This TV series, originally broadcast in the UK in 2010, "chart[s] design's evolution from the birth of industrial design, through to the plastics invented in the 50s and 60s and, finally, the 'designer decades' of the 80s and 90s and the digital revolution" (Azure blog http://azuremagazine.com/newsviews/blog_content.php?id=2054).

Watch the PBS documentary about the beginnings of Tupperware and the changing role of women in American society after World War II. The website also includes articles, interviews, additional film clips, photographs, and primary source materials.

The urban beehive is a concept for keeping bees at home. The beehive is designed to allow us a glimpse into the fascinating world of these industrious creatures and to harvest the honey that they produce. It consists of two parts: entry passage and flower pot outside, and glass vessel containing an array of honeycomb frames, inside. The glass shell filters light to let through the orange wavelength which bees use for sight. The frames are provided with a honeycomb texture for bees to build their wax cells on. Smoke can be released into the hive to calm the bees before it is opened, in keeping with established practice.