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Nimb discreetly sends alerts in emergency situations

Design News • 12 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

If you’re in distress, the Nimb ring sends your location to family and friends. >
Trackable lifejacket uses app technology for man-overboard rescue

Design News • 12 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

Anti X1 is a clever redesign of the time old lifejacket, created to improve safety at sea >
Project Nourished: A virtual reality experience that tricks your taste buds

Design Frontiers • Duration: 00:00:09 • 12 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

Experience designer Jinsoo An’s Project Nourished creates virtual worlds where any food dream is possible. >
The world’s largest air purifier is touring the smoggy cities of China

Design News • 11 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde’s Smog Free Tower (which works like a vacuum cleaner for dirty air) is travelling to China. >
Buildings made of bones

Design Frontiers • 11 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

Cambridge researchers explore bone and eggshell as greener building materials of the future. >
Basia Dzaman on the intersection of robotics and creativity

Talks • Duration: 00:08:42 • 11 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

A Polish student from the School of Form in Poznań, Poland has designed a robotic arm that reimagines the lost art of snutki. >
Dune covered carpark doubles as flood defence

Design News • 11 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

Named the Best Dutch Building of the Year in 2016, the Katwijk underground parking garage protects against future floods. >
Cow's milk plastic provides a natural, eco-friendly alternative

Design News • 11 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

Using an extract from skimmed milk, Tessa Silva-Dawson created a durable alternative to harmful plastics. >
Interaction is more important than expensive tech, says experience designer Marcus Lyall

Design News • 11 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

Marcus Lyall is behind some of the most spectacular shows of our time. >
Image Merchants: W&N Studio and James Lavelle

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:04:56 • 8 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

We talk to DJ and artist James Lavelle and photographers Warren Du Preez and Nick Thorton Jones about the resurgence of craft and their various collaborations. >
Cozmo, the unpredictable robotic companion

Design News • 8 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

Tech innovation company Anki have designed a tiny robotic companion like no other. >
Belgian artist creates art out of chickens

Design News • 8 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

The Cosmopolitan Chicken project by Koen Vanmechelen uses the living materials collected during chicken cross-breeding to create art. >
Floris Kaayk: The Modular Body merges fact and fiction

Design Frontiers • 8 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

Filmmaker Floris Kaayk toys with the public’s willingness to believe in the extraordinary. >
Design graduate shares her artful take on wood joinery using plastic bottles

Design News • 8 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

Royal College of Art student Micaella Pedros unveils a resourceful technique of making furniture >
Sohofama: Farm to table in Hong Kong

Design News • 7 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

At Sohofama restaurant urban farming meets Chinese comfort cuisine with a menu inspired by Chinese doctors and farmers. >
SunFire: A 3-part solution for solar cooking

Design News • 7 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

SA based company’s parabolic solar kits offer a sustainable cooking solution in rural or hard to reach areas of Africa. >
Home-grown sanitary pads help treat infections

Design News • 7 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

Growing healthy bacteria in agar jelly, the pads are placed in front of the vagina to balance pH-levels. >
Addressing packaging waste one pizza box at a time

Design News • 7 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

GreenBox is a reconfigurable pizza box designed for multiple use >
Portraiture encourages pride in a marginalised Bangladeshi community

Design News • 7 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

Photographer Samsul Alam Helal’s portraits depict Bangladesh’s oppressed Dalit community. >
Photographer chronicles the people of Cape Town’s bustling public transport system

Design News • 6 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

Photographer Mads Norgaard spent seven years photographing the people that make up the fringes of Cape Town. >
Amahlé’s Ndebele inspired jewellery for a European market

Product Spotlight • 6 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

The Africa-inspired jewellery is designed to be sophisticated, yet durable enough for everyday use. >
Plastic-bag sculptures critique the treatment of the homeless

Design News • 6 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

Made in the silhouette of a person crouched on the street, the installation captures London’s response to homeless people. >
Producer Ibaaku on the avant-garde in Senegal

Design News • 6 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

Alien Cartoon marked the birth of a new wave of music in Senegal. Its creator Ibaaku tells us about what inspired the album. >
The New Raw: Plastic waste as the new raw material

Design News • 6 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

A team of creatives based in Greece have launched a new initiative to combat the worst pollutant: plastic waste. >

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