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Egloo: A simple, ecological alternative to electric heating

Product Spotlight > Industrial Design / Product Design

This Italian student’s project offers electricity-free heating for the home. >

7 Oct 16
China surges forward in the space exploration race

Design News > Creative Economy / Design Thinking / Industrial Design

Three major new space programmes prove China’s cosmic ambitions. >

27 Sep 16
The award-winning student design that could help save marine animals

Next Generation > Design Activism / Industrial Design

An innovative invention that helps wildlife recover from oil spills. >

22 Sep 16
Cooling technology poised for revolution

Design Frontiers > Creative Economy / Industrial Design / Product Design

This North Carolina startup aims to overhaul temperature control with solid-state chips. >

16 Sep 16
British student designs vaccine transportation kit that could save millions

Next Generation > Industrial Design

Introducing the Isobar, an ammonia absorption-based refrigerator for vaccines. >

13 Sep 16
Indian scientists create device to collect solar energy more efficiently

Design Frontiers > Industrial Design

This new CSIR development may pose a solution to land restraints and solar energy production in India. >

7 Sep 16
The Setsuna: Toyota’s wooden concept car

Design News > Craft / Design Thinking / Industrial Design

The Japanese car manufacturer has created a functional concept car inspired by the emotional connections we have with family vehicles. >

5 Sep 16
Solar Express: The futuristic space transit concept

Design Frontiers > Creative Economy / Design Thinking / Industrial Design

Montréal’s Imaginactive has put forth a design idea that would bring remote parts of the cosmos within closer human reach. >

31 Aug 16
Problem? These girls build their own solutions

Design News > Design Activism / Industrial Design

Construction and carpentry are not readily associated with high school girls. Project H Design’s Girls Garage hopes to change that. >

30 Aug 16
Catch an autonomous flying drone to work

Design Frontiers > Industrial Design

Airbus shares plans to develop autonomous flying vehicles in response to land-based traffic congestion. >

23 Aug 16
China opens record-breaking transparent bridge

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Industrial Design / Urban & Landscape Design

The Hunan province is now home to the longest and highest glass-bottomed bridge in the world. >

23 Aug 16
Christophe Guberan: Active materials research

Video Interviews > Industrial Design / Product Design

ECAL graduate Christophe Guberant talks about his investigations into the properties of active materials in our exclusive video interview. >

1 Aug 16
Basia Dzaman: The future of 3D printing and robotics

Video Interviews > Industrial Design

Global graduate Basia Dzaman harnesses new technologies to explore traditional embroidery patterns. >

13 Jul 16
Basia Dzaman on the intersection of robotics and creativity

Talks > Industrial Design

A Polish student from the School of Form in Poznań, Poland has designed a robotic arm that reimagines the lost art of snutki. >

11 Jul 16
A new human-centred packaging system for ARV medication in Africa

Next Generation > African Design / Industrial Design / Product Design

A new system for the packaging of AIDS-related virus medication in Sub-Saharan Africa thinks more holistically about the user's needs. >

29 Jun 16
Benjamin Hubert on how to redesign the way you work to make a bigger, better impact

Talks > Industrial Design / Product Design

Design by numbers. British industrial designer Benjamin Hubert shares a bit of data about his journey through the design industry. >

21 Jun 16
Robots built with nervous systems to feel pain

Design News > Industrial Design / Interaction Design

German researchers develop a bio-based, artificial sensory system to create more intuitive robots. >

10 Jun 16
Benjamin Hubert: Design with meaning

Video Interviews > Industrial Design / Product Design

Industrial designer Benjamin Hubert talks about how designers have a responsibility to solve the right kind of problems. >

2 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
Robotic arms and a bit of lycra can change the way concrete is used in design

Design News > Industrial Design

Designers develop a method of fabric-casting concrete into dynamic architectural forms >

30 May 16
Floating solar panels take to the seas

Design News > Industrial Design

Heliofloat solar farm is designed to generate clean energy out at sea and preserve water in arid regions. >

29 Apr 16
A floating UFO to call home

Design News > Industrial Design

Italian boating company designs a flying saucer-like house boat for living and sailing on the sea. >

27 Apr 16
Microbots absorb pollutants from industrial wastewater

Design News > Industrial Design

New nanotechnology innovation addresses heavy metal contamination of natural water sources. >

18 Apr 16
A fossil-fuel-free houseboat from an apocalyptic future

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

Tshepo Mokholo is an architect-turned-designer and his goal is to bring about inner-city change through better design. >

12 Apr 16

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