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For the lonely

Design News > Information Design / Interaction Design

A design that incorporates artificial muscle technology could provide a tangible solution for people who are lonely. >

9 Dec 10
Reality check

Design News > Information Design / Interaction Design

Dunne & Raby imagine and speculate about a deconstructed future where teleportation to parallel worlds is possible. >

25 Nov 10
Coded

Design News > Product Design / Information Design / Graphic Design & Illustration / Music & Sound Design

Yuri Suzuki's Barcode Book uses a barcode reader connected to a speaker, together with illustrations, to tell stories. >

15 Nov 10
Interactive Engine

Design News > Information Design / Interaction Design / Architecture & Interiors

Engine 26 is an interactive digital painting project that allows for the manipulation of live video and other cool features. >

14 Nov 10
Case in point

Design News > Information Design / Interaction Design

Type Case is an installation that creates interesting displays with digital pixels of different shapes and sizes. >

11 Nov 10
Fits like a glove

Design News > Information Design

A breakthrough technology? The Keyglove allows the wearer to control keyboard and mouse controls with one hand. >

5 Nov 10
Afronaut

Profiling > Graphic Design & Illustration / Information Design

If Apple won us over with the power of design, could design bring Ubuntu to the masses? Guy Bedford gets geeky with Mark Shuttleworth. >

1 Nov 10
Machine made

Design News > Information Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Mechanical Couture, an exhibition at the Design Musuem Holon examines the relationship between craftmanship and mass production. >

27 Oct 10
Digital view

Design News > Information Design / Interaction Design

Jon Stam’s Imaginary Museum prototype project explores the ways in which we ascribe meaning to our virtual experiences. >

27 Oct 10
Open access

Design News > Information Design / Design Thinking

Women on bicycles, armed with a netbook and medical supplies, are helping to improve the lives of many people in rural Bangladesh. >

25 Oct 10
Digital abstraction

Design News > Information Design / Graphic Design & Illustration

Karim Rashid's latest series of abstract digital works combines his interests in art and scientific thinking. >

12 Oct 10
Swimming success

Design News > Product Design / Information Design

A whale design out of Cape Town’s FabLab has wooed the crowds and impressed the judges at an international FabLab conference in Amsterdam. >

4 Oct 10
Kitchen cool

Design News > Information Design

The new AlessiTab designed by Stefano Giovannoni is the ideal interactive, multimedia device for domestic spaces. >

29 Sep 10
Mobile lifeline

Design News > Information Design / Design Thinking

The Lifeplayer is a new mobile innovation with the potential to dramatically improve the state of education in Africa. >

18 Sep 10
Shin-ichi Takemura: how the internet can address social problems

Talks > Information Design

With the internet making real-time worldwide connections possible, it can be creatively applied to address social problems. >

16 Sep 10
Shaped for solar success

Design News > Information Design / Design Thinking

Custom-shaped solar panels are helping to popularise the use of solar panels because of their flexibility and versatility. >

30 Aug 10
Orchestral innovation

Design News > Information Design / Music & Sound Design

What do you get when you combine maths, physics, digital art, design, electronics and music? A symphony, of sorts. >

1 Jul 10
Pixel power at Basil2010

Design News > Information Design / Interaction Design

A reinterpretation of the pixel creates a new, modular and tangible lighting system. >

28 Jun 10
Taxi!

Design News > Art & Photography / Graphic Design & Illustration / Information Design

South Africa's 12th unofficial language doesn't use words but hand signals. They're fun, useful and give insights into taxi commuting. >

22 Jun 10
Legends of Echo

Design News > Information Design / Interaction Design

The Grid, Vodacom’s Social Mobile Network, recently launched South Africa’s first location-based, multi-player online mobile game. >

12 Jun 10
Afridoctor diagnosing direct from your handset

Design News > Information Design / Design Thinking / Interaction Design

Africa’s first personal mobile health clinic took first place in the Nokia Africa Calling All Innovators application competition. >

10 Apr 10
Play DJ with Spooky iPhone app

Design News > Information Design / Music & Sound Design

In conjunction with the launch of his latest album, The Secret Song, DJ Spooky has launched a DJ-mixing iPhone app of the same name. >

29 Mar 10
Troika answers all at DI2010

Design News > Information Design / Interaction Design / Graphic Design & Illustration

Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki and Sebastien Noel of Troika electrified with their playful and thoroughly executed interaction designs. >

15 Mar 10
Culinary workshop for the new age at DI2010

Do Tank News > Information Design / Food Design

Design Indaba and Foodcorp present a professional workshop by Nils Noren, vice president of culinary arts at the French Culinary Institute. >

20 Feb 10

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