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. >
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. >
"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. >
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. >
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. >
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. >
Graphic dresses fashioned out of false fingernails

Design News • 10 Aug 15

Central Saint Martins graduate Anna Goswami repurposes plastic nails from kitsch to couture. >
Reconnecting to the idea of the udder

Design News • 11 Aug 15

5.5 Design Studio have created the "Vache à Lait" (Milk Cow) in order to reconnect consumers to the idea of milk coming from the udder. >
MOAD's newest curator is an accountant

Design News • 11 Aug 15

The Museum of African Design (MOAD) has turned the idea of the "expert curator" on its head with its new exhibition, which is curated by a novice. >
These astronauts-cum-farmers have grown the first vegetables in space

Design News • 12 Aug 15

According to these “space farmers”, the first vegetables ever grown, harvested and eaten in space are quite delicious. >
Sue Sylvester paints her country into cloth

Design News • 12 Aug 15

South African artist Sue Sylvester creates hand-painted fabrics inspired by a love of her home. >
New wearable panic button

Design News • 13 Aug 15

Wearsafe is a safety device and app designed to instantly alert and connect your friends or family in an emergency. >
Biofuels company Fulcrum powers aircrafts with household garbage

Design News • 13 Aug 15

The largest producer of aviation biofuels, Fulcrum BioEnergy aims to provide an alternative to petroleum by converting household garbage into jet fuel. >
The CSPS medical centre at Burkina Faso’s Opera Village is now open

Design News • 13 Aug 15

Kéré Architecture’s Opera Village in Burkina Faso uses cultural identity and pride as a tool for positive development. It now includes a medical centre. >

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