Industrial Design | Design Indaba

Is it possible for childbearing to happen outside the human body?

Next Generation > Design Activism / Design Thinking / Industrial Design

Billie Rehwald talks about her project Ectogenesis, which is looking at using design as a tool to consider this possible reality. >

11 May 18
Plastic-infused concrete could cut cement industry’s carbon emissions

Design News > Design Activism / Industrial Design

After water, concrete is the second most widely used material on Earth. >

30 Apr 18
George Gibbens is using design to tackle South Africa's social problems

Design News > Design Thinking / Industrial Design / Interaction Design / Product Design

The industrial designer has designed a VR device to help the visually impaired, a portable machine to fight shack fires and more. >

26 Apr 18
Robotic traffic officers direct cars on Kinshasa’s roads

Design Frontiers > African Design / Design Thinking / Industrial Design

Solar-powered robotic traffic cops have been “hired” to regulate the disorderly traffic in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. >

18 Apr 18
Six creative crowdfunding projects worth supporting this April

Take Five > Design Thinking / Industrial Design / Product Design

From a wordless graphic novel to a project to turn an olive farm into a retreat for creatives and even a project turning plastic into homeware. >

12 Apr 18
Alexandra Fruhstorfer uses design to find creative solutions for environmental problems

Design Frontiers > Fashion & Jewellery Design / Industrial Design

She explores the impact of alien species through food as well as how to make clothes more sustainable through a different kind of yarn. >

9 Apr 18
Thabisa Mjo on using bold product design to tell stories

Design News > African Design / Industrial Design / Product Design

"I consider design a form of story-telling and design is the medium through which those stories are told." >

5 Apr 18
This designer uses bacteria to make colourful silk scarves

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Industrial Design

Are microorganisms even more useful than we previously thought? >

5 Apr 18
Meet the world's first drone costume designer

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Industrial Design / Product Design

Before industrial designer, Léa Pereyre, started working at Verity Studios the job description of "drone costume designer" did not exist. >

4 Apr 18
Indian studio develops zero-energy, terracotta air conditioner

Design News > Design Thinking / Industrial Design

New-Delhi-based Ant Studio’s clay cooling installation is both beautiful and functional. >

29 Mar 18
What if you could 3D print your own home in a matter of hours?

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors / Industrial Design

The ICON project’s Vulcan printer creates concrete homes in record time. >

19 Mar 18
Oxygene is the plant-based green tyre of the future

Design Frontiers > Industrial Design

Unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show, this innovation could become the norm for automobile design in years to come. >

12 Mar 18
Michael Candy’s 3D-printed flowers could save dwindling bee populations

Design News > Industrial Design

This design intervenes in the risk-prone world of pollination using robotic flowers. >

9 Mar 18
Here are some highlights from Design Indaba 2018!

Design Frontiers > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Art & Photography / Craft / Creative Economy / Design Activism / Design Thinking / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Film & Animation / Food Design / Graphic Design & Illustration / Industrial Design / Information Design / Interaction Design / Music & Sound Design / Product Design / Urban & Landscape Design

This year's Design Indaba was a multi-sensory event that brought together creatives from all over the world. >

7 Mar 18
Nixie Girl rethinks menstrual cups for a new generation

Design News > Industrial Design / Product Design

Redesigning menstrual products to appeal to a younger market. >

6 Mar 18
bioMason grows bricks without using any heat

Design Frontiers > Industrial Design

This method mimics a naturally occurring material called biological cement, much like the process that occurs when coral is formed. >

25 Jan 18
Ini Archibong

Designer. >

22 Jan 18
Brenda Livoi on leading Kenya’s largest innovation hub

Design Frontiers > African Design / Industrial Design

The Gearbox mechanical lead chats to us about creating more space for women in the African tech sector. >

19 Jan 18
Tiaan Beukes

Tiaan Beukes is one designer that will not be put in a box when it comes to his designs. >

18 Jan 18
Jona Schilling

The 22 year-old hopes to add his contemporary ceramics to South Africa's design scene. >

18 Jan 18
Leah Bessa

Leah Bessa incorporates insects into delicious foods. >

18 Jan 18
Sifiso Shange

Sifiso Shange is a 26-year-old industrial design. >

18 Jan 18
Kayla Shaban

Kayla Shaban is a 22 year old Industrial product designer who is getting ready to take over the design and business world. >

17 Jan 18
How to build your own prosthetic using LEGO

Design News > Design Thinking / Industrial Design

Carlos Arturo Torres has designed a creative prosthetic system for children to explore and empower their creativity in a playful and social way —using LEGO. >

4 Jan 18

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