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This Italian artist subverts societal expectations with her self-portraiture

Chiara Mazzocchi’s work is both self-reflective and rebellious. >
Last Call for entries for the 2017 A’ Design Awards

Designer? Architect? There’s still time for you to get your entries in. >
Entries for the A' Design Awards are open

Featuring over 100 categories, the A' Design Awards is one of the world’s largest design accolades. >
Could these A’ Design Award winning projects change our world?

Amidst the hundreds of entries, these stand out as the ones that could have the most positive impact. >
Karboxx: Playing with shadows and light

Combining cutting-edge technologies with unconventional materials. >
The Shit Museum sells you crap

Not all shit is waste: Merdacotta is a material made of cow manure and clay that pushes you to see the potential of poo. >
Egloo: A simple, ecological alternative to electric heating

This Italian student’s project offers electricity-free heating for the home. >
OLO turns smartphones into portable 3D printers

Anyone with a smartphone can digitally fabricate objects with this 3D-printing device. >
Living armchair makes a comeback

Italian design studio relaunches its well-known grass furniture piece. >
Sustainable housing 3D printed with mud and straw

Italian company WASP starts 3D printing its first housing model with 40-feet-tall printing machine. >
Furniture design spun from solid yarn

Bobbin is a range of furniture recognised for its innovative and award-winning textile technique. >
Ribbon-like bridge by Christo and Jean-Claude lets public walk on water

Christo and Jean-Claude dreamt of a floating bridge over 40 years ago. Now, their dream is a reality. >
Personalised temperature control follows users around the building

Using the Internet-of-Things (IoT) technology, design firm Carlo Ratti Associati created a personalised temperature bubble. >
A floating UFO to call home

Italian boating company designs a flying saucer-like house boat for living and sailing on the sea. >
MOSSMANIA takes over the interior space

Italian brand brings furry foliage into their product designs >
Artificially intelligent furniture of the future

Carlo Ratti Associati unveils a digitally transformable sofa that morphs into different forms. >
Water, energy, and internet all in one system

The Watly system aims to bring the necessities to the developing world using one device. >
3D-printed vase collection upcycles plastic bottles

DesignLibero’s 3D-printed vase collection brings beauty to the practice of upcycling. >
Blurring the lines between art, architecture and design

A design studio in Italy known for their anamorphic art have painted shape changing mural. >
William Kentridge celebrates Rome’s history with a 550-metre frieze

Using reverse graffiti, William Kentridge will wash his iconic stencils along the banks of the Tiber River in Rome. >
Nursery Fields Forever imagines a preschool where kids learn how to farm

Rome-based design team wins an architecture award for its new age urban farming school for children. >
Last chance to enter the A’ Design Awards

Entries are still open for all categories of the prestigious A’ Design Awards. >
Fontana Arte: Lighting up homes since the 1930s

Italian design brand Fontana Arte has been creating lighting fixtures for over 80 years, with some of their earliest designs still amongst their most popular. >
A' Design Awards is calling for entries across all design categories

A' Design Award calls for entries in industrial design, architecture, interior design, furniture, lighting and building materials. >

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