Re-enlightenment Rising

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DIY DNA

Montreal – Amino is an at-home kit that lets children and adults use their own DNA for synthetic biology experiments.

Re-enlightenment Rising : Citizen Science : Synthetic Biology

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Space beer

US – An independent American brewery is launching a beer made with yeast that has been flown into space.

Beer : Space : Re-enlightenment Rising

Slowness gains momentum in a world tired of moving too fast

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Slowness gains momentum in a world tired of moving too fast

The World Institute of Slowness is a new approach to brand leadership that aims to ensure long-term growth by treating consumers as people first.

The World Institute Of Slowness : Slow Thinking : Re-enlightenment Rising

Out of this world: Web platform enables users to communicate with astronauts

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Out of this world: Web platform enables users to communicate with astronauts

Worldwide, International Space Station – Social media has breached the final frontier as the Friends in Space app lets you communicate with astrona...

Friends In Space : Social Media : Re-enlightenment Rising

London Design Festival 2014

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London Design Festival 2014

Channelling the spirit of The Polarity Paradox, the London Design Festival 2014 embraced the extremes. Tongue-in-cheek, playful aesthetics and ex...

Anti-Materials : Neo-Kitsch : Painterly Primitive

London Design Festival 2014: Designer imagines weightlessness of space travel

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London Design Festival 2014: Designer imagines weightlessness of space travel

LS:N Global gets a preview of designer Lucy McRae’s other-worldy project for the London Design Festival.

London Design Festival 2014 : Re-enlightenment Rising : Lucy McRae

Den of iniquity: New bar stimulates the senses

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Den of iniquity: New bar stimulates the senses

London – The Bump Caves is a new bar where the focus is not just on the cocktails, but on the bumps – flavoured additives that give the drinks an e...

The Bump Caves : Bar : Cocktails

Mineral orchestra: Designer brings out the sound of crystals

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Mineral orchestra: Designer brings out the sound of crystals

Hyères, France – A project that uses forgotten physical properties to create mystical singing crystals has won top prize at international de...

Re-enlightenment Rising : Design Parade : Le Chant Des Quartz

Time to reflect: Bar celebrates long-term thinking

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Time to reflect: Bar celebrates long-term thinking

San Francisco – The Interval is the new bar at the Long Now Foundation, an organisation dedicated to fostering creativity in long-term thinking.

Bar : Brian Eno : San Francisco

Age of discovery: Magazine brings together art and technology

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Age of discovery: Magazine brings together art and technology

London – The team at digital art blog Creative Applications Network has created HOLO magazine, which examines the overlap between technology, scien...

HOLO Magazine : Re-enlightenment Rising : Technology

Smell on Sight: Cinema Adds Fragrance to Flowers

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Smell on Sight: Cinema Adds Fragrance to Flowers

Berlin - The march towards total sensual experience continues apace. At two screenings of Michel Gondry’s futuristic, jazz-noir film L'Écume des J...

Soho House : Cinema : Transmedia Futures

Stanford travels in time to 2100 to look at the future of education

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Stanford travels in time to 2100 to look at the future of education

A Stanford University project examines what education might be like in the year 2100.

Education : Stanford University : D:school

Microsoft creates immersive data visualisation

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Microsoft creates immersive data visualisation

The installation was created to promote the software company’s updated database management system SQL Server.

Microsoft : SQL Server : Data Visualisation

Cosmoprof Worldwide Bologna 2014 Part 2

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Cosmoprof Worldwide Bologna 2014 Part 2

In the second part of our coverage, LS:N Global reveals more of the latest trends and insights from the biggest beauty trade exhibition in Europe.

Beauty+ : Cosmoprof : Nature+

The Athena way: Ideas for the modern woman

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The Athena way: Ideas for the modern woman

The Athena Woman has had quite a year. But she’s not one to flop on the sofa and start downing the egg nog.

Boozette Brands : Re-enlightenment Rising : Mantasy

Rocky road: Quirky study of gelato and geology

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Rocky road: Quirky study of gelato and geology

Venice, Italy – Melting ice cream may not seem to have much in common with sedimentary rock, but it is the point of inspiration for creative collec...

Ice Cream : Re-enlightenment Rising : Geology

Edhv: Multidisciplinary design studio

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Edhv: Multidisciplinary design studio

Edhv: Multidisciplinary design studio

Design : Dutch Invertuals : Oxidisation

Star quality: Flying high at London Fashion Week

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Star quality: Flying high at London Fashion Week

Star quality: Flying high at London Fashion Week

Design : Galactic : Astrology

Magical landscape: Network event ponders Re-enlightenment Design

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Magical landscape: Network event ponders Re-enlightenment Design

Magical landscape: Network event ponders Re-enlightenment Design

Biological : Jewelry : Biology

Design Directions

Eruptia

Designers are relinquishing control over the final look of their work by adopting experimental production processes that result in a broken, cracke...

Cracked : James Shaw : Still Life

London Design Festival 2013: Cyclothymia

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London Design Festival 2013: Cyclothymia

London – Trained as a painter, Alessandro Brighetti spent three years working with magnets to create his Narchitecture series. One piece in the ser...

Design : Preview : Museums

Minsu Kim : Interactional food

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Minsu Kim : Interactional food

Royal College of Art graduate Minsu Kim talks about interactional food.

Minsu Kim : Royal Academy Of Art : Food Design

Cannes Lions 2013 Report: Part 2

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Cannes Lions 2013 Report: Part 2

This week, LS:N Global continues its look at the key take-outs from Cannes Lions 2013, the world’s largest advertising festival. Here we examine th...

Advertising : Xbox : IBM

New York Design Week 2013: Top 10 products

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New York Design Week 2013: Top 10 products

Each year, more and more design showcases and product launches are organised to coincide with New York’s International Contemporary Furniture Fair ...

Design : Kaleido-metric : NY

Debbi Evans : Media for interested women

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Debbi Evans : Media for interested women

Libertine founder Debbi Evans talks about creating media for interested women.

Libertine : Women's Magazines : Transmedia

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