One of the golden rules of design (and life) is give people what they want. And what do students want? Free food of course, and Food-Bot can help. After all one of the glories of being a student is the free buffet, with people putting far more effort to get into an event with cheese [...]

How do you know that the colour that you see as blue is the same that everyone else sees as blue? Extensive tests have shown that we all perceive the world differently. A claim that can be taken beyond mere colours and can be applied across the whole spectrum of life. So when you reference that [...]

Things move quickly these days, even more so now that we’re all connected through the internet. One of the industries in which this is most apparent is web design. The international network of developers and designers passing on tips, tricks and cool new designs means that trends can arise overnight leaving your company website looking old [...]

Is your life exciting enough? Do you sit at home with your knitting and cats wishing you were in space battling pirates? Maybe you’d rather be at home knitting than battling space pirates. After all the weightlessness would be bound to be disorientating, and how do you actually fight a space pirate – would canonballs work [...]

“Where do you get your ideas from?” It seems to be a question that crops up at any sort of creative talk event, whether the person speaking is an expert on branding or a best selling author. The responses can be just as varied, and they always seem to leave the questioner dissatisfied. This is partly due [...]

It’s Friday again and there’s that weekend, stretching ahead of you. Is it filled with obligations, parties, and fancy dinners, or perhaps nothing more than a good book and some quiet moments. Well it doesn’t matter, either way we feel that you’ll be spending it trying to get the perfect score on this new design [...]

You’ve probably seen this image before. Jonathan Mak first published it on his Tumblr site on the 26th August 2011. When Steve Jobs passed on over a month later the design went viral, which in itself is not overly surprising given the reblogging nature of Tumblr. The popularity of the image goes deeper than the ease [...]

Doing the robot just became a lot harder. At least if you want to do the robot like Keepon. This adorable robot was originally designed by Hideki Kozima who was researching ways that autistic children interacted with robots. The original was a far cry from the gyrating model you see today. The robot was controlled by [...]

A group of Arab and Dutch designers have taken multiculturalism to the next level by designing the first bilingual Arabic/Latin fonts. This means the font encompasses all 29 Arabic letters and 26 Latin ones, presenting them in a visually coherent way so the eye can switch between one and another – assuming you can read [...]

Since the tragic last flight of the LZ-129 Hindenburg the airship industry has been virtually non-existent. Though to many the airship is still synonymous with vulnerability, some can look past that and see it’s potential. One of those is Hybrid Air Vehicles, a company based in Bedfordshire, England, who have just won a £315 million pound contract [...]