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The Eco-Grill: A safe, sustainable and portable cooker

Industrial designer Sam Troop has come up with a safe, efficient and sustainable portable cooker, created using circular design principles. >
Laduma Ngxokolo: Design for safer circumcision rituals

Young South African designer Laduma Ngxokolo looks into how you can make Xhosa circumcision rituals safer in his Central Saint Martins graduate project. >
Researchers are a step closer to an invisibility cloak for objects

“Cloak” device makes objects seem invisible by making curved surfaces seem flat. >
Breathing rooms: How nature can help the healing process

Central Saint Martins graduate Zannah Cooper has designed a therapeutic experience based on the elements that improves the wellbeing of patients in hospitals. >
Michael Wolff writes in defense of Heatherwick's Garden Bridge

In defence of big ideas and of the controversial Garden Bridge, design titan Michael Wolff writes in objection to the construction of St Paul's Cathedral. >
3D-printing restaurant is a first in culinary history

Food Ink is soon to welcome diners to a 3D-printed food experience. >
Would we modify our skyline for the sake of mental wellbeing?

Phong Nguyen’s speculative project looks at how far we’d go to treat mental illness. >
Sea of Hull brings together 3000 naked bodies for climate change

To raise awareness about rising sea levels, over 3000 nude people painted themselves blue and descended on the city of Hull. >
Buildings made of bones

Cambridge researchers explore bone and eggshell as greener building materials of the future. >
Cow's milk plastic provides a natural, eco-friendly alternative

Using an extract from skimmed milk, Tessa Silva-Dawson created a durable alternative to harmful plastics. >
Interaction is more important than expensive tech, says experience designer Marcus Lyall

Marcus Lyall is behind some of the most spectacular shows of our time. >
Image Merchants: W&N Studio and James Lavelle

We talk to DJ and artist James Lavelle and photographers Warren Du Preez and Nick Thorton Jones about the resurgence of craft and their various collaborations. >
Design graduate shares her artful take on wood joinery using plastic bottles

Royal College of Art student Micaella Pedros unveils a resourceful technique of making furniture >
Home-grown sanitary pads help treat infections

Growing healthy bacteria in agar jelly, the pads are placed in front of the vagina to balance pH-levels. >
Plastic-bag sculptures critique the treatment of the homeless

Made in the silhouette of a person crouched on the street, the installation captures London’s response to homeless people. >
Bio-bean: Imagine cities powered by coffee waste

Bio-bean is an award-winning clean technology company that recycles waste coffee grounds into advanced biofuels that could replace fossil fuels in cities. >
A medical icon kit for low literacy communities

Graphic design student Jonathan Stannard has won an RSA Design Award for his medical symbol kit to help people in low literacy areas understand their medicines. >
Si-Low: A low-cost grain storage unit for Africa

Anthony Brown has developed the Si-Low, a low-cost grain storage unit to help prevent farmers in Africa from loosing their grain after they harvest. >
Biometric wearable designed to lower stress levels

ZENTA is a health-tracker-cum-life-coach that focusses on the wearer’s overall mind and body wellbeing. >
Enabled by design: A way finding system that considers the disabled

A More Inclusive Pedestrian Wayfinding System builds on the existing "Legible London" system to create an enhanced and more user-friendly navigation system. >
“Give a Beep” calls for a more cycle-friendly London

Swedish company Hövding kickstarts movement that encourages London’s mayor to “give a beep” about cyclists’ safety. >
A new human-centred packaging system for ARV medication in Africa

A new system for the packaging of AIDS-related virus medication in Sub-Saharan Africa thinks more holistically about the user's needs. >
Why I've got beef with festivals like Glastonbury

In Issue 3 of Do The Green Thing, Naresh Ramchandani tells us why it's time for festivals like Glastonbury to go meat free. >
The Hive pavilion replicates the ways bees communicate

Built using over 17 000 pieces of aluminium, the Hive is fitted with LED lights and sound to replicate the buzzing, tooting and quacking communication cues used >

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