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Colour Pop
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Art & Photography
An Olimpia Zagnoli retrospective, held in her home town, pays homage to her witty creations
21 Jan 22
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Make it snappy
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Product Design
Exploring how the built environment might respond to the harsh conditions of climate change.
21 Jan 22
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Glass Act
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Art & Photography
Artist Kit Paulson has a heart of glass
14 Jan 22
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Block party
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Architecture & Interiors
iheartblob’s Fungible/Non-fungible Pavilion paves the way for us to all become architects
14 Jan 22
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Cakes and oil
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Product Design
Four students from The Design Village in India have found a sustainable solution to packaging edible oil
14 Jan 22
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Woodkid
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Design Activism
Driving a car powered by discarded wood, across forgotten parts of Germany, is performance art with a difference.
14 Jan 22
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Cool runnings
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Product Design
A simple chemical reaction powers new cooling tech that keeps things cold without electricity.
10 Jan 22
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Celebrating the Arch
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Urban & Landscape Design
Few South Africans have left as profound a legacy as Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
10 Jan 22
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The house that LEGO built
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Product Design
Room Copenhagen launches a playful, sustainable homeware line for grown-ups
10 Jan 22
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Holding sway
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Architecture & Interiors
Parametric design turns an urban office block into an object of wonder
10 Jan 22
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Rain on me
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Design Thinking
Tactus Design Workshop’s self-sustainable home of the future
30 Dec 21
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In the raw
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Product Design
Introducing the award-winning zero-waste Ermis chair
30 Dec 21
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Exploring interspecies art
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Urban & Landscape Design
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg has developed an algorithm that caters for pollinator preferences
30 Dec 21
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From kelp to catwalk
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Product Design
Commercial-scale seaweed-based yarn can transform fashion
30 Dec 21
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Curiosity thrilled the cat
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Product Design
Meet the purrrr-fect bionic spy robot for cat lovers
17 Dec 21
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100 Beautiful Baskets
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Craft
A curated exhibition that celebrates African weavers
17 Dec 21
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Tackling sanitation taboos with panache
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Product Design
Jasmine Burton’s creative approach to WASH challenges can change the world for billions.
17 Dec 21
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Dazzling with design
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
How Yinka Ilori’s technicolour storytelling is taking over the world
17 Dec 21
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African storytelling comes of age in CODA
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Film & Animation
The urban documentary delves into how we mark the passing of time
14 Dec 21
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Out of this world
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Music & Sound Design
Ghanaian artist Steloo channels Zambian ‘Afronaut’
13 Dec 21
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The seeds and the sower
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Product Design
Art and design fuse effortlessly in Jan Ernst’s first solo exhibition in France
13 Dec 21
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Morag Myerscough’s #CleanPower installation brightened up COP26
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Product Design
We chat to the designer about her recycled ocean plastic flags
13 Dec 21
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Vigil for Virgil
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Music & Sound Design
We pay tribute to creative polymath and trailblazer Virgil Abloh
8 Dec 21
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Cannabis-inspired book redefines the stoner aesthetic
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Art & Photography
This homage to pot will amuse and delight anyone interested in this unique sub-culture.
7 Dec 21
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