July 2016 Archive

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 >
Floris Kaayk: The Modular Body merges fact and fiction

Design Frontiers • 8 Jul 16

Filmmaker Floris Kaayk toys with the public’s willingness to believe in the extraordinary. >
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. >
Image Merchants: W&N Studio and James Lavelle

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:04:56 • 8 Jul 16

We talk to DJ and artist James Lavelle and photographers Warren Du Preez and Nick Thorton Jones about the resurgence of craft and their various collaborations. >
Interaction is more important than expensive tech, says experience designer Marcus Lyall

Design News • 11 Jul 16

Marcus Lyall is behind some of the most spectacular shows of our time. >
Cow's milk plastic provides a natural, eco-friendly alternative

Design News • 11 Jul 16

Using an extract from skimmed milk, Tessa Silva-Dawson created a durable alternative to harmful plastics. >
Dune covered carpark doubles as flood defence

Design News • 11 Jul 16

Named the Best Dutch Building of the Year in 2016, the Katwijk underground parking garage protects against future floods. >
Basia Dzaman on the intersection of robotics and creativity

Talks • Duration: 00:08:42 • 11 Jul 16

A Polish student from the School of Form in Poznań, Poland has designed a robotic arm that reimagines the lost art of snutki. >
Buildings made of bones

Design Frontiers • 11 Jul 16

Cambridge researchers explore bone and eggshell as greener building materials of the future. >
The world’s largest air purifier is touring the smoggy cities of China

Design News • 11 Jul 16

Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde’s Smog Free Tower (which works like a vacuum cleaner for dirty air) is travelling to China. >
Project Nourished: A virtual reality experience that tricks your taste buds

Design Frontiers • Duration: 00:00:09 • 12 Jul 16

Experience designer Jinsoo An’s Project Nourished creates virtual worlds where any food dream is possible. >
Trackable lifejacket uses app technology for man-overboard rescue

Design News • 12 Jul 16

Anti X1 is a clever redesign of the time old lifejacket, created to improve safety at sea >
Nimb discreetly sends alerts in emergency situations

Design News • 12 Jul 16

If you’re in distress, the Nimb ring sends your location to family and friends. >
Flare, the ambulance Uber in Nairobi

Design Frontiers • 12 Jul 16

Using an integrated ambulance dispatch system, Flare is a next-generation tech product that cuts hours to minutes in medical emergencies in East Africa. >
Sea of Hull brings together 3000 naked bodies for climate change

Design News • 13 Jul 16

To raise awareness about rising sea levels, over 3000 nude people painted themselves blue and descended on the city of Hull. >
Dencity competition winners foster new ideas that tackle high density in informal settlements

Design News • 13 Jul 16

Social, architectural and technological solutions to improve the living conditions in the world’s urban slums. >
Basia Dzaman: The future of 3D printing and robotics

Video Interviews • 13 Jul 16

Global graduate Basia Dzaman harnesses new technologies to explore traditional embroidery patterns. >
New controller allows upper-limb amputees to play video games using their feet

Design Frontiers • 13 Jul 16

GEAR’s creators say it allows amputees to control video game characters with the same precision as able-bodied users. >
Would we modify our skyline for the sake of mental wellbeing?

Design Frontiers • 14 Jul 16

Phong Nguyen’s speculative project looks at how far we’d go to treat mental illness. >

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