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Stefania Vulpi has designed a conceptual online system that allows a network of people to share their nationality and the social benefits that come with it. >

With our attention on shelter solutions, we highlight three young African architects committed to changing their landscapes. >

Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Vera de Pont designs garments and accessories for inhabitants of an imaginary underwater planet. >

Graduates from the School of Visual Arts, Lucy Knops and Julia Plevin have co-founded Critter Bitters, a cocktail bitters made with toasted crickets. >

Design Academy Eindhoven student Archibald Godts considers the future of frail care where dogs become helpers to those too frail to care for themselves. >

Illustrator Girolamo Giannatempo, known as G&Sans, explores the irrational world with his bright, blob-like, humanoids. >

Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Pim van Baarsen designed “Holy Crap” – a Nepal-based incentive scheme to promote waste separation, awareness and recycling. >

Daniela Treija’s Design Academy Eindhoven graduate project translates imaginary inventions from books and films into real-life designs. >

Egyptian students designed a new silver and honey-laced material to accelerate the healing speed of diabetics’ wounds. >

Rwandan genocide survivors received cows from the government but were unable to sell their milk at the local market until Chantal Butare came along. >

Polish-born Angelika Wierzbicka hasn’t even graduated and she already has a striking collection of fashion editorials with top indie magazines. >

Bezalel Academy graduate Nitzan Kish is using 3D printing to make clothes that protect women from sexual assault in urban centres. >

Students at the University of Tokyo have designed Janken, a robot that beats its human competitor at rock-paper-scissors every single time. >

Dalhousie University student, Keilah Bias has invented a pressing machine that turns agricultural waste into briquettes for cooking in impoverished communities. >

Obafemi Awolowo University engineering students have built Humane – an app to make smartphone features more accessible to the blind. >

German collage artist Brian de Graft started creating art as a pleasant distraction from his studies and it soon became his obsession. >

Weighing in at only ten grams, The Nipper is small enough to fit on your key-ring. >

Royal College of Art graduate James Boock has designed a sound system, which allows listeners to see how music is created by making it a more tangible process. >

A team of Mechanical Engineering students of the University of Lagos have designed and built an electric and eco-friendly car. >

Four Cuban architecture students have collaborated with community members to create a design to reduce the effects of hurricanes on the Caribbean island. >

Ally Form by Ela Neagu is changing the home first aid kit with an easy-to-use self-applicable bandage designed to stop bleeding out from severe wounds. >

Parsons graduate Yogita Agrawal has designed Jhoule, a device that gives rural communities in India a reliable source of energy by harnessing their daily walk. >

Architecture student Anna Webster uses the plastic water sachets made popular in marathons as a key element in the design of this Ghanaian mud hut. >

ECAL graduate Jordane Vernet has designed a sterilisation kit that uses less water and energy, making it suitable for hospitals in developing countries. >