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Interactive installations turn Toronto's beaches into winter destinations

Design Frontiers > Urban & Landscape Design

Toronto’s beach goers are encouraged to hit the seaside throughout the year.

15 Mar 16
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Fashion house Mille Collines celebrates all things Africa

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

The recent Mille Collines show at AFI MBFW Joburg takes an elegant and contemporary look at ubiquitous African curios.

15 Mar 16
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Auto-focus specs adapts lenses to near and farsighted vision

Design News > Product Design

Deep Optics’ omnifocals automatically adjust focus, providing the wearer with improved vision.

15 Mar 16
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Newly discovered enzyme could change the way we recycle plastic

Design News > Design Activism

Kyoto University researchers are able to cultivate an enzyme that can break down plastic into harmless chemicals.

15 Mar 16
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Township: Photographs depicting life after South African apartheid

Design News > Art & Photography

Anne Rearick’s work documents the lives of people faced with economic hardship, poverty and racism.

15 Mar 16
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Tiny surgical tools inspired by origami

Design Frontiers > Product Design

Researchers were able to do away with bulky surgical parts and rely instead on the principles of origami.

15 Mar 16
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Electronic wastelands raise questions about sustainable design

Design Frontiers > Industrial Design

Photo exhibition E-waste Tsunami calls on designers to think up better ways to deal with e-waste.

14 Mar 16
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Counterspace: Architects investigate Johannesburg’s abandoned mine dumps

Video Interviews > Urban & Landscape Design

Collaborative studio, Counterspace investigates the meaning of lost and found spaces in South Africa’s city of gold.

14 Mar 16
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A pictorial narrative explores the estranged lives of adults

Design News > Information Design

A children’s book for adults, The Well of Being explores life through narrative and illustration.

14 Mar 16
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US digital artist talks representation of minorities in graphic design

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Jeff Manning’s work is inspired by music and informed by the need to represent minorities in graphic design.

14 Mar 16
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EduKick designs football games that teach slum kids maths

Design News > Creative Economy

Community project gets creative with soccer to increase children’s literacy in India.

14 Mar 16
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The Venus Bushfires on storytelling and bridging the middle

Talks > Music & Sound Design

Helen Isibor-Epega, who performs as The Venus Bushfires, is an optimist, dreamer and musical storyteller who uses her art to build bridges across cultures.

11 Mar 16
00:01:12

Trailer: The Venus Bushfires on storytelling and bridging the middle

Trailers > Music & Sound Design

Helen Isibor-Epega, who performs as The Venus Bushfires, is an optimist, dreamer and musical storyteller who uses her art to build bridges across cultures.

11 Mar 16
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Asmara: Unlikely home to Modernist Architecture

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors

Asmara, a city in Eritrea in North East Africa, is an unlikely treasure trove of standing modernist architecture.

11 Mar 16
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Saving a font from extinction

Design Frontiers > Product Design

Reviving a forgotten font designed by Alvin Lustig, an iconic, contemporary American graphic designer.

11 Mar 16
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31 Bits’ holistic business model empowers Ugandan women

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Jewellery brand creates a sustainable income for Ugandan artisans while teaching them skills to become self-reliant.

11 Mar 16
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Experimental street art inspired by the Cape

Design News > Art & Photography

South African illustrator and street artist Anwar Davids aims to make his work accessible all over the world.

11 Mar 16
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A new, sustainable way to make plastic

Design Frontiers > Product Design

Researchers at Stanford have found a way to create sustainable plastic using inedible plant materials.

11 Mar 16
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Wi-Fi trashcans encourage festivalgoers to practise responsible rubbish disposal

Design News > Creative Economy

Indian startup ThinkScream develops a trashcan that provides Wi-Fi connection in exchange for trash.

10 Mar 16
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The Venus Bushfires: Two worlds collide in a Pidgin English opera

Video Interviews > Music & Sound Design

Nigerian-born Helen Isibor-Epega, otherwise known as The Venus Bushfires, is a singer-songwriter who explains why she likes to tick the "other" box.

10 Mar 16
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Graffiti as a tool for liberation in Kabul

Design Frontiers > Design Activism

Liberation and the fight for women's rights through contemporary art and graffiti in Kabul.

10 Mar 16
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UNICEF bicycle initiative helps Ghanaian schoolgirls get to class safely

Design News > Design Activism

Swedish brand Vélosophy teams up with UNICEF to donate its commuter bikes to girls in Ghana.

10 Mar 16
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Rope made out of plastic bottles

Design Frontiers > Product Design

A really handy tool from a runaway Kickstarter campaign.

10 Mar 16
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Multimedia project remembers the forgotten victims of political imprisonment

Design News > Design Activism

Based in Austria, Christoph Lingg documents the forgotten history of political prisoners all over the world.

10 Mar 16

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