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2012Chewing operated drill and a teeth lathe! The brilliant Mouth Factory by Cheng Guo
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2018Mousse Agency on its identity for Manifesta 12, conceived of a virus "able to infect any image"
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2007
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2010Branislav Kropilak: Depots
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2011Things Part I
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2009Are we ffff*cked?
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2012Gaetano Pesce's extraordinary part design experiment, part uber-toy
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2012Weng Nam Yap presents the mundane in the most beautiful booklet
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2016Jade Schulz’s atmospheric and imaginative editorial illustrations
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2019Graphic designer Joosung Kang uses illustration to communicate complex ideas
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2011Unbound: Tibor Fischer
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2016Kingston grad Harry Grundy's design work has a highly conceptual bias
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2012Karrie Fransman: The House That Groaned
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2017Tatiana Ermolaeva's coherent “but not too slick” work for the Strelka Bar
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2019Seoul-based design studio Press Room explores meaning through the physical
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2009Daniel Eatock
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2012Menswear gets fun and frivolous in these lookbooks from Agi & Sam
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2019Take a shopping trip with We Are Out of Office: the Dutch design duo re-imagining what’s on the shelves
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2008Peter Skwiot Smith
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2013Film: Conceptual design rethought by Next Nature at What Design Can Do
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2010Panique au Village
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2010Metropolis
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2011Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek: Inemuri
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2012Adam Smith/Marcus Lyall: Don't Think
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2012Have your cake and eat it with Jeffrey Dell's beautiful prints
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2012Check out this "Pretty Ugly" design work from Two Points Studio
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2014Floating cycle lanes, A Butlins redesign and new Twin Peaks in Studio Audience
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2011Humans Since 1982: Hair Clip on Hair
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2017Santa France, the multimedia artist illustrating a futuristic interior frenzy
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2019October’s Things offers up wastemen, a prawn dumpling, faux prescriptions and a pink magazine
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2008Guillermo Brotons
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2008Value And Design
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2009Takeshi Ishiguro
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2020Panolo Blahnik is Na Kim and June Park’s joyous take on haute couture
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2015Defective Carrots: the weird veg that will never make it to your table
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2013Publication: Eating, drinking and enjoying the great outdoors with Wilder Quarterly
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2014Nicer Tuesdays: This month's event explores Outer Space!
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2019Utopia and dystopia collide in Bysanz Baisen Zhou’s other-worldly creations
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2008Sony Foam City
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2011Nike Air Max Lights
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2013Tsto develop eye catching design to entwine three exhibitions
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2017Yuma Naito talks us through his inventive fictional rebrand for Afropunk Festival
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2018Timo Durst's designs latch onto interesting topics to exploit unique and unexpected contexts
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2014Film: What it would Instagram be like if it was made in the 80s?
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2024Joyce Ho uses design to ask fundamental questions
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2011Nike Air Mag: A look in Marty McFly's closet
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2018Andrés Rosa approaches design by rejecting logic and embracing Dadaist thinking
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2011Vitsoe: Definitely No Robots
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2011Ana & Amy: BOO
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2016Hachetresele design studio captures the spirit of Victor Della Vecchia Architects
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2010Timothy Saccenti: Not Getting There
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2011Micronations Revolution
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2010Mårten Lange: Landmark
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20112.8 Hours Later
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2015Spiritual dimensions – a visit to the site of Iceland's new Pagan temple
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2013Separating cookie and creme – meet Dentaku's wonderful Oreo Wheel
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2017Doug Miller’s atmospheric architectural illustrations
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2011Atelier Olschinsky: Legendary Cities
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2008The Nonist / Jamie Morrison
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2024David Huang brands a phantom bar with an ingenious nod to his favourite supermarkets
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2014Pray silence for Ernesto D. Morales' magnificent Magnifying Spoon
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2012Flower Power! Designer Ryan Dunn furnishes our minds with possibility
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2021The irony of cuteness: Meta Mascot explores mascot culture and its more sinister undertones
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2012Wardrobes like you've never seen them before from sculptor Hannes Van Severen
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2018Chris Harnan's World Problem Solution Book is a diary, but not in the traditional sense
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2022Mike Tully explores the ways in which graphic design can serve different communities
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2013Art: Giuseppe Colarusso dares us with frustrating games and impossible products
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2010Noma Bar at KK Outlet
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2017Ingo Giezendanner’s new book asks: What are the similarities are between books and trees?
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2017Issue four of Beauty Papers screws the formula of beauty, giving it a “brave new face”
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2013Product Design: This woman is wearing a bicycle helmet. What!?
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2009The Terrafugia Transition
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2019Viktor Hachmang’s Bookshelf is “a physical database of obsession”
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2021N-E takes a highly conceptual approach to its redesign of Odda magazine
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2019SHSadler's Fresh Meat assesses the line between “what is beautiful and what is ugly”
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2012A glimpse into the art of the future courtesy of Paris studio Pleix
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2009Max-o-Matic
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2014Henrik Purienne and Frank Rocholl's "jet set hedonism" magazine, Mirage No.4
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2013The Olympics with a twist thanks to Carl Burgess – swifter, higher, stronger… older!
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2010Dunne & Raby: The Statistical Clock
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2010Taciturn Heart
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2014Designers in Residence show explores design's disruptive potential
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2012Lee Hardcastle: Thingu
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2010à 2 c'est mieux: Update
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2025Mother knows best! Agua de Madre’s friendly, frenetic brand taps into childhood nostalgia
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2015Floating houses, fake family photos and smart plants: Three creatives tackle the home
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2022Rupa Anurendra uses found objects and handwritten type to create designs with a personal touch
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2016Conceptual yet functional typographic design from Sheffield's Daniel Reed
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2012Sam Griffin: The Olduvai Cliff
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2012Augustine Kofie's abtsract architectural images are mechanical beauties
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2009Talk #15: Fred Butler
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2017Catalogue Studio launches the seventh issue of Library Paper themed Romance
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2007Pentaphone
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2008Ika Zcha
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2018Anna Rhodes on designing a time-travelling set for Oscar Hudson's new Absolut advert
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2017MacGuffin takes us inside its fifth issue: The Cabinet
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2016Do you need an agent?
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2009The Art Of Lost Words
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2014Some absolute corkers here in King Zog's best and worst uni projects
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2013Sagmeister & Walsh create business cards for your inner angel and devil
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2007Felt Cafe
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2017Stina Löfgren illustrates a first aid kit for those experiencing sorrow
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2016Jerkcurb invites us into his world of noirish dystopia and mischief
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2015Asger Carlsen messes with resort fashion for New York Magazine's The Cut
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2017Lisk Feng adopts a more conceptual and experimental approach for her latest works
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2012An astoundingly original concept from LCF graduate and secret society fanatic – Robert Ventura Gibson
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2010Emily Forgot for Selfridges
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2012Stellar designer Peter Mendelsund lets us snoop around in his thoughts...
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2018New year, new you: designer Leeza Pritychenko on how to stop being a human and become a squirrel instead
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2017Le Gun returns with a new mag about “a world gone mad”
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2016Iris Van Herpen explores sound waves in her latest high-tech, high-concept, haute couture collection
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2010Logo concept
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2012Area 17: Spin
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2019“I don’t bother being trendy”: Hugo Hoppmann on his multifarious design approach
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2011Dyson Hot
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2014Man designs a gun that folds and shoots paper aeroplanes
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2016Designbolaget’s striking, conceptual monograph for filmmaker Ulrik Heltoft
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2017“I love to do shit that just looks cool” - Sebastian Schwamm on his new illustrative approach
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2010I Am Not An Artist
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2018The typographically focused, conceptually-minded practice of designer Laura Coombs
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2008Frank Chimero
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2007Olivier Pasqual
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2019Stephanie Lüscher turns the food of The Netherlands into the mountains of Switzerland
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2019Jee-ook Choi turns Uniqlo’s AIRism range into a series of ethereal illustrations
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2013Peteris Lidaka's Imaginary Planes take model making to infinity and beyond
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2009Outside The Box
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2012Wow-wee! Elisabeth Moch's new site reminds us why we're such massive fans of her beautiful work
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2021Design studio Requena uses colour as a vehicle for concept
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2012Gorgeous imagined publications from German studio Deutsche Japaner
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2013Alex Fuller glorifies the humble two-letter word in a new book
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2018DR.ME release the latest issue of Fin? filled with killed projects and ideas that never made it
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2013Los Angeles’ A+D Museum plans to show visionary designs for a city that never was
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2011Anton Weflo
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2007Irina Troitskaya
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2009Panique Au Village
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2011The End
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2013Desk stationery like you've never seen it before from Daniel Emma Studio
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2012Project Projects bring Anne Tyng Inhabiting Geometry catalogue to life
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2019Keith Rankin explores the archetypal man vs machine story using Adobe Stock images
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2016Why beauty is the hardest won thing and the key to good design
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2011Weird Book Room
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2017Jack Davison captures the “progress of time” for Noon magazine
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2012Close your eyes and wish you had the imagination and talent of Brecht Vandenbroucke
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2012Manuel Raeder blurs the boundaries of design like a conceptual artist
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2012Crockery in a vending machine: the perfect anger release device by Yarisal & Kublitz
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2016Glitches and bits - Apfel designs Bit Rot for Douglas Coupland
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2019Hui Yeon Hwang combines textures, materials and ridiculous ideas in her designs
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2016Pushing the medium of fashion illustrator: Kelly Beeman
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2012Estelle Hanania's take on Nike Sportswear proves to be, well, magnificent
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2018Jordy Ringeling's designs reinterpret the obscure (and suggest we should stop breeding)
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2011Taylor Holland: Eurobus
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2007Non Format / Loaf
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2012Proposed Identities: Vanessa Lam's stunning branding for a conceptual enterprise
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2012Staggering leg-powered wide loads courtesy of Alain Delorme's Totems
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2018Laura Csocsan's monochromatic portfolio of conceptual yet methodical and logical designs
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2009Things
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2018From a series of sociopolitical scratch-cards to “everything is a dildo if you’re brave enough”: it’s October Things!
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2007Fernand Martin
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2012Pablo Genovés: Precipitados
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2015London-based Yukai Du’s wonderful illustrations explore our dependence on technology
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2018Michela Zoppi's conceptual approach to graphic design explores the social role of the designer
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2015Blend in with Snarkitecture’s Architectural Camouflage clothing range
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2012A city on wheels? Architect Jägnefält Milton has to be a genius
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2017Bureau Borsche talks us through its album artwork for Laurel Halo
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2015Clément Le Tulle-Neyret's considered approach to Strange Designs
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2017A trip to The Greenbrier – a preserved 112,544 sq foot government nuclear bunker
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2019Andrew Rae’s latest project imagines our devices as sinister, slimy monsters
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2019Dreamjams are clothes designed to nurture your malnourished creative brain
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2016Mirka Laura Severa makes snowmen models in fashion shoot for SZ Magazin
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2007Anti Static / Mike Lupita
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2018Putput continues its ability to create images that are "both perfectly natural and out of place"
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2012LDF 2012: Nendo's chairs ghost through the V&A
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2017In chaos lies opportunity: designer Liam Hodges on leading a dystopian army
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2012A new direction for sweet shops courtesy of architect Yuskuke Seki
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2017Clay Hickson takes us through his ideas that never panned out within his book, In A Nutshell
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2014The Weekender: What do you get when you cross a week with an end? You got it, it's the Weekender!
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2015Illustrated custom weapons featuring USBs and faux Japanese signage
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2012