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Oliber helps people with partial or total atrophy of the hands
Next Generation
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14 Dec 18
Chilean design graduate Bárbara López designed a low-cost tool to give new hands to those in need.
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Meet the design graduate who created her own coffin
Next Generation
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26 Nov 18
Confronted with the mortality of not only her body but the world, Shaina Garfield found healing in the subject of death.
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0.9 grams of brass: A brass paper clip that symbolises a cow’s life
Next Generation
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14 Nov 18
See how graduate student Adelaide Lala Tam uses this project as a metaphor for the life cycle of a cow.
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A simple brass paper clip wins at the Future Food Design Awards
Next Generation
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29 Oct 18
0.9 Grams of Brass, a project by designer Adelaide Lala Tam, tells a complicated story through a seemingly banal object.
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The Final Five: antenna 2018 is right on our doorstep
Next Generation
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16 Oct 18
These creatives make up the list of 20-plus graduates who will present projects that change the world of tomorrow.
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Meet the young innovators at antenna’s first exhibition
Next Generation
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12 Oct 18
It’s an evolution of the first antenna conference which took place at Dutch Design Week last year.
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Turning sadness into power with the Tear Gun
Next Generation
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12 Oct 18
Taiwanese designer transforms emotional frustration into an expression of design.
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Five talented young designers to watch at antenna 2018
Next Generation
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9 Oct 18
From communication to food to medical care, these graduates are redesigning our world multiple industries at a time.
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These graduates want to change the world in ways we never thought possible
Next Generation
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28 Sep 18
Antenna 2018 is here! Meet the first five speakers for the global design platform.
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Cultivating mini farms aboard cargo ships
Next Generation
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19 Sep 18
This student-designed collapsible farm could help utilise the massive amounts of wasted space created by shipping containers.
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Big blue: Three designs that tackle problems of the ocean
Next Generation
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8 Jun 18
On #WorldOceansDay we take a look at three designs that address problems caused by pollution and fishing in our vulnerable oceans.
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A museum where your emotions are the main attraction
Next Generation
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18 May 18
Siphilele Magagula’s conceptual design asks participants to lay their prejudices bare.
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Caroline Smeenk on designing products to help pregnant women who can't access hospitals
Next Generation
• Duration: 00:10:32
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8 May 18
"17% of rural Canadians live over 2 hours away from their nearest hospital."
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FrailTea analyses kettle grip data to monitor the health of the elderly
Next Generation
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28 Apr 18
Callum Smith’s project FrailTea uses grip data from a kettle to monitor the health of elderly people and the state of their of frailty.
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This Polish designer created a book that puts you in the shoes of someone with dementia
Next Generation
• Duration: 00:08:46
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31 Mar 18
The Polish photographer and communication designer turned her frustration into art.
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On the future of food, fashion and eating our environmental problems away
Next Generation
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30 Mar 18
The world is changing rapidly, this means our fashion and food choices need to keep up.
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Tatsuya Honda's hairpin enables you to feel sounds
Next Generation
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13 Mar 18
This graduate of the Future University Hakode has designed a more intuitive aid for hearing impaired users that translates sound to vibration.
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Meet the 9 Global Graduates that presented at Design Indaba Conference 2018
Next Generation
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6 Feb 18
These young graduates presented projects that speak to the water crisis, the power of sound, social entrepreneurship and so much more.
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Two young designers tackle what it will mean to age in 2050
Next Generation
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10 Jan 18
Mar Ginot Blanco and Aaron Garlick aim to design for future challenges based on present and past movements in design.
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Revolutionising food production with edible fungi made from plastic
Next Generation
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5 Jan 18
LIVIN Studio and Utrecht University transform plastic waste into gourmet fungi food.
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