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Design Frontiers > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Michaella Janse van Vuuren's latest pieces take her technical proficiencies to new heights – and onto the fashion runway. >

7 Oct 14
The Biopanel

Design Frontiers > Product Design

Product designer Alejandra Olivera turns seaweed into a new eco-friendly insulation material for informal housing. >

26 Aug 14
A water pump for remote farmers

Design Frontiers > Design Activism / Interaction Design / Product Design

A new foot-operated irrigation device is capable of tripling the revenue of smallholder farmers, says its manufacturer. >

19 Aug 14
Bamboo engineering

Design Frontiers > Product Design

Building with bamboo is not new but researchers at MIT are exploring new ways of creating construction products from the sustainable resource. >

5 Aug 14
A helping hand

Design Frontiers > Craft / Industrial Design / Product Design

A new smart tool from MIT Media Lab is blurring the lines between handmade and digital technology. But that's not a bad thing. >

29 Jul 14
The possibilities of bioprinting

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

Now that 3D bioprinting is becoming a reality, speculative designer Agi Haines explores the possibilities of new and improved replacement organs. >

22 Jul 14
Bright spark

Design Frontiers > African Design / Design Activism / Product Design

Faithless percussionist Sudha Kheterpal wants to shake up the world to create clean energy for people without access to electricity. >

15 Jul 14
Nabasco

Design Frontiers > Product Design

This future-forward, environmentally friendly material finds an artful application in a project by Dutch designer Ineke Hans. >

8 Jul 14
Watt scooter

Design Frontiers > Industrial Design

This electric push scooter by industrial design outfit eLabs is a made-in-South-Africa solution to inner-city congestion. >

1 Jul 14
Ekasi Water Cap

Design Frontiers > African Design / Design Activism / Industrial Design

Peter Krige has prototyped a pressure-tight closure that can be fitted onto easily available parts to create a shower for unplumbed homes. >

17 Jun 14
My furniture manifesto

Design Frontiers > Craft / Design Thinking / Product Design

Haldane Martin's pieces say a lot about their creator. Here, their creator says a lot about his pieces. >

1 Aug 06
Doing it

Design Frontiers > Graphic Design & Illustration

Robert Nakata is designer whose work explores the "accidental possibilities of relationships between text and images". >

1 Nov 02

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