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  • Shit Show at Dutch Design Week captured in Dezeen video

    Dezeen has filmed an Instagram reel showcasing an exhibition by Dutch designer Fides Lapidaire about the benefits of using human waste as compost in the second of our three-part video series for Dutch Design Week. More

    Alice Finney | 2 November 2022 | Leave a comment
  • Taxi Studio designs human colon typeface for Never Too Young bowel cancer campaign

    Bristol design office Taxi Studio has created a typeface that looks like intestines as part of the branding for Never Too Young, a campaign alerting young people to the dangers of bowel cancer. More

    Jane Englefield | 20 April 2021 | Leave a comment
  • Pooey Puitton toy purse makers file lawsuit against Louis Vuitton

    Toy company MGA Entertainment has preemptively sued Louis Vuitton in an attempt to prevent the fashion house from taking actions that might impact sales of its slime-filled children's purse Pooey Puitton. More

    Gunseli Yalcinkaya | 4 January 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Ellie Birkhead uses human hair and manure to make region-specific bricks

    Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Ellie Birkhead has developed a process of brick making that incorporates local waste products from the Chiltern Hills, in an attempt to "forge a future for local industry". More

    Anna Winston | 25 August 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Studio Makkink & Bey's wheelie-bin toilet harvests human waste for electricity and compost

    Aiming to change our attitudes towards our own excrement, Dutch design duo Makkink & Bey have created a toilet that collects poo and wee before turning it into compost. More

    Alice Morby | 12 June 2017 | 3 comments
  • The Shit Museum brings various poo-related designs to London

    London Design Festival 2016: a "liberating" adult nappy, poo tableware and an event space furnished with manure are among the offerings at one London Design Festival exhibition (+ slideshow). More

    Rima Sabina Aouf | 21 September 2016 | Leave a comment
  • Jalila Essaïdi makes textiles from cow dung "to solve manure problem"

    Eindhoven designer Jalila Essaïdi has turned manure into haute couture, using cellulose acetate derived from cow poo to create a fabric and an entire fashion collection (+ movie). More

    Emma Tucker | 24 July 2016 | 5 comments
  • The Shit Evolution in Milan presents dung as a "beautiful" material

    Milan 2016: products made from a new material that uses recycled poo are presented in darkened rooms with crap-covered floors at The Shit Evolution exhibition curated by the Museo Della Merda (+ slideshow). More

    Ross Bryant | 11 April 2016 | 2 comments
  • Excrete customised poo jewellery with Nikolas Gregory's Ripley kit

    Nikolas Gregory Studio's conceptual Ripley kit encourages users to swallow and excrete their own biologically customised piece of jewellery. More

    Emma Tucker | 18 January 2016 | 7 comments
  • Yi-Wen Tseng's methane-powered concept car is modelled on a cow's digestive system

    London Design Festival 2015: Royal College of Art graduate Yi-Wen Tseng has imagined a car powered by bio-printed organs, using synthetic biology to turn a cow's digestive process into a fuel system. More

    Emma Tucker | 4 October 2015 | 4 comments
  • Italy's Museo della Merda is full of shit

    The Museum of Shit is housed in an Italian castle and is dedicated to demonstrating "what a useful and living substance crap really is" (+ slideshow). More

    Dan Howarth | 7 May 2015 | 3 comments
  • Luca Cipelletti plasters Milan gallery with manure for Shit Show

    Milan 2015: the walls of a Milanese gallery are lined with excrement to highlight one of the material's potential uses in this installation by architect Luca Cipelletti (+ slideshow). More

    Dan Howarth | 6 May 2015 | 6 comments
  • Design Academy Eindhoven students invite Milan to Eat Shit

    Milan 2015: mummified poo, intestine-shaped bread and a Portaloo festooned with flowers were among the projects presented by students from Design Academy Eindhoven's food design course during Milan design week. More

    Jessica Mairs | 20 April 2015 | 13 comments
  • Geneva students make ink from salamanders and electricity from dog poo for Milan show

    Milan 2015: a machine that converts dog poo into battery power, fashion accessories laced with catnip and a 3D printer that uses ink made from salamander bacteria are among products designed by students from the HEAD Geneva School of Art and Design. More

    Jessica Mairs | 16 April 2015 | 2 comments
  • Floor tiles made of coloured snail poo by Lieske Schreuder

    Dutch designer Lieske Schreuder fed coloured paper to snails and then collected their vibrant-hued poo to make floor tiles (+ slideshow). More

    Alyn Griffiths | 26 November 2013 | 9 comments
  • "We've been designing biology for 10,000 years"

    Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our next movie from Design Indaba in Cape Town, designer Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg discusses synthetic biology - a new field of science that could see designers creating artificial lifeforms. More

    Benedict Hobson | 8 April 2013 | 1 comment

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