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MOAD's newest curator is an accountant

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography / Design Thinking

The Museum of African Design (MOAD) has turned the idea of the "expert curator" on its head with its new exhibition, which is curated by a novice. >

11 Aug 15
Sweat wearable combines tech and body

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Product Design

A researcher has designed a textile coating that analyses the body’s sweat content to warn against dehydration. >

11 Aug 15
Reconnecting to the idea of the udder

Design News > Food Design / Product Design

5.5 Design Studio have created the "Vache à Lait" (Milk Cow) in order to reconnect consumers to the idea of milk coming from the udder. >

11 Aug 15
Images of adolescence in Francesca Allen's "Girls! Girls! Girls!"

Lookbook > Art & Photography

London-based photographer Francesca Allen captures the strength and fragility of female adolescence in her five-year-long series "Girls! Girls! Girls!" >

11 Aug 15
Knocki turns any surface into an all-purpose remote control

Product Spotlight > Interaction Design / Product Design

A new smart device allows you to perform everyday functions with a simple knock on a wall, table or door. >

11 Aug 15
Get lost in the curious maps of Jenni Sparks

Design Frontiers > Graphic Design & Illustration

London-based illustrator Jenni Sparks creates hand-drawn maps that capture the character of the place they describe. >

10 Aug 15 / Brand Collaboration
"The Walking Society" — a Camper retrospective

Lookbook > Fashion & Jewellery Design / Graphic Design & Illustration

New book “The Walking Society” presents a behind-the-scenes look at Camper, the Mallorcan family-owned business, now in its fortieth year. >

10 Aug 15
Creative, eco-friendly packaging with Cleva Lapie

Product Spotlight > Design Activism / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Product Design

Look good and save the world, says planet-friendly company I Scream & Red as it launches its new multipurpose product, Cleva Lapie. >

10 Aug 15
Graphic dresses fashioned out of false fingernails

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Central Saint Martins graduate Anna Goswami repurposes plastic nails from kitsch to couture. >

10 Aug 15
Innovative milk carton designed to combat Sao Paulo water crisis

Product Spotlight > Design Activism / Design Thinking / Product Design

Design students in Sao Paulo, Brazil have designed a milk container that radically reduces the costs of recycling traditional milk cartons. >

10 Aug 15
The future of microorganisms in the built environment

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors / Interaction Design

The "Living Things" installation challenges the way we think about how microorganisms can be integrated and celebrated in the built environment. >

7 Aug 15
Cape Town’s Hotel Verde wins double platinum with innovative green design

Design News > Design Activism / Industrial Design / Urban & Landscape Design

Hotel Verde was awarded a second LEED Platinum Green Building Certification for its ongoing commitment to running an environmentally friendly hotel. >

7 Aug 15
Faith47’s new project "Lay Your Weapons Down"

Design News > Art & Photography / Urban & Landscape Design

The Cape Town artist’s latest work is situated in a creative district of New York City and speaks to the power of human connection. >

7 Aug 15
Zombie surfers riding waves in "Widerstehe Doch Der Sunde"

FilmFestFriday > Film & Animation / Music & Sound Design

Surfing makes you feel alive… even if you are a zombie. >

7 Aug 15
Conservationists call on Coca-Cola to save the planet

Design News > Design Activism / Graphic Design & Illustration

An independent group of altrulists have asked Coke to pump its three billion dollar yearly advertising budget into saving the planet. >

7 Aug 15
Multi-sensory Cotton Candy Theremin

Design News > Food Design / Interaction Design

The act of spinning cotton candy becomes a multi-sensory experience with "feeding designer" Emilie Baltz's Cotton Candy Theremin. >

7 Aug 15
Eskom chic – I got dressed in the dark

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design / Film & Animation

"Eskom Chic – I Got Dressed in the Dark" is a new fashion film where the models get dressed in the blackness of a loadshedding power cut in South Africa. >

6 Aug 15
Plug into solar power in your home

Design Frontiers > Product Design

This plug enables you to use solar power in your home without installing your own solar panels. >

6 Aug 15
Ejector bed literally launches you out of dreamland

Design News > Design Thinking / Product Design

YouTube star and engineer Colin Furze has built a bedframe that rockets you out of bed before you get a chance to hit the snooze button. >

6 Aug 15
South African youth culture according to Thulisizwe Mamba

Design News > African Design / Graphic Design & Illustration

Thulisizwe Mamba, the swank Durban-based illustrator, gives us a preview of the illustrations to expect from his self-published web zine, “Co. Issue.”. >

6 Aug 15
Illustrator sketches the ghosts of projects yet to come

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Artist and illustrator Marta Menacho creates delicate watercolour and ink drawings of imagined works by anonymous artist group Luzinteruptus. >

5 Aug 15
Eco-friendly food carts on the move in the US

Design News > Design Activism / Design Thinking / Product Design

MOVE Systems have designed a food cart that aims to cut harmful emissions by 95 per cent, and they'll be populating the streets of New York soon. >

5 Aug 15
This wearable uses your skin to enhance your body awareness

Next Generation > Design Thinking / Interaction Design

Flair is a wearable that uses the sensors in your skin to enhance your perception of your body and the world around you. >

5 Aug 15
Mumbai's iconic cabs used to showcase emerging designers

Design News > Design Thinking / Graphic Design & Illustration

Young designers are using Mumbai's taxis to take art to the people with the Taxi Fabric project. >

5 Aug 15

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