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Yield the signs
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Product Design
Discarded road traffic signs are given a second life by designer Boris Bally who turns it into bold and interesting furniture pieces.
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25 Oct 11
Musical feats
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Urban & Landscape Design
Spinning right round: Feats Per Minute have developed a prototype bicycle that has a record player on the back wheel. Long live vinyl!
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24 Oct 11
Visual variety for Jamie Oliver
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Pearlfisher designed the packaging for Jamie Oliver's ever-expanding range of food and lifestyle products.
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24 Oct 11
Etchings
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Product Design
Tom Dixon's Etch candleholder casts a variety of gorgeously intricate shadows.
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23 Oct 11
Curiosity
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Product Design
Maarten Baas’s The Curiosities of a Designer exhibition in Paris looks to the surreal and ways of story telling in design.
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23 Oct 11
Kitchen excellence
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Product Design
Patricia Urquiola designed the interiors for luxury kitchen brand Scholtès's new flagship space in London.
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22 Oct 11
Well protected
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Product Design
Talk about protecting your assets, the Lady Killer Vol 1 is a forceful little robot that works to protect your rings.
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22 Oct 11
Well strung
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Architecture & Interiors
Traditional net-weaving techniques, as used by local fishermen in India, are used to create large-scale string sculptures.
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21 Oct 11
Pieces of mind
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Ji Lee's Pieces of Mind project uses thousands of little Buddha statues to remind people to live in the moment and get a bit of peace of mind.
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20 Oct 11
Means to an end
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Photographer Patricia Driscoll's A Means to an End documents the abattoir as both a space of organisation and trauma.
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20 Oct 11
Colour with veggies
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Food Design
"Kleurentaart" is a cake made with vegetables to explore the possibilities of using food and colour in a variety of ways.
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19 Oct 11
Graphic design now
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Graphic Design: Now in Production is one of the largest graphic design exhibitions of recent years. Curator Andrew Blauvelt tells more.
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19 Oct 11
Earth building
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Architecture & Interiors
A single-storey house in Japan is built with bricks made using the local soil and magnesium oxide. It explores the use of regional building solutions.
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19 Oct 11
Story telling
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Product Design
Story Time is a time piece that tells a sequence of events, rather than the time.
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18 Oct 11
Wining and dining
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Architecture & Interiors
The La Cave a Vin 9 wine bar in Paris is a modern, intimate space that rethinks the way wine bars are enjoyed.
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18 Oct 11
Floating orchestra
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Music & Sound Design
The gravity-defying Floating Orchestra is a different kind of musical experience with the user in the role of a supernatural conductor.
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18 Oct 11
Knitting with bacteria
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Interaction Design
The Textured Self by Sonja Bäumel uses bacteria to demonstrate how different forms of life work together to make the human body function.
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17 Oct 11
New rules of work
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Employees pay attention: The New Rules of Work are that decaf has been criminalised... and other workplace truths and absurdities.
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17 Oct 11
Moving craft
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Product Design
BarberOsgerby's "Ascent" collection of work at the Frieze Art Fair in London is inspired by the duo's interest in moving craft.
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16 Oct 11
Save the post office
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Tucker Nichols has some clever ideas for tag lines that might endear people to snail mail and the post office again.
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15 Oct 11
Sensory dining
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Food Design
Secret Sensory Suppers take the dining experience to a new ritualistic level, exploring the relationship between food, sight, scent and sound.
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14 Oct 11
Bouroullec retrospective
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Product Design
Bivouac is the first major retrospective of the work of the Bouroullec Brothers at the Centre Pompidou-Metz.
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14 Oct 11
Usuals collection
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Product Design
Usuals is a range of domestic products by Van Eijk and Van der Lubbe that looks to simplicity and functionality.
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14 Oct 11
10 Years of Hat-trick
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Graphic Design & Illustration
In Brief is a small book, with lots of pages, celebrating Hat-trick's work of the past 10 years.
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14 Oct 11
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