Articles

Two-seater pods suspended above Mexico City’s traffic offers passengers a quicker commute to work and back. >

A design studio at the Johannesburg Graduate School of Architecture investigates infrastructure in the city through a process of drawing intuitively. >

Project Kgolagano uses TV white spaces to bring much needed medical care to remote areas in Africa. >

Industrial designer Carter Zufelt has developed a system that recycles plastic bags into marbled household objects that celebrate their origins. >

The Haduwa Arts and Culture Institute is a large bamboo canopy that serves as a meeting place for artists and cultural practitioners in Ghana. >

Pollinators, by design studio Aether & Hemera, is an interactive installation that raises public awareness of the decline of pollinator birds in the UK. >

Designer James Stumpf has come up with a see-through toaster so users can see how brown their toast is getting. >

The doctHERs initiative is an online platform that connects doctors to patients in need using technology. >

A compact hooter that is as loud as a car hooter is designed for safe urban commuting. >

The chefs at Data Cuisine design special data dishes to ask and answer questions about the information in our lives. >

The Swallow Homestay and Community House is the product of the happy union between traditional Vietnamese building methods and modern construction. >

In their Portals Project, Shared Studios has turned shipping containers into wormholes through which people on opposite sides of the world can connect. >

Copenhagen-based design studio Frensk creates a reusable wrapping paper system that keeps a record of past users. >

INDEX Awards and Dansk OTC are establishing a venture capital fund of 40 million euros to invest in life improving designs. >