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Good enough to eat
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
If it's good enough to parade on your body, it should be good enough to eat. de culinaire werkplaats has some edible garments.
25 Jun 11
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Fast future
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Urban & Landscape Design
Moving Platforms is Paul Priestman’s concept for the future of rail travel.
24 Jun 11
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Sew simple
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Interaction Design
What does a bicycle and a sewing machine have in common? When they work together the result is rather unique.
24 Jun 11
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Crazy for cardboard
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Product Design
Vicky Knysh's Cardboard City encourages kids and adults to think out of the box.
24 Jun 11
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Huda Smitshuijzen Abifarès at WDCD 2011
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Design thinking is important for innovation in traditional scripts, says Huda Smitshuijzen Abifarès.
23 Jun 11
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Urban connections
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Design Thinking
Designing an eco-neighbourhood on the banks of the Maas River could help support new development in Liège, Belgium.
23 Jun 11
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Safe move
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Design Thinking
Join Rick Valicenti in using design to make cities more cycle friendly.
23 Jun 11
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Curtain call
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Architecture & Interiors
Curtain Call, conceptualised by Ron Arad, is an interactive installation of art and music.
23 Jun 11
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CT shortlisted for World Design Capital
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Design Thinking
Cape Town is one of three cities shortlisted for the World Design Capital 2014.
22 Jun 11
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Elegant luxury
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Product Design
Marcel Wanders has designed a gorgeous range of suitcases, Saint Jacques, for Italian company Fabbricapelleterirmilano.
22 Jun 11
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Crunchy munchy
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Food Design
Have your cake and eat the dish it is served in too! sugiX’s design will spare you dishes and a thought to the environment.
22 Jun 11
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Julia Lohmann at WDCD 2011
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Interaction Design
Julia Lohmann’s work aims to connect the material source of an object with the object itself.
21 Jun 11
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Bright idea
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Product Design
Edward Chew’s gorgeous lighting designs use recycled Tetra Pak cartons.
21 Jun 11
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Food for thought
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Hungry? Solve a conundrum while waiting for your food to cook!
21 Jun 11
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Cycling simplicity
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Urban & Landscape Design
A bicycle made of bent plywood, ideal for the urban cyclist.
20 Jun 11
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Net sustainability
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Design Thinking
The SafetyNet could go a long way to ensuring that plenty of valuable fish remain in the sea.
20 Jun 11
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Champions
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Product Design
Konstantin Grcic’s Champions range of trestle tables takes its cue from sport, where speed, performance and strength is prioritised.
20 Jun 11
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Laser lines
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Here’s a template to create infographics in an instant.
19 Jun 11
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A clear future
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Urban & Landscape Design
The Airbus 2050 concept considers the (transparent) future of air travel.
19 Jun 11
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Super stools
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Craft
Vietnamese craft plus Scandinavian design equals bright and vibrant “Superheroes” stools by Glimpt.
18 Jun 11
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Design encyclopaedia
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Product Design
Alessi's flagship shop in Milan, designed by Martí Guixé, is still home to the "Alessi Encyclopaedia".
18 Jun 11
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Xiaodu Liu at WDCD 2011
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Architecture & Interiors
Xiaodu Liu believes that architecture is more than art and that it should do something good for society.
17 Jun 11
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Oliviero Toscani: photography is the documentation of human memory
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Art & Photography
At What Design Can Do 2011 we discover that for Oliviero Toscani photography is the documentation of human memory.
17 Jun 11
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Automated
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Urban & Landscape Design
Ready for personalised public transport? Check out the semi-automated Wi-Fly Pod.
17 Jun 11
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