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Could the future of mobility lie in 3D-printing?
Design Frontiers
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Design Thinking
The folks over at Michelin imagine a future of adaptive, airless wheels with the Visionary Tyre concept.
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27 Jul 17
Visual artist Chris Saunders talks collaboration and inspiration
Design Frontiers
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Art & Photography
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Film & Animation
We caught up with the former Design Indaba Emerging Creative to find out what he’s been working on.
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24 Jul 17
The colour-changing T-shirt that detects the presence of water pollution
Design Frontiers
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
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Product Design
This T-shirt line reveals some of the more shocking effects of climate change.
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21 Jul 17
This breathable workout suit helps you cool down after a sweaty gym session
Design Frontiers
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Industrial Design
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Product Design
Researchers at MIT use living cells to give this unique garment a cool advantage.
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21 Jul 17
Everything you always wanted to know about toilets, but were afraid to ask
Design Frontiers
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Industrial Design
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Product Design
The Cube Design Museum in the Netherlands is hosting an interesting new exhibition.
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18 Jul 17
Daan Roosegaarde’s Smog Free Bicycles clean the air as you ride
Design Frontiers
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Design Activism
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Product Design
The next phase of Smog Free Project China is almost here.
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14 Jul 17
Scientists get innovative in the fight against glacier melt
Design Frontiers
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Urban & Landscape Design
Halting the effects of global warming with artificial ice and massive blankets.
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13 Jul 17
Filmmaker Jessie Zinn on telling truthful and sincere stories
Design Frontiers
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Film & Animation
The director is one of a growing list of young female Cape Town filmmakers making their mark in the industry.
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10 Jul 17
Swiss-born Rafael Kouto wants to dewesternise fashion
Design Frontiers
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Creative Economy
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Design Activism
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
"The next big thing in fashion is open source and engagement of the consumer in the creative process."
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4 Jul 17
Lucy Feng’s work plays with African mysticism and modern Afropunk culture
Design Frontiers
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Art & Photography
Called ‘The Strangelings’, the images moodily blend the surreal and the regal.
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3 Jul 17
Dough Universe: the children’s toy range inspiring future inventors
Design Frontiers
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Craft
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Product Design
Technology Will Save Us launches three new Electro Dough inspired activities.
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26 Jun 17
This futuristic cultural centre is inspired by the sea
Design Frontiers
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Architecture & Interiors
Vincent Callebaut Architects’ latest conceptual project draws inspiration from the manta ray to make a floating cultural hub in Seoul.
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21 Jun 17
Introducing MobyMart, the autonomous grocery store on wheels
Design Frontiers
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Creative Economy
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Interaction Design
“It is the store that comes to you, instead of you coming to the store.”
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19 Jun 17
An art invention to encourage more silence in our cities
Design Frontiers
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Architecture & Interiors
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Design Activism
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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13 Jun 17
From harvesting fungi from the body to hormone infused cocktails, are these the products of the future?
Design Frontiers
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Product Design
Beirut Design Week's Speculative Needs exhibition is not as far-fetched as one might think.
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12 Jun 17
Minutiae: The ‘anti-social’ app gives your more mundane moments meaning
Design Frontiers
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Product Design
“YOU ARE NOT YOUR TIMELINE.”
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5 Jun 17
Combatting Algeria’s harsh weather conditions with houses made from plastic bottles
Design Frontiers
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Architecture & Interiors
These durable homes are safely housing the region’s refugee population.
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1 Jun 17
This footwear startup is using 3D imaging technology to give you the perfect fit
Design Frontiers
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
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Product Design
True Gault deliberately avoids traditional sizing to ensure a truly comfortable shoe.
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31 May 17
Boyan Slat’s Ocean CleanUp System promises to rid our oceans of plastic garbage
Design Frontiers
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Industrial Design
"To catch the plastic, act like plastic.
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18 May 17
Flexible, organic and biodegradable: A new wave of electronics
Design Frontiers
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Design Thinking
A new semiconductor developed by Stanford researchers is as flexible as skin and easily degradable.
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4 May 17
African innovation improves treatment of gunshot wounds
Design Frontiers
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Design Activism
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Product Design
This new device is revolutionising the way trauma is treated.
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2 May 17
A ‘super’ key that cannot be copied by the masses
Design Frontiers
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Industrial Design
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Product Design
The Stealth Key is 3D printed and nearly impossible to replicate.
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2 May 17
Click Play: 3 Masters of product
Design Frontiers
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Industrial Design
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Product Design
Product designers shape how we live and these graduates are at the forefront of exactly that.
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1 May 17
Making sneakers sustainable with the ‘Shoetopia’ project
Design Frontiers
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Craft
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Industrial Design
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Product Design
Two Polish students are challenging traditional methods of shoe production with their 3D-printed sneaker.
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26 Apr 17
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