October 2015 Archive

Ants inspire the super material of the future

Design Frontiers • 30 Oct 15

A 10-year study into the properties of fire ants has put researchers on a path to a self-healing material. >
Dave Hakkens on his new project, Story Hopper

Inside View • 30 Oct 15

Young industrial designer and ideas man, Dave Hakkens proposes a new creative outlet for solving problems. >
Designing Futures: LagosPhoto Festival 2015

African Report • 30 Oct 15

This year's LagosPhoto Festival, Designing Futures, looks at dialogues on African design that focus on how we understand our past, present and futures. >
An app designed to help refugees locate missing family

Design Frontiers • 30 Oct 15

Refunite is a free platform with an anonymous database of more than 405,000 users and an estimated 1 500 family reunions. >
A prefab home made from bio-based materials

Design News • 30 Oct 15

DDacha is a customisable and sustainable living concept designed for a Northern European climate. >
Safer: The beautiful, wearable panic button

Design News • 30 Oct 15

Leaf Innovations have designed a line of jewellery that could save your life. >
Master of the craft: Orthopaedic surgeon

Design News • 29 Oct 15

In the second instalment of our photo series focusing on master artisans, we look at the hands of the makers. Today we look at an orthopaedic surgeon. >
This underground fridge doesn't need electricity

Product Spotlight • 29 Oct 15

Dutch designer Floris Schoonderbeek has designed an underground, cellar-style fridge that doesn’t require any energy to keep food cool and fresh. >
Waterless toilets designed for rural India

Design News • 29 Oct 15

A new Eco-friendly waterless toilet system designed by a university professor is set to prevent illnesses caused by human waste. >
Takeout container turned mini-greenhouse makes growing food a snap

Design News • 29 Oct 15

Homegrown’s Takeout container makes the perfect mini-greenhouse for growing organic food. >
Roots Up is on a mission to create self-sufficient family farming in Ethiopia

Design News • 29 Oct 15

The Roots Up project aims to improve poor living conditions for the Gondar farming community in the Ethiopian highlands. >
Smartphones at the forefront of healthcare in Africa

Design News • 29 Oct 15

Diagnosis, monitoring, and a treatment plan could be sent via a smartphone with Vodacom’s healthcare apps. >
A pocket-sized flashlight powered by body heat

Product Spotlight • 28 Oct 15

This inventor's flashlight is powered by body heat and is expected to be a step towards living without batteries. >
Are crickets in cocktails a viable solution to food shortage?

Next Generation • 28 Oct 15

Graduates from the School of Visual Arts, Lucy Knops and Julia Plevin have co-founded Critter Bitters, a cocktail bitters made with toasted crickets. >
Julia DeVille turns death into art

Design News • 28 Oct 15

Taxidermist and jeweller Julia deVille uses reimagined dead animals to celebrate life. >
An app-assisted home vegetable garden

Design News • 28 Oct 15

Edntech hopes to inspire sustainable indoor gardening with its educational planter unit. >
Cervix “selfies” could improve women’s health care in remote regions

Design News • 28 Oct 15

Israel-based MobileODT is leveraging the power of mobile phones and selfies to improve cervical cancer screening among women in high-risk, low-income areas. >
Biodegradable briefcase turns into compost

Product Spotlight • 28 Oct 15

Dutch brand reWrap contributes to a sustainable future with its line of biodegradable products. >
Virtual landscape could predict Alzheimer’s disease years before onset

Design Frontiers • 27 Oct 15

Scientists in Germany claim to have found a way to detect Alzheimer’s disease using a virtual maze. >
Old bottles become designer products in Zanzibar

Design News • 27 Oct 15

Hubert and Elisabeth van Doorne together with Dutch Design Week are upcycling Zanzibar’s glass waste to pave the way for sustainable building on the island. >
Getting frank about female sexuality with Polly Nor

Design News • 27 Oct 15

Inspired by girl talk, selfies and angry tweets, London-based illustrator Polly Nor puts pen to paper to get frank about female sexuality. >
Taste, sound and history combine to form Bompas & Parr’s British Museum of Food

Design News • 27 Oct 15

Bompas & Parr showcase the most exciting elements of cooking and cuisine at the British Museum of Food. >
Floating greenhouses could help solve global food security problems

Design News • 27 Oct 15

Italian think tank Pnat have designed modular, floating green houses called JellyFish Barges that could help solve food security problems. >
Drawing the contemporary culinary landscape of Africa

Design News • 27 Oct 15

Congo-born Chef Dieuveil Malonga is taking African cuisine into the upper echelons of international gastronomy. >

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