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Design Articles

Design Articles featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Mylos Etik

ABB renews its commitment to sustainable design and technology introducing a new cutting edge material in the Italian switch assortment Mylos: bioplastic. Natural are the material, the manufacturing process and the colors that also allow a full recyclability. Clean lines, simplification of details and two new matt colors that provides two matt total look, black and white, thanks to the perfect aesthetic and functional integration with the current Mylos switch assortment.

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SteriPak

SteriPak is a kit that converts end of life gas cylinders into autoclaves for sterilising medical and baby equipment. Each kit costs less than 10USD. SteriPak empowers the community as the conversion itself provides work for locals that does not rely on specialised equipment. Many clinics in sub Saharan Africa are forced to reuse surgical equipment like scalpels and forceps due to their expense. SteriPak only requires water and a heat source to achieve safe, consistent sterilisation of this equipment to lower infant mortality rates and increase overall quality of life.

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Tangram

Mankind is wasting things every where and everyday. When people go to the coffee house they can see many people can not use the coffee sugar completely so Tangram want to solve this wasting problem This new package can be divided into two equal parts along the diagonal line so the users can choose to tear the whole sugar packing or they can divide the packing into two parts and just use one of them and take the other one or leave it to others

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X alarm

X alarm, is an alarm for smokers to make them realize what they are doing to themselves while they are doing it.This design is a new generation of cigarette filters .This design can be a good replacement for expensive advertisements against smoking and it has more influence on smokers minds than any other negative advertising.It has a very simple structure, the filters are stamped with an invisible ink that covers the negative area of the sketch and with each puff the sketch will appear clearer so with each puff you will see your heart is getting darker and you know what is happening to you.

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POC

POC: is a new seegras-based food packaging material which was designed to extend the durability of food, reduce foodwaste and reduce plastic packaging waste. The material is made from sea grass fiber and a binder from the extract of the fiber. Due to the antibacterial properties of the sea grass, a bio-composite can be produced, which is not only easily integrated into the industrial process, but also makes food longer lasting and the packaging completely biodegradable.

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Urban renewal of Crecchio Old Town

The architectural language chosen seeks to create a union between uniqueness of spaces and objects designed and a strict and rigid simplification of the new lines and new surfaces in the project. All this for to try to achieve a harmony between the new and the existing, not to prevail from a stylistic point of view the first to the second. The restoration and innovation of public spaces in an old town through use and reuse of traditional materials with a contemporary design. The transformation of existing elements in new objects with different functions. Chromatic harmony in the place.

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