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OK Go turns a music video into an open-source playground for design and animation
17 Oct 25
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A Grand Gesture
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“Dear New York” Transforms Grand Central into a sweeping art installation.
17 Oct 25
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Urify
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Information Design
Ambient health screening by Yidan Xu shortlisted for the James Dyson Awards 2025.
17 Oct 25
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Ocean Bonds
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Design Activism
Designing finance for the planet, Bonds for Ocean Conservation reimagines debt as a tool for conservation.
9 Oct 25
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Upcycled Tower
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Architecture & Interiors
Quay Quarter Tower, The World’s First Upcycled Skyscraper
9 Oct 25
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Care-wear
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Coperni pushes the fashion boundary with new line of regenerative wear.
9 Oct 25
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Radically Human
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Architecture & Interiors
Thomas Heatherwick, director of the 2025 Seoul Architecture Biennale sets a provocative mission: make cities radically human.
3 Oct 25
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Lensare, wearable for harmful light stimuli
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Product Design
Student designed wearable for harmful light stimuli
3 Oct 25
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Rahmah Library
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Design Activism
Designed by The MAAK with support from the Rotary Club of Newlands and the Otto Foundation, the library serves 500 learners in District Six, Cape Town.
3 Oct 25
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Baghdad Sustainable Forests
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Architecture & Interiors
A Master Plan for Urban Renewal & Ecology
25 Sep 25
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ZHA’s Marine Habitats
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Architecture & Interiors
Unveiled at the World Design Congress 2025, Nereid by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA)
25 Sep 25
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Transparent Happiness
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Architecture & Interiors
Yinka Ilori Designs for Public Joy
25 Sep 25
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Green Island Substation
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Architecture & Interiors
Award winning substation design blurs boundaries between Infrastructure & ecology.
19 Sep 25
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Screen Free Processing
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Architecture & Interiors
Helsinki’s Computer Playground teaches to code without a screen.
19 Sep 25
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Accelerate Wind
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Architecture & Interiors
Turning Roofs into Energy Generators
19 Sep 25
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Climbing Amphitheatre
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Architecture & Interiors
Farming ladders become a stage for community bonding
12 Sep 25
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Cool Cities
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Solar-Powered Urban Cooling: KlimaKover’s Sustainable Approach to Beating the Heat
12 Sep 25
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Climate Landscapes
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Architecture & Interiors
Bas Smets reshapes the future of cities at LUMA Arles
12 Sep 25
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Ritual of Rebuilding
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Architecture & Interiors
A timber soccer stadium designed for regeneration, community participation, and knowledge transfer
5 Sep 25
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Architecture with Hope
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Architecture & Interiors
The Betty Bazar Community Centre and Preschool for vulnerable communities
5 Sep 25
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Award winning Wonder Cabinet
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Architecture & Interiors
Bethlehem’s inspiring hub for creativity, culture and commerce
5 Sep 25
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4,4,4&2
Next Generation
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Design Activism
A book designed to reshape perceptions of dementia
29 Aug 25
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Unfold
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Product Design
StudioDrift in collaboration with the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) Lacoste, launch a multi-sensory experience
29 Aug 25
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Sofia
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Mobility with empathy
29 Aug 25
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A Russian photographer is awarded for documenting the social transformation of the traditional ‘reindeer people’
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