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Solar Foods is growing food out of air

Design Frontiers > Food Design

This edible protein promises a future of meat-free lasagna or dairy-free drinks made using carbon dioxide captured from the air.

16 Jul 19
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Tandekile Mkize on unafraid self-expression using film, photography and fashion

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Tandekile Mkize gives us an inside look into his bold and unapologetic work, which he exhibited at Design Indaba Festival 2019

15 Jul 19
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Designing kangas that celebrate queer love

Design Frontiers > Graphic Design & Illustration

Artist and LGBTQ+ activist Kawira Mwirichia is reclaiming the culturally significant garment to celebrate queer love in Kenya.

15 Jul 19
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Argentinian artist uses 100, 000 banned books to build a monument

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Conceptual artist Marta Minujín has created a full-scale replica of the Parthenon – one of the world’s most famous structures.

14 Jul 19
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The Algae Dome imagines a future of architecture-powered food

Design Frontiers > Food Design

Where sustainable food design and public architecture intersect.

14 Jul 19
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The whimsical illusions of Moography

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

This visual artist turns the common smartphone into an eccentric, interactive toy.

13 Jul 19
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A revival of stone architecture in Palestine

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

This sculptural project brings together ancient stonework and cutting-edge design methods.

12 Jul 19
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Could this convenient bug harvesting design make insect-based diets popular?

Design Frontiers > Product Design

Living Farms is being spearheaded by Austrian multidisciplinary designer, Katharina Unger.

12 Jul 19
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City residents are helping design public space with Minecraft

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

The popular video game has proven a useful tool for community engagement.

12 Jul 19
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Why Mexican squares may be the best public spaces in the world

Design Frontiers > Urban & Landscape Design

Plaza Ciudadela won’t win any design awards, but it accomplishes something far more important: it draws a crowd of all ages.

12 Jul 19
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Hafeez Floris captures the other side of South Africa's townships

Design Frontiers > Art & Photography

His photography shows the more childlike and creative side to people in areas like Manenberg and Soweto.

12 Jul 19
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Skip the trip to the fertility clinic with Yo Home Sperm

Design Frontiers > Product Design

In just a few minutes, this app offers men valuable reproductive information.

11 Jul 19
00:09:55

Is it possible for childbearing to happen outside the human body?

Next Generation > Industrial Design

Billie Rehwald talks about her project Ectogenesis, which is looking at using design as a tool to consider this possible reality.

11 Jul 19
00:02:17

Caroline Smeenk makes it easier for rural women to independently monitor their health

Video Interviews > Product Design

"Antenna helps you broaden your horizons and scope of what you see as design."

11 Jul 19
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Design Indaba Emerging Creatives: Where are they now?

Design News > African Design

We talk to some of the South African creatives who used the programme as a career launchpad.

11 Jul 19
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Celeste Arendse on sustainable and ethical fashion

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

The Cape Town fashion designer has gone from being inspired by Picasso and rock art to more neutral tones with classic silhouettes.

10 Jul 19
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Les Chaises Koubeyni is an artistic response to the concept of hospitality

Design Frontiers > Product Design

In Niger's capital city, Niamey, artists from the city as well as those from Madrid got together to build an amulet to reflect on hospitality.

10 Jul 19
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Mapitso Thaisi talks culture, fashion and recognising Africa's impact

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

The law graduate-cum-designer chats to us about her Basotho inspired swimwear range, Shweshwekini.

10 Jul 19
00:09:09

A future where calling a human stand-in is as easy as calling an Uber

Next Generation > Creative Economy

It’s already possible, but what if it evolves into more than just hiring someone to stand in line, and Other-Self Agency replaces interactions with loved ones?

10 Jul 19
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Atolye on creating a space where community and strategic design meet

Design Frontiers > Product Design

"There are many untapped markets as well as industries that need radical interventions" says architect Nesile Yalcin.

9 Jul 19
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Using unconventional materials to create wearable art

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Shaline Naicker uses photochromic lenses within her work as she focuses on merging technology and fashion.

9 Jul 19
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Grow edible algae in your home

Design Frontiers > Food Design

The Coral is an indoor micro-algae farm designed to welcome algae into our everyday lives.

9 Jul 19
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This lightweight, flexible shoe is made from ‘algae foam’

Design Frontiers > Product Design

VIVOBAREFOOT and Bloom team up on the world’s first shoe made with the material.

8 Jul 19
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Gourmet Grubb makes the world’s first insect-derived dairy alternative

Design News > Food Design

Leah Bessa takes us behind the scenes at her new pop-up restaurant in Woodstock, The Insect Experience by Gourmet Grubb.

8 Jul 19

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