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Belgian artist creates art out of chickens

Design News > Design Thinking

The Cosmopolitan Chicken project by Koen Vanmechelen uses the living materials collected during chicken cross-breeding to create art.

8 Jul 16
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Floris Kaayk: The Modular Body merges fact and fiction

Design Frontiers > Film & Animation

Filmmaker Floris Kaayk toys with the public’s willingness to believe in the extraordinary.

8 Jul 16
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Design graduate shares her artful take on wood joinery using plastic bottles

Design News > Product Design

Royal College of Art student Micaella Pedros unveils a resourceful technique of making furniture

8 Jul 16
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Sohofama: Farm to table in Hong Kong

Design News > Food Design

At Sohofama restaurant urban farming meets Chinese comfort cuisine with a menu inspired by Chinese doctors and farmers.

7 Jul 16
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SunFire: A 3-part solution for solar cooking

Design News > Design Activism

SA based company’s parabolic solar kits offer a sustainable cooking solution in rural or hard to reach areas of Africa.

7 Jul 16
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Home-grown sanitary pads help treat infections

Design News > Product Design

Growing healthy bacteria in agar jelly, the pads are placed in front of the vagina to balance pH-levels.

7 Jul 16
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Addressing packaging waste one pizza box at a time

Design News > Product Design

GreenBox is a reconfigurable pizza box designed for multiple use

7 Jul 16
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Portraiture encourages pride in a marginalised Bangladeshi community

Design News > Art & Photography

Photographer Samsul Alam Helal’s portraits depict Bangladesh’s oppressed Dalit community.

7 Jul 16
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Photographer chronicles the people of Cape Town’s bustling public transport system

Design News > Art & Photography

Photographer Mads Norgaard spent seven years photographing the people that make up the fringes of Cape Town.

6 Jul 16
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Amahlé’s Ndebele inspired jewellery for a European market

Product Spotlight > Fashion & Jewellery Design

The Africa-inspired jewellery is designed to be sophisticated, yet durable enough for everyday use.

6 Jul 16
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Plastic-bag sculptures critique the treatment of the homeless

Design News > Design Activism

Made in the silhouette of a person crouched on the street, the installation captures London’s response to homeless people.

6 Jul 16
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Producer Ibaaku on the avant-garde in Senegal

Design News > Music & Sound Design

Alien Cartoon marked the birth of a new wave of music in Senegal. Its creator Ibaaku tells us about what inspired the album.

6 Jul 16
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The New Raw: Plastic waste as the new raw material

Design News > Design Activism

A team of creatives based in Greece have launched a new initiative to combat the worst pollutant: plastic waste.

6 Jul 16
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Francois Knoetze on representations of waste and consumer culture

Talks > Art & Photography

Performance artist Francois Knoetze's trash monsters are a bleak and beautiful reflection of our consumer culture and the waste it creates.

5 Jul 16
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How is virtual reality changing the architecture industry?

Inside View > Architecture & Interiors

We talk to the VR specialist at South African architecture and design practice SAOTA about how virtual reality and technology is changing design.

5 Jul 16
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A new channel for the vicarious traveller

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

How Far From Home, speakers from our 2016 Conference, have just launched a video blog for those of us that are seeing the world vicariously through their eyes.

5 Jul 16
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Public art melts away in political protest

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

Created by American design duo LigoranoReese, these ice sculptures show the disintegration of the American Dream.

5 Jul 16
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New smart material reacts to light, heals itself and remembers its shape

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

Researchers at WSU have for the first time developed a smart material with more than one function.

5 Jul 16
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Photobook captures an orphaned elephant’s journey back to the wild

Design News > Design Activism

In a series of black and white photographs, this photo book takes a stand against poaching in Zambia.

5 Jul 16
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What Design Can Do unveils Refugee Challenge winners

Design News > Design Activism

Alongside a conference on design and innovation, What Design Can Do hosted the refugee challenge to address one of the major issues of our time.

4 Jul 16
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WDCD 2016: Here’s what you missed

Design News > Design Thinking

The What Design Can Do conference is an annual display of design innovation. Here’s what you missed from its 2016 iteration.

4 Jul 16
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Bio-bean: Imagine cities powered by coffee waste

Design News > Product Design

Bio-bean is an award-winning clean technology company that recycles waste coffee grounds into advanced biofuels that could replace fossil fuels in cities.

4 Jul 16
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American inventor uses 200-year-old technology to create a cutting-edge engine

Design News > Product Design

By coupling one of NASA’s Stirling engines with electric hybrid technology, Josh MacDowell manages to drive a 100 kilometres on less than three litres of petrol

4 Jul 16
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A medical icon kit for low literacy communities

Next Generation > Graphic Design & Illustration

Graphic design student Jonathan Stannard has won an RSA Design Award for his medical symbol kit to help people in low literacy areas understand their medicines.

4 Jul 16

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