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  • Meet the world's first drone costume designer
    Before industrial designer, Léa Pereyre, started working at Verity Studios the job description of "drone costume designer" did not exist. >
  • Researchers from ETH University in Zurich have developed a yarn made from ordinary gelatine that has the similar quality to merino wool fibres
    Researchers in Zurich have created fibre from slaughterhouse waste
    The yarn is made of gelatine and it has a similar quality to merino wool fibres. >
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    Top 10 Creative Crowdfunding Projects | February 2018
    We've scoured the web for compelling creative campaigns around the globe that you might want to support in their quest for funding. Have a look! >
  • Ini Archibong
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  • A Zurich-based CO2 removal company have presented a way to extract carbon dioxide directly from the air
    Direct air capture plant aims to filter carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
    A Zurich-based removal company have presented a way to extract carbon dioxide directly from the air. >
  • Julia Hasting, creative director of Phaidon Press, has designed books that come vacuum packed like ham and doodled all over like a student notebook
    Julia Hasting: The unusual book designer
    Julia Hasting, creative director of Phaidon Press, has designed books that come vacuum packed like ham and doodled all over like a student notebook. >
  • Todd St. John puts the simplicity into narrative design.
    Todd St. John: HunterGather and primitive design practices
    Simple visuals bring complex ideas to life at Todd St. John’s studio, HunterGatherer. >
  • Vallée Duhamel make animations using lo-fi techniques
    Julien Vallée: Art in motion (Part 2)
    The cofounder of animation studio Vallée Duhamel talks us through a surreal personal project about a girl dressed in yellow. >
  • Vallée Duhamel make animations using lo-fi techniques
    Julien Vallée: Art in motion (Part 1)
    Canadian graphic designer and art director Julien Vallée is known for creating lo-fi, humorous animations. >
  • We talk to the art director of graphic design quarterly Eye Magazine on keeping the page size the same in the time of great change for print
    Simon Esterson: Designing the pages of Eye Magazine
    We talk to the art director of graphic design quarterly Eye Magazine on keeping the page size the same in the time of great change for print. >
  • Michael Frei’s award-winning bizarre short animation “Plug & Play” is now an interactive game.
    Love and electricity in "Plug & Play" game
    Michael Frei’s award-winning bizarre short animation “Plug & Play” is now an interactive game. >
  • The Solar Impulse 2 is the first solar powered aircraft to circumnavigate the world carrying a pilot.
    The first solar-powered flight around the world
    Two intrepid pilots are halfway through a round-the-world trip in a lightweight aeroplane powered only by the sun. >
  • Hermès Geneva window display by ECAL Master's graduate Hongchao Wang of Benwu Studio.
    Abstract animals
    ECAL Master’s graduate Hongchao Wang creates a series of abstract store window displays for luxury French brand Hermés. >
  • Empower Shack exhibition by Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner.
    Housing solutions
    Urban-Think Tank develops a housing prototype for South African informal settlements that empowers residents to engage in changing their living conditions. >
  • Urban-Think Tank
    Urban-Think Tank
    Urban Designer
    Urban-Think Tank (U-TT) is an interdisciplinary design practice dedicated to high-level research and design related to contemporary architecture and urbanism. >
  • Christoph Zellweger
    Jewellery Designer
    Christoph Zellweger is one of the most thought provoking contemporary jewellery designers in Europe. >
  • By Christoph Zellweger
    Phantom limbs
    With science fiction turning into reality on a daily basis, what will our bodies look like in the future, asks Christoph Zellweger. >
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