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Sleepwear doesn't have to look like something you'd only wear to bed

Design Frontiers > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Alexia Hechter, one of our Design Indaba 2016 Emerging Creatives, creates high-end sleepwear out of wool. >

18 Apr 16
Off-grid library encourages education in remote Tanzania

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Design Activism

Humanitarian architect Patricia Erimescu designed an off-grid library built with recycled and locally sourced materials. >

18 Apr 16
Art as a tool for integration in India

Design News > Art & Photography / Design Activism

The Aravani Art Project’s painted murals work to integrate India’s transgender community. >

18 Apr 16
NeuroLife: A chip that gives movement back to the paralysed

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

Researchers have created a prototype for a medical device that allows a paralysed person to perform basic tasks. >

15 Apr 16
Electric fork simulates salty taste in food

Design News > Product Design

Japanese researcher develops a fork that adds a salty taste to sodium-free food. >

15 Apr 16
Artificially intelligent furniture of the future

Design News > Product Design

Carlo Ratti Associati unveils a digitally transformable sofa that morphs into different forms. >

15 Apr 16
Illustrations show the twists and turns of modern society

Design News > Art & Photography / Graphic Design & Illustration

Polish illustrator Igor Morski uses mixed media and photo manipulation to explore the ills of the world. >

14 Apr 16
PIXO changes the way we use our tablets

Design News > Product Design

Oscar Diaz designs a solution for an everyday tech-related problem we didn’t even know we had. >

14 Apr 16
Innovative origami material paves the way for shape-shifting architecture

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Foldable material designed by Harvard engineers can change its shape, size, and volume. >

14 Apr 16
Moeketsi Lebakeng’s minimal illustrations pay tribute to Africa’s women

Design News > African Design / Graphic Design & Illustration

Moeketsi Lebakeng uses illustration to celebrate his everyday heroes – African women. >

13 Apr 16
Standing wheelchair developed to improve the reach and mobility of a paraplegic person

Design News > Product Design

Rehabilitation team designs an adjustable wheelchair to help paraplegic people be more productive in daily activities. >

13 Apr 16
Water, energy, and internet all in one system

Design News > Design Activism

The Watly system aims to bring the necessities to the developing world using one device. >

13 Apr 16
Korean artist explores “hysteria” in mixed media paintings

Design News > Art & Photography

Confronted with something terrifying, the characters in Yeom Ji-Hee’s work must face their fears. >

13 Apr 16
TippyTalk: Tech that bridges the gap between the disabled and their caregivers

Design News > Interaction Design

Rob Laffan created an app that helps his autistic daughter communicate from anywhere at anytime. >

12 Apr 16
Skin: The next step in wearable tech

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

SkinHaptics is a new innovation that sees the palm of your hand as the next display surface for wearable tech. >

12 Apr 16
A fossil-fuel-free houseboat from an apocalyptic future

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors / Industrial Design / Product Design

Tshepo Mokholo is an architect-turned-designer and his goal is to bring about inner-city change through better design. >

12 Apr 16
The UK’s first transparent solar bus shelter

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

Energy-generating bus shelter sets the standard for solar glass infrastructure in city spaces. >

12 Apr 16
Eco-friendly trap designed to stop spread of virus-carrying mosquitoes

Design News > Product Design

An innovation made from old car tyres helps contain mosquito-related virus outbreaks in Guatemala. >

12 Apr 16
Green Product: From PET bottles to this range of chairs

Product Spotlight > Product Design

The LJ series by Dutch studio De Vorm is a range of chairs and stools that feature a strong, soft felt material that is made of recycled PET bottles. >

11 Apr 16
The Kofe Club Collection: Uniquely Nigerian furniture

Design News > African Design

Product designer Nifemi Marcus-Bello believes small-scale operations can lead to unique, Nigerian designs. >

11 Apr 16
Campaign reconnects refugees with their moms

Design News > Design Activism

Refugee Phones turns commercial radio into personal media for refugees to contact their mothers. >

11 Apr 16
Smart thermometer crowdsources info for real-time health tracking

Design News > Creative Economy / Design Thinking

Kinsa’s Smart Thermometer is able to help individuals and communities map diseases before they spread. >

11 Apr 16
New strategies to improve the consumer experience

Design News > Creative Economy / Design Thinking

The needs of consumers are ever-changing and designers will need to respond. >

8 Apr 16
Grotesque sculptures comment on food waste and production

Design News > Art & Photography

Japanese artist Ayako Fudamoto creates lifelike sculptures of deformed livestock using fake food samples. >

8 Apr 16

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