July 2016 Archive

Biometric wearable designed to lower stress levels

Design News • 1 Jul 16

ZENTA is a health-tracker-cum-life-coach that focusses on the wearer’s overall mind and body wellbeing. >
Flood-prone affordable homes empower slum residents

Design News • 1 Jul 16

Alok Shetty addresses the bleak housing conditions of the urban poor in Bangalore >
Si-Low: A low-cost grain storage unit for Africa

Next Generation • 1 Jul 16

Anthony Brown has developed the Si-Low, a low-cost grain storage unit to help prevent farmers in Africa from loosing their grain after they harvest. >
Four ways Africa can influence design

Design News • 1 Jul 16

A core theme of the What Design Can Do conference explores what Africa can do for Europe. These are the experts called upon for answers. >
Furniture design spun from solid yarn

Product Spotlight • 4 Jul 16

Bobbin is a range of furniture recognised for its innovative and award-winning textile technique. >
A medical icon kit for low literacy communities

Next Generation • 4 Jul 16

Graphic design student Jonathan Stannard has won an RSA Design Award for his medical symbol kit to help people in low literacy areas understand their medicines. >
American inventor uses 200-year-old technology to create a cutting-edge engine

Design News • 4 Jul 16

By coupling one of NASA’s Stirling engines with electric hybrid technology, Josh MacDowell manages to drive a 100 kilometres on less than three litres of petrol >
WDCD 2016: Here’s what you missed

Design News • 4 Jul 16

The What Design Can Do conference is an annual display of design innovation. Here’s what you missed from its 2016 iteration. >
What Design Can Do unveils Refugee Challenge winners

Design News • 4 Jul 16

Alongside a conference on design and innovation, What Design Can Do hosted the refugee challenge to address one of the major issues of our time. >
Photobook captures an orphaned elephant’s journey back to the wild

Design News • 5 Jul 16

In a series of black and white photographs, this photo book takes a stand against poaching in Zambia. >
New smart material reacts to light, heals itself and remembers its shape

Design Frontiers • 5 Jul 16

Researchers at WSU have for the first time developed a smart material with more than one function. >
Public art melts away in political protest

Design News • 5 Jul 16

Created by American design duo LigoranoReese, these ice sculptures show the disintegration of the American Dream. >
Producer Ibaaku on the avant-garde in Senegal

Design News • 6 Jul 16

Alien Cartoon marked the birth of a new wave of music in Senegal. Its creator Ibaaku tells us about what inspired the album. >
Amahlé’s Ndebele inspired jewellery for a European market

Product Spotlight • 6 Jul 16

The Africa-inspired jewellery is designed to be sophisticated, yet durable enough for everyday use. >
Photographer chronicles the people of Cape Town’s bustling public transport system

Design News • 6 Jul 16

Photographer Mads Norgaard spent seven years photographing the people that make up the fringes of Cape Town. >
Portraiture encourages pride in a marginalised Bangladeshi community

Design News • 7 Jul 16

Photographer Samsul Alam Helal’s portraits depict Bangladesh’s oppressed Dalit community. >
Addressing packaging waste one pizza box at a time

Design News • 7 Jul 16

GreenBox is a reconfigurable pizza box designed for multiple use >
Home-grown sanitary pads help treat infections

Design News • 7 Jul 16

Growing healthy bacteria in agar jelly, the pads are placed in front of the vagina to balance pH-levels. >
SunFire: A 3-part solution for solar cooking

Design News • 7 Jul 16

SA based company’s parabolic solar kits offer a sustainable cooking solution in rural or hard to reach areas of Africa. >
Sohofama: Farm to table in Hong Kong

Design News • 7 Jul 16

At Sohofama restaurant urban farming meets Chinese comfort cuisine with a menu inspired by Chinese doctors and farmers. >
Design graduate shares her artful take on wood joinery using plastic bottles

Design News • 8 Jul 16

Royal College of Art student Micaella Pedros unveils a resourceful technique of making furniture >
Floris Kaayk: The Modular Body merges fact and fiction

Design Frontiers • 8 Jul 16

Filmmaker Floris Kaayk toys with the public’s willingness to believe in the extraordinary. >
Cozmo, the unpredictable robotic companion

Design News • 8 Jul 16

Tech innovation company Anki have designed a tiny robotic companion like no other. >
Interaction is more important than expensive tech, says experience designer Marcus Lyall

Design News • 11 Jul 16

Marcus Lyall is behind some of the most spectacular shows of our time. >

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