Design News

Tuomas Markunpoika elevates the humble pencil to a work of art

Product Spotlight • 1 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

Finnish designer, Tuomas Markunpoika uses everyday objects like pencils as raw materials in his designs. >
Green Product: Concept Planiture is a miniature urban farm

Product Spotlight • 1 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

Concept Planiture by Berlin-based designer Marlen Häselbarth encourages interactions between the user and nature in the urban environment. >
A tribute to world-renowned architect Zaha Hadid

Design News • 1 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

Award-winning architect Dame Zaha Hadid passed away suddenly on Thursday, leaving behind a legacy of groundbreaking work. >
Zero-emissions fridge helps Mozambican farmers adapt to extended drought seasons

Design News • 1 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

Mozambican farmer, Gilberto Tethere designed a cooling silo to preserve grains in harsh farming conditions. >
Talking umbrella keeps people out of the rain

Design News • 31 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

The Oombrella uses sensor technology to tell users when it is about to rain. >
Arrivals and Departures is about the connections between people

Design News • 31 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

Human relationships are at the centre of Jacob Aue Sobol’s haunting black and white series. >
UCT students appeal for funding for anti-rape device

Design News • 31 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

A team of graduates from the University of Cape Town (UCT) have conceptualised a wearable safety device in response to a spate of rapes, attacks and murders. >
Green Product: The Ragbag is made of old tea bags and recycled plastic

Product Spotlight • 30 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

Ragbag accessories and bags are sustainably and ethically made by women in India from old tea bags and recycled plastic bags. >
Algae-based water bottle decomposes when empty

Design News • 30 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

Product design student comes up with a 100 per cent natural alternative to the plastic water bottle. >
Sweet Kills: A designer’s impression of the dangers of diabetes

Design News • 30 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

Nattakong Jaengsem’s Sweet Kills campaign takes a gory look at the dangers of sweet treats. >
Immersive 360-degree world drawn with a permanent marker

Design News • 29 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

Accomplished artist Oscar Oiwa exhibits “Oiwa Island 2” at the Setouchi Triennale art festival. >
Power plant makes electricity out of cheese

Design News • 29 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

Renewable energy group Valbio built a power plant that generates clean energy from a byproduct of cheese production. >
Would you chew on meat flavoured gum?

Design News • 29 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

This is one of the meat related questions served up by a temporary conceptual butcher in The Netherlands. >
Plantable pencils challenge use-and-chuck-away culture

Design News • 29 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

The Sprout pencil grows into a plant if you place it in a pot. >
Cubetto: A coding tutor for kids as young as three

Design News • 25 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

Cubetto by Primo Toys is a kid-friendly, wooden robot that teaches kids to code in a way they can see and touch. >
Cape Town set to build its first blind-friendly outdoor park

Design News • 24 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

A park specially designed to accommodate those with impaired vision - the first of its kind in Cape Town. >
William Kentridge celebrates Rome’s history with a 550-metre frieze

Design News • 24 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

Using reverse graffiti, William Kentridge will wash his iconic stencils along the banks of the Tiber River in Rome. >
“Kenya’s League of Extravagant Grannies”

Design News • 23 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

Osborne Macharia’s latest photographic narrative tells the tale of three retired ministers jet-setting around Africa. >
Bangladesh-based start-up boasts zero-waste fashion

Design News • 23 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

Upcycling, recycling and reinvestment are the principles of this eco-friendly fashion brand. >
Fontus self-filling water bottles

Design News • 22 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

Water bottles designed to harvest water from the air using an internal condensation system. >
Nature already has a solution to water contamination

Design News • 22 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

Researchers look into an ancient Native American method of purifying water with cactus goo. >
WaterWheel: A rolling solution in rural India

Design News • 22 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

Wello Water’s WaterWheel lifts the physical burden of water collection in rural India. >
Edible cutlery: Eat with it and then eat it

Design News • 21 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

In an attempt to curb the amount of waste caused by disposable cutlery, Narayana Peesapati has invented cutlery you can eat. >
CrowdVoice: An archive of social unrest from around the world

Design News • 21 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

Esra’a Al Shafei’s online platform curates user-generated content from protests around the world. >

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From the Archives

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 >