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3D-printed vase collection upcycles plastic bottles
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Architecture & Interiors
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DesignLibero’s 3D-printed vase collection brings beauty to the practice of upcycling.
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28 Mar 16
Pedestrian and bicycle tunnel opens underneath Amsterdam Central station
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Urban & Landscape Design
A beautiful and advanced tunnel for cyclists and pedestrians has opened underneath Amsterdam.
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25 Mar 16
Blurring the lines between art, architecture and design
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Architecture & Interiors
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Product Design
A design studio in Italy known for their anamorphic art have painted shape changing mural.
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24 Mar 16
Notes on Blindness: A virtual reality experience
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Design Thinking
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Film & Animation
“Notes on Blindness: Into Darkness” is a virtual reality film created from the audio diaries theologian John Hull kept as he went blind.
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23 Mar 16
Bel & Bel are the leaders in supra-cycling
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Product Design
Spanish design studio Bel&Bel save objects from falling into disuse by redesigning their purpose.
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23 Mar 16
Portable water purification for developing nations
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Product Design
LifeStraw is a portable and affordable water purification tool for people in developing countries.
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22 Mar 16
A faster, cheaper way to filter water using graphene
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Creative Economy
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Scientists have created a graphene-based water filter that could be a solution to the water crisis.
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22 Mar 16
Turning cemeteries into forests
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Industrial Design
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Product Design
The new Bios Urn and tree incubator has created a way to commemorate the dead by planting a tree.
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18 Mar 16
The Dutch e-bike powered by solar energy
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Industrial Design
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Product Design
The Dutch Solar Bike's sleek design is thanks to specially designed solar panels.
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17 Mar 16
A tiny, smart patch could replace insulin shots for diabetes sufferers
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Product Design
A painless patch could mean that millions of diabetes sufferers no longer have to inject themselves to correct their insulin levels.
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16 Mar 16
Welcome to Germany is a cellphone app for refugees
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Information Design
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Product Design
A smart application provides migrants with much-needed information about life in Germany.
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16 Mar 16
Interactive installations turn Toronto's beaches into winter destinations
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Architecture & Interiors
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Urban & Landscape Design
Toronto’s beach goers are encouraged to hit the seaside throughout the year.
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15 Mar 16
Tiny surgical tools inspired by origami
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Product Design
Researchers were able to do away with bulky surgical parts and rely instead on the principles of origami.
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15 Mar 16
Electronic wastelands raise questions about sustainable design
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Industrial Design
Photo exhibition E-waste Tsunami calls on designers to think up better ways to deal with e-waste.
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14 Mar 16
Asmara: Unlikely home to Modernist Architecture
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African Design
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Architecture & Interiors
Asmara, a city in Eritrea in North East Africa, is an unlikely treasure trove of standing modernist architecture.
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11 Mar 16
Saving a font from extinction
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Graphic Design & Illustration
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Product Design
Reviving a forgotten font designed by Alvin Lustig, an iconic, contemporary American graphic designer.
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11 Mar 16
A new, sustainable way to make plastic
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Design Activism
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Product Design
Researchers at Stanford have found a way to create sustainable plastic using inedible plant materials.
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11 Mar 16
Graffiti as a tool for liberation in Kabul
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Design Activism
Liberation and the fight for women's rights through contemporary art and graffiti in Kabul.
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10 Mar 16
Rope made out of plastic bottles
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Product Design
A really handy tool from a runaway Kickstarter campaign.
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10 Mar 16
Perfect man-made waves
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Product Design
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Urban & Landscape Design
Kelly Slater's high-performance, man-made wave pool has been met with scepticism in the industry.
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8 Mar 16
Sideways driving with Goodyear’s latest concept tyre
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Design Thinking
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Product Design
International tyre company Goodyear has revealed the spherical-shaped, smart tyre of the future.
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8 Mar 16
High-tech repository for the dead
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Architecture & Interiors
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Product Design
Ruri Den is an alternative to burial sites for space-starved cities like Tokyo
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7 Mar 16
Wearable technology for the visually impaired
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African Design
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Product Design
Wearable technology from Cairo describes oncoming objects to its users
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4 Mar 16
MFA’s #techstyle: Fashion that moves, interacts and adapts
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
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Interaction Design
The Museum of Fine Arts’ #techstyle exhibition takes a look at where fashion design is headed thanks to its relationship with technology.
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4 Mar 16
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