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LEGO is rolling out its first plant-based plastic blocks
Design News
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19 Mar 18
The popular toy brand is making vast strides towards a more sustainable future.
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On transforming diarrhoea treatment in Zambia with a simple solution
Design News
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19 Mar 18
The award-winning innovator, Simon Berry says he hopes in the next ten years there won’t be a need for ColaLife to exist.
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Journalists are fighting censorship using streaming sites like Spotify and Deezer
Design News
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19 Mar 18
The Uncensored Playlist uses a streaming loophole to get censored news to the public in repressed countries.
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Swedish clinic designed with the country's refugee population in mind
Design Frontiers
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19 Mar 18
Rejecting the traditional strict clean lines typical of medical centers, the design team explored the concept of a bright facade with an unusual 3D effect.
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These contact lenses deliver medicine straight to your eye
Design Frontiers
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20 Mar 18
The lenses can deliver drugs to the back of the eye to treat macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, retinal vein occlusion, and other diseases.
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Stone Wool is an eco-friendly way to control the temperature in our homes
Design News
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20 Mar 18
Engineers have identified this material as a better way to build and protect our homes and spaces.
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A wound-healing gel inspired by slugs
Design News
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20 Mar 18
Where sutures and stitches fail, doctors are turning to the restorative slime of gastropods.
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Mozambican photographer Mario Macilau on documenting the lives of society's most vulnerable
Design News
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20 Mar 18
"My work is also a personal documentary. I prefer long-term projects that require commitment and trust."
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14 graphic designers to watch
Design News
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21 Mar 18
These up and coming visual artist showed us a sneak peak into the future of graphic design in South Africa.
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The Calmingstone counters panic attacks and stress
Product Spotlight
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21 Mar 18
This hand-held design emits soothing signals that target anxiety, bringing you back to a state of zen.
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Cape Town entrepreneur is designing a new language around menstruation
Design News
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22 Mar 18
Entrepreneur Zizipho Ntobongwana challenges everything from the packaging to ads to sustainability.
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Could these be the fast food favourites of the future?
Design Frontiers
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22 Mar 18
Food lab Space10 reinvents 5 classic dishes using alternative, sustainable ingredients.
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Hayoung Kim’s lamps draw inspiration from handheld fans
Design Frontiers
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22 Mar 18
As a user moves them, much in the same way one would fold and unfold a handheld fan, the light dims.
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Blinky Bill on why he does not want to be restricted to a particular music genre
Design News
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22 Mar 18
“I want to make genreless sound – but if you absolutely have to place it, it is a mix of hip-hop, afrobeat and jazz.”
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Could wastewater biorefinery help in the Cape Town water crisis?
Design News
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22 Mar 18
As we observe World Water Day, Cape Town's management of a severe drought is an example of what's to come.
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Morag Myerscough's design converted at Cape Town primary school to inspire kids
Design News
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23 Mar 18
This project extends the life of ‘Embrace the Unknown’, the structure that was erected at Design Indaba Festival 2018.
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IBM wants to use the world’s smallest computer to stop fraud
Design Frontiers
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23 Mar 18
Smaller than a grain of salt, the tiny computer is part of a family of cryptographic anchors which includes edible ink dots and mobile sensors.
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UK agency launches playful Anti-Brexit Campaign
Design News
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26 Mar 18
"The idea of ordering a burger and not receiving what was expected is a feeling that everyone can relate to.”
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On creating unique ceramics out of sand collected from all over the world
Design Frontiers
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26 Mar 18
Lonny van Ryswyck talks about using sand from the depleted Theewaterskloof Dam to make the Design Indaba 2018 speakers gift, her process and more.
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Three innovative buildings that show the way forward in architecture
Design News
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26 Mar 18
Take a look at the cutting-edge solutions designers have used to solve modern problems of the built world on three different continents.
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This design duo is exploring ‘stardust’ as an alternative raw matter
Design Frontiers
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26 Mar 18
As Above, So Below uses micrometeorites to communicate an important message.
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Jacque Njeri’s vibrant graphic art reimagines the Maasai people in outer space
Design News
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27 Mar 18
The Kenyan artist’s MaaSci series is a vivid example of Afrofuturism.
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Nairobi’s GoDown Art Centre gets a redesign from Sweden’s White Arkitekter
Design Frontiers
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27 Mar 18
Scandinavia's largest architecture firm reimagines Kenya’s leading centre for arts and culture.
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Feather sculpture honours bond between Ireland and a Native American nation
Design News
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27 Mar 18
Towering 20 feet into the Irish sky, Kindred Spirits recognises the Choctaw Nation for their generosity during Ireland's Great Famine.
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