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10 August 2017
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5 July 2017
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23 June 2017
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22 June 2017
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Rail Baltica
8 August 2017
Domain Demand
31 July 2017
Ritual Cadences
27 July 2017
A Material History
17 July 2017
But is it Universal?
10 July 2017
Familiar Spaces
5 July 2017
Complementary Prisms
29 June 2017
Psychologically Unknown
22 June 2017
The 2017 Serpentine Pavilion by Diébédo Francis Kéré
20 June 2017
Ally Capellino subscription competition
20 June 2017
Disegno #15
16 June 2017
Global Warming Funtime Island
2 June 2017
Somewhere Serious
1 June 2017
The Subjectivity of Colour
18 May 2017
Founding Principles
12 May 2017
The Future of European Design: Education
12 May 2017
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5 May 2017
Ways of Framing
3 May 2017
Access Denied
28 April 2017
An Emergent Field
13 April 2017

Domain Demand
31 July 2017
Curating the Body
19 July 2017
Americana Gone Sour
14 July 2017
That Interview
6 July 2017
Complementary Prisms
29 June 2017
Ally Capellino subscription competition
20 June 2017
Disegno #15
16 June 2017
Material Investigations
7 June 2017
Somewhere Serious
1 June 2017
The Subjectivity of Colour
18 May 2017
The Future of European Design: Education
12 May 2017
Strategic Partnership?
5 May 2017
As if by Magic
27 April 2017
Crafting a New York Story
18 April 2017
An Emergent Field
13 April 2017
What Follows: Nelly Ben Hayoun
28 March 2017
Disegno #14
22 March 2017
Disegno: Limited Subscription Offer
20 March 2017
Disegno x British Council
17 March 2017
The Vulgar: Fashion Redefined
15 March 2017

17 August 2017
Scientists develop self-healing robots
Roboticists at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel have developed prototypes of the world's first self-healing robots. In the experiments, the team built soft robots made from rubbery polymers (typically used for picking up delicate objects in the food industry). When damaged, the polymers were able to recover their original shape and eventually heal completely. "The prototypes were able to fully resume their tasks."
16 August 2017
Design Museum announces designs of the year nominees
The Design Museum has announced the nominees for its Beazley Designs of the Year, revealing a list that is notably more politically engaged and socially aware than in previous years. Curated by Glenn Adamson, the list includes the pink pussyhat, Wolfgang Tillmans’ Remain campaign and The Refugee Nation flag.
16 August 2017
Anti-same sex marriage campaign copies bisexual pride flag
A new logo adopted by The Coalition of Marriage, an Australian anti-same sex marriage campaign, is extremely similar to the bisexual pride flag. The new logo is based around blue, purple and pink, which are the colours of the pride flag created by activist Michael Page in 1998.
16 August 2017
Historians rebuke Trump
A number of prominent historians have come out against President Trump's claim that protesting against a statue of the Civil War general Robert E. Lee would lead to similar protests against George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, amounting to an attempt to rewrite history. John Fabian Witt, a professor of history at Yale, announced Trump's argument was a simple "red herring".
16 August 2017
Anger over Mecanoo commission
The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) has criticised a decision to award the £20 million overhaul of Perth City Hall to architecture firm Mecanoo, despite the practice having come third in the competition for the project. The competition was overruled by Perth and Kinross Council, which will now vote on a report recommending Mecanoo's appointment.
15 August 2017
Yayoi Kusama to open Tokyo museum
The Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is to open her own museum in Tokyo. Kusama commissioned the five-storey museum in 2014, although the plans have only recently become public knowledge. According to the artist's representatives, Kusama “wanted to keep it as a surprise for her fans”. The museum will open on 1 October.
15 August 2017
Under Armour's Kevin Plank resigns from Trump Council
Kevin Plank, the chief executive of sportswear brand Under Armour, has resigned from Donald Trump's American Manufacturing Council. Plank resigned over Trump's response to Charlottesville, stating “America’s leaders must honor our fundamental values by clearly rejecting expressions of hatred, bigotry and group."
15 August 2017
Trump rat appears in New York
The artist Jeffrey Beebe and galleries John Post Lee have installed a fifteen-foot-tall inflatable rat that resembles Donald Trump in Manhattan. "Scabby the Rat" was inflated near to Trump Tower to meet the arrival of Trump, who is passing through the city on his way back to Washington D.C. during his 17-day vacation.
14 August 2017
Garden Bridge charity officially closes
The charity overseeing Thomas Heatherwick's Garden Bridge has officially scrapped the project, citing a lack of support from London's Mayor Sadiq Khan. Lord Mervyn Davies, the trust's chair, said that “It is with great regret that trustees have concluded that without mayoral support the project cannot be delivered.”
14 August 2017
Crispr enters RNA
New research from the University of California San Diego suggests that the gene editing technique Crisp-Cas9 may have applications beyond the modification of DNA. Researchers from the university have now developed a new new RNA-oriented technique (RCas9) that can be used to correct molecular errors that lead to diseases such as hereditary ALS and Huntington's.
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