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Spyce: healthy meals with the speed and ease of fast food

Design Frontiers > Product Design

Designed by students, the machine makes a healthy meal as quick and easy as fast food.

31 May 16
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Photographer presents a bird’s-eye view of inequality in Cape Town

Design News > Design Activism

Johnny Miller’s photographic series shows that Apartheid spatial planning is still present in South Africa’s Mother City.

31 May 16
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Photographer Martha Tadesse captures her Ethiopian truth

Design News > Art & Photography

Ethiopian photographer Martha Tadesse hopes to share images of her travels through Addis Ababa with the world.

30 May 16
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Cheap, effective, mosquito killing soap

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

Two African innovators have created a cheap soap to combat Malaria in the developing world.

30 May 16
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Luzinterruptus illuminates social issues using light and photography

Design News > Interaction Design

The anonymous collective Luzinterruptus is creating illuminating installations with light.

30 May 16
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Margrethe Odgaard’s work is full of colour, creativity and compassion

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Margrethe Odgaard is celebrated for her contributions to Nordic art and design.

30 May 16
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Innovative filter destroys pollutants in the air

Design News > Product Design

The Molekule air filter uses nano-technology and light to destroy air pollutants at a molecular level.

30 May 16
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Robotic arms and a bit of lycra can change the way concrete is used in design

Design News > Industrial Design

Designers develop a method of fabric-casting concrete into dynamic architectural forms

30 May 16
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Nigerian photographer's romantic visions of Lagos

Design News > Art & Photography

Photographer re-envisions his hometown using light and photographic installations.

27 May 16
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China's futuristic bus allows cars to pass underneath its carriages

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

The Transit Explore Bus was designed to tackle extreme traffic congestion and pollution in China.

27 May 16
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Gamer gets a high-tech bionic limb

Design News > Product Design

Packed with gadgets, James Young’s robotic prosthesis also houses a drone.

27 May 16
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ReGen Village: an under-construction utopia of sustainable living

Design News > Design Activism

Self-sustaining, off-grid village to be built in the Netherlands offers a look at the future of eco-friendly living.

27 May 16
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Smart earpiece translates languages in real-time

Design Frontiers > Product Design

Pilot is an earpiece that translates conversations as they happen.

27 May 16
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Ousmane Mbaye turns discarded metals into sculptural furniture

Design News > Craft

Digging through the landfills of Dakar, Ousmane Mbaye sees design materials where others see trash.

26 May 16
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Pia Nyakairu: Designing a device to improve remote care for cancer patients

Video Interviews > Interaction Design

Ugandan-born industrial design graduate Pia Nyakairu has designed a device that helps physiotherapists and doctors offer distance care to cancer patients.

26 May 16
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Flood House explores a new typology of responsive architecture

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Matthew Butcher’s Flood House looks at how future dwellings should be adapted to co-exist with their native environments.

26 May 16
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Tshepo Sedumo’s handmade portable boomboxes

Product Spotlight > Music & Sound Design

The Johannesburg-based startup Grove Audio creates custom designed wooden boomboxes.

26 May 16
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DoruNsimba: a design collaboration reintroducing Africa to the world

Design Frontiers > Fashion & Jewellery Design

A collaboration of two African-born creatives hopes to change perceptions of the African continent through their work.

26 May 16
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Kristin-Lee Moolman’s subversive photography challenges gender and the African aesthetic

Design News > Art & Photography

South African photographer Kristin-Lee Moolman creates a separate reality through her work.

26 May 16
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School on Wheels brings education to impoverished children

Design News > Design Activism

A bus remodelled to become a mobile classroom for children with no access to school facilities in Mumbai.

25 May 16
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Studio [D] Tale: Design for social impact in emerging economies

Video Interviews > Architecture & Interiors

We talk to cross-continental architecture and design studio Studio [D] Tale about innovation in the everyday, especially in emerging economies.

25 May 16
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Green light: An artistic workshop on the refugee crisis in Europe

Design News > Product Design

The project helps refugees escaping persecution and war find acceptance and community.

25 May 16
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Cigarette butt bricks burn away pollution

Design News > Product Design

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.

25 May 16
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WarOnWall: an exhibition on the state of Syria

Design News > Design Activism

The photographic collection will be displayed on the last remnants of the Berlin Wall.

25 May 16

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Design Frontiers • 21 Jun 22

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Design News • 21 Jun 22

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