• Food political
    Conflict Kitchen is a restaurant concept that educates patrons about the culture and politics of countries that the USA are in conflict with. >
  • Made to fit
    The Kickstand desk allows you to kill two birds with one stone - get your desk job done and keep fit. >
  • Food fight: Zoe Coombes
    Product designer and architect Zoe Coombes feels that food culture has a lot to teach other creative fields. >
  • Health function
    Taking functional jewellery to a whole new level, Jawbone’s UP wristband helps you monitor your health. >
  • Map away
    MAPS is a wonderful collection of cartographical pieces created by Paula Scher over the past 20 years. >
  • Pick up sticks
    From stir stick to super-sized sculptures. Artist Jonathan Brilliant takes coffee stirrers and turns them into awe-inspiring installations. >
  • J.W. Johnson Photography www.jwjimaging.com.
    Yield the signs
    Discarded road traffic signs are given a second life by designer Boris Bally who turns it into bold and interesting furniture pieces. >
  • Well strung
    Traditional net-weaving techniques, as used by local fishermen in India, are used to create large-scale string sculptures. >
  • Pieces of mind
    Ji Lee's Pieces of Mind project uses thousands of little Buddha statues to remind people to live in the moment and get a bit of peace of mind. >
  • Graphic design now
    Graphic Design: Now in Production is one of the largest graphic design exhibitions of recent years. Curator Andrew Blauvelt tells more. >
  • New rules of work
    Employees pay attention: The New Rules of Work are that decaf has been criminalised... and other workplace truths and absurdities. >
  • Save the post office
    Tucker Nichols has some clever ideas for tag lines that might endear people to snail mail and the post office again. >
  • Design and urbanisation exhibition
    Design with the Other 90%: Cities looks at how design can help to manage the complex issues arising from rapid urbanisation in the global south. >
  • Safe bike
    By locking the handlebars of a bicycle, the Senza bike lock system makes it virtually impossible to steal this friendly mode of transport. >
  • Pick-up truck bicycle
    fuseproject's LOCAL bike is the ideal way to commute around your neighbourhood and there's lots of space for your groceries, kids and more. >
  • Urban suspension
    A colourful urban "spiderweb" in New York City was made using more than 4000 laser-cut panels. >
  • Happy flow
    Lists, flowcharts and illustrations. Stefan G Bucher has designed a self-help manual for the creatively minded. >
  • Los Angeles angels
    A community initiative in Los Angeles turns weapons into angel-like statues that recognises the work of local leaders. >
  • The Book of Ice by Paul D Miller.
    Ode to ice
    Paul D Miller's The Book of Ice is a treasure trove of information, graphics, interviews and QR codes about a place at the end of the world, Antarctica. >
  • 20Q: Stefan G Bucher
    Hummingbirds, spaceships and numbers are just some of the things that Stefan G Bucher really enjoys. >
  • Moveable Type. Photo Derek Fagerstrom.
    Moveable type
    Moveable Type is a cross-country adventure in printing. Coming to a town near you! >
  • Walls Notebook.
    Walls for all
    Calling all closet graffiti artists. The Walls Notebook lets you make your creative mark on urban surfaces without leaving your desk. >
  • Typewriter recreations
    Looking at Jeremy Mayer's industrial-like sculptures it's hard to believe that it is made entirely from the parts of an old typewriter. >
  • “We will never forget”
    The 9/11 Memorial Plaza by architect Michael Arad opens in New York on the 10-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001. >

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