March 2016 Archive

UNICEF bicycle initiative helps Ghanaian schoolgirls get to class safely

Design News • 10 Mar 16

Swedish brand Vélosophy teams up with UNICEF to donate its commuter bikes to girls in Ghana. >
Wi-Fi trashcans encourage festivalgoers to practise responsible rubbish disposal

Design News • 10 Mar 16

Indian startup ThinkScream develops a trashcan that provides Wi-Fi connection in exchange for trash. >
Experimental street art inspired by the Cape

Design News • 11 Mar 16

South African illustrator and street artist Anwar Davids aims to make his work accessible all over the world. >
31 Bits’ holistic business model empowers Ugandan women

Design News • 11 Mar 16

Jewellery brand creates a sustainable income for Ugandan artisans while teaching them skills to become self-reliant. >
EduKick designs football games that teach slum kids maths

Design News • 14 Mar 16

Community project gets creative with soccer to increase children’s literacy in India. >
US digital artist talks representation of minorities in graphic design

Design News • 14 Mar 16

Jeff Manning’s work is inspired by music and informed by the need to represent minorities in graphic design. >
A pictorial narrative explores the estranged lives of adults

Design News • 14 Mar 16

A children’s book for adults, The Well of Being explores life through narrative and illustration. >
Township: Photographs depicting life after South African apartheid

Design News • 15 Mar 16

Anne Rearick’s work documents the lives of people faced with economic hardship, poverty and racism. >
Newly discovered enzyme could change the way we recycle plastic

Design News • 15 Mar 16

Kyoto University researchers are able to cultivate an enzyme that can break down plastic into harmless chemicals. >
Auto-focus specs adapts lenses to near and farsighted vision

Design News • 15 Mar 16

Deep Optics’ omnifocals automatically adjust focus, providing the wearer with improved vision. >
Fashion house Mille Collines celebrates all things Africa

Design News • 15 Mar 16

The recent Mille Collines show at AFI MBFW Joburg takes an elegant and contemporary look at ubiquitous African curios. >
An innovative way to extinguish a fire

Design News • 16 Mar 16

The Elide Fire Extinguishing Ball uses a chemical blast to control unexpected fires. >
Ugandan community hall crafted out of basic materials

Design News • 16 Mar 16

Natural light and locally-sourced materials bring the late Ross Langdon’s design to life. >
Clever cooking hacks to combat wasteful food habits

Design News • 16 Mar 16

SpoonLed is a video and event series that shows millennials how to make the most out of their food waste. >
A movement to clean-up and beautify the city of Bhopal

Design News • 17 Mar 16

Bhopal I-Clean Team is a spot-fixing programme started by a group of locals who are determined to tidy up their city. >
Kampala's street children rehabilitated through music and art

Design News • 17 Mar 16

M-Lisada is an orphanage in Uganda that empowers Kampala's street children through art. >
The "A" speaker: A solution to noise pollution

Design News • 17 Mar 16

The "A" speaker is like listening to headphones without the headphones. >
Pigeon Air Patrol reports London’s air quality to tweeters

Design News • 17 Mar 16

Plume Labs sends a fleet of racing pigeons into the sky to monitor London’s pollution index. >
Electric-assisted handcycle prototype proposed as low-cost wheelchair in Bangladesh

Design News • 18 Mar 16

Researchers design a solar-powered vehicle as a possible upgrade of the widespread manual wheelchair. >
Doctors Without Borders trials 3D printing and VR technology to design field hospitals

Design News • 18 Mar 16

Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) are trialling the use of virtual reality and 3D printing in the design process of their field hospitals. >
Virtual reality used for drug rehabilitation

Design News • 21 Mar 16

Programme at the University of Houston treats drug and alcohol addiction with immersive VR scenarios. >
CrowdVoice: An archive of social unrest from around the world

Design News • 21 Mar 16

Esra’a Al Shafei’s online platform curates user-generated content from protests around the world. >
Edible cutlery: Eat with it and then eat it

Design News • 21 Mar 16

In an attempt to curb the amount of waste caused by disposable cutlery, Narayana Peesapati has invented cutlery you can eat. >
WaterWheel: A rolling solution in rural India

Design News • 22 Mar 16

Wello Water’s WaterWheel lifts the physical burden of water collection in rural India. >

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