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Photos: Moroso.

The well known Spanish designer, Patricia Urquiola, is based in Milan. She has designed this range of chairs for Moroso, launched at the Milan Design week 2013. Read more

Photos: Jacopo Splimbergo.

Seen in a group, the Cerac Bench designed by Zaha Hadid, evokes the notion of a pod of whales swimming in an urban ocean.

Described as a piece of urban sculpture for seating and resting, the bench is sure to grace the streets and public places of towns and cities seeking that touch of class to elevate the public realm. Read more

The Bill and Mellinda Gates foundation are is offering 100,000 USD to anybody that can improve things around …condoms.

Fighting AIDS is a serious business and if condoms are to play a bigger part in the battle, they are going to have to get easier and perhaps more fun to use! Read more

Indrek Narusk is a designer and engineer. So when he wanted a new bike to get to work he made one… out of stainless steel tube. When he offered it online he found himself with an unexpected hit and will now bring it into production in his small factory located in Estonia. Read more

The expression “black gold” has traditionally been associated with mineral oil. It is the burning of oil for energy that produces carbon, that has become public enemy no 1 with environmentalists. So it is with sweet irony that Ingo Schuppler, who works out of Leipzig, Germany, designed this lamp using carbon to evoke that heavily weighted expression.

Whilst the cultural rehabilitation of a blackened phrase may not have been his primary objective, the designer has shown a flash of creative genius that should inspire us all to find new ways to do familiar things with lower environmental impacts.

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