• Travelling sounds
    Design News • 6 Jan 12
    The "Suitcase Symphony" is a pathway that makes music as you pull your wheeled suitcase along it. Great for airports and train stations! >
  • Stacks of colour
    Design News • 6 Jan 12
    Stacking Vessel Soldiers is a series of colourful and highly functional objects by designer Pia Wüstenberg. >
  • Share, and share alike
    Design News • 6 Jan 12
    Dutch designer Dave Hakkens created a new plug, using a lightweight rubber material that makes it easily detachable, thus giving it a longer lifespan. >
  • Improv Everywhere
    Charlie Todd on Improv Everywhere
    Talks • Duration: 00:38:16 • 5 Jan 12 • Sponsored Content
    Founder of Improv Everywhere, Charlie Todd, talks about creating scenes of joy and chaos in public places to make people smile. >
  • Lindsay Kinkade
    Lindsay Kinkade on combining art, design and public policy
    Talks • Duration: 00:07:16 • 5 Jan 12 • Sponsored Content
    Lindsay Kinkade talks about using open-source methodology to make public policy, particularly the American healthcare system, more understandable. >
  • Knock knock
    Design News • 5 Jan 12
    A South Korean artist used 1000 recycled doors to create a "construction shield" that doubled up as an interesting visual point in an urban centre. >
  • Check mates
    Design News • 5 Jan 12
    An outdoor art installation in the Japanese city of Osaka used the game of Checkers to create an enriched, interactive public space. >
  • Psychic tees
    Design News • 5 Jan 12
    Discover your destiny via a T-shirt. "Mother's Psychic Tees" give you a clue to your fate in 2012 while raising money for charity. >
  • Eat love experience
    Design News • 4 Jan 12
    Marije Vogelzang's "Eat Love Budapest" multi-sensory installation saw strangers sharing food, experiences, memories and stories. >
  • Mini portable
    Design News • 4 Jan 12
    The Chick Lamp by Italian designer Luca Vagnini is a portable floor and table lamp, made with oak wood. >
  • One cup
    Design News • 4 Jan 12
    The Compleat Cup is a more environmentally responsible paper cup. >
  • United for cleaner oceans
    Design News • 3 Jan 12
    United By Blue is an organisation that removes one pound of trash from the ocean for every one of their organic, vintage-inspired T-shirts sold. >
  • Wish to fly
    Design News • 2 Jan 12
    Little Shining Man is a kite-like sculpture, made of 23 000 individual parts. >
  • Shiny & red
    Design News • 31 Dec 11
    Thomas Heatherwick designed sleek new hybrid double-decker buses for London, and they're 15% more fuel-efficient than existing hybrids. >
  • Matthew Rosmarin at Design Indabar
    Video Interviews • 30 Dec 11
    Talking about biomimicry at COP17, Matthew Rosmarin explains how we can use nature as inspiration for human-scale challenges. >
  • Loving the world
    Design News • 29 Dec 11
    "Imagine Your World" is a zero-waste activity set that teaches children about their connection to the planet. >
  • Politicians under Surveillance. Photo: Gustavo Sanabria.
    Keeping watch
    Design News • 28 Dec 11
    A public art installation in Spain employed red flashing lights to start a conversation about the role of government in a democratic society. >
  • Super snug
    Design News • 27 Dec 11
    Warm, colourful and fun. The "Thuggie" is the most comfortable must-have piece of clothing we've seen in a while. >
  • Oriental influences
    Design News • 26 Dec 11
    Anna Raimondo's SMITH Jewellery collection draws inspiration from Japanese art, trinkets and paper cuttings. >
  • Stretch a little
    Design News • 26 Dec 11
    Airmov is an iPad app that makes it both easy and fun to take a break from clicking and typing to stretch your wrists, hands and fingers. >
  • Capsula. Photo: Tamas Bujnovszky.
    Capsule shop
    Design News • 25 Dec 11
    The flowing, elegant design of a shop that sells luxury clothing in Budapest gives the space an exhibition-like look and feel. >
  • Parallel experiences
    Design News • 24 Dec 11
    Science fiction or social media? The Quantum Parallelograph offers you a glimpse of your parallel life - the one you have online. >
  • Andrew Makin on the Green Pavilion at COP17
    Video Interviews • 23 Dec 11
    Architect Andrew Makin talks about designing the look and feel of the Green Pavilion at COP17 in Durban. >
  • Y Tsai at Design Indabar
    Video Interviews • 23 Dec 11
    Speaking at Design Indabar at COP17, Y Tsai looks at design solutions from a human side. >

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