December 2015 Archive

It doesn't look like it, but this is a massage chair

Design News • 15 Dec 15

The Roll Collection is a seating system that consists of rotatable aluminium sticks, which massage whilst sliding from left to right. >
Plascon sets the tone for 2016 with colours that tell a story

Design News • 15 Dec 15

Africa’s largest paint company introduces its new contemporary colours with four trend stories. >
Documentary uncovers the recycling habits behind Japan’s zero-waste community

Design News • 14 Dec 15

Seeker Stories documents a small town in Japan that abides by an extremely thorough recycling system to live waste-free. >
Exhibition in New York exposes one of the world’s most contaminated rivers

Design News • 14 Dec 15

Artist Vibha Galhotra's ABSUR-CITY-PITY-DITY explores the impact of toxic pollution in India’s Yamuna River. >
Totohealth is a mobile solution to healthcare problems

Design News • 14 Dec 15

Totohealth uses SMS-technology to help parents take care of themselves and their children. >
Kathryn Martin decodes ink spills into readable images

Design News • 14 Dec 15

Royal College of Art graduate Kathryn Martin’s signature drawing technique embraces an element of chance in illustrating. >
Holiday display reveals the stark reality of domestic violence

Design News • 14 Dec 15

This holiday display shows the ugly truth about domestic violence during a time synonymous with joy. >
Catalytic Action designed and built a playground for refugee children

Design News • 14 Dec 15

Using input from children in Bar Elias, Lebanon, Catalytic Action designed and built a playground for a school developed to serve refugees. >
Float: A stool designed for comfort

Product Spotlight • 14 Dec 15

Float is a sustainable stool that is designed to promote healthy sitting, designed by students in Dresden. >
An online artwork dedicated to artist Faith47's peaceful urban swans

Design News • 14 Dec 15

Award-winning South African filmmaker Rowan Pybus releases "No Standing Anytime", an online artwork inspired by artist Faith47's New York City Swans. >
Julia Hasting: The unusual book designer

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:06:07 • 11 Dec 15

Julia Hasting, creative director of Phaidon Press, has designed books that come vacuum packed like ham and doodled all over like a student notebook. >
A new alternative energy that involves a small piece of paper

Design News • 11 Dec 15

Scientists in Sweden have developed a thin paper that is able to store energy. >
South African animation on BBC this Christmas day

Design News • 11 Dec 15

An animated version of the children's picture book "Stick Man" will be screened on BBC One on Christmas day. >
Scientists create the world’s first painkiller patch

Design Frontiers • 11 Dec 15

Taking painkillers orally can be damaging. This transparent patch was made to treat pain at the source. >
A mobile multi-purpose IT centre for rural communities

Design News • 11 Dec 15

Digi-Truck drives technology education in developing countries by creating access to pre-owned computers. >
Meet the people living in off-grid homes made of rubbish

FilmFestFriday • 11 Dec 15

“Meet the Earthship” is a short film about an off-grid community living in houses made of rubbish outside of Taos, New Mexico. >
Farmers use bee fences to protect subsistence farms

Design News • 11 Dec 15

Farmers from Kenya to Sri Lanka are building sustainable beehive fences to protect their crops from wild elephants. >
The design, art and fashion communities respond to the migrant crisis

Inside View • 10 Dec 15

The movement of displaced humans across the world will surely define this decade. We ask prominent design thinkers their thoughts on how to help. >
Erik Kessels: The era of democratisation

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:04:59 • 10 Dec 15

From shop window dresser as a child to children’s TV producer as an adult, and much else in between, Erik Kessels is a crossover "communicator". >
Christmas ornaments get redesigned to raise funds for Detroit museum

Product Spotlight • 10 Dec 15

American designers teamed up to create a range of bespoke Christmas ornaments to raise funds for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit. >
Bangladeshi architecture firm wins competition to build art centre in Ghana

Design News • 10 Dec 15

A Bangladeshi firm has won the Earth Architecture Competition. Founded by the Nka Foundation, the competition called architects to build an arts centre in Ghana >
Scale: Layer Design Studio’s contribution to the evolving workplace

Design News • 10 Dec 15

Benjamin Hubert’s studio designed an eco-friendly, adaptable, acoustic partition for commercial spaces. >
Matthew Harrison: Responding to complex healthcare issues

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:03:27 • 10 Dec 15

Helix is a design studio centred on the development of simple solutions to complex healthcare problems. >
Miniature paper sculptures reveal nature’s disguised microorganisms

Design News • 10 Dec 15

Artist Rogan Brown reveals the intricate architecture of nature with sheets of paper and a scalpel knife. >

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