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Cook This Page wants to make cooking new things easy and fun
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17 Jul 17
Interactive IKEA recipes demonstrate just how deliciously simple creativity can be.
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The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has found a novel way to share its vast artwork
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17 Jul 17
US art lovers can text keywords or an emoji and receive matching pictures from the museum's database
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New vertical residences in Eindhoven to be designed by MVRDV
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17 Jul 17
This mosaic-like structure combines urban farming, housing and more in the Eindhoven city centre.
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Cape Town décor label Mia Mélange revitalises with fresh look and feel
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16 Jul 17
“Our intention was to express the diverse ways in which our products can be used in and around the home.”
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A golden way to draw attention to an overlooked piece of female anatomy
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14 Jul 17
Alli Sebastian Wolf hopes that her work will spur more conversations about the fascinating magic and underappreciated aspects of the clitoris.
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A floating public pool designed to revive Melbourne’s Yarra River
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13 Jul 17
London-based architects Studio Octopi proposed a floating pool to activate community interest around the cleanup of the Yarra River.
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Poor Billionaires photo series satirises the deep social void of Brazil
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13 Jul 17
This Kolor Art Collective project uses glamour and absurdity to criticise profound income inequality.
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Johannesburg designer brings boomboxes back into the future
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12 Jul 17
His unconventional portable boomboxes make it simple for those who are nostalgic for boomboxes but also appreciate slick design.
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Studio Lani's versatile Talking Tables win at the NYC WantedDesign Launch Pad
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11 Jul 17
"Hand-welded steel, hand-turned wood and woven leather unite to form the sculptural and versatile nature of these pieces."
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Beautiful Boy by Lissa Rivera explores the visual language of gender
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7 Jul 17
Celebrating gender identity as a repertoire, not a classification.
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Living canopy changes its appearance throughout the day
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5 Jul 17
This responsive design merges biology, architecture and maths to form a canopy that responds to light.
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The surreal body art of South Korean artist Dain Yoon
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5 Jul 17
This artist uses her face as the canvas for unique optical illusion artworks.
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Weird Box is an innovative short film driven by the participation of Instagram followers
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4 Jul 17
Software developer Noah Levenson’s latest design integrates users’ Instagram posts into a short film.
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On breaking down plastic waste for the benefit of nature
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4 Jul 17
A look at different approaches that challenge the ‘non-biodegradable’ barrier.
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This music festival has the perfect solve for flat batteries
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3 Jul 17
Students at Australia’s UniSA designed a bespoke solar phone charging stand for the WOMADelaide Festival.
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Artist Ai Weiwei turns salvaged refugee lifejackets into a large-scale installation
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30 Jun 17
The artist and activist collected about 3 500 life jackets to highlight the disturbing conditions refugees are subjected to
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Gabon-born photographer tells the story of the Central African country’s youth
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29 Jun 17
An artist in the diaspora, Yannis Davy Guibinga connects with his heritage through photography.
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These teen girls built a solar powered tent for LA's homeless people
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29 Jun 17
DIY Girls is empowering teen girls to pursue the fields of technology and engineering.
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Add Colour teaches design thinking to South Africa’s youth
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28 Jun 17
A pilot project by Sk8 for Gr8 aims to uplift through creativity in some of South Africa’s historically disadvantaged areas.
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French astronaut shares captivating images of Earth
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27 Jun 17
While they might look like fungi under a microscope, these photographs are actually of mountain ranges and cityscapes.
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Design Commons is a new kind of bespoke, global, portable conference
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27 Jun 17
The deconstructed conference where design is the tool with which to face the challenges in our cities.
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Bare Technology uses E-waste to make accessible computers for the elderly
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26 Jun 17
The award-winning product was designed by two students with no design background
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Ilya Kalimulin's Unexpected Products are a quirky jab at brands we love
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23 Jun 17
What would an air horn made by Pampers look like? How about bullet casings made by M&M?
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The way you draw a circle depends on where you’re from
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23 Jun 17
This study analysed 100 000 circles to determine what their creators have in common.
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