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Design Commons is a new kind of bespoke, global, portable conference
Design News
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27 Jun 17
The deconstructed conference where design is the tool with which to face the challenges in our cities.
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Bare Technology uses E-waste to make accessible computers for the elderly
Design News
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26 Jun 17
The award-winning product was designed by two students with no design background
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Dough Universe: the children’s toy range inspiring future inventors
Design Frontiers
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26 Jun 17
Technology Will Save Us launches three new Electro Dough inspired activities.
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Ilya Kalimulin's Unexpected Products are a quirky jab at brands we love
Design News
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23 Jun 17
What would an air horn made by Pampers look like? How about bullet casings made by M&M?
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The way you draw a circle depends on where you’re from
Design News
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23 Jun 17
This study analysed 100 000 circles to determine what their creators have in common.
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Inside designer Margot Molyneux’s mixed use boutique
Design News
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23 Jun 17
The art-deco inspired store is where you can buy clothes, attend a clothing workshop as well as go for a gin tasting.
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A satirical look at life through the eyes of Al Margen
Design News
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22 Jun 17
This artist holds a mirror up to society to reveal the dark side of our habits.
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Students create furniture for people living with Alzheimer’s
Next Generation
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22 Jun 17
The collection, Design for the Mind, was created with help from medical and social experts.
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40 South African designers exhibit their goods in Paris
Design News
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21 Jun 17
The Le BHV/ Marais department store is located in an area which attracts around 60 000 visitors daily.
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This futuristic cultural centre is inspired by the sea
Design Frontiers
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21 Jun 17
Vincent Callebaut Architects’ latest conceptual project draws inspiration from the manta ray to make a floating cultural hub in Seoul.
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Peru seaside home in the running for leading architectural prize
Design News
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21 Jun 17
Ancon House is located on a rocky-mountainside and is built to blend in with the landscape
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A look inside Bright Creative Space in Cape Town
Design News
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20 Jun 17
This collaborative studio plays host to weekly drawing sessions and freelance artists from around the globe.
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Indie band, The XX, take you behind the scenes with new limited-edition photo book
Design News
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20 Jun 17
Shot by photographer Alasdair McLellan, the photo book will only have one print run of 1000 copies.
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Introducing MobyMart, the autonomous grocery store on wheels
Design Frontiers
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19 Jun 17
“It is the store that comes to you, instead of you coming to the store.”
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Is this the world’s cheapest solar lamp?
Design News
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16 Jun 17
UK firm designs cheap solar lamp for clean, reliable lighting.
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Dutch designers use human waste to make electricity
Design News
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15 Jun 17
The Compost Kliko Toilet could lead to people getting away from flushing potential down the toilet
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15 Southern African artists tell us what it's like to be Young Now
Design News
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15 Jun 17
Johannesburg’s Hazard Gallery is hosting a number of prolific, young African artists in their latest exhibition.
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Self-financing modular homes for the rural poor
Design News
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14 Jun 17
Globally, access to adequate housing remains a huge problem that governments battle to solve, billionBricks provides a self-financing solution
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Pichulik looks to Japan for inspiration behind her latest range
Design News
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14 Jun 17
Flower arrangements created in the Japanese art of Ikebana make striking combo next to her latest range
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An art invention to encourage more silence in our cities
Design Frontiers
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13 Jun 17
The Silent Room invites people to come in, for up to 30 minutes and “not perform or achieve anything, but just to be”.
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Photographer Imraan Christian teams up with Faith XLVII
Design News
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12 Jun 17
South African artists Imraan Christian and Faith XLVII deconstruct a pivotal moment in the country’s 2015 student uprising.
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From harvesting fungi from the body to hormone infused cocktails, are these the products of the future?
Design Frontiers
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12 Jun 17
Beirut Design Week's Speculative Needs exhibition is not as far-fetched as one might think.
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Anti-Trump patrons put their money where their politics are
Design News
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9 Jun 17
This New York bar donates 100 per cent of their profit to causes that are fighting Trump
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This web-series tackles social justice through the eyes of a 9-year old girl
Design News
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9 Jun 17
Little Apple takes on racism, sexism and gentrification in this sci-fi drama.
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LocoL provides community support through food
Design News
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8 Jun 17
Roy Choi’s revolutionary fast food joint is changing what it means to be a great restaurant.
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Make Care products give teens with butterfly skin back their independence
Design News
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8 Jun 17
The project won Best of the Best at the Chile Design, 2017 Design Biennial.
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A look inside the new island museum in Abu Dhabi
Design News
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6 Jun 17
Louvre Abu Dhabi combines breathtaking architecture that is at once futuristic yet informed by ancient Arabian practices.
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Haunting black and white images capture forced removals in Johannesburg
Design News
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6 Jun 17
Behind urban renewal is often the untold stories of poor families who are put out with nowhere else to go.
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Atang Tshikare collaborated with Lesotho weavers to revive an old tradition
Design News
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6 Jun 17
Multidisciplinary artist and designer Atang Tshikare has gone from murals to furniture to exploring African mythology through weaving
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Is wearing jeans bad for the environment?
Design News
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5 Jun 17
According to researchers, the answer is a bit more complicated than that
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