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Sewer to design: Products made from reclaimed toilet paper

Product Spotlight • 22 Nov 16 • Sponsored Content

Dutch designers at Studio Nienke Hoogvliet have created a range of products made from toilet paper reclaimed in fine sieves from the toilets of the Netherlands. >
Recyclable helmet wins International James Dyson Award

Design News • 22 Nov 16 • Sponsored Content

The collapsible EcoHelmet makes safety a convenience. >
Do insects like the way we taste?

Design News • 21 Nov 16 • Sponsored Content

To Flavour Our Tears places humans on the other end of the food chain. >
Pimp My Street Kitchen rebrands informal street food vendors

Design News • 21 Nov 16 • Sponsored Content

Being Frank, a collective of three South African designers, is hoping to transform three informal food vendors into well-branded, mobile food trailers. >
Photographer Jean-Claude Moschetti documents the magic of West Africa

Design News • 21 Nov 16 • Sponsored Content

Parallel Worlds is French photographer Jean-Claude Moschetti's artistic portal into another dimension. >
Tackle wet weather with these creative methods of escaping the rain

Design News • 21 Nov 16 • Sponsored Content

From ‘non-wet’ umbrellas to onesies made for biking during a rainstorm, avoiding a downpour has never been this inspired. >
Paperscope: Send someone a moment of your day in this postable, DIY kaleidoscope

Product Spotlight • 18 Nov 16 • Sponsored Content

The Paperscope is an eco-friendly do-it-yourself kaleidoscope that you can send in an envelope to anywhere in the world, turning moments of your day into magic. >
Meet the Cyborg Tattoo Artist

Design News • Duration: 02:42 • 18 Nov 16 • Sponsored Content

This tattoo artist creates his drawings unlike anyone else. >
Magic-making lemonade

Design News • 18 Nov 16 • Sponsored Content

Sometimes the most simple of acts can inspire wonder. >
The Homeless Studio explores how architecture can help address homelessness

Design News • 18 Nov 16 • Sponsored Content

This student-led project creates innovative homes for Los Angeles’ most vulnerable. >
Fighting coastal erosion with the TetraPOT

Design News • 18 Nov 16 • Sponsored Content

With ocean levels on the rise, how do we protect our seaside towns? >
We Shall See: A photographic journey from life to death

Design News • 17 Nov 16 • Sponsored Content

Photographer Ian Willms repairs the fractured relationship with his father in We Shall See. >
Was it Made in China or Designed in China?

Design News • 17 Nov 16 • Sponsored Content

The Chinese manufacturing industry is well known for its knockoffs. But what does that mean for the Chinese designer? >
Wire Glasses: Sustainable eyewear made in London and Harare

Product Spotlight • 16 Nov 16 • Sponsored Content

These John Lennon-style Wire Glasses are made from a single wire in Harare, Zimbabwe on frames that are 3d printed in London. >
Plastic Bottle Village

Design News • Duration: 06:36 • 16 Nov 16 • Sponsored Content

Take a look at the life of Robert Bezeau, the "plastic bottle architect". >
Turning the violent side of nature into an energy source

Design News • 15 Nov 16 • Sponsored Content

Japanese engineers turn their attention to the power of typhoons. >
A delicious way to die

Design News • 14 Nov 16 • Sponsored Content

This surreal cookbook details the most heavenly ways to enter the afterlife. >
RoboBees and the future of pollination

Design News • 14 Nov 16 • Sponsored Content

Are scientists about to replace bees? >
‘Girl, girl, girl’ by Aki Inomata

Design News • 14 Nov 16 • Sponsored Content

These insect-built homes are a colourful commentary on a pervasive gender dynamic. >
Standing Rock: A documentary of resistance in the US

Design News • 11 Nov 16 • Sponsored Content

A fracked oil pipeline sparks the Standing Rock Sioux Nation to lead the biggest indigenous protest in 100 years. >
Jonas Staal’s alternative parliament in Rojava

Design News • 11 Nov 16 • Sponsored Content

Ushering in the new democracy with politics and art. >
Photo book explores the fallout after Hurricane Sandy

Design News • 11 Nov 16 • Sponsored Content

A New York based photographer will soon release a photo book that explores a family’s journey to recovery after Hurricane Sandy. >
Poisoned Pasts: Shedding light on SA's dubious history

Design News • 11 Nov 16 • Sponsored Content

New exhibition lifts the lid on apartheid government’s most dangerous programme. >
Sedeo: A stool designed for mindfulness

Design News • 10 Nov 16 • Sponsored Content

The collapsable Sedeo stool by Danish studio Fundament Design is crafted by local artisans and has been created to help with meditation and mindfulness. >

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Beam me up, skattie

Design News • 13 Mar 22

The Magolide Collective has launched an AR fashion range >
Live art

Design News • 13 Mar 22

The convention-flouting ICA Live Art Festival is back! >
Reimagining Damascus

Design News • 13 Mar 22

Dioramas of Damascus, made from repurposed materials, tell the story of a fractured Syrian city >
Fired up

Q&A • 13 Mar 22

We chat to Julia Duduzile Mohanoe on swopping accountancy for art >