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Laye Samb moves minds through illustration

Design News • 21 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

Senegalese artist Laye Samb takes a satirical and sometimes dark look at everyday life in Africa. >
Livia: A high tech solution to menstrual pain

Design News • 21 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

A US-based company launched a campaign to crowdfund a high tech off-switch for menstrual pain. >
Skyfarm could be the future of urban agriculture

Design News • 20 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

Stirk Harbour + Partners’ vertical farming tower poses a solution to the global food crisis. >
MOSSMANIA takes over the interior space

Design News • 20 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

Italian brand brings furry foliage into their product designs >
Allan Amato explores the naked form in SLIP: Naked In Your Own Words

Design News • 20 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

The nude form inspires awe, lust, empathy, envy, anger says photographer Allan Amato. >
Thai architects develop a building typology for disaster-resistant schools

Design News • 19 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

Vin Varavarn Architects, a Bangkok-based firm, developed a new architectural typology for earthquake resistant schools. >
Illustrator Carla Latsky doesn't like to pigeonhole her craft

Design News • 19 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

South African illustrator Carla Latsky is addicted to the details. Her work, which is infused with nostalgia, is created in a variety of mediums. >
Artist’s small studio is a canvas for her surreal worlds

Design News • 19 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

JeeYoung Lee taps into her dreams and memories to create enchanting worlds in her studio. >
Microbots absorb pollutants from industrial wastewater

Design News • 18 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

New nanotechnology innovation addresses heavy metal contamination of natural water sources. >
Off-grid library encourages education in remote Tanzania

Design News • 18 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

Humanitarian architect Patricia Erimescu designed an off-grid library built with recycled and locally sourced materials. >
Art as a tool for integration in India

Design News • 18 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

The Aravani Art Project’s painted murals work to integrate India’s transgender community. >
Electric fork simulates salty taste in food

Design News • 15 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

Japanese researcher develops a fork that adds a salty taste to sodium-free food. >
Artificially intelligent furniture of the future

Design News • 15 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

Carlo Ratti Associati unveils a digitally transformable sofa that morphs into different forms. >
Illustrations show the twists and turns of modern society

Design News • 14 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

Polish illustrator Igor Morski uses mixed media and photo manipulation to explore the ills of the world. >
PIXO changes the way we use our tablets

Design News • 14 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

Oscar Diaz designs a solution for an everyday tech-related problem we didn’t even know we had. >
Innovative origami material paves the way for shape-shifting architecture

Design News • 14 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

Foldable material designed by Harvard engineers can change its shape, size, and volume. >
Moeketsi Lebakeng’s minimal illustrations pay tribute to Africa’s women

Design News • 13 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

Moeketsi Lebakeng uses illustration to celebrate his everyday heroes – African women. >
Standing wheelchair developed to improve the reach and mobility of a paraplegic person

Design News • 13 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

Rehabilitation team designs an adjustable wheelchair to help paraplegic people be more productive in daily activities. >
Water, energy, and internet all in one system

Design News • 13 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

The Watly system aims to bring the necessities to the developing world using one device. >
Korean artist explores “hysteria” in mixed media paintings

Design News • 13 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

Confronted with something terrifying, the characters in Yeom Ji-Hee’s work must face their fears. >
TippyTalk: Tech that bridges the gap between the disabled and their caregivers

Design News • 12 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

Rob Laffan created an app that helps his autistic daughter communicate from anywhere at anytime. >
The UK’s first transparent solar bus shelter

Design News • 12 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

Energy-generating bus shelter sets the standard for solar glass infrastructure in city spaces. >
Eco-friendly trap designed to stop spread of virus-carrying mosquitoes

Design News • 12 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

An innovation made from old car tyres helps contain mosquito-related virus outbreaks in Guatemala. >
Green Product: From PET bottles to this range of chairs

Product Spotlight • 11 Apr 16 • Sponsored Content

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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Golden touch

Q&A • 9 Sep 22

Mishaal Gangaram is a conceptual photographer, visual storyteller and one of Design Indaba’s Emerging Creatives for 2022 >
Dokter’s orders

Design News • 9 Sep 22

Johannesburg-based multidisciplinary product-design company Dokter and Misses’ latest collection is functional art. >
The anatomy of art

Design News • 9 Sep 22

New York-based artist Michael Mapes creates fragmented portraits out of collected items >
‘A’ Okay

Design News • 9 Sep 22

Swedish architecture firm Naturvillan designed an A-framed ‘greenhouse’ that is entirely self-sufficient. >