2018 Archive

Photographer Benjamin Von Wong sheds light on E-waste in latest collection

Design News • 15 Mar 18

What happens to all our electronics after we’re done with them? >
Graduates in Chile transform abandoned urban lots into community spaces

Design News • 15 Mar 18

Sitio Eriazo, a collective of theatre, architecture and art graduates are on a mission to restore beauty to these spaces. >
Meet the future of South African fashion

Design News • 16 Mar 18

These are the young creatives in the fashion industry who formed part of our Emerging Creatives programme for 2018. >
Experimental food design studio introduces 3D-printed sushi

Design Frontiers • 16 Mar 18

Open Meals imagines a future of generating, combining and printing food from anywhere in the world. >
IBUKU is pioneering the use of bamboo as a sustainable building material

Design News • 16 Mar 18

“Bamboo buildings are like a living organism, every bamboo pole represents the ‘DNA’ of the building." >
Dina Amin on stop animation, upcycling in Cairo and her inspiration

Design News • 16 Mar 18

“I kept thinking, questioning whether we actually need all the things that we produce..." >
Young scientist develops possible solution for shack fires

Design Frontiers • 16 Mar 18

Gabriella Mogale’s innovation won gold at the 2017 Eskom Expo for Young Scientists. >
Nüshu is an ancient secret language developed by women

Design News • 16 Mar 18

These women would embroid their Nüshu scripts on fabrics such as quilts, aprons, and handkerchiefs. >
What if you could 3D print your own home in a matter of hours?

Design Frontiers • 19 Mar 18

The ICON project’s Vulcan printer creates concrete homes in record time. >
LEGO is rolling out its first plant-based plastic blocks

Design News • 19 Mar 18

The popular toy brand is making vast strides towards a more sustainable future. >
On transforming diarrhoea treatment in Zambia with a simple solution

Design News • 19 Mar 18

The award-winning innovator, Simon Berry says he hopes in the next ten years there won’t be a need for ColaLife to exist. >
Journalists are fighting censorship using streaming sites like Spotify and Deezer

Design News • 19 Mar 18

The Uncensored Playlist uses a streaming loophole to get censored news to the public in repressed countries. >
Swedish clinic designed with the country's refugee population in mind

Design Frontiers • 19 Mar 18

Rejecting the traditional strict clean lines typical of medical centers, the design team explored the concept of a bright facade with an unusual 3D effect. >
These contact lenses deliver medicine straight to your eye

Design Frontiers • 20 Mar 18

The lenses can deliver drugs to the back of the eye to treat macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, retinal vein occlusion, and other diseases. >
Stone Wool is an eco-friendly way to control the temperature in our homes

Design News • 20 Mar 18

Engineers have identified this material as a better way to build and protect our homes and spaces. >
A wound-healing gel inspired by slugs

Design News • 20 Mar 18

Where sutures and stitches fail, doctors are turning to the restorative slime of gastropods. >
Mozambican photographer Mario Macilau on documenting the lives of society's most vulnerable

Design News • 20 Mar 18

"My work is also a personal documentary. I prefer long-term projects that require commitment and trust." >
14 graphic designers to watch

Design News • 21 Mar 18

These up and coming visual artist showed us a sneak peak into the future of graphic design in South Africa. >
The Calmingstone counters panic attacks and stress

Product Spotlight • 21 Mar 18

This hand-held design emits soothing signals that target anxiety, bringing you back to a state of zen. >
Cape Town entrepreneur is designing a new language around menstruation

Design News • 22 Mar 18

Entrepreneur Zizipho Ntobongwana challenges everything from the packaging to ads to sustainability. >
Could these be the fast food favourites of the future?

Design Frontiers • 22 Mar 18

Food lab Space10 reinvents 5 classic dishes using alternative, sustainable ingredients. >
Hayoung Kim’s lamps draw inspiration from handheld fans

Design Frontiers • 22 Mar 18

As a user moves them, much in the same way one would fold and unfold a handheld fan, the light dims. >
Blinky Bill on why he does not want to be restricted to a particular music genre

Design News • 22 Mar 18

“I want to make genreless sound – but if you absolutely have to place it, it is a mix of hip-hop, afrobeat and jazz.” >
Could wastewater biorefinery help in the Cape Town water crisis?

Design News • 22 Mar 18

As we observe World Water Day, Cape Town's management of a severe drought is an example of what's to come. >

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