2016 Archive

Wear Your Label wants a stigma-free society

Product Spotlight • 16 May 16

Wear Your Label gets people talking about mental health through fashion and jewellery design. >
Livi brings nature indoors

Product Spotlight • 17 May 16

The portable planter has a new take on interacting with nature. >
BaseLantern: a new project by BioLite

Product Spotlight • 23 May 16

The BaseLantern portable lantern is designed for off-grid usage. >
AbsorbPlate cuts calories by reducing grease on your plate

Product Spotlight • 24 May 16

The dinner plate’s design has perforations in its surface to trap excess grease. >
Tshepo Sedumo’s handmade portable boomboxes

Product Spotlight • 26 May 16

The Johannesburg-based startup Grove Audio creates custom designed wooden boomboxes. >
Graphite: a modular honeycomb-shaped shelving system

Product Spotlight • 1 Jun 16

A storage system designed to be sturdy and fully customisable. >
BooToo: locally designed educational toys

Product Spotlight • 2 Jun 16

South African entrepreneur Daniel Jillings, creates aesthetically pleasing children’s toys. >
Lyfe: A levitating planter

Product Spotlight • 7 Jun 16

The Swedish design team at Flyte introduce us to the future of planting with zero gravity plants. >
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. >
ZERO PER STOOL exemplifies craft with a zero-waste focus

Product Spotlight • 23 Jun 16

Upcycling design studio in South Korea creates distinctive seating design without letting a single scrap of wood go to waste. >
Shoes that are wearable for longer win cradle to cradle design challenge

Product Spotlight • 28 Jun 16

Virginia Tech student designs modular shoe with parts that can be disassembled to recycle or decompose. >
The meat-free burger that bleeds

Product Spotlight • 29 Jun 16

Impossible Foods has developed an entirely vegetarian burger that simulates meat so effectively that it bleeds. >
Alby Apparel promises liquid-repellent breathable clothes

Product Spotlight • 29 Jun 16

Using patented Fillium technology, wearing these Alby Apparel clothes promises to dramatically reduce your washing load. >
Furniture design spun from solid yarn

Product Spotlight • 4 Jul 16

Bobbin is a range of furniture recognised for its innovative and award-winning textile technique. >
Amahlé’s Ndebele inspired jewellery for a European market

Product Spotlight • 6 Jul 16

The Africa-inspired jewellery is designed to be sophisticated, yet durable enough for everyday use. >
Wudu Water Saver reduces the water needed for religious hygiene

Product Spotlight • 22 Jul 16

The Wudu Water Saver, designed by London-based product designer Ahmed Salah, reduces the amount of water and energy used in traditional Wudu cleansing. >
Minimising waste with the Flax Chair

Product Spotlight • 4 Aug 16

Dutch designer Christien Meindertsma proves furniture can carry both stylistic and ecological integrity. >
Liquid light created in DiMO lamp range

Product Spotlight • 8 Aug 16

Modern lamp designed to imitate the mechanism of a syringe. >
Dirt-free herb farming for urban dwellers

Product Spotlight • 8 Aug 16

The Amphora allows even the busiest people to grow fresh herbs. >
The ethical company turning plastic bottles into functional travel bags

Product Spotlight • 9 Aug 16

For Hamilton Perkins, one man's trash is literally another's treasure >
Wintergatan Marble Machine: Making music with marbles

Product Spotlight • Duration: 4:32 • 17 Aug 16

This arcade-style music box features a range of programmable instruments. >
Blubel: The intelligent bicycle bell

Product Spotlight • Duration: 3:29 • 17 Aug 16

Blubel Tech’s new device for cyclists offers far more than the chime of a bell. >
TrackR Bravo: Making lost items a thing of the past

Product Spotlight • Duration: 1:38 • 22 Aug 16

Chris Herbert and his team at Phone Halo have designed a compact tracker device that can be used for practically anything. >
Phlur: The new fragrance brand with socially conscious appeal

Product Spotlight • 24 Aug 16

Eric Korman believes the cologne industry should start taking ethical responsibility. >

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