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    Branding to make you smile, even before your morning coffee hits home.

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    Next Step for Sustainable Cities: Smog-Eating Buildings

    Imagine if the materials a skyscraper is made from could eliminate the pollution it produces?

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    The Next Step for Smart Phones: Paper Thin

    Introducing the PaperPhone: an extremely light weight and, as the name suggests, paper-thin smart phone.

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    Win One of Five Passes to Semi-Permanent Sydney

    We're partnering with Semi-Permanent again this year and have 5 x two-day passes to give away (worth $310 each).

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    Use Your Design Skills to Change the Way We Comprehend Nutrition

    Do you have what it takes to redesign the nutrition label to make sense out of confusing percentages, milligrams, serving sizes and calorie counters?

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    Nissan to Produce New York’s Taxi of Tomorrow

    The iconic New York yellow taxi will be produced by Japanese manufacturer Nissan in the years to come.

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    Sustainable City in United Arab Emirates

    First glimpses at a sustainable city sprouting roots in Abu Dhabi.

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    Floating Golf Course in the Maldives

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    Vivid Let Loose Their Plans For Creative Sydney 2011

    Vivid Creative Sydney has just been announced, with over 50 creative leaders lined up to keep you inspired and full of ideas.

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    Heineken’s Glow in the Dark Bottle Lights up the Night

    Heineken's glow-in-the-dark aluminium bottle enhances the beer drinking experience.

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    The World’s Tallest Lego Tower

    Brazil takes the title of building the World's Largest Lego Tower

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    Ralph Lauren’s Solar-Powered Backpack

    Ralph Lauren's Solar Panel Backpack can charge iPhones, iPads and iPods in a matter of hours.

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    AquaNotes Create Waterproof Notepad for Shower Thinkers

    Shower-thinkers now have a creative outlet with waterproof AquaNotes notepads

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    Caipiroska Flavoured Vodka Comes in Peelable Bottles

    Smirnoff introduces their new flavour, Caipiroska, in funky peelable skins.

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    Sketch Your Own Chair

    Sketch Chair allows anyone to design and build their own custom chairs.

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    The Revolutionary Masterplan for Mentougou Eco Valley Development

    Eriksson Architects have designed the most modern environment friendly development to date, the Mentougou Eco-Valley.

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    Phoenix Bamboo Car Defies Convention

    A new kind of eco-friendly car.

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    Functional Wall Stickers Make Organisation Fun

    Being well-organisation has never looked so good.

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    Turn Your Favourite Book Into A Lamp

    Designer Boris Dennler lets you highlight your book collection by turning them into functional lamps.

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    Bike Helmets Get Fashionable

    Designers give the lid a new look.

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    ‘The Cube’ Portable Restaurant

    Portable restaurants to tour the landmarks of Europe.

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    The Incredible, Edible Pen

    If you're a pen-chewer, we have some good news.

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    A Mobile that Can Recharge in your Pocket

    An environmentally friendly mobile phone that can run on body heat

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    Silicone Speakers for Sharing Music Anywhere

    Foldable, stackable, washable and virtually indestructible, Tembo Trunks sustainable silicone speakers let you share your tunes wherever you are.

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    IKEA Helps Organise Your Computer Desktop

    Can't get enough IKEA in your home? Download IKEA's digital storage solutions for your desktop

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    Pepsi Develops 100% Sustainable Plant-Based Bottle

    Pepsi trumps Coke with a 100% plant-based bottle made of switch grass, pine bark and corn husks.

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    The new look Concrete Playground

    We've nipped, tucked and delivered Concrete Playground to you in a shiny new package, re-imagining everything from the ground up.

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    Homes Getting Cheaper and Smaller by Design

    With the global economy in a less than premium position, sustainable micro-houses might be awaiting us all in the future.

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    Scrabble Revived with Designer Fonts

    Now not only is Scrabble a delightful game for grammar pedants but for typography fetishists as well.

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    Literary Figures Give Lego Bookish Cred

    The one thing Lego has always needed was a smug F. Scott Fitzgerald and brooding Ernest Hemingway to give it some literary credit.

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    Lego Releases Digital Camera

    The new go-to gadget for anyone who wants a colourful, geometric and completely unique and workable camera.

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    Daft Punk and Coke to Release Shiny Limited Edition Bottles

    New Coke bottles inspired by Daft Punk's robot helmets will undoubtedly become the source of many a French hipster's pick-up line.

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    Kite-Powered Car Drives Across Australia

    A unique take on raising environmental awareness involves a kite and a pair of German 'extreme sportsmen.'

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    Tron: Legacy Inspires Icehotel Art Suite

    British designers/sci-fi fans redesign Sweden's icehotel, Tron: Legacy style.

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    World’s Smallest Postal Services

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