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Celebrating the sport of basketball with artist Victor Solomon

Design News • 20 Aug 20

From his “literally balling line”, artist Victor Solomon has created a new interactive Japanese Kintsugi basketball court to celebrate sport and the positivity >
Burning the Museum

Design News • 20 Aug 20

The annual Burning Man art festival is going virtual. >
Olafur Eliasson’s newly released AR App for kids

Design Frontiers • 20 Aug 20

The App is designed to conscientize children and alert them to concerns about the state of the planet and open conversation around climate change. >
Meerel Slootheer on the connection between drugs and insects

Design News • 20 Aug 20

Her Pharma project places pills at the centre of laser-cut bug sculptures to draw attention to the experience of being placed on medication. >
Marta Scarampi’s travel-ready, breathable onesie

Design News • 20 Aug 20

Her travel-ready, breathable onesie adds a protective layer while in the air. >
Stickers to identify people with disabilities on public transport

Design News • 13 Aug 20

The sticker is not only for people with disabilities but also a new tool in raising awareness amongst those who use public transport. >
Reef remedy: 3D-printed terracotta tiles

Design News • 13 Aug 20

3D-printing is lighting up the plight of coral reefs by generating terracotta tiles that mimic natural coral with the intention of restoring reefs. >
The nine-year-old Kenyan is rightly causing a stir with his sanitary smarts

Design News • 13 Aug 20

The hands-free washing station was created after Stephen Wamukota saw many people in his community struggle to wash their hands. >
Use this app to minimize your food waste

Design News • 13 Aug 20

The app is free, so you won’t waste any money downloading it, either! >
Color Blind Pal app

Design News • 13 Aug 20

“Want to see all colours more clearly? Use the app to shift colours that are hard to distinguish toward colours you can easily distinguish.” >
Reskinning for beginners

Design News • 12 Aug 20

Today’s designers are augmenting traditional forms by giving them an entire second skin. >
Upgrade yourself to human 2.0

Design Frontiers • 3 Aug 20

This week, we look at predictive and progressive realities for the human condition. >
International Underwater Station by Yves Behar

Design News • 31 Jul 20

"The research station will enable the discovery of new species of marine life, create a better understanding of how climate change affects the ocean." >
Vegetable-based Nadar Gin comes with a sustainable kick

Design News • 31 Jul 20

The gin is testing climate positive, thanks to a lighter carbon footprint than conventional gins distilled from wheat. >
Muscling in on invasive species is possible – by turning them into glass

Design News • 31 Jul 20

You might soon be sipping out of a drinking vessel made from pretty cerulean-coloured glass derived from mussels. >
How Marisa Hamamoto is reshaping the future of dance

Design News • 31 Jul 20

She founded her Los Angeles-based dance company Infinite Flow Dance to integrate diversity so fully that it becomes yet another new normal. >
Bloom device: Seeing is not believing

Design News • 31 Jul 20

The device is a headpiece created by IAAC (Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia). >
The in-vitro skin machine by DeNova Sciences

Design News • 31 Jul 20

The Singaporean start-up has created a printing machine that can print a membrane a minute and the in-vitro skin. >
Reduce deforestation and wood waste with a naturally grown chair

Design News • 31 Jul 20

From using a bio-facturing process, Full Grown is focused on developing sustainable products. >
The new solar powered eBussy

Design News • 31 Jul 20

The reconfigurable, modular light vehicle innovatively adapts to your needs, as often as you like. From a convertible to a station wagon, off-roader and more. >
The New York Public Library’s is digitizing literary classics

Design News • 31 Jul 20

Their first Novel was a digitized version of Lewis Carol’s Alice in Wonderland. >
World’s first headset made from Fungus

Design News • 23 Jul 20

The world’s first microbe-grown, biodegradable headset made from fungus is belting out beats in its country of origin, Finland. >
Higher Steaks

Design News • 23 Jul 20

High Streaks is using state-of-the-art cell culture techniques to create a new meat product. >
How AI is taking over religious sermons

Design News • 23 Jul 20

The robot delivers sermons (albeit the same one over and over again) and interfaces with worshippers in the hope of reigniting flagging interest in religion. >
Covid-19 inspired robots that detect a fever

Design News • 23 Jul 20

As a first line of control at a hospital in Belgium, patients are being greeted by CRUZR, an interactive robot by ZoraBots. >
How Cray X Exoskeleton will strengthen your movement

Design News • 23 Jul 20

Located in Augsburg, Berlin and Tokyo, German Bionic is the first European manufacturer to develop and produce exoskeletons for use in industrial production. >
Weaving your next tattoo

Design News • 23 Jul 20

WovenSkin on-skin interfaces are known as smart tattoos. >
In the name of AI designers

Design News • 23 Jul 20

Art. Lebedev Studio has developed their own AI designer which they’ve been passing off as human for over a year. >
Using Cactus leaves as a substitute for leather

Design Frontiers • 23 Jul 20

The New startup company is bringing you an eco-friendly, vegan textile made from cactus. >
Combat Covid-19 with the world’s first smart mask

Design Frontiers • 23 Jul 20

The mask is able to deliver your voice to the smartphone and translates into eight languages. >

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