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5 oddball designs for the dinner plate

Design News > Food Design

Where the worlds of cuisine and design-thinking collide. >

30 May 17
What will meat products of the future look like?

Design News > Design Thinking / Food Design

Product designer, Carolien Niebling, delves into the potential shortage of protein-rich food we could face in future. >

16 May 17
Insects: An answer to global hunger?

Design News > Design Activism / Food Design

Could insect farming solve malnutrition problems in developing countries. >

11 May 17
Scientists fight malnutrition with super-shake

Design News > Design Activism / Food Design

Peanut butter, chickpeas and a bit of oil can go a very long way in saving a life. >

5 May 17
Using your eyes to trick your stomach

Design News > Design Thinking / Food Design

Eating designer Marije Vogelzang explores the relationship between the eyes, the stomach and the appetite in her new project, Volumes. >

4 May 17
A photographer and a chef collaborate on this series of deconstructed dishes

Design News > Art & Photography / Food Design

“A good menu is a story, with its own narrative arc. Tension is built and released, emotions are evoked and questions are raised.” >

3 May 17
Shrimps made solely from plants taking plates by storm

Design Frontiers > Food Design

Shrimps from plants - impossible? Not so much. Thanks to one of the leaders in plant-based seafood New Wave Foods, this is now a culinary reality. >

5 Apr 17
Pioneering the future of urban farming

Design News > Food Design

INFARM is a pioneering on-demand farming service that helps cities become self-sufficient in food production, while reducing environmental impact. >

4 Apr 17
Would you drink beer made from sewage water?

Design News > Design Activism / Food Design

A California brewing company has created a ‘delicious’ beer using recycled wastewater. >

27 Mar 17
Refugee chefs share the taste of home

Design News > Food Design

Eat Offbeat: An unprecedented cookbook featuring recipes and stories by refugees now working as chefs in New York City. >

23 Mar 17
MOLD: A focus on the future of food

Design Frontiers > Food Design

This new independent publication focusses on the future of food and how design can help feed a hungry planet. >

22 Mar 17
Ants on a Shrimp

Design News > Film & Animation / Food Design

“What happens when the world’s most acclaimed restaurant picks up and moves halfway across the world?” >

8 Feb 17
A Couple of Little Things: A performative installation

Design News > Food Design

An interactive food installation by eating designer Marije Vogelzang. >

6 Feb 17
A new way to experience the township of Khayelitsha

Design News > Creative Economy / Food Design

Food as a way to experience a South African township. >

3 Feb 17
Siba Mtongana

Siba Mtongana is a South African celebrity chef and food writer. >

31 Jan 17
Watch: South Africa's Spinach King talks healthy living

Video Interviews > African Design / Food Design

South African social entrepreneur Lufefe Nomjana, known as the Spinach King, opened the first health food cafe in Khayelitsha township. >

17 Jan 17
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Design News > Design Thinking / Food Design

This facility safeguards the building blocks of agriculture. >

5 Jan 17
The dummy's guide to cricket fondue

Design News > Food Design / Product Design

Would we be more willing to eat insects if the recipes came with specially designed cutlery and cooking utensils? >

6 Dec 16
Michael Elegbedé: The taste of Nigeria

Video Interviews > African Design / Food Design

Nigerian chef Michael Elegbedé is opening a restaurant in Lagos that tells the stories of Nigeria through unique flavours and local ingredients. >

1 Dec 16
Do insects like the way we taste?

Design News > Design Thinking / Food Design

To Flavour Our Tears places humans on the other end of the food chain. >

21 Nov 16
A delicious way to die

Design News > Art & Photography / Food Design

This surreal cookbook details the most heavenly ways to enter the afterlife. >

14 Nov 16
Chivas Regal

Chivas Regal is a proud supplier of Design Indaba. >

11 Nov 16
Student thesis initiates award-winning community food project

Next Generation > Design Thinking / Food Design

Blank Plate: The culinary design curriculum helping to navigate life in a ‘food desert’. >

27 Oct 16
The cross pollination of fungi and fowls

Video Interviews > African Design / Design Activism / Food Design

A Belgian chicken artist and a Zimbabwean social entrepreneur find ways to work together through chickens and mushrooms. >

24 Oct 16

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