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Pack your GPS away and use marbles instead
Design graduate Sara Vrbinc has developed brAInfu.cc, a wayfinding system to rival the GPS.
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Seated in style
For his first collaboration with Finnish furniture company Artek, Konstantin Grcic has designed a modern armchair for contemporary living.
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Tea, anyone?
The Tipcup teacup makes brewing your tea as easy as drinking it.
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Design Helsinki
20+12 Design Stories from Helsinki is a journey through the 2012 World Design Capital, looking at what design can do in a city.
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The waterprint of food
The Wonderwater Cafe was a pop-up restaurant that aimed to raise awareness about global water issues.
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Pop supping
Besides gearing up for World Design Capital 2012, Helsinki is undergoing a food revolution enabled by the temporary, experimental nature of pop-up restaurants.
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Hello Helsinki
The Helsinki Design Week, happening from 9 to 18 September 2011, considers ways of embedding design into life.
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Seat yourself
Karim Rashid’s furniture designs for Punkalive combines elements of the natural world with mathematical constructs.
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Fork free
A bicycle without a front fork you say? Yes, it looks a bit odd but we appreciate the innovation and creativity driving it.
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Case in point
Type Case is an installation that creates interesting displays with digital pixels of different shapes and sizes.
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