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My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea
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Film & Animation
Directed by Dash Shaw, the film’s lo-fi quality goes against the trend of current animation.
19 Apr 17
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Digital tool tracks innovative water projects in the US
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Information Design
The US is battling against ageing infrastructure. This Living Map highlights its wins so far.
19 Apr 17
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Artwork for equity
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Design Activism
These original postcards promote inclusion, equity, liberation, and justice for all races.
19 Apr 17
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Telling positive African stories through photography
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Art & Photography
An interview with Senegalese photographer Abdoulaye Ndao.
18 Apr 17
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The Mashambas Skyscraper
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Design Activism
A skyscraper conceived as an educational centre and marketplace for new agricultural communities in sub-Saharan Africa.
18 Apr 17
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Scientists discover a way to harvest fresh water from air
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Product Design
This device also works in arid regions
18 Apr 17
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Farmerline uses SMSes to empower small-scale farmers in Ghana
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Information Design
Ghanaian tech provider, Farmerline offers innovative mobile communication and farming information services to literate and illiterate rural farmers
18 Apr 17
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Mateusz Urbanowicz’s Tokyo Storefront series
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Art & Photography
These delightful illustrations document the changing face of the Japanese capital.
18 Apr 17
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Eddie Opara: Always a work in progress
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Graphic Design & Illustration
A brief jaunt through design, part three. Today we share a short interview with innovative graphic designer Eddie Opara.
17 Apr 17
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DuoSkin: Tattoos that work as on-skin interfaces
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Product Design
MIT have developed DuoSkin, a metallic tattoo that enables you to use your skin as an interface to control devices, receive data and communicate.
14 Apr 17
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Giorgia Lupi: Drawing from life
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Information Design
A brief jaunt through design, part two. Today we share a short interview with emotional data translator Giorgia Lupi.
14 Apr 17
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Nelly Ben Hayoun: An impolite future hero
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Interaction Design
A brief jaunt through design, part one. Today we begin with a designer who tries to put volcanoes in your living room.
13 Apr 17
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Turning shipping containers into renewable solar units
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Product Design
SolarTurtle is an innovative green energy product that relies solely on battery-based distribution for rural electrification.
13 Apr 17
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Virtual Reality App offers better clinical care to cancer patients
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Product Design
Oncomfort finds an innovative way to help cancer patients self-manage stress, anxiety and pain through evidence-based psychological interventions in VR.
13 Apr 17
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Zadok Ben-David makes art out of all the people he saw but never met
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Art & Photography
The London-based artist’s work laments the human race’s growing isolation.
13 Apr 17
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The Illegal Project by Daniel Obasi
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Art & Photography
These stunning images look at the Nigerian LGBTQ community forced to hide their sexual orientation.
13 Apr 17
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Free language education for the world
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Information Design
Tech entrepreneur Luis von Ahn created an app that enables anyone, anywhere to learn a language for free.
12 Apr 17
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The surreal self-portraits of Izumi Miyazaki
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Art & Photography
The young Japanese photographer’s work makes the mundane curious.
12 Apr 17
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A card game for positive vibes
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Product Design
If a random act of kindness comes into your life, pay it forward.
12 Apr 17
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The APSARA drone disintegrates once it reaches its destination
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Product Design
Introducing the ‘Ikea of drones”.
12 Apr 17
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Manooi: An atelier that sculpts light
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Craft
Hungarian lighting design studio Manooi create bespoke crystal chandeliers with cutting edge style.
12 Apr 17
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Self-portraiture by Zanele Muholi
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Art & Photography
Visual activist Zanele Muholi turns the camera on herself.
11 Apr 17
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Woza: The story of an African Surfer
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Film & Animation
"Woza" tells the story of an African surfer who has been taken as a lover by the African water spirit Mami Wata.
11 Apr 17
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This animated series is a hilariously relatable confrontation of gender stereotypes
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Film & Animation
2D animator and filmmaker Caress Reeves’ shorts address gendered reactions on the current culture.
11 Apr 17
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