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The CSPS medical centre at Burkina Faso’s Opera Village is now open

Design News • 13 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Kéré Architecture’s Opera Village in Burkina Faso uses cultural identity and pride as a tool for positive development. It now includes a medical centre. >
Biofuels company Fulcrum powers aircrafts with household garbage

Design News • 13 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

The largest producer of aviation biofuels, Fulcrum BioEnergy aims to provide an alternative to petroleum by converting household garbage into jet fuel. >
Chronicle releases scientific guide to Marijuana

Product Spotlight • 13 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Marijuana is no longer associated with stoners, proves Chronicle with the release of “Green: A Field Guide to Marijuana”. >
New wearable panic button

Design News • 13 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Wearsafe is a safety device and app designed to instantly alert and connect your friends or family in an emergency. >
Sue Sylvester paints her country into cloth

Design News • 12 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

South African artist Sue Sylvester creates hand-painted fabrics inspired by a love of her home. >
These astronauts-cum-farmers have grown the first vegetables in space

Design News • 12 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

According to these “space farmers”, the first vegetables ever grown, harvested and eaten in space are quite delicious. >
MOAD's newest curator is an accountant

Design News • 11 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

The Museum of African Design (MOAD) has turned the idea of the "expert curator" on its head with its new exhibition, which is curated by a novice. >
Reconnecting to the idea of the udder

Design News • 11 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

5.5 Design Studio have created the "Vache à Lait" (Milk Cow) in order to reconnect consumers to the idea of milk coming from the udder. >
Images of adolescence in Francesca Allen's "Girls! Girls! Girls!"

Lookbook • 11 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

London-based photographer Francesca Allen captures the strength and fragility of female adolescence in her five-year-long series "Girls! Girls! Girls!" >
Knocki turns any surface into an all-purpose remote control

Product Spotlight • 11 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

A new smart device allows you to perform everyday functions with a simple knock on a wall, table or door. >
"The Walking Society" — a Camper retrospective

Lookbook • 10 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

New book “The Walking Society” presents a behind-the-scenes look at Camper, the Mallorcan family-owned business, now in its fortieth year. >
Creative, eco-friendly packaging with Cleva Lapie

Product Spotlight • 10 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Look good and save the world, says planet-friendly company I Scream & Red as it launches its new multipurpose product, Cleva Lapie. >
Graphic dresses fashioned out of false fingernails

Design News • 10 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Central Saint Martins graduate Anna Goswami repurposes plastic nails from kitsch to couture. >
Innovative milk carton designed to combat Sao Paulo water crisis

Product Spotlight • 10 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Design students in Sao Paulo, Brazil have designed a milk container that radically reduces the costs of recycling traditional milk cartons. >
Cape Town’s Hotel Verde wins double platinum with innovative green design

Design News • 7 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Hotel Verde was awarded a second LEED Platinum Green Building Certification for its ongoing commitment to running an environmentally friendly hotel. >
Faith47’s new project "Lay Your Weapons Down"

Design News • 7 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

The Cape Town artist’s latest work is situated in a creative district of New York City and speaks to the power of human connection. >
Conservationists call on Coca-Cola to save the planet

Design News • 7 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

An independent group of altrulists have asked Coke to pump its three billion dollar yearly advertising budget into saving the planet. >
Multi-sensory Cotton Candy Theremin

Design News • 7 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

The act of spinning cotton candy becomes a multi-sensory experience with "feeding designer" Emilie Baltz's Cotton Candy Theremin. >
Eskom chic – I got dressed in the dark

Design News • 6 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

"Eskom Chic – I Got Dressed in the Dark" is a new fashion film where the models get dressed in the blackness of a loadshedding power cut in South Africa. >
Ejector bed literally launches you out of dreamland

Design News • 6 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

YouTube star and engineer Colin Furze has built a bedframe that rockets you out of bed before you get a chance to hit the snooze button. >
South African youth culture according to Thulisizwe Mamba

Design News • 6 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Thulisizwe Mamba, the swank Durban-based illustrator, gives us a preview of the illustrations to expect from his self-published web zine, “Co. Issue.”. >
Illustrator sketches the ghosts of projects yet to come

Design News • 5 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Artist and illustrator Marta Menacho creates delicate watercolour and ink drawings of imagined works by anonymous artist group Luzinteruptus. >
Eco-friendly food carts on the move in the US

Design News • 5 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

MOVE Systems have designed a food cart that aims to cut harmful emissions by 95 per cent, and they'll be populating the streets of New York soon. >
Mumbai's iconic cabs used to showcase emerging designers

Design News • 5 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Young designers are using Mumbai's taxis to take art to the people with the Taxi Fabric project. >

From the Archives

Pavilions on a pedestal

Design News • 17 Apr 22

Architectural pavilions can take creativity to the next level – but what makes a pavilion truly great? >
The sound of silence

Design News • 17 Apr 22

Two Dutch designers create 'silent rooms' where care-home inhabitants can process the experience of loss >
A virtual leap for the lab

Q&A • 17 Apr 22

Self-taught game developer Mbangiso Mabaso employs augmented and virtual reality to enliven the science lab for learners >
Art across time

Design News • 17 Apr 22

Chinese-Australian artist Renee So’s exhibition at the CAMPLE LINE gallery in rural Scotland explores history in multiple forms >

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