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A ‘super’ key that cannot be copied by the masses
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Industrial Design
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The Stealth Key is 3D printed and nearly impossible to replicate.
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2 May 17
Click Play: 3 Masters of product
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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
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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
Synthetic skin could return touch to amputees
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Design Thinking
Researchers have combined solar power and electronic skin for the first time.
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25 Apr 17
The bold, mixed-media collages of Kasmir Jones
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Art & Photography
The American artist’s work pays tribute to black cultural icons.
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24 Apr 17
3D printing with Martian dust
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Design Thinking
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Industrial Design
A technique to aid in the development of the first Mars colony.
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24 Apr 17
Scientists discover a way to harvest fresh water from air
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Design Activism
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Product Design
This device also works in arid regions
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18 Apr 17
Turning shipping containers into renewable solar units
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African Design
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Product Design
SolarTurtle is an innovative green energy product that relies solely on battery-based distribution for rural electrification.
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13 Apr 17
Virtual Reality App offers better clinical care to cancer patients
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Design Thinking
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Product Design
Oncomfort finds an innovative way to help cancer patients self-manage stress, anxiety and pain through evidence-based psychological interventions in VR.
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13 Apr 17
The APSARA drone disintegrates once it reaches its destination
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Design Thinking
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Product Design
Introducing the ‘Ikea of drones”.
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12 Apr 17
The latest video from Björk is a virtual reality extravaganza
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Music & Sound Design
The artist is leading the charge in terms of merging music and VR.
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10 Apr 17
A 3D-printed grotto designed by algorithms
Design Frontiers
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Architecture & Interiors
The future of architecture explored.
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6 Apr 17
Shrimps made solely from plants taking plates by storm
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Food Design
Shrimps from plants - impossible? Not so much. Thanks to one of the leaders in plant-based seafood New Wave Foods, this is now a culinary reality.
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5 Apr 17
New Mars explorer inspired by origami
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Design Activism
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Design Thinking
It can tuck, fold and crawl.
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31 Mar 17
Cape Town moves to become Africa’s first truly digital city
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African Design
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Information Design
This city’s creatives are set to be among the biggest winners in the drive to become the most digitally connected hub in Africa.
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27 Mar 17
MOLD: A focus on the future of food
Design Frontiers
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Food Design
This new independent publication focusses on the future of food and how design can help feed a hungry planet.
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22 Mar 17
The physicist who folds
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Design Thinking
Physicist Robert lang left NASA to practice origami. Great Big Story tells us why.
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17 Mar 17
The Iota Project: blending bespoke furniture creation with social upliftment
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Design Activism
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Industrial Design
These beautiful handmade objects are creating jobs for unemployed women.
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17 Mar 17
A step closer to stretchable, soft electronics
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Design Thinking
Stanford University researchers use a soup additive to create the next generation of flexible electronics.
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14 Mar 17
Permanent Alien focuses on stories from the Asian American diaspora
Design Frontiers
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Art & Photography
“What if we made a comic featuring people who looked like us for people who look like us?”
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14 Mar 17
Remembering Chinese Photographer Ren Hang
Design Frontiers
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Art & Photography
The 29-year old provocateur leaves behind an awe-inspiring body of work.
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9 Mar 17
Recharging Mount Olivella with thousands of trees
Design Frontiers
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Art & Photography
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Design Activism
This ambitious art intervention breathes new life into a devastated area.
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7 Mar 17
SONOP primary school gets a solar powered upgrade
Design Frontiers
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Design Activism
Design Indaba partnered with SolarWorld Africa (Pty) Ltd and On Track to give this school a sustainable update.
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6 Mar 17
Things we learnt from Kate Moross
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Design Thinking
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Graphic Design & Illustration
It’s better to have a hole in your team than an asshole.
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2 Mar 17
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