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An algae-powered city for the world’s newest country

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

RAW-NYC wins competition to design an entire city from scratch for the recently founded nation of Liberland. >

6 Jun 16
MIT Lab’s 3D-printed responsive fur

Design News > Interaction Design

MIT researchers explore the numerous ways to use their new hairy textile, Cillia. >

3 Jun 16
High school students design snap-together homeless shelter

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

HUT is a micro-shelter designed as a low-cost, easy-to-assemble solution to homelessness. >

3 Jun 16
Not Yet Decided: A social experiment in superposition

Next Generation > Design Thinking / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Graphic Design & Illustration

A group of young Lithuanian architects are proposing a social project based on Schrödinger's cat, the thought experiment. >

3 Jun 16
A future where products are grown straight out of our skin

Design Frontiers > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Designer Amy Congdon imagines a world where biotechnology has changed the way textiles are made. >

3 Jun 16
Ending world hunger is a matter of logistics

Design News > Creative Economy

Transfernation is an online platform that aims to tackle hunger by redistributing food waste. >

3 Jun 16
Free Wi-Fi in exchange for keeping the air clean

Design News > Product Design

Amsterdam-based startup TreeWiFi designs birdhouses that offer free internet when the air quality improves. >

2 Jun 16
Soofa: NYC’s solar-powered benches

Design News > Design Thinking / Urban & Landscape Design

The Soofa group is spreading technology with their solar-powered benches. >

2 Jun 16
Photo Series: Documenting “The Other Africa”

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography

Social documentary photographer Lou Jones has spent the last few years documenting the new Africa, “The Other Africa.” >

2 Jun 16
BooToo: locally designed educational toys

Product Spotlight > African Design / Interaction Design / Product Design

South African entrepreneur Daniel Jillings, creates aesthetically pleasing children’s toys. >

2 Jun 16
How to use consumerism to raise awareness for climate change

Design News > Design Activism / Fashion & Jewellery Design

London-based design studio Something & Son ran a pop-up shop selling elegant jewellery made of coal to question mindless consumption at the cost of the earth. >

1 Jun 16
Graphite: a modular honeycomb-shaped shelving system

Product Spotlight > Architecture & Interiors / Industrial Design / Product Design

A storage system designed to be sturdy and fully customisable. >

1 Jun 16
Social enterprise designs Kenyan running shoe

Design News > African Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Product Design

Enda is a running shoe inspired by Kenya’s legacy of running champions >

1 Jun 16
Welcome Shelter: Charlie Redman’s kinetic dining experience

Next Generation > Architecture & Interiors / Interaction Design / Product Design

Architecture student Charlie Redman designed an outdoor structure that functions in any weather. >

1 Jun 16
Someone Somewhere is about empowerment through fashion

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Someone Somewhere combines traditional handcrafts with contemporary products to empower Mexican artisans. >

1 Jun 16
Ingestible origami robot can patch a wound from the inside

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Interaction Design / Product Design

Researchers have developed a tiny magnetically controlled robot with dozens of healthcare applications. >

31 May 16
L CARD: A lung cancer “breathalyzer”

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Interaction Design / Product Design

The tiny device can detect whether or not a patient has lung cancer. >

31 May 16
Spyce: healthy meals with the speed and ease of fast food

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

Designed by students, the machine makes a healthy meal as quick and easy as fast food. >

31 May 16
Photographer presents a bird’s-eye view of inequality in Cape Town

Design News > Art & Photography / Design Activism

Johnny Miller’s photographic series shows that Apartheid spatial planning is still present in South Africa’s Mother City. >

31 May 16
Photographer Martha Tadesse captures her Ethiopian truth

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography

Ethiopian photographer Martha Tadesse hopes to share images of her travels through Addis Ababa with the world. >

30 May 16
Cheap, effective, mosquito killing soap

Design Frontiers > African Design / Design Thinking

Two African innovators have created a cheap soap to combat Malaria in the developing world. >

30 May 16
Luzinterruptus illuminates social issues using light and photography

Design News > Art & Photography / Design Activism / Interaction Design

The anonymous collective Luzinterruptus is creating illuminating installations with light. >

30 May 16
Margrethe Odgaard’s work is full of colour, creativity and compassion

Design News > Craft / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Margrethe Odgaard is celebrated for her contributions to Nordic art and design. >

30 May 16
Innovative filter destroys pollutants in the air

Design News > Design Thinking / Product Design

The Molekule air filter uses nano-technology and light to destroy air pollutants at a molecular level. >

30 May 16

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