May 2016 Archive

Cigarette butt bricks burn away pollution

Design News • 25 May 16

Researchers have found a way to cut down global littering by incorporating cigarette butts into 2.5 per cent of the world's annual brick production. >
WarOnWall: an exhibition on the state of Syria

Design News • 25 May 16

The photographic collection will be displayed on the last remnants of the Berlin Wall. >
Musana Carts: providing clean energy to Kampala’s micro-businesses

Design News • 25 May 16

A US-based company empowers Kampala’s street vendors through their solar powered micro-business cart. >
Christian Benimana: Architects don’t have to be local to think local

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:04:09 • 24 May 16

Rwandan architect Christian Benimana believes that the built environment should catalyse positive systemic change. >
Vegan leather inspires new sneaker collection

Design News • 24 May 16

A leather made from pineapple leaves inspires Parisian fashion brand’s new shoe line >
Street art and energy inform Kronk’s Zakifo redesign

Design News • 24 May 16

The Zakifo Musik Festival comes to Durban, South Africa with a look inspired by culture, street art and energy. >
AbsorbPlate cuts calories by reducing grease on your plate

Product Spotlight • 24 May 16

The dinner plate’s design has perforations in its surface to trap excess grease. >
Affordable water filter inspired by puff pastry

Design Frontiers • 24 May 16

A simple layered paper, inspired by French puff pastry, could improve the quality of life for millions of people by removing resistant viruses from water. >
Studio [D] Tale on design activism and innovation within existing systems

Talks • Duration: 00:21:57 • 23 May 16

Social impact designers Studio [D] Tale talk about innovating within informal economies and interventions in existing, sometimes backward, systems. >
Twins Cartoon: Comics in Egypt will keep evolving

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:04:19 • 23 May 16

Identical twin brothers Mohamed and Haitham El-seht draw inspiration from the characters found in the streets of Egypt. >
Tea shirts: clothing made from tea

Design News • 23 May 16

A tea by-product could be a more sustainable material for clothing manufacture. >
BaseLantern: a new project by BioLite

Product Spotlight • 23 May 16

The BaseLantern portable lantern is designed for off-grid usage. >
Cliff face shelter designed to provide safe passage for refugees

Design News • 23 May 16

Slice Refugee Hospitality Centre proposes an architectural solution to welcoming and hosting migrants that cross seas to seek asylum. >
Edible six-pack rings could save marine life

Design Frontiers • 20 May 16

Millions of seabirds, marine mammals, and sea turtles die every year from getting trapped in six-pack rings. One brewery has come up with an edible solution. >
Twins Cartoon on comics as power, beauty and expression

Talks • Duration: 00:23:32 • 20 May 16

Identical twin brothers Mohamed and Haitham El-seht are at the heart of Egypt’s creative scene. >
When world-famous chef Elena Arzak visits South African forager Kobus van der Merwe

Design News • 20 May 16

While award-winning chef Elena Arzak was in SA to present at the Design Indaba Conference, she visited the Paternoster-based forager chef Kobus van de Merwe. >
Mover Kit: Make-it-yourself technology

Design News • 20 May 16

This toy introduces kids to coding and the technology behind their gadgets. >
Spherical garden rolls around looking for sunlight and water

Design News • 20 May 16

Interactive Architecture Lab creates a mobile garden that thinks for itself. >
Parallel: Si MacLennan and Ross Symons collaborate on a new project

Design News • 20 May 16

The two artists have incorporated their unique styles into a colourful creation. >
SkinTrack: the next step in wearable technology

Design News • 19 May 16

The new device uses your arm’s surface as a touch-screen, extending the interface of the smartwatch. >
Plastic recycling initiative supports waste pickers in developing countries

Design News • 19 May 16

Amsterdam-based group Reflow drive a socially responsible 3D printing community >
John Radcliffe Studios documents the regular lives of refugees

Design News • 19 May 16

Foreigner: Migration into Europe 2015–16, is a photography series that hopes to portray a less sensationalist account of the refugee crisis. >
Y&R Paris' 3D printed animals challenge the way life is reproduced

Design News • 19 May 16

Life can’t be reproduced. Y&R Paris' series of images shows the fragile circumstances of wildlife. >
Photographer documents the last nomadic people of Nepal

Design News • 19 May 16

The Raute are Nepal’s last nomadic people nestled in the foothills of the Himalayas. This photo series captures their resistance to the modern word. >

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