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Vietnamese designers create sneakers from coffee beans

Design Frontiers > Craft / Design Activism / Design Thinking / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Product Design

Rens Originals is the sneaker brand that is taking your ground coffee waste and turning it into some of the freshest sneakers out there. >

20 Sep 19
BioSolar Leaf is cleaning the air and putting food on the table

Design Frontiers > Creative Economy / Design Activism / Design Thinking / Industrial Design / Urban & Landscape Design

Experimenting with alternative ways to grow food, Arborea is tackling climate change one BioSolar Leaf at a time. >

20 Sep 19
April Greiman: "If you have a good idea there aren't any boundaries."

Design Frontiers > Graphic Design & Illustration

The transmedia artist talks about designing for visual communication in multiple mediums. >

18 Sep 19
Carlo Ratti's juice bar ensures that no drop goes to waste

Design Frontiers > Creative Economy / Design Thinking / Interaction Design / Product Design

Italian innovation and design firm Carlo Ratti Associati’s ‘Feel the Peel’ juice bar creates bioplastic cups made from oranges. >

18 Sep 19
The DisOrdinary Architecture Project is creating inclusive urban spaces

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors / Design Activism / Design Thinking / Urban & Landscape Design

“People are only disabled when they are confronted with a barrier. If those barriers are removed, the disability ceases to exist.” >

17 Sep 19
How AeroDelft is saving the skies

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Industrial Design

Student researchers from the Delft University of Technology are making aviation a little greener by trading in jet fuel for hydrogen-powered cells. >

16 Sep 19
Here are the five shortlisted candidates for the DUNDEED competition

Design Frontiers > Creative Economy / Design Activism

One of these projects will walk away with £5,000 to further develop their project. >

13 Sep 19
This glue seals wounds in 60 seconds

Design Frontiers > Product Design

MeTro is a super adhesive, elastic glue that works faster than common staples or sutures. >

12 Sep 19
Paloma Strelitz on collective agency

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors / Creative Economy / Design Activism / Industrial Design / Urban & Landscape Design

The Design Indaba Future Cities Residency talked to UCT architecture students about the power of creativity and collective action. >

11 Sep 19
Alia Youssef’s The Sisters Project disrupts tired perceptions of Muslim women

Design Frontiers > Art & Photography

The photographer explores the diverse narratives of the Canadian Muslim community. >

11 Sep 19
First ever global scientific eating plan forgets the world’s poor

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Food Design

A team of 37 world-leading scientists from 16 countries have just released the world’s first ever scientific eating plan, but how inclusive is it? >

11 Sep 19
Typeface as a tool for empowerment, with Bruno Maag

Design Frontiers > Graphic Design & Illustration

“We, as graphic designers, should strive to make sure that information processing can be done easily for everyone.” >

10 Sep 19
Is food the next big thing in fashion?

Design Frontiers > Product Design

Agraloop Bio-Refinery produces high value bio-materials from food waste. >

10 Sep 19
Festivals can transform cities by making space for overlooked people and cultures

Design Frontiers > Creative Economy / Information Design / Interaction Design

Beth Perry and Rike Sitas explore the transformative role festivals can have on a society. >

4 Sep 19
How 'Sakhile&Me' is connecting Africa to the world

Design Frontiers > African Design / Art & Photography / Craft

Sakhile Matlhare explains how she created a hybrid art and research gallery in Frankfurt, Germany. >

28 Aug 19
How human connection inspires Neo Mahlangu’s work

Design Frontiers > Art & Photography / Graphic Design & Illustration

We met up with visual artist Neo Mahlangu as she exhibited her work at 100 % Design in Johannesburg. >

27 Aug 19
The Nonument Group is breathing life into forgotten worlds

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors / Urban & Landscape Design

Martin Baraga and Neja Tomšič, of the Nonument Group, and their team of researchers have set out to save the forgotten monuments of the 20th century. >

23 Aug 19
Silicon Valley wants to read your mind – here’s why you should be worried

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Information Design / Interaction Design / Product Design

The tech geniuses of Silicon Valley are developing machines capable of reading your brainwaves. >

21 Aug 19
Noma Osula on capturing the beauty of Africa

Design Frontiers > African Design / Art & Photography / Design Activism

“I want to portray the beauty I see in Africa and reconstruct the perceived idea of beauty and perfection.” >

20 Aug 19
Ukugrumba exhumes the tales of forgotten foot soldiers of the past

Design Frontiers > African Design / Art & Photography / Design Activism

Design Indaba Emerging Creative Tshepiso Mabula’s series 'Ukugrumba' examines the vacant spaces in conversations about justice, liberation and reconciliation. >

14 Aug 19
Theatres are evolving to reconnect us to each other and the environment

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking / Urban & Landscape Design

Theatres around the world are becoming more immersive and open to experimentation. >

14 Aug 19
Ensamble Studio is at the forefront of architecture, art and academic research

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors

The award-winning Spanish architects, Antón García-Abril and Débora Mesa, spoke at the Design Indaba Conference 2018. >

14 Aug 19
Merging architecture, entrepreneurship and digital fabrication in Cameroon

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors / Product Design / Urban & Landscape Design

"Ours is the first digital manufacturing laboratory for architecture and design in Africa," African Fabbers School founder Paolo Cascone. >

13 Aug 19
The Great Passenger Pigeon Comeback project is a blueprint for de-extinction

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

The speculative designer behind human leather, Tina Gorjanc explores the ethics and implications of de-extinction >

7 Aug 19

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