July 2016 Archive

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. >
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. >
Cozmo, the unpredictable robotic companion

Design News • 8 Jul 16

Tech innovation company Anki have designed a tiny robotic companion like no other. >
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. >
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. >
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 >
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. >
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. >
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. >
Addressing packaging waste one pizza box at a time

Design News • 7 Jul 16

GreenBox is a reconfigurable pizza box designed for multiple use >
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. >
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. >
Amahlé’s Ndebele inspired jewellery for a European market

Product Spotlight • 6 Jul 16

The Africa-inspired jewellery is designed to be sophisticated, yet durable enough for everyday use. >
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. >
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. >
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. >
Francois Knoetze on representations of waste and consumer culture

Talks • Duration: 00:07:00 • 5 Jul 16

Performance artist Francois Knoetze's trash monsters are a bleak and beautiful reflection of our consumer culture and the waste it creates. >
How is virtual reality changing the architecture industry?

Inside View • 5 Jul 16

We talk to the VR specialist at South African architecture and design practice SAOTA about how virtual reality and technology is changing design. >
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. >
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. >
New smart material reacts to light, heals itself and remembers its shape

Design Frontiers • 5 Jul 16

Researchers at WSU have for the first time developed a smart material with more than one function. >
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. >
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. >
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. >

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