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    Next Generation Passport
    Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Creative Economy / Design Thinking / Information Design
    Switzerland has unveiled its next-generation passport, a blend of innovative visual design and advanced security. >
    20 Mar 25
  • Photographs: Under Pressure Solutions
    Under pressure
    Design News > Design Thinking / Industrial Design / Product Design
    A new range of furniture grows from a compressed sponge. >
    6 May 24
  • Photographs: ETH Zurich, Hansmeyer and Dillenburger.
    The White Tower
    Design News > Architecture & Interiors
    Construction has begun on the tallest 3D-printed building in the world. >
    26 Mar 24
  • Basic Income Cafe uses coffee as a metaphor for the flow of money
    Design News > Creative Economy
    “Visitors are provoked to experience the underlying economic models first hand." >
    15 Nov 18
  • Researchers from ETH University in Zurich have developed a yarn made from ordinary gelatine that has the similar quality to merino wool fibres
    Researchers in Zurich have created fibre from slaughterhouse waste
    Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Fashion & Jewellery Design
    The yarn is made of gelatine and it has a similar quality to merino wool fibres. >
    15 Feb 18
  • Ini Archibong
    Designer. >
    22 Jan 18
  • Pauline Saglio
    Pauline Saglio
    Pauline Saglio is an interaction designer and artist based in Switzerland whose interest lies in the combination of digital and tangible. >
    9 Feb 17
  • Minerae lamps
    Minerae: Another way to touch light
    Design News > Design Thinking / Interaction Design
    This conceptual designer thinks of ways to make new connections between us and our environment. >
    23 Dec 16
  • Victoria Wigzell
    Victoria Wigzell
    Victoria Wigzell is a South African artist currently based in Switzerland. >
    14 Feb 14
  • Hot metal
    Design News > Product Design
    Using three different production means, Tom Dixon explores metal in his British Steel exhibition. >
    14 Jun 09
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