August 2017 Archive

This electricity generating yarn could change the face of wearable tech

Design Frontiers • 31 Aug 17

The carbon nanotube yarn generates electricity with just a tug. >
The 2017 Beazley Design of the Year finalists include Kanye West, IKEA and architect Sir David Adjaye

Design News • 29 Aug 17

The nominees feature more than 60 projects that span six categories – architecture, digital, fashion, graphics, product and transport. >
The inflatable garden that could sustain life on Mars and beyond

Design Frontiers • 29 Aug 17

This NASA project would see astronauts on a self-sustaining vegetarian diet for longer trips across the cosmos. >
Sir David Adjaye and Tiffany Chu among the nine speakers at the inaugural Design Commons

Design News • 28 Aug 17

The deconstructed conference puts global heavyweights in design at the same table as the audience. >
Convenient household composting with Taihi

Next Generation • 28 Aug 17

If it’s good enough for your body, it’s certainly good enough for your garden. >
The Maitland Institute is changing perspectives on how audiences engage with art

Design News • 25 Aug 17

This Cape Town space is departing from the clinical, one-way-communication aspect of the modern art gallery. >
On Nathan Reddy, one of the leading design specialists in the ad industry

Design News • 24 Aug 17

The founder of GRID Worldwide Branding and Design, was inducted into the Loeries Creative Hall of Fame. >
Should you be putting your website to bed?

Design News • 24 Aug 17

Sleep debt facts say yes. >
See these custom tributes to the iconic Prince

Design News • 23 Aug 17

The icon’s passing was a shock to many, but at least we’ll be able to replicate his purple hue. >
A return to our primordial roots with Stanislaw Trzebinski

Design News • Duration: 00:02:48 • 23 Aug 17

“In spite of our total reliance on the natural world, we have become almost blind to it,” says the artist. >
Kolor Art Collective’s latest work questions what it means to be ‘normal’

Design Frontiers • 23 Aug 17

Photographed by Pol Kurucz, the brazenly avant-garde series defies conventionalities. >
From outmoded storage cylinder to innovative knowledge hub

Design News • 22 Aug 17

This storehouse will be transformed into a dynamic information centre on sustainable energy for the city of Heidelberg. >
Wacom Creatives: Benjamin Von Wong on his brand of visual engineering

Design News • Duration: 4:32 • 22 Aug 17

"If social media didn't exist I probably wouldn't be doing photography," says the photographer. >
Meet Carolyn Davidson, the woman behind the iconic Nike Swoosh

Design Frontiers • 21 Aug 17

The retired graphic designer created the logo while she was still a student at Portland State University. The job earned her $35 back then. >
Testing the bounds of modular home design with DD16

Design News • 21 Aug 17

This architecture prototype caters for intrepid voyagers and nomadic fishermen with utmost economy in its design. >
Exhibiting photography at roadhouses to celebrate this fading social culture

Design Frontiers • 18 Aug 17

Night By Roadhouse brings local and international photography to a wide, non gallery-going audience in Johannesburg. >
SaveArtSpace turns billboards into public art canvasses

Design Frontiers • 17 Aug 17

The initiative aims to empower artists from all walks of life and inspire a new generation of young creatives. >
Diversifying media imagery to include more ethnicities with TONL

Design News • 15 Aug 17

This agency works to arm advertisers and designers with the tools to represent all races in their campaigns, not just one. >
A 30 foot warship made from plastic debris is hoping to draw attention to ocean pollution

Design Frontiers • 14 Aug 17

The Surfers Against Sewage initiative is highlighting the world’s largest ocean garbage site. >
Dutch artist Thirza Schaap reveals the delicate beauty that can be found in garbage

Design News • 11 Aug 17

Instead of a bombastic crusade, this project raises awareness of marine pollution in a gentle, considered style. >
The deformed realities of graphic artist Anxo Viscaíno

Design News • 10 Aug 17

"I would rather focus more efforts on developing art and culture than spending too much time protecting my copyright," he says. >
Desktop bioengineering by Amino Labs

Design News • 10 Aug 17

The small-scale kits empower the scientists and innovators of tomorrow. >
An affordable, open-source home

Design News • 9 Aug 17

As part of the push toward sustainable design, Studiolada released plans for the Open Source House. >
This new exhibition calls on feminism to be diverse

Design News • 9 Aug 17

Feminisms x The Arab and Muslim Diaspora to open at London’s Protein Studios. >

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