Design Indaba Archive

Korean artist explores “hysteria” in mixed media paintings

Design News • 13 Apr 16

Confronted with something terrifying, the characters in Yeom Ji-Hee’s work must face their fears. >
TippyTalk: Tech that bridges the gap between the disabled and their caregivers

Design News • 12 Apr 16

Rob Laffan created an app that helps his autistic daughter communicate from anywhere at anytime. >
Skin: The next step in wearable tech

Design Frontiers • 12 Apr 16

SkinHaptics is a new innovation that sees the palm of your hand as the next display surface for wearable tech. >
A fossil-fuel-free houseboat from an apocalyptic future

Design Frontiers • 12 Apr 16

Tshepo Mokholo is an architect-turned-designer and his goal is to bring about inner-city change through better design. >
The UK’s first transparent solar bus shelter

Design News • 12 Apr 16

Energy-generating bus shelter sets the standard for solar glass infrastructure in city spaces. >
Eco-friendly trap designed to stop spread of virus-carrying mosquitoes

Design News • 12 Apr 16

An innovation made from old car tyres helps contain mosquito-related virus outbreaks in Guatemala. >
Green Product: From PET bottles to this range of chairs

Product Spotlight • 11 Apr 16

The LJ series by Dutch studio De Vorm is a range of chairs and stools that feature a strong, soft felt material that is made of recycled PET bottles. >
Illume Creative Studio: Illuminating Africa through creative communication

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:05:18 • 11 Apr 16

Rwandan communications agency helps Rwanda’s growing brands and businesses express themselves. >
The Kofe Club Collection: Uniquely Nigerian furniture

Design News • 11 Apr 16

Product designer Nifemi Marcus-Bello believes small-scale operations can lead to unique, Nigerian designs. >
Campaign reconnects refugees with their moms

Design News • 11 Apr 16

Refugee Phones turns commercial radio into personal media for refugees to contact their mothers. >
Smart thermometer crowdsources info for real-time health tracking

Design News • 11 Apr 16

Kinsa’s Smart Thermometer is able to help individuals and communities map diseases before they spread. >
New strategies to improve the consumer experience

Design News • 8 Apr 16

The needs of consumers are ever-changing and designers will need to respond. >
Grotesque sculptures comment on food waste and production

Design News • 8 Apr 16

Japanese artist Ayako Fudamoto creates lifelike sculptures of deformed livestock using fake food samples. >
Floating bio-filtration system cleans up river litter

Design News • 8 Apr 16

Melbourne-based designer Rowan Turnham builds a modular plant system that captures trash from an estuary. >
3D-printed robots are able to move immediately after printing

Design Frontiers • 8 Apr 16

MIT researchers developed a way to print both liquids and solids, building a robot faster and with immediate results. >
Eva Mynsberghe: Making products that tell stories

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:04:19 • 8 Apr 16

Jewellery and interiors designer Eva Mynsberghe emphasises the importance of telling stories with design. >
Redesign Meat at the Slagerij de Hamvraag

Inside View • 7 Apr 16

Food designers rethink the meat industry in a series of talks and discussions at the Slagerij de Hamvraag pop up butchery in the Netherlands. >
Architects designing for social improvement

Inside View • 7 Apr 16

billionBricks project manager Astrid Hugo shares advice on how to design for the homeless. >
Artist invites humans to bond with worms

Design News • 7 Apr 16

Amy Youngs’ exhibition educates people about the benefits of worm composting at home. >
Smart tampons could be the future of home diagnostics

Design News • 7 Apr 16

Researchers are creating a tampon testing system that helps women monitor their own health and fertility. >
Gau Gas creates energy from animal waste

Design News • 7 Apr 16

Cooking with fossil fuels over an open flame is harmful to people and the environment, SustainEarth offers a biogas alternative. >
Harnessing creativity in the workplace

Design News • 6 Apr 16

Creativity on demand: Some lessons in how to channel your creative energy in a more productive way. >
Dave Hakkens’ DIY plastic recycling machines

Design News • 6 Apr 16

Industrial designer shares blueprints for recycling machines so that anyone can make plastic products at home. >
Backpacks made from traditional Sotho blankets

Design Frontiers • 6 Apr 16

Sibusiso Mokhachane makes backpacks from blankets to celebrate his heritage and help the world unlearn African stereotypes. >

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