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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. >
This fully customisable modular lamp fits the user's unique style

Plato Design's D-TWELVE is a versatile lighting system that fits in any setting. >
Federico Babina’s illustrations simplify iconic architectural styles

Known for Kama Sutra inspired architecture, Frederico Babina is back and illustrating iconic architectural styles based on their most rudimentary lines. >
Artificial neurons able to learn human language

ANNABELL, a new cognitive model, is able to learn language organically, without the need for pre-coded responses. >
Trailer: Studio Formafantasma on words as a tool for design

Italian design duo Studio Formafantasma use talking and collaborating as core tools in its design process. >
Studio Formafantasma on words as a tool for design

Italian design duo Studio Formafantasma use talking and collaborating as core tools in its design process. >
Rosita Missoni: If your job is your hobby it's never tiring

Italian fashion icon, Rosita Missoni looks back on her upbringing and the inherited values that now underpin her fashion empire. >
Floating greenhouses could help solve global food security problems

Italian think tank Pnat have designed modular, floating green houses called JellyFish Barges that could help solve food security problems. >
Trailer: Rosita Missoni on a life dedicated to fashion

Fashion and business icon Rosita Missoni talks about the love for her family as the driving force behind her success. >
Rosita Missoni on a life dedicated to fashion

Fashion and business icon Rosita Missoni talks about the love for her family as the driving force behind her success. >
Graphic artist G&Sans starts every piece with a pencil

Illustrator Girolamo Giannatempo, known as G&Sans, explores the irrational world with his bright, blob-like, humanoids. >
A stage for musical improvisation puts a spotlight on reused building materials

Italian architecture company, Studio Albori, looks at “reuse and improvisation” in building with its Makeshift installation at Chicago Architecture Biennial. >
The wind turbine gets a smart tech makeover

Beauty, tech, and renewable energy generation combine to give the wind turbine a much-needed makeover. >
The Bhulk 3D-printed bike frame is made from plants

Italian design studio Eurocompositi are attempting to change the way we make bicycles. >
The twig chair: Nendo’s most recent design

Japanese studio Nendo creates a minimalist seat with a changeable backrest for designer furniture brand Alias. >
Look into your reflection and see your heart

This new mirror can reflect the health of your heart; another medical innovation that is being developed for diagnosis at home. >
The monkey-shaped Macaco paperweight

According to its creator NikyNaky, this ceramic Macaco paperweight just wants to be loved. >
The Fedora lighting range is inspired by a Russian doll

Dima Loginoff , the rising star of Russian design, plays with a traditional shape in his latest contemporary design for Italian design company Axo Light. >
Nemo’s Garden: Growing fruit and vegetables under the sea

Italian scuba-diving father and son have found a way to grow fresh food nearly 10 metres underwater in the sea. >
Eat an ice cream then grow a tree

This ice-lolly stick can be planted when you finish eating it and it will grow into a tree. >
Two Italian craftsmen create glass inspired by bubble wrap

Maya Lapp and Denis Perera subvert the irresistible desire to play with bubble wrap by casting it in glass. >

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