a better world through creativity
Home
About Design Indaba
Design Indaba News
Projects
Press Room
Emerging Creatives
News & Features
Design News
Africa Now
Creative Work
Interviews
Next Generation
Design Frontiers
African Design
Design Activism
Videos
Conference Talks
Video Archive (2006 – present)
Designer Directory
Our database of African and international creatives and companies making waves in the design world.
Search
August 2016 Archive
Filter by
- Any -
Articles
Galleries
Videos
Feature
- Any -
Creative Work
-Design Frontiers
-Product Spotlight
-Lookbook
-Next Generation
-Design News
-Track of the Week
-FilmFestFriday
-Design Indaba Campaigns
Interviews
-Video Interviews
-Q&A
-Profiling
-Dialogues
Point of View
-Hot Topic
-African Report
-Inside View
-Opinion
-Reviews
RoundUp
-Take Five
-Focus On
Conference Talks
-Talks
-Trailers
Design Indaba News
-Festival News
-Do Tank News
-Digital News
Sort by
Post date
Order
Asc
Desc
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
1999
1995
The Jolt Sensor: detecting concussions in young athletes
Design News
•
23 Aug 16
This thumb-sized, wearable sensor is making sport safer.
>
China opens record-breaking transparent bridge
Design News
•
23 Aug 16
The Hunan province is now home to the longest and highest glass-bottomed bridge in the world.
>
BuggyAir: A mobile air pollution tracker
Design News
•
22 Aug 16
This air pollution testing kit helps parents make informed decisions about the type of environments they expose their children to.
>
Shoey Shoes made entirely from waste materials
Design News
•
22 Aug 16
Student looks into using material offcuts to create a sustainable range of children’s shoes.
>
Mapping poverty: getting relief to developing areas
Design News
•
22 Aug 16
These researchers are using mapping technology to find the world’s poorest areas.
>
Interior designer Seugnet Herbst challenges the ordinary
Design News
•
19 Aug 16
2016 Emerging Creative Seugnet Herbst challenges ordinary aspects of interior design.
>
Boombox champions nomadic retail spaces
Design News
•
19 Aug 16
A startup platform that gives emerging businesses access to a public market.
>
Tiny device uses sunlight to disinfect water
Design News
•
18 Aug 16
Researchers at Stanford University created a tiny device that purifies water in minutes.
>
Saving the planet with art supplies
Design News
•
18 Aug 16
The startup turning air pollution into ink.
>
Students create seaweed-based yarn to tackle fashion industry pollution
Design News
•
18 Aug 16
BioEsters is a bio-based material that presents a sustainable yarn alternative for designers.
>
The creative collective disrupting SA's National Arts Festival
Design News
•
18 Aug 16
The 10 Day Men are shaking things up in Grahamstown.
>
Photographer Ofoe Amegavie captures the beauty of Ghana’s iconic festivals
Design News
•
17 Aug 16
Photographer Ofoe Amegavie tells the vivid stories of Ghana’s traditional festivals in an ongoing series.
>
Intuitive wardrobe donates unworn clothes to charities
Design News
•
17 Aug 16
The Internet of Clothes is a creative concept that tackles the over consumption of fashion.
>
Capturing the "Gully Queens" of Jamaica
Design News
•
17 Aug 16
Pieter Hugo’s collaboration with Hood by Air is a celebration of the vilified gay community of Kingston.
>
Concrete creative: Entries to South Africa’s biggest art and design prize are still open
Design News
•
17 Aug 16
PPC Imaginarium Awards are open for entries for their 2016/2017 competitions until the end of September 2016.
>
Jewellery made from everyday items
Design News
•
16 Aug 16
Johannesburg-based alternative jeweller Belinda Phofu uncovers the untapped potential of everyday items.
>
Photographer documents the struggles of Jatra’s former actors
Design News
•
15 Aug 16
Soumya Sankar Bose photographs the folk-theatre actors who have left the stage behind to make a living.
>
Osborne Macharia’s little Kenyan battle squad
Design News
•
15 Aug 16
The man who set the internet ablaze with his astonishing images of eccentric Kenyans has turned his attention to another group of characters: little people.
>
Ceiling lamp made from its own packaging
Design News
•
15 Aug 16
Dutch design studio creates waste-free lamp from cardboard tubing.
>
A stitched strategy for Zika prevention
Design News
•
15 Aug 16
Virtual marketplace Maternova tackles the Zika emergency using stylish apparel.
>
Design Centre mimics human anatomy
Design News
•
12 Aug 16
Solar-powered and inspired by skin and bone, the Xinhee Design Centre defies every office building norm.
>
Living armchair makes a comeback
Design News
•
12 Aug 16
Italian design studio relaunches its well-known grass furniture piece.
>
Gangster-turned-writer John Fredericks survived prison by telling stories
Design News
•
11 Aug 16
The film Noem My Skollie (Call me thief) has been chosen as South Africa’s official selection for the 89th Annual Academy Awards (Oscars).
>
Stop Sign Art Gallery: Art that moves
Design News
• Duration: 1:15
•
11 Aug 16
Zama Phakathi champions the rising artists of Maboneng.
>
Pages
« first
‹ previous
1
2
3
next ›
last »
Sign up to our newsletter
Sign up to Design Indaba Weekly for the latest design news and inspiration. Sign up to Design Indaba News for updates on Design Indaba events and projects.
Email Address
Design Indaba (select one or both)
Weekly editorial newsletter
Festival and event updates
Top Features
Regulars
Take Five
6 clever design solutions for pressing healthcare issues
28 Nov 19
Focus On
Five examples of great design from Singapore
17 Sep 18
Lookbook
A look into the work of Luke Rudman
3 Feb 22
FilmFestFriday
This short film is a meditation on the joys girlhood
12 Feb 16
Twitter
Follow @designindaba
Tweets by @designindaba