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Livi brings nature indoors

Product Spotlight > Product Design

The portable planter has a new take on interacting with nature. >

17 May 16
Wear Your Label wants a stigma-free society

Product Spotlight > Design Thinking / Product Design

Wear Your Label gets people talking about mental health through fashion and jewellery design. >

16 May 16
Eliminate wrinkles by applying a ‘second skin’

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

A new, “second skin” solution to wrinkles could also lead to more medical advancements. >

16 May 16
When life hands you elephant dung, make paper

Design Frontiers > African Design / Design Activism / Product Design

Kenyan entrepreneurs are protecting their environment by turning elephant dung into paper. >

13 May 16
Oded Ezer designs the Life/Death t-shirt

Product Spotlight > Design Activism / Product Design

Tel Aviv-based graphic design artist Oded Exer designed a t-shirt to help refugees. >

13 May 16
Portable surgical sterilisation suitcase

Design News > Product Design

Eniware is a new sterilisation system that aims to have a positive impact on health care in developing countries. >

13 May 16
Budapest-based brand NewFoldr champions cardboard electronics

Design News > Product Design

NewFoldr aims to create a recyclable electronics movement to challenge the global e-waste issue >

12 May 16
Three innovative solutions to water shortage in South Africa

Design Frontiers > African Design / Design Activism / Product Design

These three ideas were submitted to Hack4Water, an initiative aimed to help solve some of SAs water challenges. >

11 May 16
Recent innovations in nanowire technology could lead to self-cooling clothing

Design News > Information Design / Product Design

A more flexible, environmentally sound, safer nanowire array has the potential to revolutionise occupations like fire fighting. >

10 May 16
Siyanda Mazibuko

Siyanda Mazibuko on his work: "I've got a crazy passion for making things from wood." We think that just about says it all. >

9 May 16
Green Product: Wirework takes a contemporary twist on traditional crafts

Design News > African Design / Craft / Product Design

The South African self-help project uses recycled materials to create functional art. >

6 May 16
The world’s first 3D-printed wheelchair that can be customised on an app

Design News > Product Design

Layer is soon to launch its new 3D-printed wheelchair, made to fit each individual’s body and disability. >

6 May 16
Manmade plant creates oxygen in space

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

The Silk Leaf needs only water and light to create oxygen in the harshest of environments. >

6 May 16
A parachute that turns into a shelter for refugees or disaster victims

Design News > Product Design

Portugal-based STUDIOMUDA design a prefabricated shelter that can be easily deployed out of an airplane. >

6 May 16
A self-healing biomaterial is the closest yet to mimicking human muscle

Design News > Design Thinking / Product Design

New biomaterial possesses extreme stretchability, self-healing and endurance properties; all revolutionary in the development of artificial skin and muscle. >

5 May 16
Green Product: Breathing Skins adapts to the environment

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors / Product Design

A showroom in Germany allows users to experience technology that adapts internal conditions to its external environment. >

4 May 16
Bicycle system designed for heavy duty, urban cargo delivery

Design News > Product Design

Carla Cargo is a zero-emission and more agile alternative to the traditional delivery van. >

4 May 16
Green Product: Harvest Cart is a solution to backyard farming

Design News > Product Design

The small-scale harvesting cart makes collecting produce easier. >

3 May 16
Backpacks made from blankets

Product Spotlight > African Design / Design Activism / Product Design

Sibusiso Mokhachane makes backpacks from blankets to celebrate his heritage and help the world unlearn African stereotypes. >

2 May 16
BeSeens: LED imbedded, hand-signalling cycling gloves

Product Spotlight > Product Design

BeSeens use motion detection and LED lighting to make indicating safer for cyclists. >

29 Apr 16
Pockulus: Smartphone free, affordable VR

Design News > Product Design

Based on open-source tech, Pockulus is a DIY way into virtual reality. >

28 Apr 16
Bioo: A plant that is also a charging station

Design News > Product Design

Charging your electronic devices could be done in the easiest, greenest way possible with the Bioo plant. >

28 Apr 16
Plastic card melts to fix or modify anything

Design News > Product Design

FORMcard is a play dough type of substance that aims to become as ubiquitous as sticky tape or Prestik. >

27 Apr 16
Gloves translate sign language into speech

Design News > Product Design

Two university students are bridging a communication gap by turning sign language gestures into spoken English. >

26 Apr 16

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