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Alby Apparel promises liquid-repellent breathable clothes
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
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Product Design
Using patented Fillium technology, wearing these Alby Apparel clothes promises to dramatically reduce your washing load.
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29 Jun 16
The meat-free burger that bleeds
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Food Design
Impossible Foods has developed an entirely vegetarian burger that simulates meat so effectively that it bleeds.
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29 Jun 16
Shoes that are wearable for longer win cradle to cradle design challenge
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Product Design
Virginia Tech student designs modular shoe with parts that can be disassembled to recycle or decompose.
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28 Jun 16
ZERO PER STOOL exemplifies craft with a zero-waste focus
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Product Design
Upcycling design studio in South Korea creates distinctive seating design without letting a single scrap of wood go to waste.
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23 Jun 16
Chinese start-up Origins works to purify the air
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Product Design
Founded in one of the smoggiest cities in the world, Origins’ machines don’t only detect the toxins in the air, they try to remove them as well.
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14 Jun 16
Lyfe: A levitating planter
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Product Design
The Swedish design team at Flyte introduce us to the future of planting with zero gravity plants.
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7 Jun 16
BooToo: locally designed educational toys
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African Design
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South African entrepreneur Daniel Jillings, creates aesthetically pleasing children’s toys.
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2 Jun 16
Graphite: a modular honeycomb-shaped shelving system
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Architecture & Interiors
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Industrial Design
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A storage system designed to be sturdy and fully customisable.
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1 Jun 16
Tshepo Sedumo’s handmade portable boomboxes
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African Design
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Music & Sound Design
The Johannesburg-based startup Grove Audio creates custom designed wooden boomboxes.
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26 May 16
AbsorbPlate cuts calories by reducing grease on your plate
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Product Design
The dinner plate’s design has perforations in its surface to trap excess grease.
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24 May 16
BaseLantern: a new project by BioLite
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Product Design
The BaseLantern portable lantern is designed for off-grid usage.
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23 May 16
Livi brings nature indoors
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Product Design
The portable planter has a new take on interacting with nature.
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17 May 16
Wear Your Label wants a stigma-free society
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Design Thinking
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Product Design
Wear Your Label gets people talking about mental health through fashion and jewellery design.
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16 May 16
Oded Ezer designs the Life/Death t-shirt
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Design Activism
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Product Design
Tel Aviv-based graphic design artist Oded Exer designed a t-shirt to help refugees.
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13 May 16
The Muko furniture series is designed with kids in mind
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African Design
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Craft
Today’s kids spend more and more time seated. These chairs are designed to ensure their comfort.
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4 May 16
Backpacks made from blankets
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African Design
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Design Activism
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Product Design
Sibusiso Mokhachane makes backpacks from blankets to celebrate his heritage and help the world unlearn African stereotypes.
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2 May 16
BeSeens: LED imbedded, hand-signalling cycling gloves
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Product Design
BeSeens use motion detection and LED lighting to make indicating safer for cyclists.
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29 Apr 16
EnerGaia’s rival new production method for Spirulina
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Food Design
Thailand-based EnerGaia has created a unique bioreactor to manufacture a purer Spirulina sustainably.
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28 Apr 16
Anna Raimondo’s latest collection – NOIR
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Cape Town’s Anna Raimondo releases her latest range, NOIR, for her jewellery design company, Smith.
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27 Apr 16
The Mimi Moto cookstove is cleaner and safer than traditional cookstoves
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Product Design
Mimi Moto’s cookstove makes clean, safe cooking accessible to everyone.
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26 Apr 16
Green Product: From PET bottles to this range of chairs
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Product Design
The LJ series by Dutch studio De Vorm is a range of chairs and stools that feature a strong, soft felt material that is made of recycled PET bottles.
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11 Apr 16
Green Product: The Su first aid tool helps prevent choking
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Product Design
The simple Su first aid tool can help prevent a person who has fainted or had a fit from choking on their tongue.
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4 Apr 16
Tuomas Markunpoika elevates the humble pencil to a work of art
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Product Design
Finnish designer, Tuomas Markunpoika uses everyday objects like pencils as raw materials in his designs.
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1 Apr 16
Green Product: Concept Planiture is a miniature urban farm
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Product Design
Concept Planiture by Berlin-based designer Marlen Häselbarth encourages interactions between the user and nature in the urban environment.
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1 Apr 16
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