October 2016 Archive

South African artists Kwesta and Ross “Dabone” McDonald capture the sound of Jozi

Design News • 24 Oct 16

In a world-first, these South African creatives teamed up to create a song and music video in the new Volkswagen Polo Beats. >
The ‘dirty’ way Toyota is creating cleaner fuel

Design Frontiers • 24 Oct 16

Would you drive a car powered by poo? >
Decorative discouragement: The dirty tricks in architecture

Design News • 24 Oct 16

Take a look at a few sly design choices that benefit some & prohibit others. >
Hilary Cottam: Fixing social services through design

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:01:48 • 21 Oct 16

Hilary Cottam, a social entrepreneur and "accidental designer" from the UK, talks about how design and technology can be used to fix serious social problems. >
Redesigning the British Welfare State with Hilary Cottam

Talks • Duration: 00:32:18 • 21 Oct 16

British social entrepreneur Hilary Cottam is working to innovate and update the Welfare State. >
A non-mechanical water device designed for rural South Africa

Design News • 21 Oct 16

This 2016 design graduate designed a non-mechanical solution to hand washing in rural South Africa and is exhibiting it as part of the Dubai Global Grad Show. >
New clothes using old materials

Design News • 21 Oct 16

Discarded clothes should occupy your wardrobe instead of a landfill. >
Disrupting expensive city housing with Big World Homes

Design Frontiers • 21 Oct 16

Affordable, flat-packed homes that rethink the way people live. >
Speeding up physiotherapy with soft robotics

Design Frontiers • 21 Oct 16

A Swiss lab develops robotic exoskeleton tech for good. >
Design Indaba founder shares a new way of thinking

Festival News • 20 Oct 16

Ravi Naidoo sits down with Wanted Magazine and tells why, to differentiate, we must be led by design. >
The ‘glow-in-the-dark’, energy-efficient cycle lane

Design Frontiers • 20 Oct 16

This unique solar-powered bicycle path is guiding Poland’s nighttime cyclists. >
Chat with Trevor Stuurman

Video Interviews • 20 Oct 16

Take control of an interview with South African photographer, blogger and stylist Trevor Stuurman. >
Digitise your water supply

Design News • 20 Oct 16

Tanzania’s WaterTek aims to provide transparency and efficiency in rural areas. >
Ivorian “photo-maker” Paul Sika is turning his creative energy to the world of games

African Report • 20 Oct 16

Photography can no longer contain the whole of Paul Sika’s vision, instead he is choosing to tell his next story in a digital, transmedia fashion. >
Student invents ambulance drone for speedy medical assistance

Next Generation • 20 Oct 16

This engineering graduate is using drone tech as a force for good. >
Open source wheelchair for developing countries

Design Frontiers • 19 Oct 16

The SafariSeat by Kenya-based design team Uji is an open-source wheelchair specially tailored to the needs of people living in rural communities. >
Burkina Faso’s new parliamentary building celebrates the revolution

Design News • 19 Oct 16

Design Indaba alumnus Francis Kéré unveils the design for Burkina Faso’s new National Assembly. >
3D-bioprinted breast duct could minimise breast-cancer treatment

Design News • 19 Oct 16

Modern 3D-printing tech allows scientists to reconsider how they treat cancer. >
WaterSeer: Turning air into drinkable water

Design News • 19 Oct 16

This device claims to accelerate the production of pure drinking water. >
The stories clothes can tell

Design News • 19 Oct 16

Shwe – The Wearable Library makes it their mission to bring to life the invisible stories behind the garments we wear. >
Intimate Strangers: Izinja zempilo

Next Generation • 18 Oct 16

The third part of Intimate Strangers by South African Puleng Mogale is about brotherhood and friendship. Ride or die, friends to the end. >
Black Black Metal: The new wave of South African rock music

Design News • 18 Oct 16

This is South Africa’s burgeoning punk and metal scene in the heart of Soweto. >
The Readi box provides communication in catastrophic situations

Next Generation • 18 Oct 16

Should all else fail, this speaker unit helps you to keep in touch during a disaster. >
Senegalese sneakers by Nio Far

Product Spotlight • 18 Oct 16

Nnema, which means comfort, is the latest collection by Senegalese shoe brand Nio Far by Milcos. >

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