Design News

Innovative filter destroys pollutants in the air

Design News • 30 May 16 • Sponsored Content

The Molekule air filter uses nano-technology and light to destroy air pollutants at a molecular level. >
Robotic arms and a bit of lycra can change the way concrete is used in design

Design News • 30 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Designers develop a method of fabric-casting concrete into dynamic architectural forms >
Nigerian photographer's romantic visions of Lagos

Design News • 27 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Photographer re-envisions his hometown using light and photographic installations. >
China's futuristic bus allows cars to pass underneath its carriages

Design News • 27 May 16 • Sponsored Content

The Transit Explore Bus was designed to tackle extreme traffic congestion and pollution in China. >
Gamer gets a high-tech bionic limb

Design News • 27 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Packed with gadgets, James Young’s robotic prosthesis also houses a drone. >
ReGen Village: an under-construction utopia of sustainable living

Design News • 27 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Self-sustaining, off-grid village to be built in the Netherlands offers a look at the future of eco-friendly living. >
Ousmane Mbaye turns discarded metals into sculptural furniture

Design News • 26 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Digging through the landfills of Dakar, Ousmane Mbaye sees design materials where others see trash. >
Flood House explores a new typology of responsive architecture

Design News • 26 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Matthew Butcher’s Flood House looks at how future dwellings should be adapted to co-exist with their native environments. >
Tshepo Sedumo’s handmade portable boomboxes

Product Spotlight • 26 May 16 • Sponsored Content

The Johannesburg-based startup Grove Audio creates custom designed wooden boomboxes. >
Kristin-Lee Moolman’s subversive photography challenges gender and the African aesthetic

Design News • 26 May 16 • Sponsored Content

South African photographer Kristin-Lee Moolman creates a separate reality through her work. >
School on Wheels brings education to impoverished children

Design News • 25 May 16 • Sponsored Content

A bus remodelled to become a mobile classroom for children with no access to school facilities in Mumbai. >
Green light: An artistic workshop on the refugee crisis in Europe

Design News • 25 May 16 • Sponsored Content

The project helps refugees escaping persecution and war find acceptance and community. >
Cigarette butt bricks burn away pollution

Design News • 25 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Researchers have found a way to cut down global littering by incorporating cigarette butts into 2.5 per cent of the world's annual brick production. >
WarOnWall: an exhibition on the state of Syria

Design News • 25 May 16 • Sponsored Content

The photographic collection will be displayed on the last remnants of the Berlin Wall. >
Musana Carts: providing clean energy to Kampala’s micro-businesses

Design News • 25 May 16 • Sponsored Content

A US-based company empowers Kampala’s street vendors through their solar powered micro-business cart. >
Vegan leather inspires new sneaker collection

Design News • 24 May 16 • Sponsored Content

A leather made from pineapple leaves inspires Parisian fashion brand’s new shoe line >
Street art and energy inform Kronk’s Zakifo redesign

Design News • 24 May 16 • Sponsored Content

The Zakifo Musik Festival comes to Durban, South Africa with a look inspired by culture, street art and energy. >
AbsorbPlate cuts calories by reducing grease on your plate

Product Spotlight • 24 May 16 • Sponsored Content

The dinner plate’s design has perforations in its surface to trap excess grease. >
Tea shirts: clothing made from tea

Design News • 23 May 16 • Sponsored Content

A tea by-product could be a more sustainable material for clothing manufacture. >
BaseLantern: a new project by BioLite

Product Spotlight • 23 May 16 • Sponsored Content

The BaseLantern portable lantern is designed for off-grid usage. >
Cliff face shelter designed to provide safe passage for refugees

Design News • 23 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Slice Refugee Hospitality Centre proposes an architectural solution to welcoming and hosting migrants that cross seas to seek asylum. >
When world-famous chef Elena Arzak visits South African forager Kobus van der Merwe

Design News • 20 May 16 • Sponsored Content

While award-winning chef Elena Arzak was in SA to present at the Design Indaba Conference, she visited the Paternoster-based forager chef Kobus van de Merwe. >
Mover Kit: Make-it-yourself technology

Design News • 20 May 16 • Sponsored Content

This toy introduces kids to coding and the technology behind their gadgets. >
Spherical garden rolls around looking for sunlight and water

Design News • 20 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Interactive Architecture Lab creates a mobile garden that thinks for itself. >

Pages

From the Archives

Athi and Irma

Q&A • 24 May 22

Finding connections between South Africa’s past and present >
Eye on the prize

Design News • 22 May 22

Mariam Issoufou Kamara, founder of the award-winning Atelier Masōmī, will lead the design of a new museum and cultural centre – Bët-bi – in southwestern Senegal >
Stylin’

Q&A • 22 May 22

Riyaadh Ismail’s sustainable, gender-neutral luxury streetwear redefines Johannesburg street culture >
Story of my life

Q&A • 16 May 22

Njabulo Maseko is on a mission to open doors for the youth to express the power of their inner creativity >