This article was published 10 years Do you lose precious minutes every morning looking for your keys? Have a daily 7.30am panic about where your train ticket is? Andrea Mestre has created Totem, an organising system that keeps essentials at hand to save time and reduce stress in the mornings. Standing approximately…
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Philippe Hohlfeld’s floating farms fill empty shipping containers
This article was published 10 years Due to an imbalance between imports and exports, every year 26.1 million shipping container loads travel from China, but only 12.9m loads travel back to China – meaning that half of the containers going back to Asia are empty, a fact that designer Innovation Design Engineering…
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Alexander Loudon’s viewfinders reframe coastal vistas
This article was published 10 years In a modern take on the telescopic viewfinders many of us spent childhood holidays putting 10p into before standing on tiptoes to see a magnified version of the view that was right in front of us, people are invited to put their heads inside a…
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Desso showcases best design graduates of 2015
This article was published 11 years Clerkenwell contract carpet showroom Desso is showing Best In Class, a exhibition of the best design graduates of 2015, curated by confessions of a design geek editor Katie Treggiden, for the second consecutive year. Katie selected the work of five designers or design teams from…
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Morten Grønning Nielse’s ‘power glove’ enables people to sculpt wood with their fingertips
This article was published 11 years Royal College of Art graduate Morten Grønning Nielse has designed ‘Happaratus,’ a glove with vibrating abrasive pads on the tip of each finger to enable people to shape hard materials like wood, stone and concrete with their hands. Morten created what he describes as…
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Daniel Durnin’s Waterbed provides floating accommodation for London’s tourists
This article was published 11 years RCA graduate Daniel Durnin has designed a boat that allows visitors to the capital to ‘camp’ on its canals and rivers. The wooden-framed boat features two bicycle-style wheels at the back and a smaller wheel at the bow to enable easy manoeuvring on land….
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Hemp uniforms for the NHS win Robin and Lucienne Day Prize
This article was published 11 years Second year Royal College of Art student Lucy Rainbow has won the RCA Robin and Lucienne Day Prize for Ethical and Sustainable Design for her collection of NHS workwear made from hemp. The garments, based on NHS ‘scrubs’ worn by many hospital workers feature…
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interview :: matej chabera
This article was published 12 yearsDecember is “greatest hits” month, where I’m sharing some of my favourite posts from 2014. Matej is such an inspiring new designer – I highly recommend reading this one… I met Matej Chabera at his graduate show at the Royal College of Art (RCA), and…
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here’s one I made earlier :: landscape of gravity
This article was published 12 yearsThis month I’m sharing some of my favourite posts from 2014 – I loved Kirsi Enkovaara approach to pattern creation – really clever, with stunning results… I spotted Kirsi Enkovaara‘s final project Landscape of Gravity at Show RCA 2014, the Royal College of Art’s degree…
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out and about :: rca degree show
This article was published 12 years I headed down to the Royal College of Art’s Kensignton Gore campus to see Show RCA 2014, the final degree show for students graduating from Architecture, Interior Design, Design Interactions, Design Products and Innovation Design among other courses. Here are a few of the…
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interview :: nic rysenbry, design for dementia
Design is about making people’s lives better. When that can be done for people whose quality of life is compromised by something like dementia, a designer’s role becomes a very special thing indeed.
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out and about :: rca @ ldf
The Design Products Collection is one of four London Design Festival exhibitions presented by the RCA and the launch of new products designed and made by alumni and staff from their Design Products course.