2016 Archive

Oneware: The one-hand only kitchenware

Next Generation • 30 Aug 16

Singaporean Industrial Design student creates a range of utensils to aid those with disabilities in the kitchen. >
IDENTITY: The prosthetic replacements for fingerprint authentication

Next Generation • 26 Aug 16

Design student creates rubber fingertips to better protect your privacy. >
Intimate Strangers: When the madam is away, the help will slay

Next Generation • 10 Aug 16

Puleng Mongale's photo series Intimate Strangers will be released in instalments. The first part is a social commentary on labour relationships in South Africa. >
Match your body movements to the sound of your heart

Next Generation • 5 Aug 16

Material Futures graduate Lesley-Ann Daly looks into how wearables and implants can give the user a more visceral connection to their bodies. >
Healing, Movement, Stimulation: Design for phantom pain

Next Generation • 3 Aug 16

Central Saint Martins Material Futures graduate Niloufar Esfandiary has designed rehabilitation tools for post-amputation patients to prevent phantom limb pain. >
The Eco-Grill: A safe, sustainable and portable cooker

Next Generation • 21 Jul 16

Industrial designer Sam Troop has come up with a safe, efficient and sustainable portable cooker, created using circular design principles. >
Laduma Ngxokolo: Design for safer circumcision rituals

Next Generation • 20 Jul 16

Young South African designer Laduma Ngxokolo looks into how you can make Xhosa circumcision rituals safer in his Central Saint Martins graduate project. >
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. >
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. >
Enabled by design: A way finding system that considers the disabled

Next Generation • 30 Jun 16

A More Inclusive Pedestrian Wayfinding System builds on the existing "Legible London" system to create an enhanced and more user-friendly navigation system. >
A new human-centred packaging system for ARV medication in Africa

Next Generation • 29 Jun 16

A new system for the packaging of AIDS-related virus medication in Sub-Saharan Africa thinks more holistically about the user's needs. >
CROSS.CULTURES is an exploration into heritage, personal influences and culture

Next Generation • 23 Jun 16

Despite their highly different cultures, Cebisa Mafukuzela and Georgina Campbell found a way to celebrate their heritage through their project CROSS.CULTURE. >
Twenty-Fifty: A visualisation of the world’s food crisis

Next Generation • 22 Jun 16

Designer Gemma Warriner is trying to make the global food crisis we face in 2050 accessible by representing the data in vegetables. >
Re-thinking South African education

Next Generation • 7 Jun 16

UCT Upstarts invites students to redesign the education system in South Africa. >
Not Yet Decided: A social experiment in superposition

Next Generation • 3 Jun 16

A group of young Lithuanian architects are proposing a social project based on Schrödinger's cat, the thought experiment. >
Welcome Shelter: Charlie Redman’s kinetic dining experience

Next Generation • 1 Jun 16

Architecture student Charlie Redman designed an outdoor structure that functions in any weather. >
New African Photography Exhibition hosted in New York

Next Generation • 10 May 16

African artists and photographers are getting some serious attention and exposure overseas. Here's a look at one current exhibition in New York. >
Helen Borg’s illustrations prove that a little bit of cheek goes a long way

Next Generation • 6 Apr 16

Using a handful of quirk and a pinch of cheek, Helen Borg’s illustrations question and mock the pleasures and emotions surrounding desire in our society. >
A moss wall that creates clean, green energy

Next Generation • 2 Mar 16

Graduate Elena Mitrofanova has designed a modular system that generates electricity from moss. >
Using DIY-biotechnology, Kazuya Kawasaki is changing the fashion of the future

Next Generation • 24 Feb 16

Kazuya Kawasaki is a graduate of Keio University and a bio-activist using speculative design to pursue the possiblities of growing materials for fashion. >
A tool to remotely monitor and support the rehabilitation of mastectomy patients

Next Generation • 17 Feb 16

Pia Nyakairu has developed a wand-like product and app, which allows physiotherapists to monitor the progress of mastectomy patients over a digital platform. >
Dutch students 3D print steel frame for Arc Bicycle

Next Generation • 8 Feb 16

A team of students at the Delft University of Technology have printed the first stainless steel bike using a welding-based 3D-printing technique. >
Young Mexico City architecture practice will knit a neon canopy over the MoMA

Next Generation • 3 Feb 16

Escobedo Solíz Studio, a Mexico City-based studio has won MoMA’s Young Architecture Program with their bid to knit a neon canopy over the museum’s garden. >
South African nuclear physicist designs bag to charge your phone wirelessly

Next Generation • 1 Feb 16

Shalton Mothwa is prototyping Aeon Power, a laptop bag capable of harnessing ambient telecoms signals and converting them into electrical energy. >

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