2020 Archive

Current Affairs

Design News • 3 Jul 20

Currents for Currents, an award winning concept for a floating community >
Water Wonderland

Design News • 7 Jul 20

Here are a few ways in which the world’s most fluid minds are responding to issues of water preservation and sustainability. >
Turning data collected from your heartbeat into messages for your loved ones

Design News • 9 Jul 20

Crossing the borders between biology and code to create digital art. >
Translating a Japanese proverb with vocals and visuals

Design News • 9 Jul 20

The film explores the Japanese concept of the space between all things. >
The rise of gaming activism

Design News • 9 Jul 20

Fortnite decides to educate its users about systemic racism and gets them to battle prejudice >
The one of a kind NASA designed Fragrance

Design News • 9 Jul 20

Experience the mysterious smell of space for yourself. >
Parallaxis: A film on understanding earth’s architecture

Design News • 9 Jul 20

Parallaxis asks us to contemplate an intergenerational, interplanetary existence that connects the now, before, and future of this ecosystem. >
Sir David Adjaye honours police brutality victim with public memorial

Design News • 16 Jul 20

Adjaye unveiled a London public memorial for Cherry Groce, a black woman who was shot by the Metropolitan Police in her own home in 1985. >
‘The search of the glow’ installation by Ling-li Tseng

Design Frontiers • 16 Jul 20

Set amidst a Taiwanese forest, “the search of the glow” is an ephemeral, spherical LED installation that illuminates its natural context. >
Personalised sushi based on your DNA biodata

Design News • 16 Jul 20

Japanese restaurant, Sushi Singularity uncannily predicts the convergence of wasabi and the world wide web. >
Lilium Jet: The new wave of air mobility

Design News • 16 Jul 20

What if your uber could fly? And we’re not referring to breaking the road speed limit… >
Discover a new perspective of Earth with Spaceship Neptune

Design News • 16 Jul 20

This space balloon can hold up to eight passengers and a pilot, for a six-hour trip at an anticipated price of around $125,000 per person. >
A Non-ageist App

Design News • 16 Jul 20

Mighty Health is tailored to the fitness and nutritional needs of older adults. >
This glow kit allows you to attract the fish species you hope to catch

Design News • 16 Jul 20

Created by SafetyNet Technologies the device is described as a light emitting device that is adaptable to many different fish species. >
McDonald’s first solar panel designed restaurant

Design Frontiers • 16 Jul 20

First ever net zero energy restaurant by McDonald’s opened up at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. >
Recycling the Serpentine Pavilion

Design News • 16 Jul 20

Johannesburg-based collaborative architectural studio and all women team, Counterspace will be designing the iconic Serpentine Pavilion for 2020/2021. >
CarbFix is a secure and cost-effective solution to protecting the environment

Design News • 16 Jul 20

CarbFix captures CO2 from industry, dissolves it in water, and injects it deep underground. >
Light into darkness

Design News • 20 Jul 20

This week, we optimistically seek enlightenment by focusing on bright ideas and inventive solutions that light the way to a better world. >
Combat Covid-19 with the world’s first smart mask

Design Frontiers • 23 Jul 20

The mask is able to deliver your voice to the smartphone and translates into eight languages. >
Using Cactus leaves as a substitute for leather

Design Frontiers • 23 Jul 20

The New startup company is bringing you an eco-friendly, vegan textile made from cactus. >
In the name of AI designers

Design News • 23 Jul 20

Art. Lebedev Studio has developed their own AI designer which they’ve been passing off as human for over a year. >
Weaving your next tattoo

Design News • 23 Jul 20

WovenSkin on-skin interfaces are known as smart tattoos. >
How Cray X Exoskeleton will strengthen your movement

Design News • 23 Jul 20

Located in Augsburg, Berlin and Tokyo, German Bionic is the first European manufacturer to develop and produce exoskeletons for use in industrial production. >
Covid-19 inspired robots that detect a fever

Design News • 23 Jul 20

As a first line of control at a hospital in Belgium, patients are being greeted by CRUZR, an interactive robot by ZoraBots. >

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