Design Indaba 2016 Emerging Creative Philisa Zibi creates geometric jewellery for women in a variety of mediums. >

Designer Carolien Laro contradicts the notion of wood as a rigid material with her springy wooden furniture. >

The ProCleanse Water Filtration system is designed for the people who have no access to clean water. >

Italian brand brings furry foliage into their product designs >

Japanese researcher develops a fork that adds a salty taste to sodium-free food. >

Oscar Diaz designs a solution for an everyday tech-related problem we didn’t even know we had. >

Tshepo Mokholo is an architect-turned-designer and his goal is to bring about inner-city change through better design. >

The LJ series by Dutch studio De Vorm is a range of chairs and stools that feature a strong, soft felt material that is made of recycled PET bottles. >

Researchers are creating a tampon testing system that helps women monitor their own health and fertility. >

MakeRight is an initiative that gets prisoners to help manufacture “theft-proof” bags that consider the user and the abuser and designs out the crime. >

Mass produced transparent wood material could be used in windows, solar panels and buildings. >