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Kaffe Fasset and Brandon Mably: Textile designers who paint with yarn

Touring the world like the rock stars of knitting, Kaffe Fasset and Brandon Mably are two technicolour textile artists whose work explodes with bright patterns. >
Barbara Peynot proposes that the urban nomad wear their home

Royal College of Art graduate Barbara Peynot has created The Urban Nomad Home Kit – a coat that turns into a shelter, complete with a window and wallpaper. >
The unbreakable Drop umbrella

Royal College of Art graduate Ayca Dundar has designed an alternative umbrella that addresses the classic failings of the traditional brollie. >
Studio Ayaskan's indoor ecosystem mimics the sensory experience of nature

The twin designers at London's Studio Ayaskan have designed Flow, an indoor ecosystem that captures the sensory experience of Mother Nature >
This house turns inside out in summer

The D*Dynamic shape-shifting house was built using a mathematical puzzle in order to store energy in summer and provide maximum insulation in winter. >
Trailer: The Workers on the power of digital interactions

The Workers is a London-based digital design studio that challenges expectations of what is possible in the digital realm. >
The Workers on the power of digital interactions

The Workers is a London-based digital design studio that challenges expectations of what is possible in the digital realm. >
Pack your GPS away and use marbles instead

Design graduate Sara Vrbinc has developed brAInfu.cc, a wayfinding system to rival the GPS. >
Akiko Shinzato’s art of identity theft

Using bits of brass, laser engraved leather, reflective plastic and design acumen; Akiko Shinzato’s jewellery can give you someone else’s identity. >
Art and science collide in "What’s in Your DNA?"

Cancer Research UK teamed up with 21 designers to raise funds for an advanced research facility in the heart of London. >
NATS create a colourful visualisation of the busy London skies

Air traffic service NATS shares a striking visualisation of the flights over London’s airports in “London 24”. >
Audio sculptures that modify your perception of the world

Are you grumpy? Özgün Kılıç’s graduation project hypothesizes that it might be because of the sounds around you. >
Tales of the Dark Continent

Maxwell Mutanda illustrates surreal scenes of Africa in a series he titled “Postcards”, which he describes to us here in his own words. >
Mr Bingo's Hate Mail Kickstarter offers first class artistic abuse

Warning: This article contains offensive content. At your request, Mr Bingo will create a unique insulting message and send it to you in the mail. >
Eleanor Lakelin’s raw wooden sculptures

The London-based carpenter unearths nature’s wild beauty in her wooden bowls. >
A novel way to listen to music by Gemma Roper

Product designer Gemma Roper has designed a satisfyingly simple device that allows you to select music according to tempo or beats per minute. >
Light Echoes installation arrives at the Barbican Curve Gallery

Aaron Koblin and Ben Tricklebank’s artwork “Light Echoes” envelopes the Barbican Curve Gallery in an immersive light experience. >
Toast and a hug from RCA graduate

London-based designer Ted Wiles designed a toaster that only works when you give it a hug in an attempt to make its users happy. >
ByALEX: purity by design

Purist functionality and a pared-down aesthetic are key ingredients in Alex Swain’s decisively simple product designs. >
Michael Johnson: The future is social branding

The founder of brand identity firm Johnson Banks unpacks the growth of social branding in a competitive corporate world. >
Disaster Playground premieres in London on World Asteroid Day

The premiere of the film Disaster Playground by Nelly Ben Hayoun opened today at the BMI in London. Not coincidentally it's also World Asteroid Day. >
Emma Yeo’s haute couture hats carved from wood

British designer Emma Yeo’s distinctive headwear blurs the boundaries of art and fashion. >
Regenerating Accra's forgotten areas

How do you breathe new life into Jamestown, one of Accra's poorest but most historic areas? Slowly and with art, says British-Ghanaian architect Elsie Owusu. >
A human organ on a microchip wins Design of the Year 2015

The line between medical science and design just got narrower with London’s Design Museum’s top award going to Human Organs-On-Chips. >

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