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    Lucy McRae creates cushion machine to offer lab-grown humans a womb experience

    Future humans grown in artificial wombs could replace the embrace of a parent with Heavy Duty Love, a machine created by sci-fi designer Lucy McRae for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021. More

    Amy Frearson | 20 May 2021 | Leave a comment
  • Jonatan Nilsson designs unique glassblowing contraption to make amorphous vases

    Swedish designer Jonatan Nilsson built his own machine from sheet metal and wooden blocks to create this Shifting Shape collection of glass vases, which feature jagged edges and rippled surfaces. More

    Natashah Hitti | 26 December 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Lucy McRae creates hugging machine as an antidote to the "touch crisis"

    Los Angeles-based artist Lucy McRae has created a machine she calls the Compression Carpet, which offers a hug to a person craving intimacy. More

    Amy Frearson | 19 October 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Flensted Mouritzen adapt heritage plaster technique to make sculptural Revolve objects

    Danish design studio Flensted Mouritzen has created a running mould machine that makes sculptural plaster objects with mottled surfaces. More

    Ali Morris | 16 December 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Dripping machine creates ceramics that marry technological precision with handmade details

    Eindhoven-based Studio Joachim-Morineau has designed a manufacturing machine that replicates human error, to create ceramics with individual structures, patterns and textures. More

    Natashah Hitti | 18 October 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Automated machine by Riccardo Blumer Atelier builds a wall out of soap bubbles

    Riccardo Blumer Atelier worked with a team of students to create this machine on show at the Venice Architecture Biennale, which is programmed to build and repair an 11-metre-long bubble wall. More

    Danil Boparai | 14 August 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Wooden machine produces "handwritten" version of Bodoni typeface

    Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Sooji Lee has created a hand-operated machine that painstakingly rewrites the Bodoni typeface in lowercase. More

    Emma Tucker | 5 December 2016 | 5 comments
  • Charlotte Nordmoen's Humanmade robot designer could replace potters

    Graduate shows 2016: Central Saint Martins student Charlotte Nordmoen has designed a robotic potter that anticipates a time when human labour is no longer needed (+ movie). More

    Emma Tucker | 10 July 2016 | 8 comments
  • Shawn Yang uses giant Spirograph to make home accessories

    Graduate shows 2016: Taiwanese designer Shawn Yang has created a giant version of a Spirograph toy that makes three-dimensional patterns on homeware (+ slideshow). More

    Alice Morby | 22 June 2016 | Leave a comment
  • Dave Hakkens updates open-source Precious Plastic recycling machines

    Dutch designer Dave Hakkens has updated his series of Precious Plastic machines, which anyone can build and use to make products by recycling the material (+ movie). More

    Emma Tucker | 14 April 2016 | 1 comment
  • Wintergatan Marble Machine plays music with metal balls

    Thousands of metal marbles tumble through this wooden contraption by Swedish musician Martin Molin, which is operated with gears to produce different sounds and create tunes (+ movie). More

    Dan Howarth | 10 March 2016 | 3 comments
  • Luiz Zanotello's New Velocity machine plots the position of a phantom island

    Design student Luiz Zanotello has created a machine that uses digital methods to map the location of the mythical Sandy Island (+ movie). More

    Emma Tucker | 11 January 2016 | Leave a comment
  • Kneip creates miniature motorised sculptures from found objects

    Vienna Design Week 2015: a hammer that persistently strikes a stone and a "breathing" vacuum-packed sponge are among the moving sculptures that Norwegian studio Kneip has installed at a Viennese workshop (+ movie). More

    Dan Howarth | 30 September 2015 | 1 comment
  • Willy Wonka-inspired machine propels popcorn through a curved glass tube

    This machine by Dutch designer Jolene Carlier spurts popcorn from the end of a glass tube into a bright yellow bowl when the snack is ready to eat (+ movie). More

    Jessica Mairs | 12 February 2015 | 12 comments
  • Theo Jansen creates giant wind-powered Strandbeest sculptures

    One-minute movie: Dutch sculptor Theo Jansen has created huge moving sculptures to prevent the erosion of sand dunes, which he claims are evolving without his help. More

    Danil Boparai | 12 December 2014 | Leave a comment
  • "I try to make new forms of life," says Strandbeests creator Theo Jansen

    Interview: Dutch sculptor Theo Jansen has spent the last 24 years developing a series of wind-powered machines called Strandbeests that he describes as "a new species on Earth". Dezeen caught up with him on Miami Beach last week, where he explained how his creations are now evolving without his help (+ movie). More

    Marcus Fairs | 12 December 2014 | 3 comments
  • Helmut Smits' The Real Thing turns Coca-Cola back into water

    Dutch Design Week 2014: Netherlands-based multidisciplinary artist Helmut Smits has developed a device for "a world in which drinking water can be harder to come by than Coca-Cola". More

    Anna Winston | 3 November 2014 | 17 comments
  • Peter William Holden’s Frankensteinian robots perform dance routines to music

    Synthetic human body parts mounted on robots dance to dramatic music in Dance Machines, an installation by British artist Peter William Holden in London (+ slideshow). More

    Jessica Mairs | 17 October 2014 | 2 comments
  • Proper Coffee's Imperial Drip machine brews drinks slowly to improve flavour

    American brand Proper Coffee has developed a machine that can take up to four hours to brew one pot of coffee – a process expected to improve the richness and reduce acidity. More

    Jessica Mairs | 29 September 2014 | 5 comments
  • Final issues of FOMO released as project prepares to visit Venice

    Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: Space Caviar's algorithmic publishing project will be travelling to Venice for the architecture biennale, with the final issues from Milan design week now available to download – including contributions from Formafantasma and Martino Gamper (+ slideshow + download). More

    Anna Winston | 16 April 2014 | Leave a comment
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