August 2016 Archive

Intuitive wardrobe donates unworn clothes to charities

Design News • 17 Aug 16

The Internet of Clothes is a creative concept that tackles the over consumption of fashion. >
Photographer Ofoe Amegavie captures the beauty of Ghana’s iconic festivals

Design News • 17 Aug 16

Photographer Ofoe Amegavie tells the vivid stories of Ghana’s traditional festivals in an ongoing series. >
Blubel: The intelligent bicycle bell

Product Spotlight • Duration: 3:29 • 17 Aug 16

Blubel Tech’s new device for cyclists offers far more than the chime of a bell. >
The creative collective disrupting SA's National Arts Festival

Design News • 18 Aug 16

The 10 Day Men are shaking things up in Grahamstown. >
Students create seaweed-based yarn to tackle fashion industry pollution

Design News • 18 Aug 16

BioEsters is a bio-based material that presents a sustainable yarn alternative for designers. >
Saving the planet with art supplies

Design News • 18 Aug 16

The startup turning air pollution into ink. >
Project Florence: Opening communication with plant life

Design Frontiers • Duration: 2:21 • 18 Aug 16

Helene Steiner works to expand communication with plants. The resulting dialogue is bizarre and intriguing. >
Tiny device uses sunlight to disinfect water

Design News • 18 Aug 16

Researchers at Stanford University created a tiny device that purifies water in minutes. >
Boombox champions nomadic retail spaces

Design News • 19 Aug 16

A startup platform that gives emerging businesses access to a public market. >
No Man’s Sky: The videogame that conceives galaxies

Design Frontiers • Duration: 5:53 • 19 Aug 16

The 2016 offering of Hello Games is pushing the possibilities of open-world gameplay to new stratospheres. >
Interior designer Seugnet Herbst challenges the ordinary

Design News • 19 Aug 16

2016 Emerging Creative Seugnet Herbst challenges ordinary aspects of interior design. >
Mapping poverty: getting relief to developing areas

Design News • 22 Aug 16

These researchers are using mapping technology to find the world’s poorest areas. >
Shoey Shoes made entirely from waste materials

Design News • 22 Aug 16

Student looks into using material offcuts to create a sustainable range of children’s shoes. >
Buhle Ngaba’s The Girl Without A Sound

Design Frontiers • 22 Aug 16

Meet the young actress encouraging little girls to own their voice. >
BuggyAir: A mobile air pollution tracker

Design News • 22 Aug 16

This air pollution testing kit helps parents make informed decisions about the type of environments they expose their children to. >
TrackR Bravo: Making lost items a thing of the past

Product Spotlight • Duration: 1:38 • 22 Aug 16

Chris Herbert and his team at Phone Halo have designed a compact tracker device that can be used for practically anything. >
Catch an autonomous flying drone to work

Design Frontiers • 23 Aug 16

Airbus shares plans to develop autonomous flying vehicles in response to land-based traffic congestion. >
China opens record-breaking transparent bridge

Design News • 23 Aug 16

The Hunan province is now home to the longest and highest glass-bottomed bridge in the world. >
The Jolt Sensor: detecting concussions in young athletes

Design News • 23 Aug 16

This thumb-sized, wearable sensor is making sport safer. >
The Hangman: transcending expectations of the armed struggle

Design News • 23 Aug 16

Directed by SA filmmaker Zwelethu Radebe, “The Hangman” tells the story of a black warder faced with an impossible choice. >
Christi du Toit’s ping-pong approach to illustration

Design News • 24 Aug 16

We spoke to South African illustrator Christi du Toit about honing your craft in a competitive industry. >
A bamboo city built for communal living

Design News • 24 Aug 16

Penda explores the idea of a sustainable urban village made out of bamboo and rope. >
Phlur: The new fragrance brand with socially conscious appeal

Product Spotlight • 24 Aug 16

Eric Korman believes the cologne industry should start taking ethical responsibility. >
Kosovo’s visually arresting road to the Olympics

Design Frontiers • 24 Aug 16

These images capture the Kosovo Olympic team as they prepare to make history. >

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