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Géraldine Biard's designs relieve dementia sufferers

French designer Géraldine Biard’s new furniture collection aims to relieve the stress of dementia. >
Bompas and Parr's breathable cocktail cloud leaves visitors in high spirits

Meteorology and mixology collide in Bompas and Parr’s latest project, Alcoholic Architecture, a bar with an intoxicating atmosphere. >
The happy union of plastic water sachets and vernacular architecture

Architecture student Anna Webster uses the plastic water sachets made popular in marathons as a key element in the design of this Ghanaian mud hut. >
Brands must take control and help move culture forwards

“It may be an unfashionable and elitist mindset,” says Chris Clarke, CCO of DigitasLBI in London, “but brands can and should take control in shaping culture.” >
Alexandra Lucas’ space suit for life on another planet

Textile designer and Central Saint Martins alumnus imagines a mission to Mars in her space-inspired textiles. >
Fashion designer adds another dimension to garment design

A Taiwanese-born fashion designer has established a 3D-weaving method to create futuristic sculptural garments. >
Nigerian opera is sung in Pidgin English

The Pavarotti of Nigerian opera is here: she’s a woman singing in Pidgin English. >
Illustrator Paul Pateman talks about the pursuit of happiness in his work

London-based graphic artist Paul Pateman, better known by the alias Pâté, has a good amount of humour in his work and a strong and simple aesthetic. >
Images of adolescence in Francesca Allen's "Girls! Girls! Girls!"

London-based photographer Francesca Allen captures the strength and fragility of female adolescence in her five-year-long series "Girls! Girls! Girls!" >
Get lost in the curious maps of Jenni Sparks

London-based illustrator Jenni Sparks creates hand-drawn maps that capture the character of the place they describe. >
Graphic dresses fashioned out of false fingernails

Central Saint Martins graduate Anna Goswami repurposes plastic nails from kitsch to couture. >
Ejector bed literally launches you out of dreamland

YouTube star and engineer Colin Furze has built a bedframe that rockets you out of bed before you get a chance to hit the snooze button. >
This wearable uses your skin to enhance your body awareness

Flair is a wearable that uses the sensors in your skin to enhance your perception of your body and the world around you. >
Trailer: Sindiso Khumalo on the love affair with her ancestry through her textiles

The fashion designer draws from her Zulu inheritance in the design of her contemporary fashion collections. >
Sindiso Khumalo on the love affair with her ancestry in her textiles

The fashion designer draws from her Zulu inheritance in the design of her contemporary fashion collections. >
MOM is designed to save “the lost generation” of refugees

A British student has designed an inflatable incubator specifically to save the lives of premature babies born in refugee camps. >
This shower turns into a monster if you use too much water

Installation artist Elisabeth Buecher created this Tim Burton-inspired shower curtain that inflates into spikes to stop you using too much water. >
Kaffe Fasset and Brandon Mably: Textile designers who paint with yarn

Touring the world like the rock stars of knitting, Kaffe Fasset and Brandon Mably are two technicolour textile artists whose work explodes with bright patterns. >
Barbara Peynot proposes that the urban nomad wear their home

Royal College of Art graduate Barbara Peynot has created The Urban Nomad Home Kit – a coat that turns into a shelter, complete with a window and wallpaper. >
Turn static objects into musical instruments

Technology company Novalia is using conductive printing to provide the common man with the tools to turn 2D surfaces into musical instruments. >
These wearable structures contain living organisms and are designed for life on other planets

Digital morphogenesis Neri Oxman has created a 3D printed wearable structure that hosts growing photosynthetic-organisms. >
The unbreakable Drop umbrella

Royal College of Art graduate Ayca Dundar has designed an alternative umbrella that addresses the classic failings of the traditional brollie. >
Studio Ayaskan's indoor ecosystem mimics the sensory experience of nature

The twin designers at London's Studio Ayaskan have designed Flow, an indoor ecosystem that captures the sensory experience of Mother Nature >
This house turns inside out in summer

The D*Dynamic shape-shifting house was built using a mathematical puzzle in order to store energy in summer and provide maximum insulation in winter. >

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