2013 Icon Awards winner: Cortex 3D-printed cast, Technology of the Year
New Zealander Jake Evill turned a broken arm into a learning experience, redesigning the orthopaedic cast as a digitally devised “exoskeleton” The idea for the
2013 Icon Awards winner: Metahaven, Design Studio of the Year
While much recent design has been preoccupied with the opportunities presented by new technologies, this Dutch design studio has been thinking ahead to the risks
Amazon’s huge warehouse in Rugeley, Staffordshire (image: Ben Roberts) The vast sheds of online retail are so complex that only robots can navigate them. But
Neri Oxman on 3D printing: “There is more to the notion of rapid craft than hitting the ‘on’ button”
Neri Oxman’s experiments with 3D printing include furniture coverings that behave like skin, clothes that mimic a spider’s thread and medical equipment modelled onw animal
Just off the autoroute that links the French naval city of Toulon to its glamorous neighbours Cannes and Saint Tropez is an unremarkable industrial estate
Foxconn, the largest electronics manufacturer in the world, is Apple’s biggest supplier and conditions in its factory cities in China have driven workers to suicide.
