2016 Archive

How to use consumerism to raise awareness for climate change

Design News • 1 Jun 16

London-based design studio Something & Son ran a pop-up shop selling elegant jewellery made of coal to question mindless consumption at the cost of the earth. >
Graphite: a modular honeycomb-shaped shelving system

Product Spotlight • 1 Jun 16

A storage system designed to be sturdy and fully customisable. >
Social enterprise designs Kenyan running shoe

Design News • 1 Jun 16

Enda is a running shoe inspired by Kenya’s legacy of running champions >
Welcome Shelter: Charlie Redman’s kinetic dining experience

Next Generation • 1 Jun 16

Architecture student Charlie Redman designed an outdoor structure that functions in any weather. >
Someone Somewhere is about empowerment through fashion

Design News • 1 Jun 16

Someone Somewhere combines traditional handcrafts with contemporary products to empower Mexican artisans. >
Ingestible origami robot can patch a wound from the inside

Design Frontiers • 31 May 16

Researchers have developed a tiny magnetically controlled robot with dozens of healthcare applications. >
L CARD: A lung cancer “breathalyzer”

Design Frontiers • 31 May 16

The tiny device can detect whether or not a patient has lung cancer. >
Spyce: healthy meals with the speed and ease of fast food

Design Frontiers • 31 May 16

Designed by students, the machine makes a healthy meal as quick and easy as fast food. >
Photographer presents a bird’s-eye view of inequality in Cape Town

Design News • 31 May 16

Johnny Miller’s photographic series shows that Apartheid spatial planning is still present in South Africa’s Mother City. >
Photographer Martha Tadesse captures her Ethiopian truth

Design News • 30 May 16

Ethiopian photographer Martha Tadesse hopes to share images of her travels through Addis Ababa with the world. >
Cheap, effective, mosquito killing soap

Design Frontiers • 30 May 16

Two African innovators have created a cheap soap to combat Malaria in the developing world. >
Luzinterruptus illuminates social issues using light and photography

Design News • 30 May 16

The anonymous collective Luzinterruptus is creating illuminating installations with light. >
Margrethe Odgaard’s work is full of colour, creativity and compassion

Design News • 30 May 16

Margrethe Odgaard is celebrated for her contributions to Nordic art and design. >
Innovative filter destroys pollutants in the air

Design News • 30 May 16

The Molekule air filter uses nano-technology and light to destroy air pollutants at a molecular level. >
Robotic arms and a bit of lycra can change the way concrete is used in design

Design News • 30 May 16

Designers develop a method of fabric-casting concrete into dynamic architectural forms >
Nigerian photographer's romantic visions of Lagos

Design News • 27 May 16

Photographer re-envisions his hometown using light and photographic installations. >
China's futuristic bus allows cars to pass underneath its carriages

Design News • 27 May 16

The Transit Explore Bus was designed to tackle extreme traffic congestion and pollution in China. >
Gamer gets a high-tech bionic limb

Design News • 27 May 16

Packed with gadgets, James Young’s robotic prosthesis also houses a drone. >
ReGen Village: an under-construction utopia of sustainable living

Design News • 27 May 16

Self-sustaining, off-grid village to be built in the Netherlands offers a look at the future of eco-friendly living. >
Smart earpiece translates languages in real-time

Design Frontiers • 27 May 16

Pilot is an earpiece that translates conversations as they happen. >
Ousmane Mbaye turns discarded metals into sculptural furniture

Design News • 26 May 16

Digging through the landfills of Dakar, Ousmane Mbaye sees design materials where others see trash. >
Pia Nyakairu: Designing a device to improve remote care for cancer patients

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:02:50 • 26 May 16

Ugandan-born industrial design graduate Pia Nyakairu has designed a device that helps physiotherapists and doctors offer distance care to cancer patients. >
Flood House explores a new typology of responsive architecture

Design News • 26 May 16

Matthew Butcher’s Flood House looks at how future dwellings should be adapted to co-exist with their native environments. >
Tshepo Sedumo’s handmade portable boomboxes

Product Spotlight • 26 May 16

The Johannesburg-based startup Grove Audio creates custom designed wooden boomboxes. >

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