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Electronic wastelands raise questions about sustainable design

Photo exhibition E-waste Tsunami calls on designers to think up better ways to deal with e-waste. >
US digital artist talks representation of minorities in graphic design

Jeff Manning’s work is inspired by music and informed by the need to represent minorities in graphic design. >
Saving a font from extinction

Reviving a forgotten font designed by Alvin Lustig, an iconic, contemporary American graphic designer. >
31 Bits’ holistic business model empowers Ugandan women

Jewellery brand creates a sustainable income for Ugandan artisans while teaching them skills to become self-reliant. >
A new, sustainable way to make plastic

Researchers at Stanford have found a way to create sustainable plastic using inedible plant materials. >
IKEA's next step for sustainability

The eco-responsible furniture company is transitioning to biobased packaging made out of mushrooms. >
Perfect man-made waves

Kelly Slater's high-performance, man-made wave pool has been met with scepticism in the industry. >
Jua Kali interprets the ingenuity of Nairobi's informal sector

Kenyan artist Tahir Carl Karmali's photomontage series deconstructs hacker culture in Kenya. >
Global artists recreate monsters thought up by children

The Monster Project facilitates art with children by reimagining their monsters. >
Urban Farm Pod: A plant growing sphere in urban spaces

Terreform ONE’s Plug-In-Ecology project brings vertical farming to urban spaces. >
Shape-shifting textile cloud can change sound quality in a room

BLOOM is a knitted origami surface that can alter the ambient acoustics of public spaces. >
MFA’s #techstyle: Fashion that moves, interacts and adapts

The Museum of Fine Arts’ #techstyle exhibition takes a look at where fashion design is headed thanks to its relationship with technology. >
Candyfloss characters in comical GIFs with a feminist touch

Inspired by Instagram artists, Swedish art director Sofia Hydman creates GIFs depicting chubby, confident girls. >
Six things you might not know about Airbnb and its co-founder Joe Gebbia

Airbnb's co-founder Joe Gebbia will be speaking at Design Indaba 2017. Here are some things you might not know about this peer-to-peer home-rental start up. >
Concept artist merges Maasai warriors with sci-fi tech

Rodrigo Galdino imagines what it would look like if traditional Maasai warriors integrated alien tech into their culture. >
NASA invites public to send art to space

NASA’s upcoming mission to a near-Earth asteroid will take with it artworks submitted by explorers from around the world. >
3D printed braille maps for navigating interiors

Rutgers University researchers hope their new braille maps will become a new standard feature in all public spaces. >
MIT researchers reveal world's thinnest solar cell

A team at MIT have created an ultra-thin solar cell that could open up new applications for solar power in the long term. >
3D printing human tissue for organ regeneration

Breakthrough in bioprinting technology opens up new possibilities for organ transplants. >
A portrait of Barbara Kruger, popular culture, words and captivating images

Meet visual artist Barbara Kruger. Her combination of image and jarring text has permeated popular culture. >
Friends of Light: Handwoven jackets from New York

Fashion designer and professor Pascale Gatzen founded the weaving cooperative Friends of Light to help bring a little mindfulness back into fashion. >
Pascale Gatzen

Fashion Designer • Textile Designer

Pascale Gatzen is an artist, educator and fashion designer based in New York. She developed an alternative fashion curriculum at Parsons The New School. >
Affordable, easy to set up 360-degree photography

Orangemonkie has created Foldio360, the affordable way to capture 360-degree images. >
The pretty side of activism

Sarah Corbett promotes gentle activism through her arts and crafts initiative, Craftivism. >

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