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Last chance to enter the A’ Design Awards

Entries are still open for all categories of the prestigious A’ Design Awards. >
Echosight: Changing the way we retell global stories

Echosight uses multiple exposure to compare and contrast visual stories from around the world. >
Enter your best designs to the A' Design Awards & Competition

There’s still time for you to enter your best designs into the prestigious A' Design Awards & Competition 2016. >
Design Indaba's Global Graduates – these are the ones to watch

We'd like to introduce you to the talented Global Graduates who’ll be presenting their work at the Design Indaba Conference 2016. >
A' Design Awards is calling for entries across all design categories

A' Design Award calls for entries in industrial design, architecture, interior design, furniture, lighting and building materials. >
Who are the best designers in the world?

83 countries are ranked in arts, architecture and design based on the number of design awards won, with the United States taking the top position. >
Flying solar farm generates energy around the clock

Solar balloons generate energy where clouds cannot interfere with their efficiency. >
Space habitation could begin with a village on the moon

The ESA plans to send huge 3D printers to space to build a village on the moon. >
Paper Prison lets the user experience Mandela’s Robben Island cell

The Mandela inspired Paper Prison lauded as one of this year’s most creative designs, according to AIGA. >
LibraryBox is open source tech made easy

The LibraryBox bridges the gap of information delivery in developing nations without internet access. >
How should we be responding to the migrant "crisis"?

The movement of displaced and refuged humans across the world will surely define this decade. We ask prominent design thinkers their thoughts on how to help. >
The design, art and fashion communities respond to the migrant crisis

The movement of displaced humans across the world will surely define this decade. We ask prominent design thinkers their thoughts on how to help. >
Ethical Things: A look at the morality of smart devices

What happens when the smart devices we’ve become accustomed to are forced to make moral decisions? >
AMIE: The next generation in off-the-grid living

This off-the-grid shelter is 3D-printed and powered by a mobile power source. >
Tactum: Design 3D creations using light projection directly on the body

Light projected onto the body becomes a straight-to-print design tool with Tactum. >
Icon's underwear line tackles incontinence in women

Icon's new underwear line seeks to help women who suffer from light incontinence after childbirth. >
Photographer captures the tensions revealed by devastating floods

Floodwaters are both devastating and inspirational for photographer Gideon Mendel. >
Healthcare wearable provides stats at a glance

Vivi makes it possible for a surgeon to check a patient’s vitals without looking away. >
Could the future of sex be robotics?

Tech advancements have seen the development of the most lifelike humanoids to date, but what does this mean for the relationship between man and machine? >
How open-source software helped end ebola in Sierra Leone

Salton Massally, CTO of iDT Labs, writes about how open-source software helped fight Ebola in Sierra Leone and what this can mean for West Africa. >
Emoji keyboard highlights the plight of refugees

Virtual emoji keyboard lets the social media generation show they care about the plight of refugees. >
Yangon Bakehouse upskills Myanmese women to start their own businesses

A coffee shop in Yangon empowers disadvantaged women in Myanmar with its food and beverage training programme. >
The rise of tech and innovation in Africa

The tech and startup scene in Africa is burgeoning. Now innovation is being taught in schools, with the help of the LEGO Education Innovation Studios. >
The Drinkable Book can provide clean drinking water for a year

The pages of The Drinkable Book, developed by Dr Theresa Dankovitch, work as safe water filters and provide the vital information on waterborne diseases. >

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