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The Workers

Design Studio • Digital Designer • Industrial Designer • Product Designer

Meet The Workers, a digital product design studio established by Ross Cairns and Tommaso Lanza in 2010. >
Working after hours

London-based duo The Workers, creators of four robots that enabled the public to explore Tate Britain at night, will speak at Design Indaba Conference. >
Printing joints

Embody Ortho is just one example of how designers are on the front line of medical innovation. >
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“DIS\CONNECT” by Doug Hindson

Doug Hindson pulls the strings to produce a short film about a modern topic with old storytelling tools. >
Shubhankar Ray

Creative Director

A thought leader in branding, Shubhankar Ray has pioneered a counter-intuitive approach to developing modern brands. >
Bees Beside Us by Amy Pliszka

British designer Amy Pliszka creates ornate, textile hives for the urban environment. >
Lakwena Maciver: A little bit of Africa on every street

This Ugandan-British artist turns words into titanic pops of colour on city streets all over the world. >
Agi Haines on being the Frankenstein of design

This Royal College of Art graduate looks at the possibility of bioprinting body parts to benefit the human race. >
Yinka Ilori: Chairs tell stories too

We pull up a seat with this Nigerian-British designer to hear how he draws on his heritage to create once-off pieces. >
Square peas and family ponchos

Eight drawings of whimsical, wicked and weird inventions from Dominic Wilcox's blog-turned-book, "Variations on Normal". >
Dominic Wilcox

Author • Interaction Designer • Product Designer

British designer Dominic Wilcox works between the worlds of art, design, craft and technology, transforming the ordinary into something surprising. >
Agi Haines on being the Frankenstein of design (trailer)

This speculative designer wonders how far we can push our malleable bodies while still being accepted by society. >
Beyond Entropy Africa

Beyond Entropy Africa is a Luanda-based agency of architects who propose urban development projects in keeping with everyday people’s lived realities. >
Sindiso Khumalo: I’m a textile nerd

This South African-born fashion designer tells us how she draws on her Zulu and Ndebele heritage for her bespoke collections. >
"Light Motif" by Frédéric Bonpapa

This short film interprets a piece of contemporary music as a series of hypnotic, colour-drenched visuals. >
Illustration and I

Early encounters with children's book illustrations sparked Alan Dye's appreciation for the art in his work as a creative director. >
Alberto Alessi: What defines Italian design?

The man who brought us the Anna G corkscrew confronts the impact of globalisation on Italian design. >
Tom Hulme on technology as a design tool

The founder of OpenIDEO tells us why we have to stop being afraid of technology. >
Timeless design

Nick Finney, founder and creative director of NB Studio, ponders the role of time itself in producing "timeless design". >
Lara Bohinc: I was dying to design something really big

The jewellery designer tells us how collaborating with large-scale producers enabled her to branch out. >
Tom Hulme on technology as a design tool (trailer)

The founder of OpenIDEO debunks some myths about technology and shows us how it brings people together to solve the world's biggest challenges. >
Architecture & Water (Part 3): Water Park

The final part of this documentary series looks at ideas such as floating islands, which bring the Thames River into the greater urban fabric of London. >
The playful portraitist

Patterns clash and cultures collide in Moroccan photographer Hassan Hajjaj's striking portraits. >
Architecture and Water (Part 2): Gentrification machine?

The second of a three-part documentary series explores the gentrification along the Thames driven by desirable riverside living. >

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