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Afridoctor diagnosing direct from your handset

Design News > Information Design / Design Thinking / Interaction Design

Africa’s first personal mobile health clinic took first place in the Nokia Africa Calling All Innovators application competition. >

10 Apr 10
Skyscraper for peace

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking

Polish architect could have solved the conflict in Sudan with this design of a water tower skyscraper. >

10 Apr 10
The Earth Awards

Design News > Product Design / Design Thinking / Design Thinking

The Earth Awards are looking for your innovative design solutions for the 21st century. >

8 Apr 10
W+K Delhi open art gallery

Design News > Creative Economy

Indian advertising agency W+K Delhi have expanded to launch an art gallery, W+K Experience, which aims to make art accessible to everyone. >

6 Apr 10
World architecture gets Rich

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Peter Rich’s Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre was recognised as World Building of the Year 2009 at the World Architecture Festival. >

5 Apr 10
Step into an art director’s shoes

Design News > Creative Economy / Graphic Design & Illustration

Renowned creatives were asked to customise a pair of Toms Shoes as part of the Art Directors Club’s Designism 4.0 annual forum. >

3 Apr 10
Heatherwick redefines the power station

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking

Never content to be categorised, Thomas Heatherwick has turned his architectural hand to a biomass-fuelled station and created a masterpiece >

2 Apr 10
Trending lightly

Design News > Design Thinking

Trends are pesky things. They come and go as they please, leaving behind a mixed bag of objects without much use. >

1 Apr 10
Gary Hustwit answers all at DI2010

Design News > Design Thinking / Architecture & Interiors / Graphic Design & Illustration

Director of Objectified and Helvetica, Gary Hustwit makes the films that he wants to see but haven't yet been made. >

31 Mar 10
What is a hybrid?

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Inspired by cultural mash-ups and globalisation, Stephen Burks collaborates on a series that explores hybridity in colourful assemblages. >

31 Mar 10
Wooster Collective answers all at DI2010

Design News > Creative Economy / Urban & Landscape Design

“Why would an artist risk arrest in order to create?” asked Mark and Sara Schiller of the Wooster Collective. >

30 Mar 10
Infinite river of Egypt

Design News > Product Design

Karim Rashid deconstructs conventional ideas of table and seating concepts to recombine them in a single sinuous object. >

30 Mar 10
Heads above the rest

Design News > Interaction Design

As the puppeteer of 5m-tall puppets, Daniel Popper is expecting to captivate soccer fans with his larger-than-life soccer players. >

29 Mar 10
Play DJ with Spooky iPhone app

Design News > Information Design / Music & Sound Design

In conjunction with the launch of his latest album, The Secret Song, DJ Spooky has launched a DJ-mixing iPhone app of the same name. >

29 Mar 10
Celebration kicker

Design News > Product Design

If there has ever been a reason to celebrate, the Official Match Ball for the FIFA World Cup 2010 is that very reason. >

29 Mar 10
Food and fun relief

Design News > Product Design / Design Thinking

Unplug Design studio in Korea have found a way to combine both aid and fun in one package with the creative design of the Dream Ball. >

28 Mar 10
Keep jumping

Design News > Design Thinking

Everyone seems willing to jump onboard for Kelly Wainwright’s newest project, even the Reverend Archbishop Desmond Tutu. >

26 Mar 10
The function of the heart

Design News > Product Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Designer Frank Tjepkema has expanded on earlier concepts of overlapping logos in his new Clockwork Love collection. >

26 Mar 10
Mind-blowing books

Design News > Creative Economy / Graphic Design & Illustration

A book must be pretty inspiring to blow your mind out of the back of you head. But then again, they are Biblioteq Books after all. >

25 Mar 10
Baby monitor wins SABS

Design News > Industrial Design

Cape Town product development consultancy ...XYZ, scoop three awards at the SABS Design Excellence Awards for mobile baby monitor, SNUZA. >

25 Mar 10
Keeping it “Afrikan”

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design / Graphic Design & Illustration

Muti, by Clinton and Carrick Campbell, is a clothing label that embodies the African heritage and is without a doubt 100% South African. >

24 Mar 10
Entries open for the Loerie Awards

Design News > Creative Economy

The biggest advertising, communication design and experiential media awards in Africa are now accepting entries. >

23 Mar 10
Unlocking nature's potential with Waterkloof

Design News > Product Design / Design Thinking / Architecture & Interiors

An hour out of the city you will find the picturesque Waterkloof Estate, an oasis with top class wines and delectable cuisine. >

19 Mar 10
William Drenttel answers all at DI2010

Design News > Design Thinking

“What does it mean to be a designer?” asked William Drenttel throughout his reflexive, socially conscious presentation. >

19 Mar 10

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