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Star Wars-like strobe lights for cycling safety

Public bicycle system Santander Cycles plans to release a fleet of bicycles equipped with laser lights. >
Imogen Heap and the future of the music industry

Self-produced singer-songwriter Imogen Heap is an unusual digital diva with rare technical savvy and a personal vision for the future of the music industry. >
Imogen Heap

Musician

As well as a talented musician, Imogen Heap is a digital master. Her tech innovations include the Mi.Mu gloves and a conceptual platform called Mycelia. >
Soner Ozenc: 3D printing and coffee in Shoreditch

Soner Ozenc is the founder of Makers Café, a maker space-cum-coffee shop located in Shoreditch, London that brings 3D printing into the public space. >
Pentagram's Naresh Ramchandani slates corporate jargon with a two minute rap

Corporate slang is named and shamed in Pentagram partner Naresh Ramchandani's Gamechanger video. >
Naresh Ramchandani

Advertising Executive • Communication Designer

Naresh Ramchandani is the first ever communications and advertising partner at Pentagram. >
Urban designer Ekaterina Lichtenstein on the future of smart cities

London-based urban designer and architect Ekaterina Lichtenstein breaks down the elements involved in designing advanced cities. >
Benjamin Hubert

Industrial Designer

Benjamin Hubert is an award-winning British design entrepreneur and founder of LAYER. He focuses on human-centred design. >
Benjamin Hubert: Holistic designs to inspire change

Award-winning designer Benjamin Hubert talks about using design to make things better. >
Helen Isibor-Epega

Artist

Helen Isibor-Epega, otherwise The Venus Bushfires, is a Nigerian-born, London-raised composer, singer-songwriter and performance artist. >
The Venus Bushfires: Afro-folk inspired by the goddess of the sea

Nigerian-born singer-songwriter Helen Isibor-Epega, who performs under the name The Venus Bushfires, wrote the world's first ever Pidgin English opera. >
YEVU's creations are sourced in Ghana, sustainable, and empowering

YEVU empowers Ghana's informal traders by introducing their vibrant textiles to a global consumer base. >
Dot One creates personalised textiles using your DNA

Designed by Iona Inglesby, Dot One converts data from your cheek-swab into unique textiles and graphic prints. >
Flowy: An app that combats panic attacks

Flowy reduces stress, anxiety and panic attacks using daily breathing rituals. >
Hefin Jones: Socially engaged design

Hefin Jones is the designer behind Cosmic Colliery and the Welsh Space Campaign, two socially focussed design projects. >
New waterless toilet design costs five cents to run

The nano membrane toilet, a new waterless toilet design, runs for less than five cents a day and will begin trials in Ghana early next year. >
Street Melodies Eternal is the chaotic exploration of street life in three major cities

Sean Metelerkamp takes a raw, authentic look at the lives of the homeless in Cape Town, New York, and London using the sounds and visuals of the street. >
Kathryn Martin decodes ink spills into readable images

Royal College of Art graduate Kathryn Martin’s signature drawing technique embraces an element of chance in illustrating. >
South African animation on BBC this Christmas day

An animated version of the children's picture book "Stick Man" will be screened on BBC One on Christmas day. >
Scientists create the world’s first painkiller patch

Taking painkillers orally can be damaging. This transparent patch was made to treat pain at the source. >
Scale: Layer Design Studio’s contribution to the evolving workplace

Benjamin Hubert’s studio designed an eco-friendly, adaptable, acoustic partition for commercial spaces. >
Matthew Harrison: Responding to complex healthcare issues

Helix is a design studio centred on the development of simple solutions to complex healthcare problems. >
Assemble

Architect

London-based studio Assemble merges art, architecture and design to create artful spaces. >
Alex R: Designer Craftsmen

The London-based glass artist talks about the metaphorical context of glass and the blurred line between design and craft. >

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