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Dutch designer uses discarded wax-prints for a purpose other than fashion

Creative Work • 19 Oct 15

Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Simone Post is giving new life to the discarded wax prints from Vlisco by designing a series of interior products. >
Peter Bil'ak: Designing for dance, typefaces and marginalised alphabets

Interviews • Duration: 00:06:09 • 19 Oct 15

Netherlands-based designer, Peter Bil'ak feeds his multi-disciplinary appetite for design by looking beyond the surface of things. >
Tanzanian parents can now register their child’s birth via SMS

Creative Work • 19 Oct 15

To remedy one of the lowest birth registration rates in Eastern Africa, the Tanzanian government has made it possible to register a child’s birth via SMS. >
The Break Poverty Hackathon promotes mobile technology as a vehicle for social change

Creative Work • 16 Oct 15

Developers across the world will compete to build mobile apps that address education, business and farming issues in rural Kenya. >
OpenBionics is at the forefront of bionic prosthetics

Creative Work • 16 Oct 15

Racking up prizes such as the prestigious UK James Dyson Award, the team at OpenBionics is paving the way for bionic technology. >
This talking robot could be the future of smartphones

Creative Work • 16 Oct 15

Japanese tech company Sharp have designed a 19 centimetre talking, dancing, waving smartphone-robot. >
Pierre de Vallombreuse photographs societies where the women are in charge

Creative Work • 16 Oct 15

French photographer Pierre de Vallombreuse's images of matriarchal and egalitarian cultures presents another side of gender equality discourse. >
ColaLife uses Coca-Cola to send anti-diarrhoea kits to remote areas

Creative Work • 16 Oct 15

Non-profit sends life-saving treatments to remote areas of Zambia using Coca-Cola distribution techniques. >
A stop-motion film made from 28 000 Moon Landing photos

Creative Work • 16 Oct 15

The 28 000 images in the Project Apollo Archive caused a stir when they were released. Now, you can watch the best of them in this charming stop-motion film. >
Classic tarot cards get a photographic reinterpretation with a touch of Haitian ghetto

Creative Work • 16 Oct 15

“Ghetto Tarot”, the classic tarot card reinvented, is a collection of striking portraits by Haitian artists and photographer Alice Smeets. >
South African designer Haldane Martin launches new furniture range

Creative Work • 16 Oct 15

Established South African furniture and interior designer Haldane Martin launches a new range inspired by his country's coastline. >
Julien Vallée: Art in motion (Part 2)

Interviews • Duration: 00:06:01 • 15 Oct 15

The cofounder of animation studio Vallée Duhamel talks us through a surreal personal project about a girl dressed in yellow. >
Julien Vallée: Art in motion (Part 1)

Interviews • Duration: 00:04:58 • 15 Oct 15

Canadian graphic designer and art director Julien Vallée is known for creating lo-fi, humorous animations. >
This artist makes all things fair in love and wear

Creative Work • 15 Oct 15

Kansas City artist Peregrine Honig’s new, elegant lingerie line is designed for the comfort of gender transitioning and non-conforming people. >
Thinking about food

Creative Work • 15 Oct 15

This year, the annual food and wine conference at Spier Wine Farm looks at eating insects, sustainable suppers and how music effects your tastebuds. >
Projects of Imagination creates a theatre of gastronomy for Melbourne’s foodie scene

Point of View • 15 Oct 15

Nick Cox and Dion Hall unpack the details of designing spaces for the restaurant industry. >
Pollution-free energy could come from the Earth's core

Creative Work • 15 Oct 15

Manoj Bhargava's Limitless Energy project seeks to harness the energy at the Earth's core using a graphene cable. >
Craftsmen in Malawi make equipment for their hospitals

Creative Work • 15 Oct 15

The Care Collection is a low-cost hospital equipment alternative manufactured by Malawian craftsmen. >
Selldorf Architects has been chosen to design a non-profit's second school in Zambia

Creative Work • 15 Oct 15

The New York-based architecture firm envisions a primary school that will inspire learning and sustainable living in the Zambian village of Mwabwindo. >
Graphic artist G&Sans starts every piece with a pencil

Creative Work • 14 Oct 15

Illustrator Girolamo Giannatempo, known as G&Sans, explores the irrational world with his bright, blob-like, humanoids. >
The KNIT by Curver collection celebrates functional, colourful deep-texture design

Creative Work • 14 Oct 15

The KNIT by Curver collection combines a 3D-knitted look with functional, plastic products. >
Young Zambian fashion designers: a creative time bomb

Point of View • 14 Oct 15

Zambia has an exciting young fashion scene, even though there are no fashion design schools in the country. Zambian art writer Andrew Mulenga reflects. >
Spring-loaded high heels produce fluid, healthy movement

Creative Work • 14 Oct 15

A Japanese designer has created a spring-loaded high-heel to take the pressure off poorly treated feet. >
Dutch student designs a mobile system to encourage recycling in Nepal

Creative Work • 14 Oct 15

Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Pim van Baarsen designed “Holy Crap” – a Nepal-based incentive scheme to promote waste separation, awareness and recycling. >

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