Design News

Infiniti's incredible From Pencil to Metal 360° video

Design News • 24 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Sit in the driver's seat as the QX30 concept car is created around you. >
The buildings of Waterbank School in Kenyan harvest rainfall for the community

Design News • Duration: 00:01:01 • 24 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

The architecture of the Waterbank campus in Kenya is built to collect, store and filter water for irrigation use while serving as a school for children. >
Eco-friendly glass paint to keep metal roofs cool

Product Spotlight • 24 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Scientists have developed a glass paint that will keep metal cool in the harshest of summer days. >
Nebia shower head uses 70 per cent less water

Product Spotlight • 24 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

A Kickstarter-funded shower system could reduce water wastage in the drought-stricken US. >
Burning Man Festival calls out to urban designers

Design News • 24 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

The Black Rock City Ministry of Urban Planning has put a call out to urban designers to reimagine the Burning Man Festival’s temporary city design. >
Miniature robots made from waste electronic chips and wires

Design News • 24 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Singapore and Malaysia-based industrial designer Anthony Oh recycles electric parts into miniature robot sculptures. >
Google's Project Sunroof brings solar panels to your doorstep

Design News • 21 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Google has unveiled Project Sunroof, a tool to determine how much money you could save with solar panels. >
Design for disabilities: Rayn Jacket, DrumPants TAPS and BeamPro

Design News • 21 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

These three designs — Rayn Jacket, DrumPants TAPS and BeamPro — reveal how assistive technology is changing the lives of those living with disabilities. >
Scientists at MIT have mastered the process of 3D printing glass

Design News • 21 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Glass, a mysterious amorphous solid, is the latest material to be 3D printed by scientists at MIT's Mediated Materials Group lab. >
How tech and social media can connect a family

Design News • 21 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

A grandfather learns how to use Instagram to send drawings to his grandchildren living abroad. >
Humanity, animality and nonsense in Wilma Cruise's etchings

Design News • 21 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

South African sculptor and visual artist Wilma Cruise investigates verbal and nonverbal communication in her nonsense-inspired creations. >
Cyrus Daruwala's Painful People satirises Mumbai's most annoying commuters

Design News • 21 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Author and illustrator Cyrus Daruwala addresses Mumbai's pain-in-the-neck residents in his new handmade book. >
Designer Terry Angelos creates by merging nature and humour

Product Spotlight • 21 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

South African artist Terry Angelos designs wall art and homeware using nature and her quirky side as inspiration. >
Family builds self-sufficient floating home

Design News • 20 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Over the last twenty years, a Canadian family have assembled a floating home made up of living quarters fortified by greenhouses. >
A doctor in the Gaza strip is 3D printing medical tools

Design News • 20 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

A conflict-zone doctor in the Gaza strip is 3D printing low-cost medical tools to help improve vital care in the area. >
Bompas and Parr's breathable cocktail cloud leaves visitors in high spirits

Design News • 20 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Meteorology and mixology collide in Bompas and Parr’s latest project, Alcoholic Architecture, a bar with an intoxicating atmosphere. >
Yerka: The Fort Knox of bicycles

Design News • 20 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Three Chilean engineering students dropped out of college to develop an unstealable bicycle with an integrated locking system. >
The Lalela Project pits art against poverty

Design News • 20 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

A Western Cape-based non-profit organisation empowers impoverished youths through art and music. >
A 3D-printed surfboard that can collapse into 48 pieces

Design News • 19 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Design student Max Robotham makes carrying a surfboard from place to place a lot easier. >
Taintless, Lukhanyo Mdingi’s SS16 collection

Lookbook • 19 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

A campaign lookbook showcasing South African designer Lukhanyo Mdingi’s latest androgynous menswear collection. >
Designers in Amsterdam reward community members for getting Wasted

Design News • 18 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Wasted is a community laboratory in Amsterdam Noord, where plastic waste is turned into building blocks and rubbish becomes a valuable currency. >
Monica Garza paints women in all their curvaceous glory

Lookbook • 18 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Monica Garza uses sparkles, glitter pens and motorcycles to explore and celebrate the fuller female form. >
Poop water project makes great strides in Senegal

Design News • 17 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

A US engineering company have launched a pilot project in Senegal that turns human waste into water. >
An ancient African culinary ceremony in the modern kitchen

Product Spotlight • 17 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Dana Douiev has designed a new collection of cooking utensils specifically for making injera, the flat bread that forms a staple in the Ethiopian diet. >

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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 >