Design News

Barberio Colella ARC’s foldout shelter can be assembled in a minute using locally sourced materials. >

Modern Meadows is a Brooklyn-based biotechnology start-up growing slaughter-free leather from living cow cells. >

Katie Crawford’s self-portraiture series captures the raw essence of anxiety. >

Elliot Mwebaze has developed a device that enables phones to charge using a bicycle dynamo. >

Beantown Bedding has created biodegradable bed sheets that can be used for a few weeks and then thrown into the compost. >

Novelist Eli Horowitz tells a futuristic story through three completely unique narrative experiences. >

Guests cooked for themselves in a restaurant turned workers’ rights campaign. >

In the fourth in a photographic series focused on the hands of artisans, we look at the greased and oiled fingers of a Vespa mechanic. >

Array, a set of brightly hued foam blocks, by Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Tijs Gilde, can be arranged in multiple ways to create playful seating options. >

Egyptian government selects Foster + Partners to design the rundown Maspero Triangle District on the banks of the river Nile in downtown Cairo. >