August 2013 Archive

Family of furniture

Profiling • 1 Aug 13

Jan Douglas's collection of bespoke, low-tech furniture combines utility with a narrative element that draws on his Afrikaans heritage. >
Super-sized graphics

Design News • 1 Aug 13

Frost* Design's interior design of bright, quirky and oversized graphics for an Australian bank aims to aesthetically engage employees. >
Masashi Kawamura on doing different things with technology

Talks • Duration: 00:34:29 • 1 Aug 13

“By making things differently you’ll get something different (no duh)”. Masashi Kawamura explains how this approach informs his creative work. >
Mimicking meat

Design News • 2 Aug 13

Looking and tasting like meat, Beyond Meat™ offers plant protein as an authentic meat alternative with the same nutritional value but at a lower cost. >
Convenient coffee

Design News • 2 Aug 13

Yvés Behar has designed a smartphone-controlled coffee experience that allows users to order remotely and pick up their coffee quickly. >
Saving Norman by Hanneke Schutte

FilmFestFriday • 2 Aug 13

#FilmFestFridays presents "Saving Norman" by SA filmmaker Hanneke Schutte. >
TEN Collection ft Lydia Baillergeau (USA) – teaser

Inside View • 3 Aug 13

American artist, film director and motion designer Lydia Baillergeau features in the August 2013 edition of the TEN Collection. Here's what she's about. >
Crowdsourcing power

Design News • 4 Aug 13

CrowdFlower is a crowdsourcing platform that offers scalable solutions that deliver fast and accurate results for business data problems. >
Eco electronic

Design News • 4 Aug 13

Introducing the ecoATM, a first-of-its-kind consumer self-service kiosk for recycling electronics. >
Masashi Kawamura: Making new ways of making things

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:04:09 • 4 Aug 13

Masashi Kawamura is interested in designing new ways to design and experimenting with ways to combines technology and storytelling. >
Collaborative stretching

Profiling • 5 Aug 13

Mr Price Home’s new CoLab series sees the retailer collaborating with trending local designers in creating fun, colourful and contemporary products. >
Apple shots

Design News • 5 Aug 13

Martí Guixé has designed a shot glass that can be eaten, digested and transformed into energy after its use has been fulfilled. >
Mix & Shakr

Design News • 6 Aug 13

Eddie Opara designed an identity, web application and data visualisation for Carlo Ratti's robotic barman, Makr Shakr. >
Paper fresh

Design News • 6 Aug 13

A simple biodegradable, recyclable piece of organic paper, or FreshPaper, could help to reduce food spoilage and the resultant waste. >
Wear for walking

Design News • 6 Aug 13

The Ekso™ is a ready-to-wear, battery-powered exoskeleton that helps people with lower-extremity paralysis or weakness to stand up and walk. >
Cutting the ribbon

Design News • 7 Aug 13

Earlier this year Harry Pearce designed the identity for MUSE. Here's a look at the grand opening. >
Inside and outside

Design News • 7 Aug 13

Ineke Hans created striking indoor and outdoor design for the 2013 M°BA Fashion Biennale. >
Your Street Gauteng winner Rydngchairs

Festival News • 7 Aug 13

Discarded car tyres are repurposed as seats for commuters at a taxi rank in Johannesburg in the winning project in the Gauteng leg of the Your Street Challenge. >
Musical lift off

Design News • 8 Aug 13

The International Space Orchestra directed by Nelly Ben Hayoun has launched into space! >
Bodies & bacteria

Design News • 8 Aug 13

Sonja Bäumel's Metabodies found that it's not just our genes that differentiate us from others, but also our bacteria. >
Mapped out

Design News • 9 Aug 13

Michael Bierut has designed a system of clear and vivid maps for the streets of New York, encouraging people to walk and cycle the city. >
Chandelier Tree

FilmFestFriday • 9 Aug 13

#FilmFestFridays present "Chandelier Tree", a short story about a luminous tree that brings light and magic to its surroundings. >
Toast to Inspiration

Inside View • 9 Aug 13

Lydia Baillergeau's artwork for the TEN Collection is an animation called "Toast to Inspiration". Download the open video files for free on 9 August 2013. >
TEN Collection: design tutorial ft Lydia Baillergeau (USA)

Inside View • 10 Aug 13

Lydia Baillergeau talks about how she created her animated artwork for the TEN Collection, using Adobe Illustrator and After Effects. >

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