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This app for the visually impaired is centred on human kindness
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Be My Eyes is a platform that allows the visually impaired to connect with a willing volunteer.
15 Dec 15
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World's first underwater hotel to kickstart the "inner space" tourism industry
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Design Thinking
This 12-room, $20 million hotel will be nestled underwater. It provides a whole new meaning to "sleeping with the fishes".
15 Dec 15
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Marcus Marritt sketches from the silver screen
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Leicester-based artist Marcus Marritt creates bold illustrations of sultry characters that are often inspired by movie scenes.
15 Dec 15
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Build the world's most iconic skylines with Lego
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Product Design
Lego's architecture branch has unveiled the Skyline collection – a Lego kit that replicates city skylines with models of iconic buildings from around the world.
15 Dec 15
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Pee-powered socks: the new alternative energy source
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Design Thinking
Scientists at the Bristol BioEnergy Centre have invented socks that could eventually power portable and wearable electronics.
15 Dec 15
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It doesn't look like it, but this is a massage chair
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Product Design
The Roll Collection is a seating system that consists of rotatable aluminium sticks, which massage whilst sliding from left to right.
15 Dec 15
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Plascon sets the tone for 2016 with colours that tell a story
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Architecture & Interiors
Africa’s largest paint company introduces its new contemporary colours with four trend stories.
15 Dec 15
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Documentary uncovers the recycling habits behind Japan’s zero-waste community
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Design Activism
Seeker Stories documents a small town in Japan that abides by an extremely thorough recycling system to live waste-free.
14 Dec 15
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Exhibition in New York exposes one of the world’s most contaminated rivers
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Art & Photography
Artist Vibha Galhotra's ABSUR-CITY-PITY-DITY explores the impact of toxic pollution in India’s Yamuna River.
14 Dec 15
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Totohealth is a mobile solution to healthcare problems
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Design Activism
Totohealth uses SMS-technology to help parents take care of themselves and their children.
14 Dec 15
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Kathryn Martin decodes ink spills into readable images
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Royal College of Art graduate Kathryn Martin’s signature drawing technique embraces an element of chance in illustrating.
14 Dec 15
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Holiday display reveals the stark reality of domestic violence
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Design Thinking
This holiday display shows the ugly truth about domestic violence during a time synonymous with joy.
14 Dec 15
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Catalytic Action designed and built a playground for refugee children
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Design Activism
Using input from children in Bar Elias, Lebanon, Catalytic Action designed and built a playground for a school developed to serve refugees.
14 Dec 15
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Float: A stool designed for comfort
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Product Design
Float is a sustainable stool that is designed to promote healthy sitting, designed by students in Dresden.
14 Dec 15
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An online artwork dedicated to artist Faith47's peaceful urban swans
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Award-winning South African filmmaker Rowan Pybus releases "No Standing Anytime", an online artwork inspired by artist Faith47's New York City Swans.
14 Dec 15
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Julia Hasting: The unusual book designer
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Product Design
Julia Hasting, creative director of Phaidon Press, has designed books that come vacuum packed like ham and doodled all over like a student notebook.
11 Dec 15
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A new alternative energy that involves a small piece of paper
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Product Design
Scientists in Sweden have developed a thin paper that is able to store energy.
11 Dec 15
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South African animation on BBC this Christmas day
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Film & Animation
An animated version of the children's picture book "Stick Man" will be screened on BBC One on Christmas day.
11 Dec 15
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Scientists create the world’s first painkiller patch
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Product Design
Taking painkillers orally can be damaging. This transparent patch was made to treat pain at the source.
11 Dec 15
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A mobile multi-purpose IT centre for rural communities
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Design Activism
Digi-Truck drives technology education in developing countries by creating access to pre-owned computers.
11 Dec 15
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Meet the people living in off-grid homes made of rubbish
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Design Thinking
“Meet the Earthship” is a short film about an off-grid community living in houses made of rubbish outside of Taos, New Mexico.
11 Dec 15
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Farmers use bee fences to protect subsistence farms
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Design Thinking
Farmers from Kenya to Sri Lanka are building sustainable beehive fences to protect their crops from wild elephants.
11 Dec 15
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The design, art and fashion communities respond to the migrant crisis
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Design Thinking
The movement of displaced humans across the world will surely define this decade. We ask prominent design thinkers their thoughts on how to help.
10 Dec 15
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Erik Kessels: The era of democratisation
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From shop window dresser as a child to children’s TV producer as an adult, and much else in between, Erik Kessels is a crossover "communicator".
10 Dec 15
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