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  • Artist Anouska Samms crafts "dysfunctional" pots from human hair

    Artist Anouska Samms created pots from clay and donated human hair to playfully explore her family's matrilineal relationship, which were recently on show as part of an exhibition in London. More

    Jane Englefield | 23 June 2022 | Leave a comment
  • Pareid uses human hair to measure urban pollution in Bangkok

    Human hair can be a tool for measuring the toxicity of a city, according to London-based architects Deborah Lopez and Hadin Charbel, who have also created a textile made from hair. More

    Amy Frearson | 20 August 2021 | Leave a comment
  • Six typefaces that make use of the human body and bodily fluids

    Here are six examples of typography informed by or made using the human body, including a sex-position typeface, wispy letters formed from strands of hair and letters traced from urine. More

    Jane Englefield | 4 May 2021 | Leave a comment
  • Céline Arnould makes commemorative porcelain bowls from the hair of loved ones

    Swiss designer Céline Arnould has cast a series of ceramic vessels from the hair of her friends and family, as a contemporary take on the locks that Victorians used to keep as tokens of love or loss. More

    Jennifer Hahn | 4 December 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Afropicks by Simon Skinner challenges perception of Swedish design

    Swedish product designer Simon Skinner has created a collection of afro hair combs that explore the effect of migration on Swedish identity.  More

    Sebastian Jordahn | 23 April 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
  • 10 designs made from the human body that will make you squirm

    Designers are increasingly looking to the human body when finding materials for their creations. Here are 10 of the most stomach-churning examples, featuring blood, sweat and tears (plus urine and hair). More

    Tom Ravenscroft | 28 July 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Oksana Bondar uses human hair to create biodegradable stool

    Kingston School of Art graduate Oksana Bondar has created a dressing table stool from human hair to demonstrate the design possibilities of the material. More

    Gunseli Yalcinkaya | 17 July 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Discover eyecatching grooming products via our latest Pinterest board

    Inspired by a brutalist soap, we curated a Pinterest board of the best-designed grooming products, including 13 reinterpretations of the shaving brush and an aluminium straight razor aimed at millennials. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›

    Fiona Hartley | 20 May 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Graphene-based dye colours hair without causing damage

    US scientists have developed a hair dye that contains miracle material graphene, which allows hair to be coloured without causing breakage or frizz. More

    Alice Morby | 20 March 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Krisztina Czika makes mugs using human hair and leg wax

    Hungarian designer Krisztina Czika's cups might resemble familiar IKEA mugs but they're actually made from human hair embedded in wax. More

    Emma Tucker | 15 March 2017 | 36 comments
  • Burnt hair creates etch-like patterns on stools by Fabio Hendry and Martijn Rigters

    London-based designers Fabio Hendry and Martijn Rigters have used burnt human hair to create patterns on aluminium stools, which they are presenting at this year's IMM Cologne furniture fair.  More

    Eleanor Gibson | 19 January 2017 | 2 comments
  • "World's first" smart hairbrush scores quality of hair during use

    Beauty brand L'Oréal has worked alongside digital healthcare company Withings to develop a brush that tracks and scores the quality of hair. More

    Alice Morby | 4 January 2017 | 2 comments
  • Dyson's first hairdryer emits a sound "beyond the audible range for humans"

    Engineer and inventor James Dyson has revealed a design for a hairdryer that is silent to human ears and controls its own temperature to protect hair from heat damage (+ movie). More

    Alice Morby | 27 April 2016 | 27 comments
  • Zsofia Kollar weaves human hair to create golden perfumed textile

    Hungarian designer Zsofia Kollar has used human hair to create a series of scented objects, including a wall hanging and a U-shaped necklace (+ slideshow). More

    Emma Tucker | 6 February 2016 | 1 comment
  • Mary Graham replaces false eyelashes with foraged plants

    Graduate shows 2015: grass blades and pine needles were used to make these entirely natural false eyelashes by Kingston University graduate Mary Graham. More

    Dan Howarth | 21 July 2015 | 4 comments
  • Guide to Cannibalism suggests ways to eat humans

    Graduate shows 2015: intended to promote eating humans, the Guide to Cannibalism provides recipes for cooking meat, and also comes with kitchenware embedded with real hair (+ slideshow). More

    Dan Howarth | 9 June 2015 | 18 comments
  • Sybille Paulsen creates jewellery for cancer patients using their own hair

    Berlin-based designer Sybille Paulsen has worked with people undergoing chemotherapy treatment to create bespoke jewellery from their own hair. More

    Katie Treggiden | 7 March 2015 | 5 comments
  • Takaya incorporates taxidermy into botanical headdresses

    Japanese artist Takaya has added stuffed dead birds to designs in his latest collection of raw vegetable and flower headpieces. More

    Katie Treggiden | 9 January 2015 | 5 comments
  • Studio Swine extends collection of products made from hair

    Azusa Murakami and Alexander Groves of Studio Swine have revisited the process they developed to make optical frames from human hair to create a new range of accessories (+ movie). More

    Dan Howarth | 30 June 2014 | 6 comments
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