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Home in a bag
Next Generation
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22 Dec 14
Our hypermobile world demands new designs that can help us feel at home in our ever-changing environment, says Teresa Palmieri.
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Put on your internet face
Next Generation
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8 Dec 14
French designer Alix Gallet has a bag of tricks to fool biometric recognition technology.
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Man's best friend?
Next Generation
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2 Dec 14
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Michelle Bours questions the relationship between man and canine in her photographic project "Overwhelming Love".
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A feat of craftsmanship
Next Generation
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28 Nov 14
Meet Martina Lasinger, a graduate of Design Academy Eindhoven, who makes mesmerisingly detailed – and beautiful – work.
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Music to your ears, eyes and nose
Next Generation
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21 Nov 14
Joris Petterson's new-age speaker system emits lights and smells that match the tone of your music playlist.
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An app for allergy sufferers
Next Generation
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17 Nov 14
Two graduates of Pasadena’s Art Center College of Design have designed an early warning system that connects a special sensor to your smartphone.
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Victoria Hayes is ready for battle
Next Generation
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7 Nov 14
She graduated from Parsons with a collection inspired by samurai armour. Now she’s taking on the New York City fashion world.
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A haunted, handmade world
Next Generation
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10 Oct 14
Artist Ali Aschman makes emotionally layered animations using handmade puppets and paper cut-outs.
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Emotional ceramics
Next Generation
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25 Sep 14
Students explore the future of this ancient material in "Ceramic Futures" at the CERSAIE expo of ceramic tiles and sanitaryware in Bologna, Italy.
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Liselore Frowijn
Next Generation
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5 Sep 14
This rising star of the Dutch fashion world creates complex garments that play off the clash of sportswear and luxury.
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Ildikó Valicsek
Next Generation
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29 Aug 14
This Hungarian textile designer has come up with an ingenious system for generating a never-ending array of patterns.
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Maria Lebedeva
Next Generation
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25 Aug 14
This local illustrator is set to launch her first children's book, "Mu's Wolf Problem", later this month. We catch up with her here.
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Next Generation: Jess Gouws
Next Generation
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8 Aug 14
This young local jewellery designer tells us about finding beauty in old and discarded objects.
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Next Generation: Megan King
Next Generation
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1 Aug 14
Megan King's social enterprise Colour iKamva delivers a bright burst of colourful hope to children's spaces in Africa.
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Next Generation: Ruth McNaughton
Next Generation
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25 Jul 14
This young designer uses a 100-year-old loom to create refreshingly modern garments in mohair.
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Next Generation: Calvin Botha
Next Generation
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11 Jul 14
Meet the bicycle-mad designer who is one of only three builders of fully customisable carbon frames in the world.
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Next Generation: Fayaaz Mahomed
Next Generation
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27 Jun 14
Industrial designer and recent graduate Fayaaz Mahomed of Unfayzd Design has created a system of space-efficient seating.
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Next Generation: Renee Nicole Sander
Next Generation
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20 Jun 14
What can fashion become when you ignore the natural body form? Renee Nicole Sander explores this question through her graduate fashion collection.
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A fire detection system for shacks
Next Generation
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13 Jun 14
A devastating shack fire that displaced thousands and took the lives of three people spurred this team of UCT students to turn theory into reality.
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Next generation: Imagining the Future Foreshore
Next Generation
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6 Jun 14
This inter-disciplinary student project seeks to create new visions for the Foreshore precinct in downtown Cape Town.
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Next Generation: Henriette Botha
Next Generation
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26 May 14
Henriette Botha is an emerging South African design brand of handcrafted, locally manufactured, statement jewellery pieces.
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Next Generation: Student design for social good
Next Generation
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23 May 14
Third year product design students from Parsons partnered with Areaware to design small "impulse buy" gifts with a portion of the proceeds going to a charity.
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Next Generation: Mesuli Macozoma
Next Generation
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14 May 14
Mesuli Macozoma is a self-taught Johannesburg-based photographer who explores a sense of place in Soweto through his documentary-style photos.
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Fantastical fabrication
Next Generation
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19 Apr 14
Textile designer Zinzi de Brouwer pushes the boundaries of materials and technology to create complex knits with three-dimensionality.
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