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Project Alloy: Intel reveals its “merged” reality headset
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The Californian tech company is developing a VR headset with unique versatility.
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25 Aug 16
A visual journey into Central America’s gang violence
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Art & Photography
Photojournalist Donna De Cesare documents the impact of a 30-year struggle in Central America.
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25 Aug 16
XCollektiv: Resisting gentrification through art
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Design Activism
The controversial ‘Wanted’ series continues to both galvanize and provoke.
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25 Aug 16
The Street Store: Pop-up charity for the homeless
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Cape Town’s Street Store uses public spaces to provide clothing for the homeless locally and abroad.
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25 Aug 16
Tired running shoes turned into slippers for school children
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
GreenSole collects old trainers and transforms them into new shoes for rural kids.
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25 Aug 16
Noma: A temporary place called home
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African Design
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Film & Animation
Filmmaker Pablo Pinedo Bóveda’s Noma looks at the struggles of a South African slum community.
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24 Aug 16
Phlur: The new fragrance brand with socially conscious appeal
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Eric Korman believes the cologne industry should start taking ethical responsibility.
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24 Aug 16
Kosovo’s visually arresting road to the Olympics
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Art & Photography
These images capture the Kosovo Olympic team as they prepare to make history.
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24 Aug 16
A bamboo city built for communal living
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Architecture & Interiors
Penda explores the idea of a sustainable urban village made out of bamboo and rope.
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24 Aug 16
Christi du Toit’s ping-pong approach to illustration
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African Design
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Art & Photography
We spoke to South African illustrator Christi du Toit about honing your craft in a competitive industry.
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24 Aug 16
The Hangman: transcending expectations of the armed struggle
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Film & Animation
Directed by SA filmmaker Zwelethu Radebe, “The Hangman” tells the story of a black warder faced with an impossible choice.
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23 Aug 16
The Jolt Sensor: detecting concussions in young athletes
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Design Thinking
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Product Design
This thumb-sized, wearable sensor is making sport safer.
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23 Aug 16
Catch an autonomous flying drone to work
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Industrial Design
Airbus shares plans to develop autonomous flying vehicles in response to land-based traffic congestion.
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23 Aug 16
China opens record-breaking transparent bridge
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Architecture & Interiors
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Industrial Design
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Urban & Landscape Design
The Hunan province is now home to the longest and highest glass-bottomed bridge in the world.
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23 Aug 16
TrackR Bravo: Making lost items a thing of the past
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Information Design
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Product Design
Chris Herbert and his team at Phone Halo have designed a compact tracker device that can be used for practically anything.
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22 Aug 16
BuggyAir: A mobile air pollution tracker
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This air pollution testing kit helps parents make informed decisions about the type of environments they expose their children to.
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22 Aug 16
Buhle Ngaba’s The Girl Without A Sound
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Art & Photography
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Meet the young actress encouraging little girls to own their voice.
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22 Aug 16
Shoey Shoes made entirely from waste materials
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Creative Economy
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Student looks into using material offcuts to create a sustainable range of children’s shoes.
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22 Aug 16
Mapping poverty: getting relief to developing areas
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Design Activism
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Design Thinking
These researchers are using mapping technology to find the world’s poorest areas.
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22 Aug 16
Interior designer Seugnet Herbst challenges the ordinary
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Architecture & Interiors
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Product Design
2016 Emerging Creative Seugnet Herbst challenges ordinary aspects of interior design.
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19 Aug 16
No Man’s Sky: The videogame that conceives galaxies
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Information Design
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Interaction Design
The 2016 offering of Hello Games is pushing the possibilities of open-world gameplay to new stratospheres.
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19 Aug 16
Boombox champions nomadic retail spaces
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Architecture & Interiors
A startup platform that gives emerging businesses access to a public market.
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19 Aug 16
Tiny device uses sunlight to disinfect water
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Design Activism
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Researchers at Stanford University created a tiny device that purifies water in minutes.
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18 Aug 16
Saving the planet with art supplies
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Product Design
The startup turning air pollution into ink.
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18 Aug 16
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