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Peer into a giant, half-formed ship that can hold 18,000 containers

Peer into a giant, half-formed ship that can hold 18,000 containers

11 March 2020

This image of an enormous ship under construction features in a new book and show that challenge common ideas about beauty - while the real ship may help cut carbon emissions


Roma Agrawal

Roma Agrawal: The amazing engineer who designed the Shard's spire

24 July 2019

Structural engineer Roma Agrawal was part of the team that designed the spire topping London's tallest building. She also loves the Pantheon of Rome – and dancing


Zoe Laughlin

Expert maker Zoe Laughlin talks back-garden Olympics and Dolly Parton

5 June 2019

When she's not organising homemade Olympics, materials engineer Zoe Laughlin can be found in her dream workshop at the Institute of Making


Fantastical beasts

Dreams: The PS4 game that lets you design and share your own reality

15 May 2019

Dreams, a groundbreaking new Playstation 4 game, lets everyone build their own exciting worlds by playing at being a developer - only without all that coding


Tomorrow Inc: how Stanley Kubrick designed the future

Tomorrow Inc: how Stanley Kubrick designed the future

26 April 2019

Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition comes to London's Design Museum, and in its wake a renewed fascination for the futuristic design culture of the 1960s and 1970s. 


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Don't miss: Kubrick's genius, Haida mythology and the power of emotion

16 April 2019

Explore the life and work of director Stanley Kubrick, watch ancient folklore in an endangered language, and discover how emotion shapes the human brain


Prototyping in Tokyo review – Imagining a future full of lifelike tech

Prototyping in Tokyo review – Imagining a future full of lifelike tech

23 January 2019

Is art more likely than old-school engineering to create the lifelike quality we will need in a world we share with machines? A robot show has surprising answers


Global Grad Show: How should we design for the world’s end?

Global Grad Show: How should we design for the world’s end?

20 December 2018

At the Dubai Design Week last November, a generation of graduates shared their ideas for the future of design. We bring them to you for the sixth of our 12 Days of Culture


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