2015 Archive

How the bindi is saving lives in India

Design Frontiers • 9 Jun 15

Iodine deficiency is one of India’s most dangerous nutritional problems, but this life-saving bindi may change that. >
Surfers become citizen scientists with the Smartphin

Design Frontiers • 2 Jun 15

The Smartphin enables surfers to collect vital information about the changing condition of the oceans in the hostile near-shore zone. >
Ido Garini’s adventures into the art of eating

Design Frontiers • 25 May 15

Chef and industrial designer Ido Garini wants you to eat make-up and consider what you look like eating a strawberry. >
InnovateSA winners tackle malnutrition with spirulina

Design Frontiers • 22 May 15

Paragon Protein by a group of Cape Town teenagers is an affordable and appetising way to incorporate spirulina into impoverished people's diets. >
Ferrofluid – the strange magnetic substance you have never heard of

Design Frontiers • 20 May 15

We have rocket science to thank for the existence of an alien-looking fluid that is slowly creeping into the creative world. >
Huemid plant vase by Carlo Ratti and Walter Nicolino

Design Frontiers • 14 May 15

Let your garden do the talking with the groundbreaking Huemid plant vase by Carlo Ratti and Walter Nicolino. >
An edible water-filled bead

Design Frontiers • 12 May 15

Meet the Ooho! – if water were a fruit, this is how it would be packaged. >
16 global startups to change the world

Design Frontiers • 11 May 15

Chivas Regal reveals the finalists of The Venture, the most promising social entrepreneurs from across the globe. >
The first solar-powered flight around the world

Design Frontiers • 7 May 15

Two intrepid pilots are halfway through a round-the-world trip in a lightweight aeroplane powered only by the sun. >
#MakeChange: The incredible growing shoe

Design Frontiers • 30 Apr 15

An American innovator has designed a pair of robust shoes that can be adjusted up to five sizes so poor children need never go barefoot. >
A lamp you turn over to switch on

Design Frontiers • 15 Apr 15

The Brick lamp by New York City-based HCWD Studio turns on with no power switch or control panel. >
Refugee Republic

Design Frontiers • 8 Apr 15

A Dutch artist combines hand-drawn illustrations and documentary storytelling to convey real life in a refugee camp in Iraq. >
Ackeem Ngwenya's all-terrain wheel - Dezeen

Design Frontiers • 31 Mar 15

Roadless wheels designed by RCA graduate aim to help African farmers transport goods from remote villages. >
The value of milk

Design Frontiers • 30 Mar 15

A pop-up milk parlour in Amsterdam brings designers and milk farmers together to create a more sustainable dairy industry. >
An alternative market stall

Design Frontiers • 18 Mar 15

A studio in New York searches for a way to alleviate the daily struggles of Ghanaian street vendors – and finds it in an unusual place. >
Taking wearable technology to the next level

Design Frontiers • 11 Mar 15

The wearable technology industry is still in its infancy but local scientists from Stellenbosch are quietly revolutionising it. >
The unexpected preferences of plants

Design Frontiers • 5 Mar 15

The future of the city farm is a sunless, rain-free, underground box. >
Green ink

Design Frontiers • 24 Feb 15

Hot Ink matches its green credential as one of South Africa's first certified carbon neutral printing companies with a bouquet of specialist services. >
Fresh starts

Design Frontiers • 16 Feb 15

The Take 2 exhibition at Design Indaba Expo will showcase designers who have given waste products a “do-over”. >
Meet the graduates of 2015

Design Frontiers • 11 Feb 15

Here are the eight recent design school graduates who will present their work Pecha Kucha-style at Design Indaba Conference 2015. >
Tanning leather from pineapples

Design Frontiers • 10 Feb 15

In a world where sustainability is high on the agenda, Carmen Hijosa is looking to pineapples as the future of textiles. >
Beyond Black Rock City

Design Frontiers • 9 Feb 15

Larry Harvey, founding member of Burning Man, puts the idea down to a whim one afternoon. Now Burning Man-style interactive art is appearing worldwide. >
A realised utopia

Design Frontiers • 6 Feb 15

In an industrial part of Amsterdam the locals refer to as "Noord", 16 grounded houseboats now dot a former shipyard: tricky architectural brief, magical space. >
Cutting down on timber

Design Frontiers • 3 Feb 15

Xanita is ahead of the game with its cradle-to-cradle designed X-board that is strong, multi-purpose and endlessly recyclable. >

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