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PriestmanGoode’s New Car envisions the future of autonomous ride-hailing
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See-saw for kids at the USA-Mexico border wall wins best design of 2020
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Nalla designs online resource to help creatives on Blue Monday and beyond
With designers’ mental health taking a hit during the pandemic, the studio has developed MindFull to help its peers “feel a little less blue”.
Pentagram’s Yuri Suzuki and Sascha Lobe partner on MIDI’s harmonious rebrand
The industry-standard musical interface’s first-ever rebrand is inspired by musical forms such as the Stuttgart pitch.
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After years of struggling to find glasses that fit, the brains behind Reframd are using tech to design frames to fit the “face landmarks” of Black people.
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