2016 Archive

The Honey just doesn’t quit

Design News • 5 Dec 16

Photographer Kgomotso Neto Tleane and art director Rendani Nemakhavhani celebrate one year as an iconic creative duo. >
A Microsoft app to help the colour blind better see their world

Design News • 5 Dec 16

‘Colour Binoculars’ makes life simpler for those with the condition to distinguish between colours. >
Charging up developing nations with solar energy

Design News • 2 Dec 16

Morocco, Singapore & India are investing heavily in the abundant power of the sun. >
Karboxx: Playing with shadows and light

Design News • 2 Dec 16

Combining cutting-edge technologies with unconventional materials. >
Poo power

Design News • 2 Dec 16

Why waste shouldn't go to waste >
Kalahari Bushmen: Photographs that celebrate culture

Design News • 1 Dec 16

Photographer Chanel Sophia Oosthuizen presents a series of images that capture the profoundly peaceful life of the Kalahari bushmen. >
Smart street furniture for a safer city

Design Frontiers • 1 Dec 16

Combatting air and noise pollution with Simply Grid. >
Vincent Callebaut’s eco-skyscraper takes shape in Taipei

Design Frontiers • 1 Dec 16

The green building imitates the processes of natural ecosystems. >
Redefining solar power from architectural eyesore to civic monument

Design News • 1 Dec 16

Frederik Deschuytter questions: Why would we install solar power tech in remote places when the sun also shines in the city? >
Moving from health care to self-care

Design News • 30 Nov 16

Cubigo is leading the transformation of care when it comes to the ageing, one of the most vulnerable communities. >
Bridging the gaps between human & machine

Design Frontiers • 30 Nov 16

The division between tech & biology seems more blurred now than ever before. How will this intensifying trend evolve? >
Artist interprets movement disorder into striking, intricate headpieces

Design News • 30 Nov 16

Tiago Valente’s ‘Dystonia’ converts pain into beauty. >
Student gives the traditional white cane a modern update

Design News • 30 Nov 16

mySmartCane could provide a better quality of life for the blind. >
Hurricane Season by Hannah Modigh

Design News • 29 Nov 16

The award-winning photographer captures the tension of living between disasters. >
What will the cities of the future look like?

Design News • 29 Nov 16

Hint: They’re green. >
These mirrored placards give peaceful protesters a means of protection

Design Frontiers • 29 Nov 16

Nikolas Bentel’s reflective protest signs for the Dakota Access Pipeline protesters. >
Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter

Design News • 29 Nov 16

New MOMA exhibition investigates the design & infrastructure of modern refugee camps. >
Photographer captures the vulnerability in nature as it intersects with science

Design News • 28 Nov 16

Ornithological Photographs explores our need to know, name and quantify diversity. >
Naked, defenseless & without glory

Design News • 28 Nov 16

Sam Jinks’ hyper-real sculptures depict an unsettling human vulnerability. >
Singapore’s self-driving scooter

Design News • 28 Nov 16

A driverless scooter could be the next step in autonomous transportation. >
Me, Myself and You is a board game to help Autistic adults make friends

Design Frontiers • 28 Nov 16

The multiplayer board game designed to facilitate social connections between those on the spectrum. >
Intimate Strangers: We The People

Next Generation • 25 Nov 16

In Part 4 of her series Intimate Strangers, Puleng Mongale captures another pair of lookalikes and sets the images to the lyrics of A Tribe Called Quest. >
Innovative capsule achieves long-term drug delivery

Design Frontiers • 25 Nov 16

This drug capsule offers an alternative to daily doses of medication >
New stick on patch uses sweat to monitor your health

Design Frontiers • 25 Nov 16

The soft, flexible skin patch that can inspect your perspiration while you work out. >

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