2017 Archive

A 3D-printed grotto designed by algorithms

Design Frontiers • 6 Apr 17

The future of architecture explored. >
The latest video from Björk is a virtual reality extravaganza

Design Frontiers • 10 Apr 17

The artist is leading the charge in terms of merging music and VR. >
The APSARA drone disintegrates once it reaches its destination

Design Frontiers • 12 Apr 17

Introducing the ‘Ikea of drones”. >
Virtual Reality App offers better clinical care to cancer patients

Design Frontiers • 13 Apr 17

Oncomfort finds an innovative way to help cancer patients self-manage stress, anxiety and pain through evidence-based psychological interventions in VR. >
Turning shipping containers into renewable solar units

Design Frontiers • 13 Apr 17

SolarTurtle is an innovative green energy product that relies solely on battery-based distribution for rural electrification. >
Scientists discover a way to harvest fresh water from air

Design Frontiers • 18 Apr 17

This device also works in arid regions >
3D printing with Martian dust

Design Frontiers • 24 Apr 17

A technique to aid in the development of the first Mars colony. >
The bold, mixed-media collages of Kasmir Jones

Design Frontiers • 24 Apr 17

The American artist’s work pays tribute to black cultural icons. >
Synthetic skin could return touch to amputees

Design Frontiers • 25 Apr 17

Researchers have combined solar power and electronic skin for the first time. >
Making sneakers sustainable with the ‘Shoetopia’ project

Design Frontiers • 26 Apr 17

Two Polish students are challenging traditional methods of shoe production with their 3D-printed sneaker. >
Click Play: 3 Masters of product

Design Frontiers • 1 May 17

Product designers shape how we live and these graduates are at the forefront of exactly that. >
A ‘super’ key that cannot be copied by the masses

Design Frontiers • 2 May 17

The Stealth Key is 3D printed and nearly impossible to replicate. >
African innovation improves treatment of gunshot wounds

Design Frontiers • 2 May 17

This new device is revolutionising the way trauma is treated. >
Flexible, organic and biodegradable: A new wave of electronics

Design Frontiers • 4 May 17

A new semiconductor developed by Stanford researchers is as flexible as skin and easily degradable. >
Boyan Slat’s Ocean CleanUp System promises to rid our oceans of plastic garbage

Design Frontiers • 18 May 17

"To catch the plastic, act like plastic. >
This footwear startup is using 3D imaging technology to give you the perfect fit

Design Frontiers • 31 May 17

True Gault deliberately avoids traditional sizing to ensure a truly comfortable shoe. >
Combatting Algeria’s harsh weather conditions with houses made from plastic bottles

Design Frontiers • 1 Jun 17

These durable homes are safely housing the region’s refugee population. >
Minutiae: The ‘anti-social’ app gives your more mundane moments meaning

Design Frontiers • 5 Jun 17

“YOU ARE NOT YOUR TIMELINE.” >
From harvesting fungi from the body to hormone infused cocktails, are these the products of the future?

Design Frontiers • 12 Jun 17

Beirut Design Week's Speculative Needs exhibition is not as far-fetched as one might think. >
An art invention to encourage more silence in our cities

Design Frontiers • 13 Jun 17

The Silent Room invites people to come in, for up to 30 minutes and “not perform or achieve anything, but just to be”. >
Introducing MobyMart, the autonomous grocery store on wheels

Design Frontiers • 19 Jun 17

“It is the store that comes to you, instead of you coming to the store.” >
This futuristic cultural centre is inspired by the sea

Design Frontiers • 21 Jun 17

Vincent Callebaut Architects’ latest conceptual project draws inspiration from the manta ray to make a floating cultural hub in Seoul. >
Dough Universe: the children’s toy range inspiring future inventors

Design Frontiers • 26 Jun 17

Technology Will Save Us launches three new Electro Dough inspired activities. >
Lucy Feng’s work plays with African mysticism and modern Afropunk culture

Design Frontiers • 3 Jul 17

Called ‘The Strangelings’, the images moodily blend the surreal and the regal. >

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