2016 Archive

Christophe Guberan’s living textiles self-adapt, move, and transform

Design News • 17 Feb 16

Global graduate Christophe Guberan creates products that challenge the limits of matter. >
Michael Wolff: The story of four rooms

Design News • Duration: 00:03:46 • 17 Feb 16

Design consultant Michael Wolff encourages young designers to trust in their ability to create something new. >
Day one of Design Indaba Conference 2016

Design News • 17 Feb 16

Day one of Design Indaba Conference 2016 brought audiences stories of courage, collaboration, confetti and cocks. >
Basia Dżaman’s carbon fibre 3D printer of the future

Design News • 18 Feb 16

Polish student Basia Dżaman modified a robotic arm using specially designed, 3D printed tools. >
The designer works as the creative catalyst, says Fred Gelli

Design News • 18 Feb 16

Focused on sustainable design, Fred Gelli believes we’ll need to redesign the way we live. >
Redesigning a product that helps you do good

Design News • 18 Feb 16

Award-winning designer Benjamin Hubert teamed up with Acts of Random Kindness to design a new ARK. >
Twins Cartoon release a comic in English

Design News • 18 Feb 16

Twins Cartoon release their comic magazine Garage in English for the first time at Design Indaba Conference. >
Day two of Design Indaba Conference 2016

Design News • 18 Feb 16

The second day of Conference 2016 took us from architecture in Japan to a kitchen in Spain ended with a heavy hit of Swedish rock. >
Beercycling transforms urine into beer

Design News • 19 Feb 16

Northern Europe’s largest festival turns festivalgoers’ urine into fertiliser for barley crops >
Tiger Maremela uses digital collage to examine black masculinities in the “Rainbow Nation”

Design News • 19 Feb 16

Joburg-based Tiger Maremela uses popular South African consumer products in their digital art to examine capitalism, modernisation and black masculinities. >
Naresh Ramchandani’s eight all-time favourite words

Design News • 19 Feb 16

“Eight Words” is Naresh Ramchandani’s ode to the words he likes best in the English language. >
Day three of Design Indaba 2016 – and that's a wrap!

Design News • 19 Feb 16

A celebration of language in eight words, four bright young designers and five songs from the wonderful Imogen Heap. And more! >
The Playtime in Africa initiative is a public space for Ghana’s children

Design News • 22 Feb 16

Mmofra Place will nurture growth, creativity, and expression in a public space designed for children. >
New affordable houses in Paris leech onto existing buildings

Design News • 22 Feb 16

Stephane Malka Architects’ modular city home will sell at 40 per cent below the market price. >
Nendo’s distinctive chocolates are a journey into shape, taste and texture

Design News • 22 Feb 16

Nendo, the Japanese design firm, took on something that a number of people consider perfect in its design: chocolate. >
Prepd Pack reimagines the lunchbox

Design News • 22 Feb 16

Modular lunchbox and app system, Prepd Pack is a convenient and healthy way to plan lunch. >
Recyclable tents for music festivals

Design News • 23 Feb 16

KarTent is a flat-packed cardboard tent designed to reduce the amount of discarded tents at festivals. >
Hexagonal emergency housing designed to perform on a long-term basis

Design News • 23 Feb 16

Hex House is a low-cost house designed by Architects for Society to accommodate people displaced by disaster or conflict. >
The chocolatier bringing social change to Haiti

Design News • 23 Feb 16

Corinne Joachim Sanon converted her grandfather’s house into a bean-to-bar chocolaterie and created jobs along the way. >
SA artist's digital works explore the surreal elements of emotion

Design News • 23 Feb 16

Dreamlike landscapes and portraits make up Richard Davis' body of work. >
Six candidates for the Woman Architect of the Year, focussing on human-centred design

Design News • 23 Feb 16

The candidates for Women Architect of the Year have been unveiled and we’ve highlighted six who use architecture to solve the housing crisis and women’s needs. >
3D-printed blocks designed to transform into a range of cameras

Design News • 24 Feb 16

Researchers at Columbia University design a modular camera system that rethinks the common camera. >
Greening Madrid to reduce the impact of climate change

Design News • 24 Feb 16

Sustainable design firm Arup devises a plan to regulate the greening of infrastructure and buildings in Spain’s capital city. >
The final shortlist for the world's biggest photo competition is in

Design News • 25 Feb 16

From the largest number of entries in their nine year history, the Sony World Photography Awards have released their final shortlist for this year’s competition >

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