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Top 10 August 2015
Francesca Jane Allen’s series Girls! Girls! Girls! captures the intimate and delicate transitional period between adolescence and womanhood.
Burning Man Festival calls out to urban designers
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The Black Rock City Ministry of Urban Planning has put a call out to urban designers to reimagine the Burning Man Festival’s temporary city design.
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24 Aug 15
Yerka: The Fort Knox of bicycles
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Industrial Design
Three Chilean engineering students dropped out of college to develop an unstealable bicycle with an integrated locking system.
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20 Aug 15
A 3D-printed surfboard that can collapse into 48 pieces
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Design student Max Robotham makes carrying a surfboard from place to place a lot easier.
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19 Aug 15
Flo, the solution to the menstruation taboo in rural communities
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A team of students have designed an efficient, eco-friendly way for impoverished adolescent girls to manage menstruation.
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18 Aug 15
Designers in Amsterdam reward community members for getting Wasted
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Wasted is a community laboratory in Amsterdam Noord, where plastic waste is turned into building blocks and rubbish becomes a valuable currency.
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18 Aug 15
Monica Garza paints women in all their curvaceous glory
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Monica Garza uses sparkles, glitter pens and motorcycles to explore and celebrate the fuller female form.
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18 Aug 15
Nigerian opera is sung in Pidgin English
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Music & Sound Design
The Pavarotti of Nigerian opera is here: she’s a woman singing in Pidgin English.
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14 Aug 15
Twenty Journey: The many characters of South Africa through the lenses of three young photographers
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Two decades into South Africa’s democracy, three photographers set off on a road trip to discover more about their country’s mixed-up character.
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14 Aug 15
Images of adolescence in Francesca Allen's "Girls! Girls! Girls!"
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London-based photographer Francesca Allen captures the strength and fragility of female adolescence in her five-year-long series "Girls! Girls! Girls!"
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11 Aug 15
Turn air into water as you ride your bike
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A Viennese industrial designer has created a solar-powered device that collects up to 500ml of condensation per hour as you ride your bike.
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3 Aug 15
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