July 2016 Archive

Welcome to Wes Africa: A new fashion campaign with a touch of nostalgia

Design News • 1 Jul 16

Online fashion store Superbalist presents a Wes Anderson-inspired cinematic winter campaign shot in Dakar, Senegal. We'd like to share it with you. >
Biometric wearable designed to lower stress levels

Design News • 1 Jul 16

ZENTA is a health-tracker-cum-life-coach that focusses on the wearer’s overall mind and body wellbeing. >
Flood-prone affordable homes empower slum residents

Design News • 1 Jul 16

Alok Shetty addresses the bleak housing conditions of the urban poor in Bangalore >
Sustainable plastic products made out of air pollution

Design News • 1 Jul 16

AirCarbon is a plastic polymer made out of methane emissions that would otherwise be polluting the air. >
Four ways Africa can influence design

Design News • 1 Jul 16

A core theme of the What Design Can Do conference explores what Africa can do for Europe. These are the experts called upon for answers. >
American inventor uses 200-year-old technology to create a cutting-edge engine

Design News • 4 Jul 16

By coupling one of NASA’s Stirling engines with electric hybrid technology, Josh MacDowell manages to drive a 100 kilometres on less than three litres of petrol >
Bio-bean: Imagine cities powered by coffee waste

Design News • 4 Jul 16

Bio-bean is an award-winning clean technology company that recycles waste coffee grounds into advanced biofuels that could replace fossil fuels in cities. >
WDCD 2016: Here’s what you missed

Design News • 4 Jul 16

The What Design Can Do conference is an annual display of design innovation. Here’s what you missed from its 2016 iteration. >
What Design Can Do unveils Refugee Challenge winners

Design News • 4 Jul 16

Alongside a conference on design and innovation, What Design Can Do hosted the refugee challenge to address one of the major issues of our time. >
Photobook captures an orphaned elephant’s journey back to the wild

Design News • 5 Jul 16

In a series of black and white photographs, this photo book takes a stand against poaching in Zambia. >
Public art melts away in political protest

Design News • 5 Jul 16

Created by American design duo LigoranoReese, these ice sculptures show the disintegration of the American Dream. >
A new channel for the vicarious traveller

Design News • 5 Jul 16

How Far From Home, speakers from our 2016 Conference, have just launched a video blog for those of us that are seeing the world vicariously through their eyes. >
The New Raw: Plastic waste as the new raw material

Design News • 6 Jul 16

A team of creatives based in Greece have launched a new initiative to combat the worst pollutant: plastic waste. >
Producer Ibaaku on the avant-garde in Senegal

Design News • 6 Jul 16

Alien Cartoon marked the birth of a new wave of music in Senegal. Its creator Ibaaku tells us about what inspired the album. >
Plastic-bag sculptures critique the treatment of the homeless

Design News • 6 Jul 16

Made in the silhouette of a person crouched on the street, the installation captures London’s response to homeless people. >
Photographer chronicles the people of Cape Town’s bustling public transport system

Design News • 6 Jul 16

Photographer Mads Norgaard spent seven years photographing the people that make up the fringes of Cape Town. >
Portraiture encourages pride in a marginalised Bangladeshi community

Design News • 7 Jul 16

Photographer Samsul Alam Helal’s portraits depict Bangladesh’s oppressed Dalit community. >
Addressing packaging waste one pizza box at a time

Design News • 7 Jul 16

GreenBox is a reconfigurable pizza box designed for multiple use >
Home-grown sanitary pads help treat infections

Design News • 7 Jul 16

Growing healthy bacteria in agar jelly, the pads are placed in front of the vagina to balance pH-levels. >
SunFire: A 3-part solution for solar cooking

Design News • 7 Jul 16

SA based company’s parabolic solar kits offer a sustainable cooking solution in rural or hard to reach areas of Africa. >
Sohofama: Farm to table in Hong Kong

Design News • 7 Jul 16

At Sohofama restaurant urban farming meets Chinese comfort cuisine with a menu inspired by Chinese doctors and farmers. >
Design graduate shares her artful take on wood joinery using plastic bottles

Design News • 8 Jul 16

Royal College of Art student Micaella Pedros unveils a resourceful technique of making furniture >
Belgian artist creates art out of chickens

Design News • 8 Jul 16

The Cosmopolitan Chicken project by Koen Vanmechelen uses the living materials collected during chicken cross-breeding to create art. >
Cozmo, the unpredictable robotic companion

Design News • 8 Jul 16

Tech innovation company Anki have designed a tiny robotic companion like no other. >

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