August 2015 Archive

The BillBed means a good night's sleep for Pakistan's homeless

Design News • 3 Aug 15

The award-winning MoltyFoam campaign turns a billboard into a bed for those sleeping on the streets. >
Turn air into water as you ride your bike

Design Frontiers • 3 Aug 15

A Viennese industrial designer has created a solar-powered device that collects up to 500ml of condensation per hour as you ride your bike. >
Meet Dot, the braille smart watch for the visually impaired

Design News • 3 Aug 15

Created by a South Korean start-up Dot, this Braille smart watch could help unlock the digital world for visually impaired people. >
The twig chair: Nendo’s most recent design

Product Spotlight • 3 Aug 15

Japanese studio Nendo creates a minimalist seat with a changeable backrest for designer furniture brand Alias. >
MBFWCT 2015: The future of SA fashion is looking bright

Next Generation • 3 Aug 15

Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Cape Town (MBFWCT) raised the local fashion pulse and showed the world what to expect next from South Africa. >
MOM is designed to save “the lost generation” of refugees

Design Frontiers • 4 Aug 15

A British student has designed an inflatable incubator specifically to save the lives of premature babies born in refugee camps. >
"Garage" is a new comic magazine from a collective of Arabic artists

Design News • 4 Aug 15

Egyptian twin-artists Haitham and Mohamed Raafat El-seht are releasing a comic magazine created by an Arabic-comics' collective. >
Create 3D photographs with your smartphone or tablet using Bevel

Design News • 4 Aug 15

Bevel is the first accessory capable of turning a smartphone or tablet into a 3D camera. >
Le Dessien empowers women through educated fashion

Design News • 4 Aug 15

Socially minded fashion label Le Dessien raises money to help underprivileged girls pay for an education. >
Activists and creatives in Angola call for the release of political prisoners

Design News • 4 Aug 15

Angolan artists, journalists, musicians and activists launch a video campaign that calls for the release of political prisoners in Luanda. >
Mumbai's iconic cabs used to showcase emerging designers

Design News • 5 Aug 15

Young designers are using Mumbai's taxis to take art to the people with the Taxi Fabric project. >
This wearable uses your skin to enhance your body awareness

Next Generation • 5 Aug 15

Flair is a wearable that uses the sensors in your skin to enhance your perception of your body and the world around you. >
Eco-friendly food carts on the move in the US

Design News • 5 Aug 15

MOVE Systems have designed a food cart that aims to cut harmful emissions by 95 per cent, and they'll be populating the streets of New York soon. >
Illustrator sketches the ghosts of projects yet to come

Design News • 5 Aug 15

Artist and illustrator Marta Menacho creates delicate watercolour and ink drawings of imagined works by anonymous artist group Luzinteruptus. >
South African youth culture according to Thulisizwe Mamba

Design News • 6 Aug 15

Thulisizwe Mamba, the swank Durban-based illustrator, gives us a preview of the illustrations to expect from his self-published web zine, “Co. Issue.”. >
Ejector bed literally launches you out of dreamland

Design News • 6 Aug 15

YouTube star and engineer Colin Furze has built a bedframe that rockets you out of bed before you get a chance to hit the snooze button. >
Plug into solar power in your home

Design Frontiers • 6 Aug 15

This plug enables you to use solar power in your home without installing your own solar panels. >
Eskom chic – I got dressed in the dark

Design News • 6 Aug 15

"Eskom Chic – I Got Dressed in the Dark" is a new fashion film where the models get dressed in the blackness of a loadshedding power cut in South Africa. >
Multi-sensory Cotton Candy Theremin

Design News • 7 Aug 15

The act of spinning cotton candy becomes a multi-sensory experience with "feeding designer" Emilie Baltz's Cotton Candy Theremin. >
Conservationists call on Coca-Cola to save the planet

Design News • 7 Aug 15

An independent group of altrulists have asked Coke to pump its three billion dollar yearly advertising budget into saving the planet. >
Zombie surfers riding waves in "Widerstehe Doch Der Sunde"

FilmFestFriday • 7 Aug 15

Surfing makes you feel alive… even if you are a zombie. >
Faith47’s new project "Lay Your Weapons Down"

Design News • 7 Aug 15

The Cape Town artist’s latest work is situated in a creative district of New York City and speaks to the power of human connection. >
Cape Town’s Hotel Verde wins double platinum with innovative green design

Design News • 7 Aug 15

Hotel Verde was awarded a second LEED Platinum Green Building Certification for its ongoing commitment to running an environmentally friendly hotel. >
The future of microorganisms in the built environment

Design Frontiers • 7 Aug 15

The "Living Things" installation challenges the way we think about how microorganisms can be integrated and celebrated in the built environment. >

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