August 2017 Archive

This electricity generating yarn could change the face of wearable tech

Design Frontiers • 31 Aug 17

The carbon nanotube yarn generates electricity with just a tug. >
Carina Bonse on developing the Swimming In It campaign to new heights

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:02:14 • 30 Aug 17

The Global Grad chatted with us about the challenges of educating the masses about Cape Town’s less than pristine beaches. >
Exposing the fecal danger in our picturesque beaches with Carina Bonse

Talks • Duration: 00:06:37 • 30 Aug 17

“People are concerned about what they put in their bodies, yet don’t know the effect that wastewater can have on their health.” >
The 2017 Beazley Design of the Year finalists include Kanye West, IKEA and architect Sir David Adjaye

Design News • 29 Aug 17

The nominees feature more than 60 projects that span six categories – architecture, digital, fashion, graphics, product and transport. >
The inflatable garden that could sustain life on Mars and beyond

Design Frontiers • 29 Aug 17

This NASA project would see astronauts on a self-sustaining vegetarian diet for longer trips across the cosmos. >
Sir David Adjaye and Tiffany Chu among the nine speakers at the inaugural Design Commons

Design News • 28 Aug 17

The deconstructed conference puts global heavyweights in design at the same table as the audience. >
Convenient household composting with Taihi

Next Generation • 28 Aug 17

If it’s good enough for your body, it’s certainly good enough for your garden. >
The Maitland Institute is changing perspectives on how audiences engage with art

Design News • 25 Aug 17

This Cape Town space is departing from the clinical, one-way-communication aspect of the modern art gallery. >
Empathy and fact in Ekene Ijeoma’s emotive projects

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:02:55 • 25 Aug 17

The US-based interdisciplinary designer’s Refugee Map looks outside the frames of a global crisis. >
On Nathan Reddy, one of the leading design specialists in the ad industry

Design News • 24 Aug 17

The founder of GRID Worldwide Branding and Design, was inducted into the Loeries Creative Hall of Fame. >
Should you be putting your website to bed?

Design News • 24 Aug 17

Sleep debt facts say yes. >
Blinky Bill talks socially conscious music and breaking free of genre constraints

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:03:13 • 23 Aug 17

The former Just a Band frontman gets in depth about the power of music. >
See these custom tributes to the iconic Prince

Design News • 23 Aug 17

The icon’s passing was a shock to many, but at least we’ll be able to replicate his purple hue. >
A return to our primordial roots with Stanislaw Trzebinski

Design News • Duration: 00:02:48 • 23 Aug 17

“In spite of our total reliance on the natural world, we have become almost blind to it,” says the artist. >
Blinky Bill brings African musical expression to the Design Indaba stage

Talks • Duration: 00:18:42 • 23 Aug 17

The Kenyan musician, producer and DJ doesn’t care what African music is ‘supposed’ to sound like. >
Kolor Art Collective’s latest work questions what it means to be ‘normal’

Design Frontiers • 23 Aug 17

Photographed by Pol Kurucz, the brazenly avant-garde series defies conventionalities. >
Furniture designer Stefan Diez on the value of designing process

Talks • Duration: 00:19:53 • 22 Aug 17

The renowned German designer does not shy away from age-old materials and techniques. >
From outmoded storage cylinder to innovative knowledge hub

Design News • 22 Aug 17

This storehouse will be transformed into a dynamic information centre on sustainable energy for the city of Heidelberg. >
Wacom Creatives: Benjamin Von Wong on his brand of visual engineering

Design News • Duration: 4:32 • 22 Aug 17

"If social media didn't exist I probably wouldn't be doing photography," says the photographer. >
Meet Carolyn Davidson, the woman behind the iconic Nike Swoosh

Design Frontiers • 21 Aug 17

The retired graphic designer created the logo while she was still a student at Portland State University. The job earned her $35 back then. >
Testing the bounds of modular home design with DD16

Design News • 21 Aug 17

This architecture prototype caters for intrepid voyagers and nomadic fishermen with utmost economy in its design. >
Stefan Diez on the importance of craftsmanship and pushing boundaries in design

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:02:25 • 21 Aug 17

“Design is always done really outstandingly if it takes little effort to reach very far," says the industrial designer. >
Isabel Mager on how the making of tech devices carry untold human value

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:02:53 • 18 Aug 17

This designer explores design mechanisms broadly and how they affect culture and way of life. >
Exhibiting photography at roadhouses to celebrate this fading social culture

Design Frontiers • 18 Aug 17

Night By Roadhouse brings local and international photography to a wide, non gallery-going audience in Johannesburg. >

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