2016 Archive

For the love of GIFs

Design News • 15 Jun 16

Collective exhibit.gif puts out a call for a creative distillation of real life into the humble form of a GIF. >
Margaret Calvert on work and play over 60 years in graphic design

Talks • Duration: 00:27:34 • 15 Jun 16

South African-born graphic designer Margaret Calvert, OBE is best known for the signs she helped design for Britain's roads. You can now watch her full talk. >
8 innovative ways drones are being used today

Design News • 15 Jun 16

From fighting fires, to spotting criminals and collecting whale “snot”, here are some futuristic ways we are using drones. >
Emergency art is created and shown in no more than a day

Design News • 15 Jun 16

The art featured at MOAD’s latest exhibition is not older than 24 hours old and tackles the immediate issues of our time. >
The exhibit that turns audience into art

Design News • 15 Jun 16

Zoom Pavilion taps into our fear of ‘big brother’ when creating its pieces. >
Beating Heart: An archive of African sounds is remixed for a new album

Design News • 14 Jun 16

Several famous musicians have contributed remixes to the new Beating Hearts album, using sounds from a vast and previously private audio archive. >
Growing Warriors uses farming to help American Veterans

Design News • 14 Jun 16

Veteran soldiers make up to one million of the Americans dependant on food-stamps and this organisation is trying to help. >
Chinese start-up Origins works to purify the air

Product Spotlight • 14 Jun 16

Founded in one of the smoggiest cities in the world, Origins’ machines don’t only detect the toxins in the air, they try to remove them as well. >
Willy-Wonka style elevators proposed for London

Design Frontiers • 14 Jun 16

Elevators that transport Londoners out of the subway up to their office blocks using upward, downward and sideways movement. >
Refugee Challenge: Community, innovation and information

Design News • 14 Jun 16

In the second installment of our look at the Refugee Challenge, we look at what design can do to solve their problems. >
Sou Fujimoto: The infinite possibilities of open field architecture

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:06:02 • 13 Jun 16

Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto talks about how architecture should create spaces for people to behave as they would like to. >
We talk to the co-creator of the Bureo recycled fishing net skateboards

Design News • 13 Jun 16

The Ahi skateboard is made of recycled fishing nets and its creators at Bureo Inc. are working hard to protect our oceans. >
Sierra Leone Ebola survivors pictured in new photo book

Design News • 13 Jun 16

The Kenema Book features a series of photos that document a community’s resilience despite the impact of Ebola. >
Loving Vincent: A feature film of 56 800 hand painted frames

Design Frontiers • 13 Jun 16

This animated biopic is about the mysterious life and death of world-renowned artist Vincent Van Gogh and was made of over 50 000 hand painted images. >
We Design Conference Durban calls for a national spatial revolution

Design News • 10 Jun 16

The first We Design Conference in Durban, South Africa calls for radical transformation of South Africa's cities, towns and villages. >
A simple software solution for solid infrastructure

Design News • 10 Jun 16

Plate Package, which assesses the structural integrity of architectural drawings, gets nominated for the Innovation Prize for Africa. >
Exatype: Changing the face of ARV treatments

Design News • 10 Jun 16

The Exatype software offers tailored treatments for HIV/AIDS. >
Robots built with nervous systems to feel pain

Design News • 10 Jun 16

German researchers develop a bio-based, artificial sensory system to create more intuitive robots. >
101Hero: Affordable 3D printing at home

Design News • 10 Jun 16

The affordable 101Hero 3D printer lets anyone use the sought-after technology at home. >
WeCount: Connecting communities and helping the homeless

Design News • 9 Jun 16

Online peer-to-peer network WeCount is trying to unite communities and end inequality. >
Bringing wooden skateboards back to the future

Design News • 9 Jun 16

Imagine skateboarding through the streets of a bustling metropolis on boards made from 100 per cent recyclable bio-composite wood. >
Design student’s project is inspired by 240 million kilograms of wasted pine needles

Design News • 9 Jun 16

Designer Tamara Orjola wins an award for creating a multi-use material from industrial waste. >
Senegalese inventor is empowering communities through solar power

Design News • 9 Jun 16

Dubbed as Senegal’s “Mr. Sun”, Abdoulaye Touré has been designing solar powered ovens since the 1990s and is now taking his solar powered dreams across Africa. >
5 ways IKEA is innovating sustainably

Design News • 8 Jun 16

Today is IKEA’s annual Democratic Design Day. We take a look at how the progressive retailer is leading ready-to-assemble furniture towards sustainability. >

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