October 2018 Archive

International Coffee Day: Imagine cities powered by coffee waste

Design News • 1 Oct 18

Bio-bean is an award-winning clean technology company that recycles waste coffee grounds into advanced biofuels that could replace fossil fuels in cities. >
Play Mat connects parents to autistic kids

Design News • 2 Oct 18

The Electronic Play Mat is designed to promote interactive play between autistic children and their parents or caregivers to build communication. >
Senegal’s taxi industry set to gain an eco-conscious option with the Ping! app

Design News • 2 Oct 18

Could the natural evolution of public transport include a fleet of hybrid cars for every city? >
Empathy: a quality that binds design across disciplines

Design News • 5 Oct 18

Here are five more antenna 2018 speakers and a little bit about why we chose them. >
Art collective tells painful stories of the displaced

Design News • 8 Oct 18

Foundland Collective uses research, art and design to track the traumatic stories of people affected by forced migration. >
Five things to know about Ane Crabtree, the latest Design Indaba 2019 speaker

Design News • 10 Oct 18

She’s known as the designer of all of our favourite apocalyptic TV shows like Westworld and The Handmaid’s Tale. >
Tech innovations that make dealing with mental illness a little bit easier

Design News • 11 Oct 18

We take a look at the interesting ways design can assist with some of the symptoms associated with mental illness. >
Three ways designers are preparing for disaster

Design News • 12 Oct 18

These innovations are not only responsive but empathetic, taking a human-centred approach to solutions-based design. >
A menstrual toolkit developed for refugee women

Design News • 13 Oct 18

This toolkit caters to every aspect of the menstrual cycle and it's reusable. >
Indian artist of artefacts Sneha Suresh uses visual communication to transcend text

Design News • 13 Oct 18

The visual artist and printmaker will be exhibiting at the first ever antenna exhibition. Here's what she had to say about her work. >
Low-cost artificial leg for amputees in developing countries

Design News • 16 Oct 18

A prosthetic leg made from recycled plastic is about to change the lives of amputees in developing countries. >
Entries for the 2019 PPC Imaginarium Awards are open!

Design News • 17 Oct 18

The awards are open to artists, designers and architecture students living in South Africa and Zimbabwe. >
Award-winning Brazilian designer to speak on his 30-year journey

Design News • 22 Oct 18

The award-winning designer, Kiko Farkas will speak at the Design Indaba Conference 2019 on his remarkable career. >
Tik-Tik helps make freedom of movement easier for the visually impaired

Design News • 23 Oct 18

The blind designer Simon Dogger who spoke at this year's Design Indaba tells us about his latest project. >
Night Loo offers refugee women a safer toilet option

Design News • 24 Oct 18

Going to the toilet becomes a serious problem for refugee women when they face attack on their way to the bathroom. >
Futurist Alexa Clay on why Silicon Valley should focus on goodness and humanity

Design News • 25 Oct 18

She says there needs to be more to tech than just building another app to get rich. >
Iran's hidden history now told by postage stamps

Design News • 29 Oct 18

Iran had a history before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, and a design student is using stamps to highlight this. >
Where would the South African comedy scene be without Kagiso Lediga?

Design News • 31 Oct 18

The filmmaker, actor and comedian behind some of the country's most loved comedy shows and films will speak at Design Indaba Conference 2019. >

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