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Recycled plastic gets beautiful with these vessels

Wael Seaiby, a graduate of the University of Edinburgh, has designed Plag, a series of glass and ceramic looking vessels made from recycled plastic. >
Pentagram's Naresh Ramchandani slates corporate jargon with a two minute rap

Corporate slang is named and shamed in Pentagram partner Naresh Ramchandani's Gamechanger video. >
Naresh Ramchandani

Advertising Executive • Communication Designer

Naresh Ramchandani is the first ever communications and advertising partner at Pentagram. >
Urban designer Ekaterina Lichtenstein on the future of smart cities

London-based urban designer and architect Ekaterina Lichtenstein breaks down the elements involved in designing advanced cities. >
An exhibition dedicated to contemporary fashion in Africa’s major cities

“Fashion Cities Africa” is the first major exhibition in the United Kingdom to celebrate and examine the growing contemporary fashion scene on the continent. >
Benjamin Hubert

Industrial Designer

Benjamin Hubert is an award-winning British design entrepreneur and founder of LAYER. He focuses on human-centred design. >
Benjamin Hubert: Holistic designs to inspire change

Award-winning designer Benjamin Hubert talks about using design to make things better. >
Helen Isibor-Epega

Artist

Helen Isibor-Epega, otherwise The Venus Bushfires, is a Nigerian-born, London-raised composer, singer-songwriter and performance artist. >
The Venus Bushfires: Afro-folk inspired by the goddess of the sea

Nigerian-born singer-songwriter Helen Isibor-Epega, who performs under the name The Venus Bushfires, wrote the world's first ever Pidgin English opera. >
Libromats: The strange combination of laundry and storytelling

Libromat transforms the chore of laundry into time spent reading picture books with your children. >
YEVU's creations are sourced in Ghana, sustainable, and empowering

YEVU empowers Ghana's informal traders by introducing their vibrant textiles to a global consumer base. >
Dot One creates personalised textiles using your DNA

Designed by Iona Inglesby, Dot One converts data from your cheek-swab into unique textiles and graphic prints. >
Interactive installation Pollinators increases public awareness of declining bugs and birds

Pollinators, by design studio Aether & Hemera, is an interactive installation that raises public awareness of the decline of pollinator birds in the UK. >
No more burnt toast with this see-through toaster

Designer James Stumpf has come up with a see-through toaster so users can see how brown their toast is getting. >
Flowy: An app that combats panic attacks

Flowy reduces stress, anxiety and panic attacks using daily breathing rituals. >
Hefin Jones: Socially engaged design

Hefin Jones is the designer behind Cosmic Colliery and the Welsh Space Campaign, two socially focussed design projects. >
New waterless toilet design costs five cents to run

The nano membrane toilet, a new waterless toilet design, runs for less than five cents a day and will begin trials in Ghana early next year. >
Street Melodies Eternal is the chaotic exploration of street life in three major cities

Sean Metelerkamp takes a raw, authentic look at the lives of the homeless in Cape Town, New York, and London using the sounds and visuals of the street. >
Marcus Marritt sketches from the silver screen

Leicester-based artist Marcus Marritt creates bold illustrations of sultry characters that are often inspired by movie scenes. >
Pee-powered socks: the new alternative energy source

Scientists at the Bristol BioEnergy Centre have invented socks that could eventually power portable and wearable electronics. >
Kathryn Martin decodes ink spills into readable images

Royal College of Art graduate Kathryn Martin’s signature drawing technique embraces an element of chance in illustrating. >
South African animation on BBC this Christmas day

An animated version of the children's picture book "Stick Man" will be screened on BBC One on Christmas day. >
Scientists create the world’s first painkiller patch

Taking painkillers orally can be damaging. This transparent patch was made to treat pain at the source. >
Scale: Layer Design Studio’s contribution to the evolving workplace

Benjamin Hubert’s studio designed an eco-friendly, adaptable, acoustic partition for commercial spaces. >

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