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Leftover, ground coffee has found a higher calling

3Dom is taking coffee waste and converting it into a sustainable, recyclable 3D printing material. >
Personalised 3D replicas allow doctors to take surgical practice runs

Could a 3D-printed model of a patient’s heart make organ surgery easier, safer and faster? >
An app monitors personal experiences with antidepressants

Start is a six-week digital programme, designed to help people figure out whether their antidepressant is working for them. >
Death is an opportunity for design

Ideo and the Zen Hospice Project have pioneered the way to an expressive, palatable death. >
A true-to-scale illustration of our solar system

Two space boffins have built a true-to-scale model of the solar system in the Nevada Desert, and it's mesmerizing. >
Buddy: The next generation smart wearable for dogs

Lighting, GPS tracking, health sensors, and home automation are all features in Squeaker’s new dog collar. >
Zuby Onwuta on ThinkAndZoom, the revolutionary tech wearable

Tech innovator Zuby Onwuta has designed a tech wearable that will help the visually impaired perform daily tasks. >
Chew your coffee: It’s good for your brain

Go Cubes may be the next best thing for those willing to forgo the artsy coffee-crave Instagram post. >
Heart-In-A-Box: The device set to revolutionise transplant surgery

A medical device company has created a box capable of keeping organs alive long after removal from the body. >
Tia Blassingame: Combating racism through letter press printing

Designer and book artist Tia Blassingame uses the printed word to give her thoughts on racism in the United States a form of authority. >
Eatwell is tailor-made for people with Alzheimer's disease

Something as simple as tableware could ease the everyday troubles of Alzheimer's patients. >
Surviving severe drought is top of this designer’s priorities

Design graduate Jaime Tai uses a natural sugar to help ensure drought survival. >
Trailer: Tia Blassingame on the texture of racism in the United States

Recent graduate Tia Blassingame explores the relationships between race, history and perception in her work. >
The texture of racism & slavery in the United States – a talk by Tia Blassingame

"I made a headscarf that talks about the accumulation of wealth through slavery, as the black body as gold but also seeming worthless." >
The same, but different: queer identical twins in video installation Factum Tremblay

Identical twins Natalyn and Jocelyn Tremblay talk candidly about their lives and the experience of coming out in simultaneous interviews on a split screen. >
Ji Lee: Make, share and connect as often as possible

Creative director of Facebook’s Creative Shop believes that the secret to landing your dream job is to have fun with and share personal projects. >
Get Good Done: an app that turns its users into philanthropists

An American design student has developed an app that encourages users to do one good deed a day. >
An ocean cleanup project, innovative healthcare and vertically-grown vegetables: five designs that could revolutionise life

Celebrate designs that address serious modern challenges, this year's INDEX Awards winners include clean energy batteries and a language learning app. >
The late Larry Harvey on the creation of Burning Man Festival

It's Burning Man this week. The festival's 2018 iteration takes place between 25 August and 3 September. We look back at the founder's Design Indaba Talk. >
Trailer: Larry Harvey on how Burning Man festival created art with a social purpose

Burning Man’s founder Larry Harvey describes how the festival of arts is driven by a strange combination of jeopardy and awe. >
Infiniti's incredible From Pencil to Metal 360° video

Sit in the driver's seat as the QX30 concept car is created around you. >
Eco-friendly glass paint to keep metal roofs cool

Scientists have developed a glass paint that will keep metal cool in the harshest of summer days. >
Nebia shower head uses 70 per cent less water

A Kickstarter-funded shower system could reduce water wastage in the drought-stricken US. >
Burning Man Festival calls out to urban designers

The Black Rock City Ministry of Urban Planning has put a call out to urban designers to reimagine the Burning Man Festival’s temporary city design. >

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