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Mema Designs: Design should inspire

Interviews • Duration: 00:03:43 • 20 Jul 15

The co-founders of mema designs believe that a thoughtful design process is behind every design that inspires. >
Pack your GPS away and use marbles instead

Creative Work • 20 Jul 15

Design graduate Sara Vrbinc has developed brAInfu.cc, a wayfinding system to rival the GPS. >
This flower takes its own selfies

Creative Work • 20 Jul 15

The Selfie Plant, a project by CIID students, takes photographs of itself and shares them on social media. >
Eduvator is a new crowd-funding platform for educational needs

Creative Work • 20 Jul 15

A new crowd-funding platform is hoping to help a little school in the township of Philippi realise the big dreams of its principal and her pupils. >
Check into the robot-run Weird Hotel

Creative Work • 17 Jul 15

The Henn na Hotel – or Weird Hotel – just opened in Japan. There’s a dinosaur at reception and robots that will carry your bags. >
Kingii is a water-wearable that can save you from drowning

Creative Work • 17 Jul 15

Kingii, a new type of water-safety device for your wrist, doesn't need an app to save your life – it will inflate when you're at risk of drowning. >
A lamp powered by salt water

Creative Work • 17 Jul 15

This salt-water lamp is an alternative source of lighting for communities in the Philippines with no access to electricity. >
Akiko Shinzato’s art of identity theft

Creative Work • 17 Jul 15

Using bits of brass, laser engraved leather, reflective plastic and design acumen; Akiko Shinzato’s jewellery can give you someone else’s identity. >
Sowetan art curator Zanele Mashumi gets down to business

Point of View • 17 Jul 15

Soweto-based curator Zanele Mashumi makes art accessible by bridging the gap between emerging artists and inexperienced art buyers. >
Elliot Schultz’s animation involves strobe lights and a turntable

Creative Work • 17 Jul 15

Elliot Schultz flashes a strobe light on embroidered discs to create an animated sequence that can be played on a standard turntable. >
How low-tech Ethiopian environmentalism is saving the planet and creating jobs

Point of View • 17 Jul 15

A rural Ethiopian village has been fighting climate change with a low-tech, innovative practice and selling carbon credits to fund local businesses. >
Robbie Brozin: Nando’s is serving up local

Interviews • Duration: 00:04:06 • 16 Jul 15

The world's biggest collection of African art outside Africa is owned by fast-food chain Nando’s, who are now investing in South African design. >
Wieden+Kennedy Delhi’s Make in India campaign signifies big change for the country

Creative Work • 16 Jul 15

The independent ad agency Wieden+Kennedy Delhi gives India an international platform to showcase its diverse investment areas. >
Romeo, the helpful companion robot

Creative Work • 16 Jul 15

French robotics company Aldebaran could change the future of elderly care with the development of a robot companion called Romeo. >
Art and science collide in "What’s in Your DNA?"

Creative Work • 16 Jul 15

Cancer Research UK teamed up with 21 designers to raise funds for an advanced research facility in the heart of London. >
The search for talented African animators begins

Creative Work • 16 Jul 15

Triggerfish Animation Studio’s new Story Lab could have a far-reaching impact on the animation industry in Africa. >
Eat an ice cream then grow a tree

Creative Work • 16 Jul 15

This ice-lolly stick can be planted when you finish eating it and it will grow into a tree. >
What would you do on Mandela Day if we gave you R1000 to make it happen?

Creative Work • 15 Jul 15

We are giving 67 South Africans R1000 each towards making their communities better through a creative intervention this Mandela Day with. What's your idea? >
A new bridge across the Mzamba River connects a rural community to infrastructure

Creative Work • 15 Jul 15

NPO buildCollective is collaborating with Austrian thesis students to build a sustainable bridge across the Mzamba River in the Eastern Cape. >
Paper Planes: A merry band of illustrators

Interviews • Duration: 00:03:53 • 15 Jul 15

We interview the two creative entrepreneurs who founded Alexander’s Band, a South African collective of illustrators. >
Two Italian craftsmen create glass inspired by bubble wrap

Creative Work • 15 Jul 15

Maya Lapp and Denis Perera subvert the irresistible desire to play with bubble wrap by casting it in glass. >
Exhibition "Gare du Nord" offers a new perspective on anatomical theatre

Creative Work • 15 Jul 15

The oddly shaped de Waag building in Amsterdam is host to “Gare du Nord”, a collaboration that connects old and new perceptions of the human body. >
Pepe Marais shares his takeaways from judging at Cannes

Point of View • 15 Jul 15

The co-founder of creative agency Joe Public discusses the various dynamics shaping the advertising industry right now. >
Maasai women are leading the solar revolution in rural Kenya

Creative Work • 14 Jul 15

A new project spearheaded by Green Energy Africa sees Maasai women delivering simple solar technology to improve the lives of rural Kenyans. >

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