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The art of sitting comfortably

25 Oct 2012

One of the most influential designers of the 20th century, who turned furniture into works of art to support the human form, is being celebrated with...

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Detail from 'How many millions are starving? Ten' by Vladimir Maiakovskii

A Soviet Design for Life

03 Jul 2012

A unique tour through the Soviet century – via one woman’s extraordinary collection of books, propaganda posters, ration coupons and even cigarette...

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Detail from NASA Blue Marble 2007 West

Building our capacity to endure

13 Apr 2012

In its inaugural list of the top 50 most influential people for sustainability in the UK, Building Design magazine has listed three Cambridge...

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The Lowry, Salford

Theatres of war: public spending on buildings for the arts

08 Feb 2012

National recommendations for using public money to build arts venues are only succeeding in enforcing a system that is already flawed, a new study...

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Close-up of the moss pots incorporated into a novel table developed at Cambridge University.

The hidden power of moss

22 Sep 2011

Scientists at Cambridge University are exhibiting a prototype table that demonstrates how biological fuel cells can harness energy from plants.

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A section of an Ashby chart

It’s a material world

15 Sep 2011

A spin-out from Cambridge's Engineering Department and a leading supplier of materials information technology software to industry, Granta Design has...

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Algal solar panel

The appliance of design in science

15 Mar 2011

Designers have shaped the way we live today, created iconic products and disrupted industries – but could design also shape scientific research?

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swirl-vanes

Design optimisation by evolution

01 May 2009

By adopting the principles of natural selection, engineers are using survival of the fittest to breed better design solutions.

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