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Every Shelter creates and designs sustainable shelters for refugees.

Operator of a digital designing software platform intended to bring the entire physical product design journey into one digital studio. The company's platform utilizes artificial intelligence to create design briefs and collaborate with others for designing, engineering, and fabrication, enabling users to turn their ideas from a sketch to a product.

Operator of an interior design company intended to provide fabrication and design services. The company creates custom and customizable furniture for commercial interiors, providing clients with impressive interior elements like branding walls and custom furniture tailored to their unique vision and brand.

Day Dreamer is a cross-platform mobile application that helps creatives connect and collaborate with local artists both in and outside of their medium.

Provider of landscape designing services intended to transform outdoor space into a sustainable sanctuary. The company's offer landscape planning using desktop and mobile applications, as well as provide templates and regional planting guides and assistance from design experts to boost conversion with 3D and AR (Augmented reality) product experiences, enabling users to get online advice in designing and planning.

Leaperr is an artificial intelligence system based on novel technology that combines Deep-Learning, Image-Processing algorithms and stochastic methods that can automatically produce interior design plans by itself, generating creative, new fresh designs without human assistance. Leaperr's unique algorithm captures user preferences and space structure, as well as user's needs and constrains. It instantly creates various personalized design options for any given space. Leaperr demonstrates the visual potential of spaces while creating, at the same time, basic (or full) interior design plans. Leaperr saves time & money as well as the need to visualize abstract design plans. Options are presented as "photo images" making abstract design plans vivid and tangible. No pre designing knowledge is required

Those is a design studio founded in 2015 with the intent to pursue the use of technologies in design. It focuses on connecting the physical and the digital worlds. Its first product was Woodpecker, a scalable digital drawing tool that can be placed and programmed to draw on any surface. With a mission to create new ways to combine the digital with the physical, Those has now created Joto, an antidote to our reliance on pixels and glass screens. Joto takes the concept behind Woodpecker – transferring digital files, whether it’s pictures, texts or tweets, and into a real life image – and applies it to a product accessible and suitable for home use.

CADLAB.io operates a cloud-based platform tailored for hardware development, specifically focusing on PCB design projects. It offers an advanced version control system and collaboration tools that facilitate the management of native PCB design files in a centralized repository. Users can view, compare, and comment on schematic components directly in their web browser, significantly expediting the design review process. The platform features a schematics comparison tool that allows engineers to quickly identify changes in hardware designs, while interactive annotations enhance communication and collaboration among team members. By streamlining these processes, CADLAB.io enables engineers to maintain quality control throughout every step of hardware design.

Learning Beautiful is a design studio. Inspired by traditional Montessori education, they create new learning materials that are focused on teaching basic concepts of computation to early learners.

Tot-em is jewelry created from sound waves.

Concrete is the second most used consumed substance in the world but it is considered a boring, dull, simple product which is commonly used in its basic gray formulation. We help the design community to know all the amazing attributes and benefits that can be achieved by combining cement, water and aggregates making unique and complex forms. Designers, artists and architects can learn and use this product and open their minds into new products and solutions with our high quality and experience.

Vááiu is a Mexican brand where we incorporate artisanal work into contemporary designs.

Oqtor is an AI-powered design tool tailored for busy entrepreneurs seeking efficient branding solutions. The platform automatically analyzes a company's existing branding elements, such as its website, social media, and images, to generate customized designs. These designs can include a variety of marketing materials, from business cards to online advertisements. By streamlining the design process, Oqtor allows clients to save valuable time and focus on growing their businesses.

Clover Lewis Swimwear is special. Their exclusive garments have been designed to look gorgeous and feel wonderful. Originally designed for women who have undergone mastectomy and other breast cancer surgeries, the Clover Lewis collection is admired, and can be worn, by all women. Glamorous and intelligently designed, their swimwear blends a fashion forward ethos with smart features developed especially for women following breast cancer surgery, but also suitable for diverse women from all walks of life.

Rayform SA specializes in advanced light redirection technology that enhances the design potential of luxury products and packaging. Founded in 2016 and located in Ecublens, Switzerland, the company utilizes a proprietary computer algorithm to calculate the three-dimensional surfaces required to project specific target images using light. By adjusting the shape of transparent or reflective surfaces based on these calculations, Rayform enables the redirection of incoming light to create vivid and detailed images on adjacent surfaces. This innovative technology not only offers unique design opportunities for artists and brands but also serves as a means to enhance product security and counterfeiting prevention.

Dimples is a company focused on helping organizations and individuals reduce printing costs and environmental impact through innovative ink and toner conservation solutions. The company has developed a patented method that creates unique perforation overlays, known as 'dimples,' which are applied to fonts. This technology allows users to maintain the visual integrity of printed text while significantly decreasing ink and toner consumption. By offering engineering-focused software and font overlays, Dimples enables newspapers, magazines, and other organizations to utilize their existing fonts, effectively promoting cost savings and sustainability in the printing process.

Design Museum Boston is a non-profit organization with the goal of creating, establishing, and operating virtual and physical design exhibit spaces online, in Boston, and all over New England. These spaces will exhibit design work as well as host events and programs related to design education.

Arcbazar.com, Inc. operates an innovative online platform that facilitates design competitions for architectural services, connecting clients with designers and contractors. Founded in 2010 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, the platform allows clients to initiate competitions by detailing their projects, uploading images, and specifying dimensions. This approach covers a wide range of projects, including remodeling, interiors, landscaping, new residential, commercial, and public developments. Clients can set awards and timelines, evaluate submissions, and ultimately select the best designs for their needs. By providing a space for emerging designers to showcase their skills, Arcbazar offers clients access to diverse and high-quality design solutions at competitive prices. This unique crowdsourcing model promotes collaboration and creativity in the architectural design process, serving both homeowners and businesses globally.

LittleBonsai is a product studio that is dedicated to creating fun and useful household products in a responsible way. They’ve developed ReBrush™, an exciting new toothbrush that features replaceable heads and high-quality handles made from aluminum and sustainably grown hardwood.

Users can create one of a kind, custom handbags at Open Runway, and have them delivered to their door in about 6 weeks. Start with a silhouette and finish with a concept bag that's entirely your own, created online from hundreds of Open Runway's colors, fabrics, leathers, silhouettes and add-ons.