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Food and fun relief

Posted on March 28th 2010

Unplug Design studio in Korea have found a way to combine both aid and fun in one package with the creative design of the Dream Ball.

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The ingenious Dream Ball has been designed as a cylindrical packaging for relief parcels, allowing it to be rolled great distances and subsequently be transformed into a soccer ball. The work of Unplug Design in Seoul, Korea, by combining aid and creativity, the Dream Ball not only gives poverty-stricken villages health for the body, but health for the mind too while revelling in Africa’s favourite pastime.

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