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The hidden graphic design behind flags

Design Frontiers > Graphic Design & Illustration

Stories behind flags from an artist’s point of view. >

31 Mar 16
Pressed peat makes for ideal building blocks

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors / Product Design / Urban & Landscape Design

The natural ability of dried peat makes these bioblocks ideal for regulating the interior climates of spaces. >

31 Mar 16
Arrivals and Departures is about the connections between people

Design News > Art & Photography

Human relationships are at the centre of Jacob Aue Sobol’s haunting black and white series. >

31 Mar 16
UCT students appeal for funding for anti-rape device

Design News > Design Activism / Product Design

A team of graduates from the University of Cape Town (UCT) have conceptualised a wearable safety device in response to a spate of rapes, attacks and murders. >

31 Mar 16
Green Product: The Ragbag is made of old tea bags and recycled plastic

Product Spotlight > Product Design

Ragbag accessories and bags are sustainably and ethically made by women in India from old tea bags and recycled plastic bags. >

30 Mar 16
Algae-based water bottle decomposes when empty

Design News > Design Activism

Product design student comes up with a 100 per cent natural alternative to the plastic water bottle. >

30 Mar 16
Collecting desalinated water through fog

Design Frontiers > Product Design

Fog harvesting is a sustainable way to harvest clean water in areas with regular mist. >

30 Mar 16
Sweet Kills: A designer’s impression of the dangers of diabetes

Design News > Art & Photography / Design Activism

Nattakong Jaengsem’s Sweet Kills campaign takes a gory look at the dangers of sweet treats. >

30 Mar 16
New, innovative material inspired by ancient design

Design Frontiers > Product Design

The designs found in Iran’s Kharraqan towers became the unlikely inspiration for an advancement in metamaterials. >

30 Mar 16
Immersive 360-degree world drawn with a permanent marker

Design News > Art & Photography / Graphic Design & Illustration

Accomplished artist Oscar Oiwa exhibits “Oiwa Island 2” at the Setouchi Triennale art festival. >

29 Mar 16
FlipFlic controls your blinds for you

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors / Craft / Product Design

An automated blind controller equipped with light sensors and thermometers controls your blinds for you. >

29 Mar 16
Power plant makes electricity out of cheese

Design News > Industrial Design

Renewable energy group Valbio built a power plant that generates clean energy from a byproduct of cheese production. >

29 Mar 16
Would you chew on meat flavoured gum?

Design News > Design Activism / Food Design

This is one of the meat related questions served up by a temporary conceptual butcher in The Netherlands. >

29 Mar 16
Plantable pencils challenge use-and-chuck-away culture

Design News > Design Activism / Product Design

The Sprout pencil grows into a plant if you place it in a pot. >

29 Mar 16
A squid bacteria lighting solution

Design Frontiers > Product Design

The nocturnal Hawaiian bobtail squid uses bacteria to help it see in the dark and so can we. >

29 Mar 16
3D-printed vase collection upcycles plastic bottles

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors / Product Design

DesignLibero’s 3D-printed vase collection brings beauty to the practice of upcycling. >

28 Mar 16
Buy one give one: A blanket drive from Cape Town

Design Frontiers > Craft / Product Design

Umbala blankets are designed and locally manufactured by a studio that donate a blanket to a baby in need for every blanket they sell. >

28 Mar 16
Pedestrian and bicycle tunnel opens underneath Amsterdam Central station

Design Frontiers > Urban & Landscape Design

A beautiful and advanced tunnel for cyclists and pedestrians has opened underneath Amsterdam. >

25 Mar 16
Cubetto: A coding tutor for kids as young as three

Design News > Interaction Design / Product Design

Cubetto by Primo Toys is a kid-friendly, wooden robot that teaches kids to code in a way they can see and touch. >

25 Mar 16
Blurring the lines between art, architecture and design

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors / Product Design

A design studio in Italy known for their anamorphic art have painted shape changing mural. >

24 Mar 16
Cape Town set to build its first blind-friendly outdoor park

Design News > African Design / Urban & Landscape Design

A park specially designed to accommodate those with impaired vision - the first of its kind in Cape Town. >

24 Mar 16
William Kentridge celebrates Rome’s history with a 550-metre frieze

Design News > Art & Photography

Using reverse graffiti, William Kentridge will wash his iconic stencils along the banks of the Tiber River in Rome. >

24 Mar 16
Notes on Blindness: A virtual reality experience

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Film & Animation

“Notes on Blindness: Into Darkness” is a virtual reality film created from the audio diaries theologian John Hull kept as he went blind. >

23 Mar 16
“Kenya’s League of Extravagant Grannies”

Design News > Art & Photography

Osborne Macharia’s latest photographic narrative tells the tale of three retired ministers jet-setting around Africa. >

23 Mar 16

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