Articles

The LJ series by Dutch studio De Vorm is a range of chairs and stools that feature a strong, soft felt material that is made of recycled PET bottles. >

Refugee Phones turns commercial radio into personal media for refugees to contact their mothers. >

The needs of consumers are ever-changing and designers will need to respond. >

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. >

Amy Youngs’ exhibition educates people about the benefits of worm composting at home. >

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. >