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An ocean cleanup project, innovative healthcare and vertically-grown vegetables: five designs that could revolutionise life

Celebrate designs that address serious modern challenges, this year's INDEX Awards winners include clean energy batteries and a language learning app. >
Julie Dufour: Design education for kids

Julie Dufour teaches design and architecture methods in schools because she believes it will help children set the design agenda of tomorrow. >
Abstract_ turns what you feel into what you wear

A team of creatives have designed a clothing concept that allows the wearer’s feelings and facial expression to play a role in the creation of a garment. >
Kigge Hvid advises traditional design firms to “step up to the sharing economy”

A global voice in design and innovation, Kigge Hvid discusses why it’s important for the industry to adopt a collaborative, peer-to-peer approach to design. >
Mail Man Barry delivers you daily messages on paper when you have time to read them

This intuitive device filters through your digital inbox and prints out the more meaningful messages at the end of the day. >
This flower takes its own selfies

The Selfie Plant, a project by CIID students, takes photographs of itself and shares them on social media. >
Petter Thörne: A magical experience of materials

Copenhagen-based designer explores his fascination with materiality in his contemporary product and furniture designs. >
Margrethe Odgaard: Design that engages with society

Textile designer Margrethe Odgaard says success can be measured in how much a design project touches your heart. >
Breaking down social barriers with a game of ping pong

Danish photojournalist Anders Find’s novel approach to bringing people together in public space. >
AFRICA: Architecture, Culture and Identity opens at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark

This new exhibition of African creative culture aims to present a more varied view of the development and future prospects of this part of the world. >
#DITakeover on Instagram: How Far From Home

Chanel Cartell and Stevo Dirnberger took us with them on their creative sabbatical in a series of wanderlust-inspired photos. >
#DITakeover on Instagram: Jens Martin Skibsted

Inside the world of (and some sneak peeks from) Danish designer and co-founder of both KiBiSi and Biomega, Jens Martin Skibsted. >
A most contemporary Karakter

Danish brand Karakter launches its debut collection by distinctive and diverse designers – including South Africa's own Anatomy Design. >
Bowl table lamp by New Works

The latest light by the Copenhagen design studio is a modern-day take on a portable lantern. >
The rapid prototyping of policy

Christian Bason, CEO of the Danish Design Centre, tells us how governments are turning to designers to help them be more nimble in their policy making. >
The Newsroom – Off The Record

The struggle for print newspapers to stay solvent in the digital age rivetingly told from inside a Danish tabloid. >
Aeon Rocket pendant light by Morten Voss

The Danish designer's new light harmoniously marries rigid material and malleable plastic. >
Henrik Vibskov: Chaos in systems

We asked the Danish fashion designer how he works and plays. His answers are typically Vibskovesque – honest, profound and a little puzzling. >
Jens Martin Skibsted: Humanity needs to focus on two things

The Danish designer and creator of Biomega bicycles on his love for t-shirts and why he doesn't do sci-fi. >
South American flavours

Bjarke Ingels Group brings authentic South American inspirations into the heart of Copenhagen, Denmark. >
City skylines

Bjarke Ingels Group turns their attention from architecture to product design for a unique tableware collection. >
Vinay Venkatraman

Industrial Designer • Interaction Designer

Industrial and interaction designer Vinay Venkatraman is the CEO of Leapcraft – a design-driven innovation consultancy based in Copenhagen, Denmark. >
Henrik Vibskov

Fashion Designer

Henrik Vibskov is not just a fashion designer but also the creator of twisted and tantalising universes that accompany each of his collections. >
Nille Juul-Sørensen

Architect • Product Designer

Architect and product designer Nille Juul-Sørensen is the CEO of the Danish Design Centre. >

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