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Where are you now? Pinpoint locations with three simple words

Tech startup what3words can tell you exactly where you are with just three simple, easy-to-remember words. Its founder will be speaking at Design Indaba 2017. >
Ikea’s Better Shelter named Design of the Year

Here’s what makes this emergency shelter solution the design of the year. >
Design is not decoration: Advice from Pentagram partner Marina Willer

Marina Willer tells us about how film can be cathartic, why you shouldn't give up hope and shares some wise words from Dame Margaret Calvert. >
These images highlight the insanity behind beauty routines

Spa Days by Aleksandra Kingo presents an alternative perspective on beauty rituals. >
Pentagram partner Marina Willer believes inspiration comes away from a computer screen

Graphic designer, filmmaker and Pentagram partner Marina Willer, best known for the identity she created for Tate Modern, is speaking at Design Indaba 2017. >
Marina Willer

Filmmaker • Graphic Designer

Marina Willer is a Pentagram partner and creative director with a background in graphic design, branding and filmmaking. >
A quirky alternative look at human anatomy

Fruits as body parts by Marwane Pallas. >
Vito: A glove to replace sight and sound

Using haptic signals, the Vito device delivers information when screens and speakers can’t. >
Insulating a building with chicken feathers

A student-led startup called Aeropowder leads the charge in sustainable insulation made of chicken feathers. >
Hattie Newman: Creator of paper worlds

London-based set designer and paper artist Hattie Newman is in love with tactile things. >
What does flatpack furniture have to do with love?

Assisted intimacy: How to build flat-pack furniture and bond with your loved ones. >
Kate Moross: How to make mess look good

London-based art director Kate Moross and her studio create explosive work, often for music artists or events with a certain chaotic (messy) energy. >
How do you photograph a phobia?

This VSCO commissioned series looks at rare phobias that disturb the mind. >
An eccentric range of tools for the Guerilla Gardener

Vanessa Harden’s brass jewellery range blurs the line between tool and accessory. >
Yinka Ilori

Furniture Designer

London-based Nigerian designer Yinka Ilori specialises in upcycled vintage furniture inspired by Nigerian parables and fabrics from Africa. >
Naresh Ramchandani: The power and grace of words

Naresh Ramchandani is a master wordsmith. Here, we talk to him about some of the creative campaigns he has been involved with over the years. >
Kate Moross

Graphic Designer

Award-winning, multi-tasking art director and designer Kate Moross is a fast rising-star on London's design scene. >
The Dementia Simulator by Di Peng

This Central Saint Martins grad harnesses the power of empathy. >
Ungifted: Why Santa must die

In the latest chapter from creativity versus climate change non-profit Do The Green Thing, the greed and commercial vulgarity of Christmas is revealed. >
A love letter to words with Naresh Ramchandani

Writer and word-lover Naresh Ramchandani shares his eight favourite words at Design Indaba Conference 2016. >
The dummy's guide to cricket fondue

Would we be more willing to eat insects if the recipes came with specially designed cutlery and cooking utensils? >
Assemble: The DIY architecture collective

London-based collective Assemble have members with diverse skills and take on practical projects from furniture to civic spaces and public theatre. >
How to make a city more malleable with Turner Prize winners Assemble

Paloma Strelitz and James Binning, two members of the Turner Prize-winning collective Assemble, talk about how to make a city a playground of possibilities. >
Poo power

Why waste shouldn't go to waste >

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