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Questioning the question
As the director of Design-Led Innovation at Philips Design, Clive van Heerden is working to bring designers into the process of technological development.
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Clive van Heerden
Inventor
Clive van Heerden is interested in research initiatives that identify long-term systemic shifts, and anticipate changes in future lifestyles.
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Skating 80s
Rolling Back the Years is an exhibition showcasing custom designed skate decks in celebration of the glory of 80s skateboarding.
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Song for the road
From the Highway to Hell to Penny Lane, the Song Map is a litho print featuring the names of songs about streets and landmarks.
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Say hello
"Hello World!" is an installation consisting of some 5000 individual video diaries taken from the internet.
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Design as a verb
When it comes to his job, starchitect Thomas Heatherwick doesn’t think about titles, he thinks about verbs.
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Stacks of colour
Stacking Vessel Soldiers is a series of colourful and highly functional objects by designer Pia Wüstenberg.
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Psychic tees
Discover your destiny via a T-shirt. "Mother's Psychic Tees" give you a clue to your fate in 2012 while raising money for charity.
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Shiny & red
Thomas Heatherwick designed sleek new hybrid double-decker buses for London, and they're 15% more fuel-efficient than existing hybrids.
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Parallel experiences
Science fiction or social media? The Quantum Parallelograph offers you a glimpse of your parallel life - the one you have online.
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Christmas countdown
Eyal Burstein used a variety of vintage teacups, bowls and trinkets to create an advent calendar of different a creative calibre.
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10 for 1
This car-shaped bicycle rack highlights the fact that ten bicycles can be safely parked in a space that can only be used by one car.
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Art to eat
Think gingerbread is only for gingerbread men? Think again. And think domes, skulls and Bauhaus replications.
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Tree top
The Design Museum in London is currently home to a six metre-tall Christmas tree, possibly the tallest in the world.
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Annual event
Harry Pearce was responsible for the design of the 2011 D&AD Annual.
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Spinning light
Troika's Thixotropes is a kinetic sculpture for Selfridges that plays with elements of light.
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Future 50
Neville Brody has created a new modular logo for D&AD, in celebration of their 50th anniversary.
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Food treatment
The Chronic Facility is an alternative system for treating people with chronic disease.
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Places of type
The inaugural Typo London conference took place from 20 to 22 October 2011. The theme was "Places" with a remit way beyond the confines of type.
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Food city
Food urbanist Carolyn Steel argues that cities, like people, are what they eat. She explains how food shapes the cities in which which we live.
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Food fight: Daljit Singh
Food won’t create world peace while religion and football are in the way, says Daljit Singh.
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Food fight: Brent Richards
Brent Richards points out that differentiating between need and wish shows two contrasting world food economies. Both can be enhanced by creativity.
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Meat you in vitro
Speculative designer James King considers what the meat of the future might like look.
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Worthy creation
Thomas Heatherwick has designed the furniture for the Worth Abbey Church in England, using solid American black walnut wood.
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