September 2015 Archive

Tia Blassingame: Combating racism through letter press printing

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:03:55 • 10 Sep 15

Designer and book artist Tia Blassingame uses the printed word to give her thoughts on racism in the United States a form of authority. >
Forced to flee: Visual tales of Myanmar's child refugees

Design News • 10 Sep 15

Erika Berg's book is a visual representation of the plight of Myanmar's minorities who are forced to flee ongoing violence in the country. >
Embroidering African women's artisanal skills onto international runways

African Report • 10 Sep 15

Through the Ethical Fashion Initiative, African women artisans in rural communities lend their desirable and unique talent to high-end fashion designers. >
Africa's cleanest city is officially a car-free zone

Design News • 10 Sep 15

The Rwandan city of Kigali is a beacon of clean living as its recently implemented car-free policy makes way for a new green transport system. >
Inventors use gravity to create safe, clean light

Design News • 10 Sep 15

A light powered by gravity is GravityLight’s solution to the health and environmental hazards of kerosene lamps. >
Fruit and veggie waste is transformed into leathery material

Design News • 10 Sep 15

A group of design students in Rotterdam have created a new type of leather from discarded fresh produce. >
SnooCode gives addresses to Ghanaians that don't have one

Design News • 10 Sep 15

Using a computer algorithm to generate a unique code, SnooCode is a simple and effective solution for the lack of formal addresses in Ghana. >
Miniature 3D-printed refugees in art project Moving People

Design News • 9 Sep 15

The Moving People guerrilla art installation by the Power of Art House collective sees miniature 3D-printed refugees in cities in Europe. >
Cristina de Middel on her signature brand of filmic photography

Inside View • 9 Sep 15

The work of Spanish photographer Cristina de Middel has been exhibited worldwide – we found out what goes into her cinematic-style images. >
Eatwell is tailor-made for people with Alzheimer's disease

Design News • 9 Sep 15

Something as simple as tableware could ease the everyday troubles of Alzheimer's patients. >
The unknown modernist gems of Myanmar's architecture

Design News • 9 Sep 15

The soon-to-be-published "Architectural Guide: Yangon" exposes the hidden modernist treasures of Myanmar's largest city's architectural landscape. >
James Boock's 3-way sound system puts the performance back into music

Next Generation • 9 Sep 15

Royal College of Art graduate James Boock has designed a sound system, which allows listeners to see how music is created by making it a more tangible process. >
Marije Vogelzang imagines meat growing on plants for her food design project

Design News • 9 Sep 15

Plant Bones is Dutch food designer Marije Vogelzang’s exploration into culinary creativity. >
Surviving severe drought is top of this designer’s priorities

Design News • 9 Sep 15

Design graduate Jaime Tai uses a natural sugar to help ensure drought survival. >
Rich Mnisi: Fashion forward and business savvy

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:04:36 • 9 Sep 15

Just out of varsity and fashion school, designer Rich Mnisi has already launched his own critically-acclaimed fashion brand. >
Three innovative ways to combat toxic air

Design News • 8 Sep 15

Three student designers have proposed interactive, health conscious ways to deal with air pollution. >
Trailer: Tia Blassingame on the texture of racism in the United States

Trailers • Duration: 00:00:48 • 8 Sep 15

Recent graduate Tia Blassingame explores the relationships between race, history and perception in her work. >
The texture of racism & slavery in the United States – a talk by Tia Blassingame

Talks • Duration: 00:08:44 • 8 Sep 15

"I made a headscarf that talks about the accumulation of wealth through slavery, as the black body as gold but also seeming worthless." >
Htein Lin immortalises 1000 of Myanmar's political prisoners

Design News • 8 Sep 15

Myanmese artist and former political prisoner Htein Lin aims to cast the hands of 1000 political prisoners in plaster of Paris as a reminder of Myanmar's past. >
Koe Koe, Myanmar's first health app, is going to revolutionise healthcare in the country

Design Frontiers • 8 Sep 15

Koe Koe Tech founder Michael Lwin says he is going to fix Myanmar's healthcare with this comprehensive mobile app. >
Self-sustaining kitchen teaches kids about healthy living

Design News • 8 Sep 15

Interactive, self-sustaining kitchen teaches kids how to grow and cook food. >
Step into Erik Spiekermann's world

Profiling • 8 Sep 15

Find out what makes prolific typographer and graphic designer Erik Spiekermann tick as Freunde von Freunden take us into his home and studio in Berlin. >
Three housing solutions that tackle hyper-urbanisation in Africa

Design News • 8 Sep 15

Ethiopian and Bauhaus students collaborate on experimental urban housing prototypes to accommodate the massive growth of Africa's urban population. >
Panzagar campaign battles hate speech online in Myanmar

Design News • 7 Sep 15

In April 2014 a Myanmar blogger and activist started the Panzagar ("Flower Speech") campaign to battle the online hate speech that led to offline violence. >

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