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Trailer: Robbie Brozin on art, creativity and chicken

Trailers > Creative Economy / Product Design

Nando’s co-founder Robbie Brozin emphasizes the global fast-food chain’s relationship with local South African art and design. >

14 Jul 15
How innovation saved a sheep-farming town in Devon

Product Spotlight > Design Thinking / Product Design

A product designer has saved a sheep-farming community by inventing a brand new material that utilises wool. >

14 Jul 15
Blitab enables blind people to browse the web with a responsive Braille display

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

Blitab is the world’s first tactile tablet device for blind and visually impaired people, enabling them to browse the web on an innovative Braille screen. >

14 Jul 15
Buyers find Christmas gifts at annual SARCDA Retail Trade Exhibition

Design News > Product Design

Every year the SARCDA Christmas Edition attracts thousands of trade buyers to fill their shelves with South African gifts, toys, décor and design. >

13 Jul 15 / Advertorial
Petter Thörne: A magical experience of materials

Video Interviews > Industrial Design / Product Design

Copenhagen-based designer explores his fascination with materiality in his contemporary product and furniture designs. >

13 Jul 15
Margrethe Odgaard: Design that engages with society

Video Interviews > Design Activism / Product Design

Textile designer Margrethe Odgaard says success can be measured in how much a design project touches your heart. >

10 Jul 15
The new shoe from Adidas is rubbish

Design News > Design Activism / Product Design

Adidas have joined the global ocean cleanup drive with their new running shoe made almost entirely from ocean waste. >

9 Jul 15
Eleanor Lakelin’s raw wooden sculptures

Design News > Craft / Product Design

The London-based carpenter unearths nature’s wild beauty in her wooden bowls. >

9 Jul 15
Trailer: Stefano Giovannoni on how design is an expression of historical events

Trailers > Industrial Design / Product Design

The maestro of industrial design draws a parallel between product design and major cultural and economic movements. >

9 Jul 15
Stefano Giovannoni on how design is an expression of historical events

Talks > Industrial Design / Product Design

The maestro of industrial design draws a parallel between product design and major cultural and economic movements. >

9 Jul 15
A novel way to listen to music by Gemma Roper

Design News > Music & Sound Design / Product Design

Product designer Gemma Roper has designed a satisfyingly simple device that allows you to select music according to tempo or beats per minute. >

8 Jul 15
Stefano Giovannoni: The heyday of designers working with manufacturers is over

Video Interviews > Creative Economy / Industrial Design / Product Design

The Italian industrial designer advises young designers to think like entrepreneurs and work at creating their own signature brand identities. >

7 Jul 15
Toast and a hug from RCA graduate

Product Spotlight > Product Design

London-based designer Ted Wiles designed a toaster that only works when you give it a hug in an attempt to make its users happy. >

7 Jul 15
A bikini that helps protect wearers from harmful UV

Product Spotlight > Fashion & Jewellery Design / Interaction Design / Product Design

Spinali Design’s new bikini helps women monitor their sun exposure responsibly. >

7 Jul 15
A glass bubble transforms in motion

Product Spotlight > Product Design

"Holon" is an intriguing glass sculpture created by Dutch designers Jetske Visser and Michiel Martens. >

6 Jul 15
Jack Lennie designs a motorbike you can download

Next Generation > Design Thinking / Industrial Design / Product Design

Tinker is a downloadable, no weld, motorcycle kit designed by Edinburgh Napier University graduate Jack Lennie >

6 Jul 15
ByALEX: purity by design

Q&A > Craft / Product Design

Purist functionality and a pared-down aesthetic are key ingredients in Alex Swain’s decisively simple product designs. >

3 Jul 15
The power of Icelandic crystals are captured in the 101.86° light

Product Spotlight > Interaction Design / Product Design

Thomas Vailly and Laura Lynn Jansen examine the colourful nature of crystals to create layers of colourful illumination. >

1 Jul 15
5.5 designstudio’s eco-conscious nightlight

Design News > Product Design

The French studio teams up with Energizer to create the battery-powered AA lamp. >

29 Jun 15
Teresa van Dongen nominated for Dutch Young Designer Award

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design / Industrial Design / Product Design

This year's three contenders in the young talent category of the Dutch Design Awards illustrate the depth and diversity of the county's next design generation. >

24 Jun 15
Architects will love Nendo’s new bag for Tod’s

Product Spotlight > Architecture & Interiors / Product Design

The acclaimed Japanese studio designs a multi-purpose bag with architects’ needs in mind for Italian brand Tod’s. >

22 Jun 15
Wiid Design launches the world's largest cork pendant

Product Spotlight > African Design / Product Design

South African designer Laurie Wiid van Heerden continues his love affair with cork as he launches the world’s largest Façade grade cork pendant lamp. >

19 Jun 15
Nodus’ 2015 collection of rugs

Design News > Craft / Product Design

The luxury brand’s latest collection includes designs by Maarten Baas, Matali Crasset and Studio Job. >

18 Jun 15
70 ways to repurpose the iconic Picardie glass tumbler

Design News > Product Design

5.5 designstudio mark Duralex’s 70th birthday with an exhibition of clever ideas to transform the brand’s Picardie glass. >

12 Jun 15

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