Does the world really need more novelty oats?
Claire Potter on balancing the 'thin tightrope' of product design education
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Knitting plastic waste with robots
The New Raw launches new collection of playful upcycled benches
‘We can use digital technologies to stimulate empathy’
Guto Requena on love, urban design and Queer Eye Brazil
‘We see circularity as part of an evolutionary process’
Secrid co-founder René van Geer joins the Make it Circular Challenge jury
The Plastic Elephant in the Room
Is it time to retire the most widely-used piece of furniture in the world?
Meet the next generation of Dutch product-makers
Plant power & circular materials take centre stage at Secrid Talent Podium
SPACE10 x Ma-tt-er launch residency exploring Mexico’s biomaterials
Open call for a six week residency in Mexico City
Bricks glazed with iron and steel
StoneCycling & Studio Mixtura bring out six new waste-based glazes
Style and sustainability for the new normal
Environmentally friendly masks with high impact on local economic activities
Shelterbags for South Africa’s homeless
New project to help people surviving COVID-19 on the streets
SafeHandFish repurposes soy sauce bottles as hand sanitising gel containers
In response to the UN’s call for creative ideas to limit coronavirus, Japan now serves sanitizer in fish-shaped soy bottles
Open-source masks, gowns and coveralls for all
Fashion designers join forces to produce much-needed protective garments
Zaaf, a life in a bag
Young Ethiopian woman entrepreneur conquers the world with leather handbags
‘Monkeybiz changed my life’
The Afreak collectionArt collective revives traditional African beadwork to provide women in poverty with income
Cradle to Cradle Product Design Challenge
Submission deadline for new CtoC designs is 1 December 2015
No more need for buttons and switches
Project Soli uses radar technology for interaction with devices
Kill flies with Al Gore
Nothing brings out a designer’s humour quite like the fine art of fly swatting
Candies of glass to bring light and joy
Campana brothers present Candy Collection in Milan
The giggle that makes your Monday
IDEO team presents ideas to turn Mondays into Mon-yays
Letter from Brazil: meeting with Adélia Borges
Craft and design journalist Borges takes us to A Casa Museum for the Brazilian Object
70 design talents to watch
Wearables that encourage the elderly to have a healthier lifestyle
Design fair OBJECT boards ‘SS Rotterdam‘
Work by Pleunie Buyink (legft) and Femke Woltering
A Barbie that reads books and eats healthy
Lammily as envisioned by designer Nickolay Lamm