2016 Archive

Khanya Njalo brings solar lighting to rural communities

Design Frontiers • 3 May 16

The project, initiated in rural KwaZulu-Natal, provides solar powered lighting solutions to rural communities. >
Green Product: Harvest Cart is a solution to backyard farming

Design News • 3 May 16

The small-scale harvesting cart makes collecting produce easier. >
Green Product: Citycropps virtually helps create a functional garden

Design News • 3 May 16

Citycropps is an urban agricultural project that virtually assists app users as they cultivate their own organic gardens. >
Humanoid robot recovers sunken treasure

Design Frontiers • 3 May 16

OceanOne is Stanford’s mermaid-like robot that can stand in for a human driver. >
Backpacks made from blankets

Product Spotlight • 2 May 16

Sibusiso Mokhachane makes backpacks from blankets to celebrate his heritage and help the world unlearn African stereotypes. >
Conceptual fashion by Bokang Lehabe

Design Frontiers • 2 May 16

Bokang Lehabe, one of Design Indaba Emerging Creative 2016, creates award winning, conceptual fashion. >
EVOLVE: Egypt’s local artists interpret Phobia

Design News • 2 May 16

Cairo-based art project, EVOLVE calls local artists together to contemplate and share their digital interpretations of phobia. >
Child’s Cup Full: Toys and accessories handmade by refugees

Design News • 2 May 16

Non-profit social enterprise Child’s Cup Full encourages women in the West Bank to be makers. >
Swale: the floating food forest

Design Frontiers • 29 Apr 16

The Brooklyn-based project is a self-sustaining ecosystem, created to redesign our relationship with food. >
BeSeens: LED imbedded, hand-signalling cycling gloves

Product Spotlight • 29 Apr 16

BeSeens use motion detection and LED lighting to make indicating safer for cyclists. >
Abai Schulze: Stylish leather goods, handmade in Ethiopia

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:03:19 • 29 Apr 16

ZAAF is a collection of Ethiopian handbags and scarfs, hand loomed using traditional patterns and practices. >
Floating solar panels take to the seas

Design News • 29 Apr 16

Heliofloat solar farm is designed to generate clean energy out at sea and preserve water in arid regions. >
Skyscraper made out of wooden numbers

Design News • 29 Apr 16

Anders Berensson Architects is set to transform an old parking lot in Stockholm into a multi-use wooden skyscraper. >
Wikkelhouse: A house made of 24 layers of cardboard

Design Frontiers • 29 Apr 16

A marvel of sustainable design, Wikkelhouse is fully customisable and environmentally friendly. >
EnerGaia’s rival new production method for Spirulina

Product Spotlight • 28 Apr 16

Thailand-based EnerGaia has created a unique bioreactor to manufacture a purer Spirulina sustainably. >
Skull echoes offer solution to current password systems

Design News • 28 Apr 16

German research team look into skull echoes as new passwords to access private accounts or devices. >
Search engine uses ad revenue to plant trees

Design News • 28 Apr 16

Ecosia is a search engine and social initiative that uses income generated from search ads to fight global deforestation. >
South African creative Menzi Ndlovu isn’t just a one-minute man

Design Frontiers • 28 Apr 16

Johannesburg-based illustrator Menzi Ndlovu immortalises everyday people in one minute sketches. >
Pockulus: Smartphone free, affordable VR

Design News • 28 Apr 16

Based on open-source tech, Pockulus is a DIY way into virtual reality. >
Bioo: A plant that is also a charging station

Design News • 28 Apr 16

Charging your electronic devices could be done in the easiest, greenest way possible with the Bioo plant. >
Anna Raimondo’s latest collection – NOIR

Product Spotlight • 27 Apr 16

Cape Town’s Anna Raimondo releases her latest range, NOIR, for her jewellery design company, Smith. >
Michael Shiferaw: Digital design with a positive impact

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:03:30 • 27 Apr 16

It’s a good time to be a creative in Africa, says creative director Michael Shiferaw >
Plastic card melts to fix or modify anything

Design News • 27 Apr 16

FORMcard is a play dough type of substance that aims to become as ubiquitous as sticky tape or Prestik. >
A floating UFO to call home

Design News • 27 Apr 16

Italian boating company designs a flying saucer-like house boat for living and sailing on the sea. >

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