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Saving food from the fridge
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Product Design
Jihyun Ryou is transferring traditional methods of food preservation through her storage design.
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29 Jan 16
Emotional objects by .Yuue
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Product Design
.Yuue, a design studio in Berlin, puts hidden messages in their product design.
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28 Jan 16
Quit smoking by locking your cigs away in this smart box
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Product Design
This smart box pairs with an app to form a tech solution to cigarette cravings.
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27 Jan 16
Design that forces us to rethink our choices
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Product Design
Dr Matthias Laschke designed "Pleasurable Troublemakers" to create moments where we have no choice but to reconsider our options.
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27 Jan 16
Surfing into the future on a more eco-friendly board
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Product Design
Surfing might be seen as the environments greenest sport, but building a board has its environmental cost.
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27 Jan 16
Gideon Roos: Architect, designer-maker, father
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Product Design
South African Gideon Roos manages to hold down a job as a landscape architect in the Middle East while making furniture and raising his son in SA.
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26 Jan 16
The classic foosball table gets a contemporary redesign
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Architecture & Interiors
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Product Design
Brussels-based designer Alain Gilles has designed a contemporary high-end soccer table that takes its cues from the Scandinavian design tradition of simplicity.
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21 Jan 16
Studio Truly Truly's flexible range of LED loops
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Product Design
The Levity range features customisable loops with light that radiates through a woven textile exterior.
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20 Jan 16
This lamp can lift the winter blues
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Architecture & Interiors
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Product Design
The Day and Night light designed by Éléonore Delisse is engineered to lift the winter blues and rebalance your natural circadian rhythm.
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14 Jan 16
This fully customisable modular lamp fits the user's unique style
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Architecture & Interiors
Plato Design's D-TWELVE is a versatile lighting system that fits in any setting.
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13 Jan 16
Handstitched leather shoes from Ethiopia
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African Design
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Product Design
Oliberté shoes, the world’s first Fair Trade certified footwear, are all handstitched in Ethiopia.
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12 Jan 16
A poncho designed especially for cyclists
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Product Design
The Boncho, by VANMOOF, is a poncho designed especially for cyclists to use in the rain.
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8 Jan 16
A table to write your thoughts and memories on
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Product Design
The Analogue Table by Kirsten Camara is designed to let you record all the thoughts and ideas that pass through your mind.
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6 Jan 16
No more burnt toast with this see-through toaster
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Product Design
Designer James Stumpf has come up with a see-through toaster so users can see how brown their toast is getting.
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22 Dec 15
Relax and recharge under Mathieu Lehanneur's Clover street lights
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Industrial Design
French industrial designer Mathieu Lehanneur creates an urban furniture and lighting collection for COP21’s climate conference.
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18 Dec 15
A dinnerware set inspired by the Czech Cubism
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Product Design
Designed by Svetlana Koženová, the Lilia Collection is a dinnerware set inspired by the slicing planes and crystalline shapes of Czech cubism.
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17 Dec 15
Adidas and Parley for the Ocean unveil fashion that fights pollution
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Design Activism
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Adidas’ new 3D-printed Ocean Plastic shoe is made of recycled ocean waste.
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16 Dec 15
Float: A stool designed for comfort
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Product Design
Float is a sustainable stool that is designed to promote healthy sitting, designed by students in Dresden.
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14 Dec 15
Christmas ornaments get redesigned to raise funds for Detroit museum
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Product Design
American designers teamed up to create a range of bespoke Christmas ornaments to raise funds for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit.
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10 Dec 15
LifePrint photos come alive in your hands
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Art & Photography
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Design Thinking
Augmented reality photographs are able to come alive as though the user were holding a GIF in their hands.
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9 Dec 15
Kurv: The smart way to learn to play the guitar
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Product Design
The Kurv Guitar is a 'stringless' digital instrument that allows anyone to learn and play songs using touch, motion and gestures.
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2 Dec 15
A spaceship-like lamp intricately woven by a robot
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Industrial Design
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Product Design
Atelier Robotiq employs the accuracy of robotics to imitate elaborate design techniques.
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27 Nov 15
This modern tea set is preserving the traditional Chinese tea ceremony
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Craft
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Product Design
Mosey is a portable tea set designed by Jie Chen to preserve the traditional Chinese tea ceremony in the modern world.
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26 Nov 15
LIVIN Farm’s Hive lets you grow and farm your own mealworms
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Food Design
A desktop hive for the kitchen allows users to feed, farm then eat their own mealworms.
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25 Nov 15
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