September 2016 Archive

Design Indaba announces Senegalese fashion designer Selly Raby Kane as creative director

Festival News • 7 Sep 16

For the first time in the event’s 21-year history, the 2017 Design Indaba Festival is taking on an external creative director in the form of Selly Raby Kane. >
The Hashima Island series memorialises South Korea’s forced labourers

Design News • 7 Sep 16

The award-winning series is a sensitive take on a the Hashima Island’s dark history. >
Cairo’s future Science City: Weston Williamson & Partners win design bid

Design News • 8 Sep 16

This London-based architecture firm has won the opportunity to design Egypt’s science hub. >
Diasporadical Trilogia: Celebrating the beauty of African spirituality

Design News • 8 Sep 16

Ghanaian-American rapper and filmmaker Blitz the Ambassador celebrates the beauty and power of traditional African spiritual beliefs. >
BoneAid: An innovative approach to healing bone fractures

Next Generation • 8 Sep 16

These Taiwanese students have designed an adaptable splint to aid in medical care during disaster relief efforts. >
Reverse-design with quirky illustrator Domenic Bahmann

Design News • 8 Sep 16

From an office marker-turned-swan, to a fire truck putting out burnt toast, these illustrations celebrate the quirky side of design. >
DJ Steloo on creating an electronic music scene in Accra

African Report • Duration: 00:03:50 • 8 Sep 16

"I decided to take the responsibility to create a scene and to inspire people to the genre of electronic music." >
The Skate Girls of Kabul

Design News • 8 Sep 16

This photo series by Jessica Fulford-Dobson portrays “Skateistan”, the skateboarding initiative for Afghan youths. >
Replantable: The start-up striving to make an urban farmer out of anyone

Design Frontiers • 9 Sep 16

See the novel solution to maintaining fresh produce without garden space. >
Keep your glasses in place with Nerdwax

Product Spotlight • 9 Sep 16

This Tennessee startup is making slippery spectacle frames a thing of the past. >
The enigmatic EmDrive rises through scientific ranks

Design Frontiers • 9 Sep 16

The 2000 brainchild of Roger Shawyer gains research momentum as a viable space engine. >
Tina Ngxokolo’s fashion education

Design News • 9 Sep 16

2014 emerging creative Tina Ngxokolo educates the world about her culture through her clothing and jewellery designs. >
Lava Lab on the millennial renaissance

Talks • Duration: 00:32:57 • 9 Sep 16

Members of Amsterdam-based studio Lava Lab, Cecilia Martin and Klasien van de Zandschulp are risk takers with a deliberately disruptive approach to work. >
The Proximity Care button brings easy-living to dementia patients

Product Spotlight • 12 Sep 16

Mettle Studio’s small new device helps dementia sufferers and their guardians. >
IZ Collection: Stylish attire for the mobility impaired

Design News • 12 Sep 16

See the adaptable fashion range designed specifically for wheelchair users. >
The Linx helmet: Safer, earphone-less music for cyclists

Product Spotlight • 12 Sep 16

The flagship product of Coros lets you listen to music without covering your ears. >
Reform: From trash to furniture in Cairo

Design News • 12 Sep 16

We talk to Reform Studio, a Cairo-based design studio that turns old plastic bags into furniture by creating an eco-friendly material called Plastex. >
Rebirth Garments: Fashion for all bodies and abilities

Design News • 12 Sep 16

These garments are non-conforming and accessible to people of any gender, size and ability. >
British student designs vaccine transportation kit that could save millions

Next Generation • 13 Sep 16

Introducing the Isobar, an ammonia absorption-based refrigerator for vaccines. >
Conceptual cookbook is an imagined recipe for Hong Kong

Design News • 13 Sep 16

Para Site brings together Hong Kong’s native creatives to design a conceptual recipe for China’s vibrant city. >
Painting the world with Ndebele art patterns

Design News • 13 Sep 16

World-renowned Ndebele artist and educator Esther Mahlangu releases her second one-of-a-kind Ndebele-inspired design for BMW. >
My Africa Is: A documentary project that celebrates pop culture in Africa

Inside View • 13 Sep 16

Filmmaker Nosarieme Garrick discusses the making of her new documentary "Alternative Nairobi" with Nataal. >
The Other Side of Palestine by Brian Megens

Design News • 14 Sep 16

This photography series aims to present a different picture of life in the West Bank. >
Small tech powers wearables with body heat

Design News • 14 Sep 16

This new device created by researchers at North Carolina State University is a step toward ditching batteries forever. >

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