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Saphon Energy creates new wind-harnessing technology

Design Frontiers > Product Design

This Tunisian startup didn’t reinvent the wind turbine; instead, they created a new technology.

3 Mar 16
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Teledisko: The 60s nightlife experience in a phone booth

Design News > Design Thinking

Teledisko is a phone booth upcycled into the world’s smallest nightclub.

3 Mar 16
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Candyfloss characters in comical GIFs with a feminist touch

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Inspired by Instagram artists, Swedish art director Sofia Hydman creates GIFs depicting chubby, confident girls.

3 Mar 16
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Award-winning architecture student Alfie Hope imagines a city floating on bamboo

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Alfie Hope champions water-based urbanism with his proposal to grow floating land with bamboo.

3 Mar 16
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Six things you might not know about Airbnb and its co-founder Joe Gebbia

Design News > Design Thinking

Airbnb's co-founder Joe Gebbia will be speaking at Design Indaba 2017. Here are some things you might not know about this peer-to-peer home-rental start up.

3 Mar 16
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A garden that stretches across Africa

Design Frontiers > Urban & Landscape Design

The Great Green Wall of Africa will be the biggest man-made marvel in the world once completed.

3 Mar 16
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Zami Life: A stool for smart sitting in an age of inactivity

Design News > Product Design

The Zami smart stool promotes healthy living through innovative furniture design.

3 Mar 16
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Free community skatepark in Ethiopia

Design Frontiers > Urban & Landscape Design

A non-profit organisation is building skateparks in rural areas around the globe.

2 Mar 16
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Miniature art scenes inspired by film

Design Frontiers > Product Design

This artist forgets about time when she creates her painstakingly detailed dioramas.

2 Mar 16
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A moss wall that creates clean, green energy

Next Generation > Product Design

Graduate Elena Mitrofanova has designed a modular system that generates electricity from moss.

2 Mar 16
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Concept artist merges Maasai warriors with sci-fi tech

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Rodrigo Galdino imagines what it would look like if traditional Maasai warriors integrated alien tech into their culture.

2 Mar 16
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NASA invites public to send art to space

Design News > Design Thinking

NASA’s upcoming mission to a near-Earth asteroid will take with it artworks submitted by explorers from around the world.

2 Mar 16
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Nursery Fields Forever imagines a preschool where kids learn how to farm

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Rome-based design team wins an architecture award for its new age urban farming school for children.

2 Mar 16
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Agriculture meets architecture in France's urban farm tower

Design News > Design Activism

Built like a staircase, ABF-lab's urban farming structure aims to raise awareness and encourage better living and social responsibility.

1 Mar 16
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Jaun van Wyk: Bringing the art back into architecture

Design Frontiers > Urban & Landscape Design

Cape Town based architect Jaun van Wyk plans to restore architecture to an art form.

1 Mar 16
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3D printed braille maps for navigating interiors

Design News > Interaction Design

Rutgers University researchers hope their new braille maps will become a new standard feature in all public spaces.

1 Mar 16
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Phone booth gets a green makeover

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

Artist transforms a London phone booth into a botanical box to call for the greening up of city spaces.

1 Mar 16
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MIT researchers reveal world's thinnest solar cell

Design Frontiers > Product Design

A team at MIT have created an ultra-thin solar cell that could open up new applications for solar power in the long term.

1 Mar 16
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Tech groups rally in support of migrants

Design Frontiers > Design Activism

Techfugees is a global movement pooling together their resources and skill to aid refugees.

29 Feb 16
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Do The Green Thing urges the film industry to be more environmentally conscious

Design News > Design Thinking

Do The Green Thing relaunches with an attack on Hollywood screenwriters and a few suggestions for how films could be sending a greener message to their viewers.

29 Feb 16
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Kiro'o Games to release first African-inspired action-RPG

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Cameroonian startup Kiro'o Games is set to release the first PC game inspired by African mythology.

29 Feb 16
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Empowering women with skills and business acumen

Product Spotlight > Product Design

WomenWeave is a charitable trust helping artisan weavers trade on the global Market.

29 Feb 16
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Zun Lee’s photographs alternate notions of black fatherhood in America

Design News > Art & Photography

Zun Lee picked up a camera to relieve work stress and ended up capturing a poignant series of photos that challenge stereotypes of black families in America.

29 Feb 16
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Gershad: An app to avoid Iran’s morality police

Design News > Design Thinking

The makers of this app have set out to ease the psychological burden imposed by Iran’s morality police.

29 Feb 16

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Design News • 21 Jun 22

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Q&A • 21 Jun 22

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Design Frontiers • 21 Jun 22

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Design News • 21 Jun 22

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