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Design Frontiers
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5 Nov 19
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Material World is a film that gives form to the sustainable fashion debate
Design Frontiers
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5 Nov 19
This short invites you to question the stories and ethics behind your clothing.
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5 surprisingly sustainable fashion fabrics
Inside View
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6 Nov 19
It's not just organic cotton and hemp on the sustainable fabrics line up. Here are five of the most curious eco-friendly textiles.
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An outsider's critique of the American Dream
Design News
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6 Nov 19
Zimbabwean-born photographer Barry Salzman talks to us about his latest project as well as his award-winning series on the Rwandan genocide.
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West Africa through the lens of photographer Sierra Nallo
Design News
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7 Nov 19
“I want people to really see the human connection and that's the most important aspect of my photography.”
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Cape Town school built with its pupils unique needs in mind
Design News
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11 Nov 19
Cheré Botha School provides pupils with a learning environment that limits excess stimuli and distraction.
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Here is a look at some innovative design coming out of Iceland
Design News
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12 Nov 19
The Iceland Design Award 2019 nominees include a wearable MIDI controller in the shape of a ring that sits on your index finger.
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Making the world a little more colourful with Olimpia Zagnoli
Design News
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12 Nov 19
The Italian illustrator lives by the philosophy being kind and creating beautiful things.
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Could VR create space for people of colour in the film industry?
Design Frontiers
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12 Nov 19
Emerging technology may be the answer to the ongoing question of representation.
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SPACE10 set to launch research and design lab in Delhi
Design News
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14 Nov 19
“We want to be where the future is...Innovation doesn’t happen in isolation, so we want to anchor our research and design process closer to the people."
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Nassia Inglessis’ unique approach to interactive installations
Design Frontiers
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15 Nov 19
The designer is known for her innovative approach in transforming design as we know it.
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Kenyan fashion designer Anyango Mpinga on how she uses fashion to inspire change
Design Frontiers
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19 Nov 19
Mpinga tells us how soap operas, dragonflies and sound waves all came together to create the Anyango Mpinga label.
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Self-taught Mexican artist on creating artwork that speaks to the masses
Design News
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19 Nov 19
“I am totally self-taught, which gives me full freedom of experimentation."
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Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama will be speaking at Design Indaba 2020
Design Frontiers
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20 Nov 19
The artist and author is famed for draping buildings in materials, like jute sacks, as a comment on our complicated colonial histories.
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Kinya Tagawa on threading humanity into the tech world
Design News
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20 Nov 19
The Japanese designer and engineer will be speaking at Design Indaba 2020.
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Jack Newbury has designed an inclusive sexual education kit
Design News
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25 Nov 19
The design student says this new kit and curriculum, a first for the UK, is inclusive of the LGBTQ+ community and other types of sexual practices.
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Zana Masombuka on Ndebele Superhero as a process of reimagination
Next Generation
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26 Nov 19
“Africans need to interpret their history themselves and seek to reinvent Africa according to their own terms.”
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Ghana’s wunderkind Ibrahim Mahama to shared his monumental artworks at Design Indaba 2020
Festival News
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27 Nov 19
Ibrahim Mahama spoke at the 2020 Design Indaba Conference.
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Re:flex is a material that can be reprogrammed using heat
Design News
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28 Nov 19
Dutch product designer Karlijn Sibbel says she and her team wanted to create a material that adapts to changes the way nature does.
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The Sumo Diaper is an eco-friendly and fully biodegradable diaper
Next Generation
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28 Nov 19
The product was created by Luisa Kahlfeldt using a cellulose fiber that is made from eucalyptus wood pulp and brown algae extracts.
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6 clever design solutions for pressing healthcare issues
Take Five
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28 Nov 19
We highlight some of the design solutions aimed at healthcare sector.
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P Bank is a public toilet facility that offers a solution to the phosphorus scarcity
Design News
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28 Nov 19
P Bank allows visitors to make a donation of Phosphorus, which is currently endangered due to high consumption levels.
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The Coral Farm allows you to grow algae at home
Design News
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29 Nov 19
Hyun Seok An's project was inspired by a UN World Food Conference that named algae ‘the most ideal food for mankind.’
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Sum Waste turns waste into functional products like pens
Next Generation
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29 Nov 19
Pratt University graduate Garret Benisch says he wanted to show what happens when one sees waste as an asset rather than a problem.
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