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confessions of a design geek
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Award-winning UK design blog established in 2010 to discover, champion and inspire new designers.

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Confessions of a Design Geek

Aalto University wins award for new cotton recycling technique

Katie, March 9, 2016June 16, 2020

This article was published 10 years Researchers from the School of Arts, Design and Architecture and the School of Chemical Technology at Helsinki’s Aalto University have won the top H&M Global Change Award for a recycling technique that converts waste-cotton into new textiles. The conversion of the existing ‘Ioncell-F process’…

Confessions of a Design Geek

Students at Aalto University create 14 different chairs from blackened ash

Katie, March 2, 2016June 16, 2020

This article was published 10 years 14 Product and Spatial Design Masters students at Finland’s Aalto University School of Arts, Design, and Architecture each responded to the brief for a café chair to be made from the same material – blackened ash – resulting in 14 different prototypes. Kuu by…

Confessions of a Design Geek

out and about :: milan design week preview

Katie, April 8, 2013June 16, 2020

This article was published 13 years By the time you read this, I will be sitting on a plane winging my way to Milan for Design Week. I am so excited – and not just because I’ve got my fingers crossed for a little sunshine, a gelato or two and…

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