Design News

BeSeens: LED imbedded, hand-signalling cycling gloves

Product Spotlight • 29 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

BeSeens use motion detection and LED lighting to make indicating safer for cyclists. >
Floating solar panels take to the seas

Design News • 29 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

Heliofloat solar farm is designed to generate clean energy out at sea and preserve water in arid regions. >
Skyscraper made out of wooden numbers

Design News • 29 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

Anders Berensson Architects is set to transform an old parking lot in Stockholm into a multi-use wooden skyscraper. >
EnerGaia’s rival new production method for Spirulina

Product Spotlight • 28 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

Thailand-based EnerGaia has created a unique bioreactor to manufacture a purer Spirulina sustainably. >
Skull echoes offer solution to current password systems

Design News • 28 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

German research team look into skull echoes as new passwords to access private accounts or devices. >
Search engine uses ad revenue to plant trees

Design News • 28 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

Ecosia is a search engine and social initiative that uses income generated from search ads to fight global deforestation. >
Pockulus: Smartphone free, affordable VR

Design News • 28 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

Based on open-source tech, Pockulus is a DIY way into virtual reality. >
Bioo: A plant that is also a charging station

Design News • 28 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

Charging your electronic devices could be done in the easiest, greenest way possible with the Bioo plant. >
Anna Raimondo’s latest collection – NOIR

Product Spotlight • 27 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

Cape Town’s Anna Raimondo releases her latest range, NOIR, for her jewellery design company, Smith. >
Plastic card melts to fix or modify anything

Design News • 27 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

FORMcard is a play dough type of substance that aims to become as ubiquitous as sticky tape or Prestik. >
A floating UFO to call home

Design News • 27 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

Italian boating company designs a flying saucer-like house boat for living and sailing on the sea. >
Local animator Mike Scott on creating lasting relationships with characters

Design News • 27 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

Cape Town animator Mike Scott’s work is simple nostalgia mixed with pop culture characters that you want to get to know. >
Tackling Islamophobia through unifying portraits

Design News • 27 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

It’s time to shift the conversation on the Muslim identity, says NATIVE VML. >
Gloves translate sign language into speech

Design News • 26 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

Two university students are bridging a communication gap by turning sign language gestures into spoken English. >
The Mimi Moto cookstove is cleaner and safer than traditional cookstoves

Product Spotlight • 26 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

Mimi Moto’s cookstove makes clean, safe cooking accessible to everyone. >
Advertising billboard doubles as Zika mosquito trap

Design News • 26 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

Two Brazilian agencies are creating awareness around the Zika virus while alleviating the problem. >
Hunt virtual prey with this VR experience

Design News • 26 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

Become the hunter in this interactive, educational, and experiential VR game. >
A biodegradable alternative to harmful plastic packaging

Design News • 25 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

AMAM takes top prize at the Lexus Design Award for its zero waste solution to packaging pollution. >
Lungile Mbokane: An emerging graphic artist telling stories through his work

Design News • 25 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

Johannesburg artist, Lungile Mbokane, speaks about his work and creative process. >
“Where is the ‘ME’ in Media?” asks a black woman in photography

Design News • 25 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

South African-based, Kenyan Stephanie Mzee’s new photographic series interrogates the representation of black women in media. >
Zedfactory’s pod homes are built on city car parks

Design News • 25 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

A new housing concept will tap into the millions of existing car park spaces across the UK. >
Panama’s waste is now a village of plastic bottles

Design News • 25 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

Isla Colón in Bocas Del Toro, Panama will be home to an entire village constructed out of recycled plastic bottles. >
South Africa joins the Fashion Revolution

Design News • 22 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

Sunday 24 April 2016 is Fashion Revolution Day. South African designers join the movement to spread the word on the dangerous implications of fast fashion. >
Seymour Chwast set to launch Kickstarter campaign to publish new anti-war book

Design News • 22 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

Prolific designer Seymour Chwast plans to crowdfund his illustrative epic, “At War with War”. >

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Melting pot

Q&A • 6 Mar 22

Buhle Nkalashe’s powerful artworks are steeped in isiXhosa, isiZulu and Ndebele traditions >
Pool poetics

Design News • 6 Mar 22

Kanya Viljoen’s Eurydice makes use of femme narratives in a waterless pool >
Igloo eatery

Design Frontiers • 6 Mar 22

Japan’s Kamakura Village pop-up eatery serves traditional fare in icy igloos for one month a year >
From dawn to dust

Design News • 6 Mar 22

Katie Paterson’s Requiem will change the way you think about dust >