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Browsing Insects

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Food & Drink

Designer begins plastic knife and vase made to be eaten and decomposed by…

Altering the environmental impact of polystyrene, one of the world's most polluting plastics, designer Arnaud Tantet turned to mealworms and superworms and their ability to digest such material.

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Marketing & Branding

Ikea’s heritage meatball gets an eco-update

Multinational furniture company Ikea’s latest meatball will not be served in its cafeterias, but rather in the gardens of its customers.

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Food & Drink

A future-facing identity for insect farming

AI-powered insect mini-farm Better Origin has been rebranded by Ascend Studio to give a new identity to sustainable farming.

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Fashion

Italbugs is looking to make silkworm waste edible

Italy – The company wants to repurpose waste silk from the fashion sector in order to create a high-protein flour.

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Design

Symbiotic selling

London – In her MA graduate project, Retail Terrorism/Symbiotic Relationships, Royal College of Art (RCA) interior design student Corrine Guo imagines a future retail space that draws inspiration from the layered structure of a beehive.

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Food & Drink

Feeling antsy: New brand of gin distilled from insects

Copenhagen – We are used to hearing about the idea of worms in tequila, but a gin made out of ants? That’s an entirely new proposition.

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Food & Drink

Ant Up: Mexican Restaurant Challenges New York Diners

The Black Ant, a new restaurant in Manhattan’s East Village, is putting insects on the menu.

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Food & Drink

Exo-protein

In North America, entomophagy, or the eating of insects, is moving from an anthropological oddity to an emerging practice for the health- and eco-conscious.

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Culture & Media

Morphopolis

From its pixelated beginnings with Pong and Donkey Kong Jr to filmic productions such as Grand Theft Auto, gaming has come a long way. Now it is reaching new heights, and striving to touch people in the same way as great works of art.