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Mushrooming with bio-waste is booming in Ghana

Design News > Creative Economy

The cultivation of mushrooms from vegetable peels could improve health and economy in Ghana.

25 Aug 15
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Géraldine Biard's designs relieve dementia sufferers

Product Spotlight > Product Design

French designer Géraldine Biard’s new furniture collection aims to relieve the stress of dementia.

25 Aug 15
00:25:20

The late Larry Harvey on the creation of Burning Man Festival

Talks > Creative Economy

It's Burning Man this week. The festival's 2018 iteration takes place between 25 August and 3 September. We look back at the founder's Design Indaba Talk.

25 Aug 15
00:00:52

Trailer: Larry Harvey on how Burning Man festival created art with a social purpose

Trailers > Creative Economy

Burning Man’s founder Larry Harvey describes how the festival of arts is driven by a strange combination of jeopardy and awe.

25 Aug 15
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Lisa Firer creates organic forms in her handcrafted porcelain designs

Design News > Craft

Woodstock-based potter Lisa Firer creates ceramics that are inspired by the tactility of hand-rolling and hand-embossing clay.

25 Aug 15
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Infiniti's incredible From Pencil to Metal 360° video

Design News > Product Design

Sit in the driver's seat as the QX30 concept car is created around you.

24 Aug 15/ Advertorial
00:04:35

Ali Ali: Unconventional Advertising

Video Interviews > Film & Animation

Ali Ali, film director and founder of Egyptian agency Elephant, explains how small, unconventional agencies can leave the bigger advertising agencies behind.

24 Aug 15
00:01:01

The buildings of Waterbank School in Kenyan harvest rainfall for the community

Design News > Design Thinking

The architecture of the Waterbank campus in Kenya is built to collect, store and filter water for irrigation use while serving as a school for children.

24 Aug 15
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People in rural India can generate electricity during their daily walk with Jhoule

Next Generation > Product Design

Parsons graduate Yogita Agrawal has designed Jhoule, a device that gives rural communities in India a reliable source of energy by harnessing their daily walk.

24 Aug 15
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Eco-friendly glass paint to keep metal roofs cool

Product Spotlight > Product Design

Scientists have developed a glass paint that will keep metal cool in the harshest of summer days.

24 Aug 15
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Nebia shower head uses 70 per cent less water

Product Spotlight > Product Design

A Kickstarter-funded shower system could reduce water wastage in the drought-stricken US.

24 Aug 15
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Burning Man Festival calls out to urban designers

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

The Black Rock City Ministry of Urban Planning has put a call out to urban designers to reimagine the Burning Man Festival’s temporary city design.

24 Aug 15
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Miniature robots made from waste electronic chips and wires

Design News > Product Design

Singapore and Malaysia-based industrial designer Anthony Oh recycles electric parts into miniature robot sculptures.

24 Aug 15
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Google's Project Sunroof brings solar panels to your doorstep

Design News > Information Design

Google has unveiled Project Sunroof, a tool to determine how much money you could save with solar panels.

21 Aug 15
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This is not a joke: this man is a cyborg

FilmFestFriday > Film & Animation

Born colour-blind, Neil Harbisson invented an antenna that converts colour into sound and had it implanted into his skull. Now he’s officially a cyborg.

21 Aug 15
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Design for disabilities: Rayn Jacket, DrumPants TAPS and BeamPro

Design News > Product Design

These three designs — Rayn Jacket, DrumPants TAPS and BeamPro — reveal how assistive technology is changing the lives of those living with disabilities.

21 Aug 15
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Scientists at MIT have mastered the process of 3D printing glass

Design News > Product Design

Glass, a mysterious amorphous solid, is the latest material to be 3D printed by scientists at MIT's Mediated Materials Group lab.

21 Aug 15
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How tech and social media can connect a family

Design News > Art & Photography

A grandfather learns how to use Instagram to send drawings to his grandchildren living abroad.

21 Aug 15
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Humanity, animality and nonsense in Wilma Cruise's etchings

Design News > Art & Photography

South African sculptor and visual artist Wilma Cruise investigates verbal and nonverbal communication in her nonsense-inspired creations.

21 Aug 15
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Cyrus Daruwala's Painful People satirises Mumbai's most annoying commuters

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Author and illustrator Cyrus Daruwala addresses Mumbai's pain-in-the-neck residents in his new handmade book.

21 Aug 15
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Designer Terry Angelos creates by merging nature and humour

Product Spotlight > Product Design

South African artist Terry Angelos designs wall art and homeware using nature and her quirky side as inspiration.

21 Aug 15
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Family builds self-sufficient floating home

Design News > Design Thinking

Over the last twenty years, a Canadian family have assembled a floating home made up of living quarters fortified by greenhouses.

20 Aug 15
00:04:05

Naeem Biviji: The importance of sourcing materials locally

Video Interviews > Architecture & Interiors

Sourcing local materials allows Studio Propolis to define a regional form of architecture and product that has it’s own character says co-founder Naeem Biviji.

20 Aug 15
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A doctor in the Gaza strip is 3D printing medical tools

Design News > Product Design

A conflict-zone doctor in the Gaza strip is 3D printing low-cost medical tools to help improve vital care in the area.

20 Aug 15

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