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Colour Pop
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Art & Photography
An Olimpia Zagnoli retrospective, held in her home town, pays homage to her witty creations
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21 Jan 22
Make it snappy
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Architecture & Interiors
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Interaction Design
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Product Design
Exploring how the built environment might respond to the harsh conditions of climate change.
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21 Jan 22
Glass Act
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Art & Photography
Artist Kit Paulson has a heart of glass
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14 Jan 22
Block party
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Architecture & Interiors
iheartblob’s Fungible/Non-fungible Pavilion paves the way for us to all become architects
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14 Jan 22
Cakes and oil
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Design Thinking
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Product Design
Four students from The Design Village in India have found a sustainable solution to packaging edible oil
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14 Jan 22
Woodkid
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Art & Photography
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Design Activism
Driving a car powered by discarded wood, across forgotten parts of Germany, is performance art with a difference.
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14 Jan 22
Cool runnings
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Creative Economy
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Design Thinking
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Product Design
A simple chemical reaction powers new cooling tech that keeps things cold without electricity.
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10 Jan 22
Celebrating the Arch
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Architecture & Interiors
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Urban & Landscape Design
Few South Africans have left as profound a legacy as Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
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10 Jan 22
The house that LEGO built
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Architecture & Interiors
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Product Design
Room Copenhagen launches a playful, sustainable homeware line for grown-ups
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10 Jan 22
Holding sway
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Architecture & Interiors
Parametric design turns an urban office block into an object of wonder
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10 Jan 22
Rain on me
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Architecture & Interiors
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Design Thinking
Tactus Design Workshop’s self-sustainable home of the future
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30 Dec 21
In the raw
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Design Activism
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Product Design
Introducing the award-winning zero-waste Ermis chair
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30 Dec 21
Exploring interspecies art
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Urban & Landscape Design
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg has developed an algorithm that caters for pollinator preferences
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30 Dec 21
From kelp to catwalk
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Design Activism
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Product Design
Commercial-scale seaweed-based yarn can transform fashion
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30 Dec 21
Curiosity thrilled the cat
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Product Design
Meet the purrrr-fect bionic spy robot for cat lovers
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17 Dec 21
100 Beautiful Baskets
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African Design
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Craft
A curated exhibition that celebrates African weavers
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17 Dec 21
Tackling sanitation taboos with panache
Design News
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Industrial Design
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Product Design
Jasmine Burton’s creative approach to WASH challenges can change the world for billions.
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17 Dec 21
Dazzling with design
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
How Yinka Ilori’s technicolour storytelling is taking over the world
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17 Dec 21
African storytelling comes of age in CODA
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Film & Animation
The urban documentary delves into how we mark the passing of time
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14 Dec 21
Out of this world
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Music & Sound Design
Ghanaian artist Steloo channels Zambian ‘Afronaut’
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13 Dec 21
The seeds and the sower
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Craft
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Product Design
Art and design fuse effortlessly in Jan Ernst’s first solo exhibition in France
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13 Dec 21
Morag Myerscough’s #CleanPower installation brightened up COP26
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Product Design
We chat to the designer about her recycled ocean plastic flags
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13 Dec 21
Vigil for Virgil
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
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Music & Sound Design
We pay tribute to creative polymath and trailblazer Virgil Abloh
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8 Dec 21
Cannabis-inspired book redefines the stoner aesthetic
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Art & Photography
This homage to pot will amuse and delight anyone interested in this unique sub-culture.
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7 Dec 21
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