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Chat with Kent Lingeveldt
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Product Design
What do you want to know about Cape Town-based longboard skater and shaper Kent Lingeveldt?
29 Nov 16
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Hurricane Season by Hannah Modigh
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Art & Photography
The award-winning photographer captures the tension of living between disasters.
29 Nov 16
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What will the cities of the future look like?
Design News
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Architecture & Interiors
Hint: They’re green.
29 Nov 16
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These mirrored placards give peaceful protesters a means of protection
Design Frontiers
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Design Activism
Nikolas Bentel’s reflective protest signs for the Dakota Access Pipeline protesters.
29 Nov 16
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Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter
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Design Activism
New MOMA exhibition investigates the design & infrastructure of modern refugee camps.
29 Nov 16
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Photographer captures the vulnerability in nature as it intersects with science
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Art & Photography
Ornithological Photographs explores our need to know, name and quantify diversity.
28 Nov 16
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Naked, defenseless & without glory
Design News
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Art & Photography
Sam Jinks’ hyper-real sculptures depict an unsettling human vulnerability.
28 Nov 16
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Singapore’s self-driving scooter
Design News
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Design Thinking
A driverless scooter could be the next step in autonomous transportation.
28 Nov 16
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Unsatisfying: You know this feeling
Design News
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Film & Animation
Motion design studio Parallel Studios are calling for people to submit short animations of completely unsatisfying moments in their day.
28 Nov 16
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Me, Myself and You is a board game to help Autistic adults make friends
Design Frontiers
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Product Design
The multiplayer board game designed to facilitate social connections between those on the spectrum.
28 Nov 16
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Intimate Strangers: We The People
Next Generation
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Art & Photography
In Part 4 of her series Intimate Strangers, Puleng Mongale captures another pair of lookalikes and sets the images to the lyrics of A Tribe Called Quest.
25 Nov 16
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Innovative capsule achieves long-term drug delivery
Design Frontiers
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Design Thinking
This drug capsule offers an alternative to daily doses of medication
25 Nov 16
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New stick on patch uses sweat to monitor your health
Design Frontiers
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Product Design
The soft, flexible skin patch that can inspect your perspiration while you work out.
25 Nov 16
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The Ethical Dilemma of Self-Driving Cars
Design Frontiers
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Film & Animation
Researchers speculate on the murky decision-making aptitude of AI vehicles.
25 Nov 16
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The EMPWR coat rolls out into a sleeping bag to keep homeless people warm
Design News
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Design Activism
Water resistant, the jacket can also be converted into and worn as an over-the-shoulder bag.
24 Nov 16
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Alternative living with 21st-century hunter-gatherers
Design News
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Art & Photography
Living Wild documents modern hunter-gatherers in a movement called the Stone Age Living Project.
24 Nov 16
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Beijing’s Smog Free Tower turns polluted air into jewellery
Design News
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Design Activism
Smog-ridden Beijing is investing in new age solutions to tackle their air pollution problem.
24 Nov 16
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Boa Mistura: Murals that inspire change
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Madrid-based arts collective Boa Mistura create large-scale murals that aim to inspire the communities who live around them.
24 Nov 16
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The Human Ivory Collection by Lucie Majerus
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Designer turns teeth into jewellery as a statement on the illegal ivory trade.
24 Nov 16
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The goofy vertical vehicle
Design News
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Product Design
Getting from A to B in a vertical, electrical transportation system that you built yourself.
23 Nov 16
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The mysterious masks of Damselfrau
Design News
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Art & Photography
Norwegian artist Damselfrau creates exotic looking masks out of found materials and textiles.
23 Nov 16
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Hollywood Kits is an illustrated tribute to the classics
Design News
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Art & Photography
Every cinephile, from your Star Wars-obsessed cousin to your hipster coworker, is sure to find something to love!
23 Nov 16
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The Growroom: Architecture that feeds the city
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Urban & Landscape Design
The Growroom urban farm explores how cities can feed themselves through architecture that produces food locally.
23 Nov 16
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Cyborg insects map out disaster zones
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Interaction Design
Drawing virtual images of unsafe areas with miniature flying robots.
23 Nov 16
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