2015 Archive

Toast and a hug from RCA graduate

Product Spotlight • 7 Jul 15

London-based designer Ted Wiles designed a toaster that only works when you give it a hug in an attempt to make its users happy. >
Stefano Giovannoni: The heyday of designers working with manufacturers is over

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:04:11 • 7 Jul 15

The Italian industrial designer advises young designers to think like entrepreneurs and work at creating their own signature brand identities. >
Light Echoes installation arrives at the Barbican Curve Gallery

Design News • 7 Jul 15

Aaron Koblin and Ben Tricklebank’s artwork “Light Echoes” envelopes the Barbican Curve Gallery in an immersive light experience. >
Glasses enable doctors to see malignant cancer cells in the dark

Design Frontiers • 7 Jul 15

A Nigerian scientist working in the United States has won the prestigious St. Louis Award for his ground-breaking cancer-visualisation glasses. >
Chris the Pencil brings us a different kind of weather report

Lookbook • 7 Jul 15

A Cape Town graphic designer is documenting Cape Town’s vacillating weather patterns and his accompanying moods in a bold design-a-day project. >
Just a Band of Kenyan electro-heads

Next Generation • 8 Jul 15

Jepthumba talks to Kenyan electronic music makers Just a Band, whose popularity has been growing since their 2008 debut album "Scratch to Reveal". >
A novel way to listen to music by Gemma Roper

Design News • 8 Jul 15

Product designer Gemma Roper has designed a satisfyingly simple device that allows you to select music according to tempo or beats per minute. >
Young Africans show off their continent using #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou

Design News • 8 Jul 15

The hashtag #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou has gone viral on Twitter as Africans share inspiring images of their continent. >
Gaelen Pinnock and the dystopian city

Inside View • 8 Jul 15

Architect-turned-artist Gaelen Pinnock investigates the spatial divisions and urban dystopias in Cape Town. >
Founder of Design Indaba receives the prestigious Sir Misha Black Medal for services to design education

Design News • 8 Jul 15

Founder of Design Indaba Ravi Naidoo receives the 2015 Sir Misha Black Medal for Distinguished Services to Design Education in South Africa. >
HOPE City aims to turn Ghana into the tech hub of West Africa

African Report • 9 Jul 15

Futuristic looking HOPE City has been designed by Italian architects with the ambitious aim of turning Ghana into a major tech hub in West Africa. >
Stefano Giovannoni on how design is an expression of historical events

Talks • Duration: 00:33:52 • 9 Jul 15

The maestro of industrial design draws a parallel between product design and major cultural and economic movements. >
Trailer: Stefano Giovannoni on how design is an expression of historical events

Trailers • Duration: 00:01:22 • 9 Jul 15

The maestro of industrial design draws a parallel between product design and major cultural and economic movements. >
The first 3D-printed car for consumers

Design News • 9 Jul 15

Forget vases, jewellery and trinkets. The first street-ready 3D-printed car is imminent. >
Eleanor Lakelin’s raw wooden sculptures

Design News • 9 Jul 15

The London-based carpenter unearths nature’s wild beauty in her wooden bowls. >
Solar technology will be used to create the world’s first underground park

Design News • 9 Jul 15

The Lowline, the world’s first underground park, have raised enough money in a crowdfunding campaign to build their Lowline Lab. >
The new shoe from Adidas is rubbish

Design News • 9 Jul 15

Adidas have joined the global ocean cleanup drive with their new running shoe made almost entirely from ocean waste. >
A year in the life of a bench

Lookbook • 10 Jul 15

Hungarian photographer’s “Life of a Bench” series captures the diversity of daily activity centered on a simple wooden structure. >
Historical landmarks digitally narrate their own stories

Design News • 10 Jul 15

European research team meSch is collecting historical data to add clever multimedia installations to cultural sites and spaces. >
Margrethe Odgaard: Design that engages with society

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:04:32 • 10 Jul 15

Textile designer Margrethe Odgaard says success can be measured in how much a design project touches your heart. >
Meet Steve Frykholm, the poster boy of graphic design

FilmFestFriday • 10 Jul 15

From designing posters for an annual picnic to hanging in the MoMAs permanent collection, this short documentary looks at the notable career of Steve Frykholm. >
Mr Bingo's Hate Mail Kickstarter offers first class artistic abuse

Design News • 10 Jul 15

Warning: This article contains offensive content. At your request, Mr Bingo will create a unique insulting message and send it to you in the mail. >
Tales of the Dark Continent

Design News • 10 Jul 15

Maxwell Mutanda illustrates surreal scenes of Africa in a series he titled “Postcards”, which he describes to us here in his own words. >
FoPo plans to feed the world with old fruit

Design Frontiers • 13 Jul 15

The FoPo Powdered Food project turns spoilt and unsellable produce into a nutritional powder that could help solve world hunger. >

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