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Reclaiming a feminine masculinity
Design News
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26 Oct 16
Butch Is Not A Dirty Word: the publication celebrating butch identity and culture.
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Do The Green Thing: Not Another Make Up Tutorial
Inside View
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25 Oct 16
With its promotion of overconsumption, its excessive packaging and dubious ingredients, the beauty industry is pretty bad for the environment.
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South African designer Thabo Makhetha’s new concept store celebrates Africa
Design News
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25 Oct 16
Thabo Makhetha has garnered numerous awards and accolades. Her concept store promises to honour everything Africa.
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Transforming your dirty nappies into valuable, recycled material
Design News
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25 Oct 16
Just because they’re disposable doesn’t mean they’re useless.
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Student designed device to investigate the Arctic’s underwater environment
Design Frontiers
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25 Oct 16
The DeepFreezeROV promises to expand our understanding of a world we can’t see.
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Mind-controlled robotic arm allows man to feel again
Design News
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25 Oct 16
Scientists are working to restore lost sensation with advanced haptic tech.
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These superhero illustrations appeal to children from every walk of life
Design News
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24 Oct 16
In the second iteration of his Super Shadows series, Ratliff encourages every child to be a hero.
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South African artists Kwesta and Ross “Dabone” McDonald capture the sound of Jozi
Design News
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24 Oct 16
In a world-first, these South African creatives teamed up to create a song and music video in the new Volkswagen Polo Beats.
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The ‘dirty’ way Toyota is creating cleaner fuel
Design Frontiers
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24 Oct 16
Would you drive a car powered by poo?
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Decorative discouragement: The dirty tricks in architecture
Design News
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24 Oct 16
Take a look at a few sly design choices that benefit some & prohibit others.
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A non-mechanical water device designed for rural South Africa
Design News
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21 Oct 16
This 2016 design graduate designed a non-mechanical solution to hand washing in rural South Africa and is exhibiting it as part of the Dubai Global Grad Show.
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New clothes using old materials
Design News
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21 Oct 16
Discarded clothes should occupy your wardrobe instead of a landfill.
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Disrupting expensive city housing with Big World Homes
Design Frontiers
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21 Oct 16
Affordable, flat-packed homes that rethink the way people live.
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Speeding up physiotherapy with soft robotics
Design Frontiers
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21 Oct 16
A Swiss lab develops robotic exoskeleton tech for good.
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Design Indaba founder shares a new way of thinking
Festival News
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20 Oct 16
Ravi Naidoo sits down with Wanted Magazine and tells why, to differentiate, we must be led by design.
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The ‘glow-in-the-dark’, energy-efficient cycle lane
Design Frontiers
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20 Oct 16
This unique solar-powered bicycle path is guiding Poland’s nighttime cyclists.
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Digitise your water supply
Design News
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20 Oct 16
Tanzania’s WaterTek aims to provide transparency and efficiency in rural areas.
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Ivorian “photo-maker” Paul Sika is turning his creative energy to the world of games
African Report
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20 Oct 16
Photography can no longer contain the whole of Paul Sika’s vision, instead he is choosing to tell his next story in a digital, transmedia fashion.
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Student invents ambulance drone for speedy medical assistance
Next Generation
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20 Oct 16
This engineering graduate is using drone tech as a force for good.
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Open source wheelchair for developing countries
Design Frontiers
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19 Oct 16
The SafariSeat by Kenya-based design team Uji is an open-source wheelchair specially tailored to the needs of people living in rural communities.
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Burkina Faso’s new parliamentary building celebrates the revolution
Design News
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19 Oct 16
Design Indaba alumnus Francis Kéré unveils the design for Burkina Faso’s new National Assembly.
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3D-bioprinted breast duct could minimise breast-cancer treatment
Design News
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19 Oct 16
Modern 3D-printing tech allows scientists to reconsider how they treat cancer.
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WaterSeer: Turning air into drinkable water
Design News
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19 Oct 16
This device claims to accelerate the production of pure drinking water.
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The stories clothes can tell
Design News
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19 Oct 16
Shwe – The Wearable Library makes it their mission to bring to life the invisible stories behind the garments we wear.
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