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A novel way to listen to music by Gemma Roper

Design News > Music & Sound Design / Product Design

Product designer Gemma Roper has designed a satisfyingly simple device that allows you to select music according to tempo or beats per minute. >

8 Jul 15
Just a Band of Kenyan electro-heads

Next Generation > Music & Sound Design

Jepthumba talks to Kenyan electronic music makers Just a Band, whose popularity has been growing since their 2008 debut album "Scratch to Reveal". >

8 Jul 15
Chris the Pencil brings us a different kind of weather report

Lookbook > Graphic Design & Illustration

A Cape Town graphic designer is documenting Cape Town’s vacillating weather patterns and his accompanying moods in a bold design-a-day project. >

7 Jul 15
Glasses enable doctors to see malignant cancer cells in the dark

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

A Nigerian scientist working in the United States has won the prestigious St. Louis Award for his ground-breaking cancer-visualisation glasses. >

7 Jul 15
Light Echoes installation arrives at the Barbican Curve Gallery

Design News > Art & Photography / Film & Animation / Interaction Design

Aaron Koblin and Ben Tricklebank’s artwork “Light Echoes” envelopes the Barbican Curve Gallery in an immersive light experience. >

7 Jul 15
Toast and a hug from RCA graduate

Product Spotlight > Product Design

London-based designer Ted Wiles designed a toaster that only works when you give it a hug in an attempt to make its users happy. >

7 Jul 15
A bikini that helps protect wearers from harmful UV

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

Spinali Design’s new bikini helps women monitor their sun exposure responsibly. >

7 Jul 15
A glass bubble transforms in motion

Product Spotlight > Product Design

"Holon" is an intriguing glass sculpture created by Dutch designers Jetske Visser and Michiel Martens. >

6 Jul 15
Six key collections from South African Menswear Week

Lookbook > African Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design

From soft pastel hues to bold silhouettes, menswear designers in Africa have adopted a new confidence. >

6 Jul 15
Ripe Near Me takes the local organic food market online

Design News > Food Design / Interaction Design

Get fresh fruit and veg from the neighbours via an app that encourages homegrown food sharing. >

6 Jul 15
Jack Lennie designs a motorbike you can download

Next Generation > Design Thinking / Industrial Design / Product Design

Tinker is a downloadable, no weld, motorcycle kit designed by Edinburgh Napier University graduate Jack Lennie >

6 Jul 15
Ninjabreadboy confronts the dark drinking culture of the Winelands

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

"Late Harvest" confronts the problem of alcohol dependency within the farming communities juxtaposed against the beautiful Cape Winelands. >

3 Jul 15
Julia Veldman’s short captures the madness of Russian Absurdism

FilmFestFriday > Art & Photography / Film & Animation / Graphic Design & Illustration

"Andrej”, a short film illustrated and animated by Julia Veldman, is inspired by the literature of Russian absurdists. >

3 Jul 15
Lady Skollie’s latest exhibition is a manifestation of her desires

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

“Ask for What You Want” is a provocative exploration of the nature of human sexual desire by Cape Town-based artist Lady Skollie. >

2 Jul 15
Pink Intruder builds a cardboard pavilion in Valencia’s town square

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Interaction Design

The Ekklesia pavilion was assembled in the centre of a crossroads in the Spanish city of Valencia to coincide with the annual Falla festival. >

2 Jul 15
The power of Icelandic crystals are captured in the 101.86° light

Product Spotlight > Interaction Design / Product Design

Thomas Vailly and Laura Lynn Jansen examine the colourful nature of crystals to create layers of colourful illumination. >

1 Jul 15
Portraits of Afghan women imprisoned for “moral” crimes

Design Frontiers > Art & Photography / Design Activism

Photographer Gabriela Maj gained direct access to female prisoners in Afghanistan after being overlooked by guards. >

1 Jul 15
Celebrating fifteen years of Serpentine Pavilions

Design News > Design Thinking / Graphic Design & Illustration

To celebrate 15 years of the Summer Pavilion, the Serpentine Galleries have teamed up with Pentagram to launch a digital platform and campaign. >

30 Jun 15
Smart Specs offers a visual aid to the legally blind

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

Smart Specs are new augmented reality smart glasses designed by Oxford University research fellow Dr Stephen Hicks. >

30 Jun 15
Sci-fi psychedelic cover art for Nozinja’s debut album

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography / Design Thinking / Graphic Design & Illustration / Music & Sound Design

Los Angeles-based design duo Oval-X channels the spirit of South African townships and “Shangaan electro” to create covert art for Nozinja’s debut album. >

30 Jun 15
Disaster Playground premieres in London on World Asteroid Day

Design News > Film & Animation / Interaction Design

The premiere of the film Disaster Playground by Nelly Ben Hayoun opened today at the BMI in London. Not coincidentally it's also World Asteroid Day. >

30 Jun 15
Rainbow-coloured gobbledygook by Joseph Atkinson

Next Generation > Film & Animation / Graphic Design & Illustration

Cheeky Scottish illustrator-cum-animator Joseph Atkinson trawls the underbelly of the internet for inspiration. >

29 Jun 15
Whose fish is this? The Cannes Lion 2015 controversy

Design News > Design Activism

A little iron fish added to a pot of food stirred up controversy at the Cannes Lion Awards Festival this year. >

29 Jun 15
A rap music video rendered in watercolours

Design News > Art & Photography / Film & Animation / Music & Sound Design

There are an amazing 24 watercolour paintings per second in this animation by Youth Experimental Studio for Kool A.D. >

29 Jun 15

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