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Games for good

Design News > Design Thinking

Half The Sky mobile games engage girls and women in developing regions in gameplay that helps to educate them about improving their lives.

10 Aug 13
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TEN Collection: design tutorial ft Lydia Baillergeau (USA)

Inside View > Film & Animation

Lydia Baillergeau talks about how she created her animated artwork for the TEN Collection, using Adobe Illustrator and After Effects.

10 Aug 13
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Toast to Inspiration

Inside View > Graphic Design & Illustration

Lydia Baillergeau's artwork for the TEN Collection is an animation called "Toast to Inspiration". Download the open video files for free on 9 August 2013.

9 Aug 13
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Chandelier Tree

FilmFestFriday > Interaction Design

#FilmFestFridays present "Chandelier Tree", a short story about a luminous tree that brings light and magic to its surroundings.

9 Aug 13
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Mapped out

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Michael Bierut has designed a system of clear and vivid maps for the streets of New York, encouraging people to walk and cycle the city.

9 Aug 13
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Bodies & bacteria

Design News > Information Design

Sonja Bäumel's Metabodies found that it's not just our genes that differentiate us from others, but also our bacteria.

8 Aug 13
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Musical lift off

Design News > Music & Sound Design

The International Space Orchestra directed by Nelly Ben Hayoun has launched into space!

8 Aug 13
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Inside and outside

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Ineke Hans created striking indoor and outdoor design for the 2013 M°BA Fashion Biennale.

7 Aug 13
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Cutting the ribbon

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Earlier this year Harry Pearce designed the identity for MUSE. Here's a look at the grand opening.

7 Aug 13
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Wear for walking

Design News > Product Design

The Ekso™ is a ready-to-wear, battery-powered exoskeleton that helps people with lower-extremity paralysis or weakness to stand up and walk.

6 Aug 13
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Paper fresh

Design News > Product Design

A simple biodegradable, recyclable piece of organic paper, or FreshPaper, could help to reduce food spoilage and the resultant waste.

6 Aug 13
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Mix & Shakr

Design News > Interaction Design

Eddie Opara designed an identity, web application and data visualisation for Carlo Ratti's robotic barman, Makr Shakr.

6 Aug 13
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Apple shots

Design News > Product Design

Martí Guixé has designed a shot glass that can be eaten, digested and transformed into energy after its use has been fulfilled.

5 Aug 13
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Collaborative stretching

Profiling > Product Design

Mr Price Home’s new CoLab series sees the retailer collaborating with trending local designers in creating fun, colourful and contemporary products.

5 Aug 13
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Masashi Kawamura: Making new ways of making things

Video Interviews > Interaction Design

Masashi Kawamura is interested in designing new ways to design and experimenting with ways to combines technology and storytelling.

4 Aug 13
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Eco electronic

Design News > Design Thinking

Introducing the ecoATM, a first-of-its-kind consumer self-service kiosk for recycling electronics.

4 Aug 13
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Crowdsourcing power

Design News > Creative Economy

CrowdFlower is a crowdsourcing platform that offers scalable solutions that deliver fast and accurate results for business data problems.

4 Aug 13
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TEN Collection ft Lydia Baillergeau (USA) – teaser

Inside View > Film & Animation

American artist, film director and motion designer Lydia Baillergeau features in the August 2013 edition of the TEN Collection. Here's what she's about.

3 Aug 13
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Saving Norman by Hanneke Schutte

FilmFestFriday > Film & Animation

#FilmFestFridays presents "Saving Norman" by SA filmmaker Hanneke Schutte.

2 Aug 13
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Convenient coffee

Design News > Product Design

Yvés Behar has designed a smartphone-controlled coffee experience that allows users to order remotely and pick up their coffee quickly.

2 Aug 13
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Mimicking meat

Design News > Design Thinking

Looking and tasting like meat, Beyond Meat™ offers plant protein as an authentic meat alternative with the same nutritional value but at a lower cost.

2 Aug 13
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Masashi Kawamura on doing different things with technology

Talks > Film & Animation

“By making things differently you’ll get something different (no duh)”. Masashi Kawamura explains how this approach informs his creative work.

1 Aug 13
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Super-sized graphics

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Frost* Design's interior design of bright, quirky and oversized graphics for an Australian bank aims to aesthetically engage employees.

1 Aug 13
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Family of furniture

Profiling > Product Design

Jan Douglas's collection of bespoke, low-tech furniture combines utility with a narrative element that draws on his Afrikaans heritage.

1 Aug 13

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Design News • 6 Jun 22

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Design News • 6 Jun 22

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Design News • 6 Jun 22

Treehotel and BIG make a case for species co-habitation with their new collaboration, Biosphere >

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