The finalists for this year’s James Dyson Award offer an exciting array of clever design solutions. Some of the highlights include biodegradable plastic made from potato starch and prefabricated ant nests designed to help rural communities easily harvest insects for food.
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Rich Christoph designed one of the most beautiful bikes we've ever seen - the Indian FTR1200 Custom - and then had the unenviable task of building something road-legal out of it. He spoke to New Atlas about the Custom, the all-new FTR1200 streetbike and the blessed path that's led him to this point.
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The World Architecture Festival’s annuals awards shortlist has just been revealed offering a comprehensive snapshot of the best and brightest design ideas in 2018. The massive global competition spans 39 categories and this year’s shortlist features 536 projects from 81 countries around the world.
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The Acadia National Park in Maine, US, is home to thousands of acres of thick, coastal woodlands that explode in color each fall, and it is these dramatic palettes that have inspired one of Wind River Tiny Homes' latest creations.
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Now in its third year, Dubai Design Week is an annual cultural event that plays host to a growing collection of exhibits, activities and installations from the Middle East and around the world. New Atlas was on the ground last week to check out this wonderful world of emerging and elegant design.
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Dubai is home to lots of things that lay claim to being the world's biggest. There you'll find the world's largest mall with the world's largest candy shop, and of course the mighty Burj Khalifa. So else where might would you find the world's largest student design show?
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Growing urban populations pose all manner of challenges. In this vein, the new Wego installation on show at Dutch Design Week is intended to provoke some ideas around how competing interests can exist in harmony within shared tiny living quarters.
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Kazuya Katagiri’s award-winning Shi-An is a movable mini tea house constructed entirely out of paper using ancient Origami processes. The igloo-like structure is just one of Katagiri’s fascinating recent experiments with different techniques and materials.
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Brooklyn-based designer Richard Clarkson has been experimenting with artificial cloud designs for several years now. His latest invention is the Floating Cloud – a magnetically levitating ambient lamp that flickers through different colored LED modes in response to the sound in a room.
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We’ve all had a moment where an extra pair of hands would have been incredibly useful but who has ever wondered what they could do with just an extra thumb? London-based designer Danielle Clode not only wondered, but went on to build one.
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