Bettina Madita Böhm creates Apiarium hive for urban beekeepers
Design graduate Bettina Madita Böhm has created a cylindrical concrete beehive for urban beekeepers to use on the roofs of city buildings. More
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Fly Factory produces insect pate that "tastes like chicken"
Icelandic product design graduate Búi Bjarmar Aðalsteinsson has created a Fly Factory that breeds insect larvae for human consumption (+ slideshow). More
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Robotic bricklayers developed to work like termites
News: a team of researchers from Harvard University has developed a team of robots that can build architectural structures based on the behaviour of termites. More
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Entomo website design promotes insects as food
A Dublin-based graphic designer has developed a digital resource encouraging people to eat insects. More
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Honey bees can be trained to detect cancer "in ten minutes" says designer
Dutch Design Week 2013: Portuguese designer Susana Soares has developed a device for detecting cancer and other serious diseases using trained bees ( + slideshow). More
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Young designers transform beetles into plastic and printing ink
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our next movie from Eindhoven, design graduates Aagje Hoekstra and Evelien Crooy show us the bioplastic and ink made from insects that they presented at this year's Dutch Design Week. More
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Ink made from insects by Evelien Crooy
Dutch Design Week 2013: graphic design graduate Evelien Crooy has made her own ink from insects and used it to screen-print the cover of a book about the creatures. More
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Coleoptera plastic made of beetles by Aagje Hoekstra
Dutch Design Week 2013: design graduate Aagje Hoekstra has developed a plastic made of pressed insect shells. More
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The Aesthetic of Fears by Dorry Hsu
This collection of 3D-printed jewellery by Royal College of Art student Dorry Hsu was inspired by the designer's own fear of insects. More
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Farm 432: Insect Breeding by Katharina Unger
Graduate designer Katharina Unger has designed a table-top insect breeding farm that allows people to produce edible fly larvae in their homes (+ slideshow). More
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Honeycomb vase designer says whisky campaign "unabashedly exploits" his work
News: a designer who developed a technique for harnessing bees to create physical objects has accused a major brand of exploiting his work. More
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Hyperion Spotlight by Paul Heijnen
Eindhoven designer Paul Heijnen presented an articulated lamp like a huge wooden insect at Rossana Orlandi's Bagatti Valsecchi 2.0 exhibition in Milan (+ movie). More
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Skyscraper for bees by University at Buffalo students
High-rise living is no longer just for people. A team of architecture students from the University at Buffalo has recently constructed a skyscraper for a colony of bees (+ slideshow). More
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Tiny robotic insect takes flight
News: a tiny robotic insect that hovers in the air like a fly has been built by scientists at Harvard University (+ movies). More
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Taxi-Dermy Lenticular Prints by Joe Jin
Insects including a weevil and a wasp transform into cars and motorbikes in these lenticular prints by Canadian design studio Joe Jin. More
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London Without Bees by Ben Kirk
Architecture student Ben Kirk has designed conceptual towers to replace the fast-declining bee population by shooting artificial pollinators into the air. More
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The Incubator Series by Anke Weiss
Porcelain containers based on insect eggs by Dutch designer Anke Weiss are on show as part of Eat Drink Design at Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven this week. More
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Debug by Edhv
Eindhoven designers Edhv have created a series of posters by tracking the movements of insects. More
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Kitchen Insects by Sayaka Yamamoto
Sayaka Yamamoto of design duo BCXSY has designed Kitchen Insects, a project illustrating imaginary insects found in a kitchen. More
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Jewellery and objects by Kelly McCallum
Here is a selection of work by London-based artist Kelly McCallum, featuring pieces based on Victorian taxidermy. More
