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A boot camp for your fingers

Design News > Interaction Design

Masashi Kawamura has some fun designing a series of games to get users' fingers ready for the new Intel-powered tablets. >

4 Nov 14
Replicating the mother's womb

Design Frontiers > Industrial Design / Interaction Design

A new infant care system proposes radically improved incubators that transmit the mother's heartbeat, breathing and voice. >

4 Nov 14
David Tlale's second take on Vlisco

Lookbook > African Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design

The South African fashion designer's latest collection juxtaposes lavish Java prints with tailored structure at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Africa. >

3 Nov 14
Making a city desired

Design News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking / Urban & Landscape Design

The "City Desired" exhibition explores issues of city making and contemporary urbanism through the lens of Cape Town. >

1 Nov 14
Architecture and Water (Part 2): Gentrification machine?

FilmFestFriday > Architecture & Interiors / Film & Animation

The second of a three-part documentary series explores the gentrification along the Thames driven by desirable riverside living. >

31 Oct 14
"The World's Pain" by Black Vulcanite

Track of the Week > African Design / Music & Sound Design

Track of the Week describes the difficulties of a life dedicated to music in insightful rhymes with back-up from an immaculate jazz sample. >

30 Oct 14
SEA ME by Nienke Hoogvliet

Product Spotlight > Product Design

This Dutch designer trades traditional textiles for yarn made from sea algae woven into a luxurious rug. >

30 Oct 14
City hacks for #makechange

Lookbook > Art & Photography

Our Instagram competition to win a copy of Andrew Shoben's book closes on Friday. Here are some of the entries so far. >

29 Oct 14
Shining a light on workers’ safety

Design Frontiers > Product Design

The new Halo Light is a multi-task light that ensures construction workers are visible from 600 metres away. >

28 Oct 14
Tastes like the Voortrekker Monument

Lookbook > Craft / Graphic Design & Illustration

As an ode to their hometown, a group of designers recreates the city of Pretoria in icing sugar, nougat, coconut and biscuits. >

28 Oct 14
First Smart Highway goes live

Design News > Interaction Design

Daan Roosegaarde’s much-anticipated Smart Highway has been built on a stretch of the R329 in Oss, the Netherlands. >

25 Oct 14
Architecture and Water (Part 1): A River Runs Through It

FilmFestFriday > Architecture & Interiors / Urban & Landscape Design

The first of a three-part documentary series asserts that water management is as much a political issue as it is an urban planning one. >

24 Oct 14
Island style

Lookbook > Product Design

The bespoke furniture collection that put Fogo Island on the map is now available globally. >

24 Oct 14
Catching up with Kesivan & The Lights

Track of the Week > African Design / Music & Sound Design

Our music writer, Shiba Mazaza, talks to prolific drummer Kesivan Naidoo about his new EP "Brotherhood" before he heads to Carnegie Hall. >

23 Oct 14
On their knees

Lookbook > Craft / Product Design

We Make Carpets, a trio of Dutch artists, recreates 50 of their 'temporary' carpets out of everyday objects for Dutch Design Week 2014. >

22 Oct 14
Bye Bye Bunny by Victoria Verbaan

Product Spotlight > Product Design

Victoria Verbaan’s latest range of products bring her paintings to life. >

21 Oct 14
13 Ideas to stop global warming

Design News > Industrial Design / Information Design / Interaction Design / Product Design

IDEO's latest "Designs On" semi-annual review brings together some unusual solutions to fighting the warming of our planet. >

20 Oct 14
Lab Vases by Wiid Design and Ceramic Matters

Product Spotlight > African Design / Product Design

Collaboration was the catalyst for this new creative experiment by a furniture designer and two ceramicists. >

20 Oct 14
The face of the future

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Graphic Design & Illustration / Industrial Design / Product Design

The overall winner of the Dutch Design Awards is 'Sweetie', a project that fights sex tourism online through an avatar that has the appearance of a young girl. >

18 Oct 14
Jessica Hische - Like Knows Like

FilmFestFriday > Film & Animation / Graphic Design & Illustration

This short film takes a revealing look at American typographer Jessica Hische's everyday life. >

17 Oct 14
How the Cape Was Made

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography / Craft / Creative Economy / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Product Design

The "Make It New" exhibition traces the Western Cape's indigenous past and contemporary creativity through craft and design. >

16 Oct 14
"Golide" by Sonye

Track of the Week > African Design / Music & Sound Design

Track of Week is a light and catchy love song by Malawian R&B singer-songwriter Sonye. >

16 Oct 14
Using design thinking to help fight Ebola

Design News > Design Activism / Design Thinking

OpenIDEO and USAID launch global call for innovative tools to help health-care workers on the frontlines of the virus. >

15 Oct 14
A toy that teaches empathy

Design Frontiers > Creative Economy / Product Design

Canadian industrial designer Ilana Ben-Ari’s puzzle game teaches the creative skills children won’t find in textbooks. >

15 Oct 14

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