic art have painted shape changing mural. >
Bel & Bel are the leaders in supra-cycling

Design Frontiers • 23 Mar 16

Spanish design studio Bel&Bel save objects from falling into disuse by redesigning their purpose. >
Portable water purification for developing nations

Design Frontiers • 22 Mar 16

LifeStraw is a portable and affordable water purification tool for people in developing countries. >
A faster, cheaper way to filter water using graphene

Design Frontiers • 22 Mar 16

Scientists have created a graphene-based water filter that could be a solution to the water crisis. >
Turning cemeteries into forests

Design Frontiers • 18 Mar 16

The new Bios Urn and tree incubator has created a way to commemorate the dead by planting a tree. >
The Dutch e-bike powered by solar energy

Design Frontiers • 17 Mar 16

The Dutch Solar Bike's sleek design is thanks to specially designed solar panels. >
A tiny, smart patch could replace insulin shots for diabetes sufferers

Design Frontiers • 16 Mar 16

A painless patch could mean that millions of diabetes sufferers no longer have to inject themselves to correct their insulin levels. >
Welcome to Germany is a cellphone app for refugees

Design Frontiers • 16 Mar 16

A smart application provides migrants with much-needed information about life in Germany. >
Interactive installations turn Toronto's beaches into winter destinations

Design Frontiers • 15 Mar 16

Toronto’s beach goers are encouraged to hit the seaside throughout the year. >
Tiny surgical tools inspired by origami

Design Frontiers • 15 Mar 16

Researchers were able to do away with bulky surgical parts and rely instead on the principles of origami. >
Electronic wastelands raise questions about sustainable design

Design Frontiers • 14 Mar 16

Photo exhibition E-waste Tsunami calls on designers to think up better ways to deal with e-waste. >
Asmara: Unlikely home to Modernist Architecture

Design Frontiers • 11 Mar 16

Asmara, a city in Eritrea in North East Africa, is an unlikely treasure trove of standing modernist architecture. >
Saving a font from extinction

Design Frontiers • 11 Mar 16

Reviving a forgotten font designed by Alvin Lustig, an iconic, contemporary American graphic designer. >
A new, sustainable way to make plastic

Design Frontiers • 11 Mar 16

Researchers at Stanford have found a way to create sustainable plastic using inedible plant materials. >
Graffiti as a tool for liberation in Kabul

Design Frontiers • 10 Mar 16

Liberation and the fight for women's rights through contemporary art and graffiti in Kabul. >
Rope made out of plastic bottles

Design Frontiers • 10 Mar 16

A really handy tool from a runaway Kickstarter campaign. >
Perfect man-made waves

Design Frontiers • 8 Mar 16

Kelly Slater's high-performance, man-made wave pool has been met with scepticism in the industry. >
High-tech repository for the dead

Design Frontiers • 7 Mar 16

Ruri Den is an alternative to burial sites for space-starved cities like Tokyo >
Wearable technology for the visually impaired

Design Frontiers • 4 Mar 16

Wearable technology from Cairo describes oncoming objects to its users >
MFA’s #techstyle: Fashion that moves, interacts and adapts

Design Frontiers • 4 Mar 16

The Museum of Fine Arts’ #techstyle exhibition takes a look at where fashion design is headed thanks to its relationship with technology. >
Saphon Energy creates new wind-harnessing technology

Design Frontiers • 3 Mar 16

This Tunisian startup didn’t reinvent the wind turbine; instead, they created a new technology. >
A garden that stretches across Africa

Design Frontiers • 3 Mar 16

The Great Green Wall of Africa will be the biggest man-made marvel in the world once completed. >
Free community skatepark in Ethiopia

Design Frontiers • 2 Mar 16

A non-profit organisation is building skateparks in rural areas around the globe. >

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