October 2016 Archive

Fodder: the pop up dining experience that turns eating into an agricultural act

Next Generation • 3 Oct 16

Can we connect with the animals we consume by being fed their feed? >
A trip through Sm8ke City

Design News • 3 Oct 16

These creatives designed an alternate world using a combination of art and architecture. >
Turning famine into feasts: Insects as the livestock of tomorrow

Design Frontiers • 3 Oct 16

Consider Nordic Food Labs - the science kitchen that makes bugs a more tasty prospect. >
Traditional art techniques in modern fashion

Design News • 4 Oct 16

2016 Design Indaba Emerging Creative Mieke Vermeulen presented her new collection Neo-Africana autumn/winter 2017 at SA Fashion Week. >
Helen Sebidi explores her ancestry & matriarchal strength through art

Design News • 4 Oct 16

New collection of paintings explores themes of duality and African lineage. >
Future of food: Diary of a cell farmer

Design Frontiers • 4 Oct 16

Imagine beef without cows and eggs without chickens. Cellular agriculture can serve up food with no animals. >
Pichulik's new range brings the sacred feminine to the modern woman

Product Spotlight • 4 Oct 16

South African designer Katherine Pichulik presents her new range of jewellery and clothing, which imparts some sacred feminine wisdom for the modern woman. >
Eat Me: Transforming detritus into delectables

Design News • 5 Oct 16

Parisian street artist Lor-K surprises passersby with huge sculptural food-inspired artworks. >
Ugly produce for a better world

Design Frontiers • 5 Oct 16

That wonky-looking vegetable in your pantry could be the key to solving world-hunger. >
Food production in a world without meat

Next Generation • 5 Oct 16

The rate at which we eat meat is not sustainable. A project by Central Saint Martins graduate Hanan Alkouh looks to replace pork with seaweed. >
One man’s trash is another’s heirloom tomato gazpacho

Design News • 6 Oct 16

From dumpster to dinner table, Salvage Supperclub challenges the way we think of ugly food. >
Transforming algae into plastic

Design News • 6 Oct 16

This company is turning toxic algae blooms into a valuable resource. >
This is the fastest human-powered vehicle on Earth

Design News • 6 Oct 16

Aerovelo, a Canadian tech firm recently broke the world record with its human-powered, egg-shaped Eta bike. >
Egloo: A simple, ecological alternative to electric heating

Product Spotlight • 7 Oct 16

This Italian student’s project offers electricity-free heating for the home. >
Portuguese street artist turns urban trash into colossal animal sculptures

Design News • 7 Oct 16

These animal murals are communicating a vital environmental message. >
The Great Circle: Artistic representations of drone culture in Dar es Salaam

Design News • 7 Oct 16

South African artist Francois Knoetze's investigates drone culture, surveillance and mapping in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania with his project The Great Circle. >
SproutsIO offers controlled (or automated) indoor gardening

Product Spotlight • 10 Oct 16

A fine-tuned solution for the urbanite without a garden or a green thumb. >
Pill Talk – the creative campaign working to transform the way we perceive birth control

Design News • 10 Oct 16

Overcoming contraceptive stigmas with US graphic designer Erica Benamy. >
Jukeboxx: Challenging the representation of women in hip hop

Design News • 10 Oct 16

The feminist movement using hip hop culture to spread love, peace and unity. >
Our stories have yet to be told, says South African photographer Lindsey Appolis

Design News • 10 Oct 16

The man behind the camera at South Africa’s most anticipated movie, Noem My Skollie (Call Me Thief). >
Imagined logos for Lagos businesses

Design News • 10 Oct 16

Lagos-based identity design studio Light Design created a series of fun fake logos for imaged Lagos firms to stretch their creative muscles. >
Humans and algae: An interdependence

Design Frontiers • 11 Oct 16

A future where fresh air is inside not outside. >
The handmade rugs celebrating South African and South American culture

Design News • 11 Oct 16

The latest project from The Ninevites merges the traditions of two continents, South America and Africa. >
Sultry silhouettes and Accra beaches

Design News • 11 Oct 16

We share this African lookbook, shot for online retailer Superbalist in Accra, Ghana. >

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