Articles

Green Product: The Ragbag is made of old tea bags and recycled plastic

Product Spotlight • 30 Mar 16

Ragbag accessories and bags are sustainably and ethically made by women in India from old tea bags and recycled plastic bags. >
Algae-based water bottle decomposes when empty

Design News • 30 Mar 16

Product design student comes up with a 100 per cent natural alternative to the plastic water bottle. >
Collecting desalinated water through fog

Design Frontiers • 30 Mar 16

Fog harvesting is a sustainable way to harvest clean water in areas with regular mist. >
Sweet Kills: A designer’s impression of the dangers of diabetes

Design News • 30 Mar 16

Nattakong Jaengsem’s Sweet Kills campaign takes a gory look at the dangers of sweet treats. >
New, innovative material inspired by ancient design

Design Frontiers • 30 Mar 16

The designs found in Iran’s Kharraqan towers became the unlikely inspiration for an advancement in metamaterials. >
Immersive 360-degree world drawn with a permanent marker

Design News • 29 Mar 16

Accomplished artist Oscar Oiwa exhibits “Oiwa Island 2” at the Setouchi Triennale art festival. >
FlipFlic controls your blinds for you

Design Frontiers • 29 Mar 16

An automated blind controller equipped with light sensors and thermometers controls your blinds for you. >
Power plant makes electricity out of cheese

Design News • 29 Mar 16

Renewable energy group Valbio built a power plant that generates clean energy from a byproduct of cheese production. >
Plantable pencils challenge use-and-chuck-away culture

Design News • 29 Mar 16

The Sprout pencil grows into a plant if you place it in a pot. >
A squid bacteria lighting solution

Design Frontiers • 29 Mar 16

The nocturnal Hawaiian bobtail squid uses bacteria to help it see in the dark and so can we. >
Buy one give one: A blanket drive from Cape Town

Design Frontiers • 28 Mar 16

Umbala blankets are designed and locally manufactured by a studio that donate a blanket to a baby in need for every blanket they sell. >
3D-printed vase collection upcycles plastic bottles

Design Frontiers • 28 Mar 16

DesignLibero’s 3D-printed vase collection brings beauty to the practice of upcycling. >
Pedestrian and bicycle tunnel opens underneath Amsterdam Central station

Design Frontiers • 25 Mar 16

A beautiful and advanced tunnel for cyclists and pedestrians has opened underneath Amsterdam. >
Osborne Macharia on how storytelling can change perceptions

Inside View • 24 Mar 16

The Kenyan photographer touches on the power of narrative photography with his series “Melanin-0”. >
Blurring the lines between art, architecture and design

Design Frontiers • 24 Mar 16

A design studio in Italy known for their anamorphic art have painted shape changing mural. >
Cape Town set to build its first blind-friendly outdoor park

Design News • 24 Mar 16

A park specially designed to accommodate those with impaired vision - the first of its kind in Cape Town. >
“Kenya’s League of Extravagant Grannies”

Design News • 23 Mar 16

Osborne Macharia’s latest photographic narrative tells the tale of three retired ministers jet-setting around Africa. >
Bel & Bel are the leaders in supra-cycling

Design Frontiers • 23 Mar 16

Spanish design studio Bel&Bel save objects from falling into disuse by redesigning their purpose. >
Bangladesh-based start-up boasts zero-waste fashion

Design News • 23 Mar 16

Upcycling, recycling and reinvestment are the principles of this eco-friendly fashion brand. >
Fontus self-filling water bottles

Design News • 22 Mar 16

Water bottles designed to harvest water from the air using an internal condensation system. >
Nature already has a solution to water contamination

Design News • 22 Mar 16

Researchers look into an ancient Native American method of purifying water with cactus goo. >
Portable water purification for developing nations

Design Frontiers • 22 Mar 16

LifeStraw is a portable and affordable water purification tool for people in developing countries. >
WaterWheel: A rolling solution in rural India

Design News • 22 Mar 16

Wello Water’s WaterWheel lifts the physical burden of water collection in rural India. >
A faster, cheaper way to filter water using graphene

Design Frontiers • 22 Mar 16

Scientists have created a graphene-based water filter that could be a solution to the water crisis. >
CrowdVoice: An archive of social unrest from around the world

Design News • 21 Mar 16

Esra’a Al Shafei’s online platform curates user-generated content from protests around the world. >
Virtual reality used for drug rehabilitation

Design News • 21 Mar 16

Programme at the University of Houston treats drug and alcohol addiction with immersive VR scenarios. >
Doctors Without Borders trials 3D printing and VR technology to design field hospitals

Design News • 18 Mar 16

Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) are trialling the use of virtual reality and 3D printing in the design process of their field hospitals. >
Electric-assisted handcycle prototype proposed as low-cost wheelchair in Bangladesh

Design News • 18 Mar 16

Researchers design a solar-powered vehicle as a possible upgrade of the widespread manual wheelchair. >
Turning cemeteries into forests

Design Frontiers • 18 Mar 16

The new Bios Urn and tree incubator has created a way to commemorate the dead by planting a tree. >
The "A" speaker: A solution to noise pollution

Design News • 17 Mar 16

The "A" speaker is like listening to headphones without the headphones. >

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