Articles

This Solar Grill makes cooking easier in areas with no electricity

Design News • 18 Apr 18

The cooker stores solar energy for cooking at any time of the day. >
Vukuzenzele is a digital puzzle game helping to redesign informal settlements

Design News • 17 Apr 18

The game uses the concept of re-blocking to reimagine the layout of an informal settlement in order to create better access to basic services. >
Copenhagenize Design Co. is making moves to see more bicycles in urban areas

Design Frontiers • 17 Apr 18

“The bicycle is the most powerful tool in our urban toolboxes to fix our cities.” >
Ekene Ijeoma deconstructs the US national anthem as a comment on mass imprisonment

Design News • 16 Apr 18

In Deconstructed Anthems, he built a software that removes notes from the US national anthem at the same rate Americans have been imprisoned. >
See the novel ways these designers are innovating healthcare practices

Design Frontiers • 16 Apr 18

From beautiful colostomy bags to a USB stick that’s also an HIV testing kit, these projects affirm that the future of healthcare is in safe hands. >
Japanese art of paper cutting inspires the next generation of bandages

Design News • 16 Apr 18

These MIT engineers believe a simple method of pattern-cutting holds great benefits in store for wound healing plasters and wearable tech. >
Sustainable planter helps trees and plants survive in arid environments

Design News • 16 Apr 18

A product developed by Dutch startup Land Life Company increases seedling survival rates up to 95 per cent. >
The Araba Belle androgynous capes are inspired by Ghana’s coast

Design News • 15 Apr 18

Accra-based fashion brand DoNeal was inspired by the people and landscape of Ghana's Cape Coast. >
The world’s first design museum built inside a Mumbai slum

Design News • 14 Apr 18

The artists also aim to question the word “slum” because of the ways in which it ignores the complexity and dynamism of a community. >
Can you redevelop a big city like Lagos without displacing the poor?

Design News • 13 Apr 18

Urban planner Lookman Oshodi seems to think it is possible. >
Scientists are working on a pill that mimics the effects of exercise

Design Frontiers • 13 Apr 18

Scientists are a step closer to developing exercise in a pill to help the chronically lazy, elderly, and those medically unable to exercise. >
MaXhosa launches rug collection and appoints new creative director

Design News • 13 Apr 18

Changes are afoot for the acclaimed South African fashion brand. >
"We already live in a dystopian world" – Fabrice Monteiro

Design News • 12 Apr 18

Senegalese photographer Fabrice Monteiro believes we are already living in a dystopian world, on an earth that humans have made sick. >
These surreal portraits explore ideas of culture, family, tradition, and gender

Design News • 12 Apr 18

Ndidi Emefiele’s art addresses societal expectations of women in Nigeria. >
5 projects that are looking into the possible future of humans on Mars

Design News • 12 Apr 18

To celebrate International Day of Human Space Flight here's a look at some projects that are looking into space exploration. >
Industrial design student introduces a refillable, more sustainable mascara

Design News • 11 Apr 18

The refillable mascara that can be applied using a 3D printed fingertip, saving an estimated 25 mascara bottles from landfill per person over ten years. >
Joshua Kissi on disrupting and diversifying stock photography

Design News • 11 Apr 18

The photographer and co-founder of TONL tells us why he decided to make images of the unrepresented his priority. >
This film explores the legacy of colonial architecture in the Congo

Design News • 11 Apr 18

The Tower – A Concrete Utopia explores the social afterlives of colonialist infrastructure in the Congolese city of Kinshasa. >
Designer Ying Gao uses fingerprint recognition to identify strangers

Design Frontiers • 10 Apr 18

These ‘smart’ garments form part of her Possible Tomorrows project. >
Salooni creates a judgement-free space at festivals to discuss black hair

Design News • 10 Apr 18

"We want women who leave the Salooni to feel beautiful and to feel celebrated." >
Alexandra Fruhstorfer uses design to find creative solutions for environmental problems

Design Frontiers • 9 Apr 18

She explores the impact of alien species through food as well as how to make clothes more sustainable through a different kind of yarn. >
Three unique factors that are important to building a modern city

Design News • 9 Apr 18

Here are three key takeaways from some of our Design Commons speakers. >
This centre offers a safe haven for Rwandan women who’ve escaped the unthinkable

Design News • 7 Apr 18

Inspired by Rwandan architecture, the Women’s Opportunity Centre is home to about 300 women. >
Cellphones hold a solution to infant mortality in Cameroon

Design News • 6 Apr 18

Gifted Mom is a low-tech, m-health platform that aims to reduce the number of deaths of pregnant women and infants in Cameroon. >
The People’s Fridge is an effort to reduce food waste and combat hunger

Design Frontiers • 6 Apr 18

The city’s first community fridge is where the needy can help themselves to fresh food at zero cost. >
On how South Africa's small, forgotten towns inspired Five Fingers for Marseilles

Design News • 6 Apr 18

"The idea of a South African Western was probably sparked from the numerous road trips we were doing around the country at the time.” >
This architect is helping to rebuild health facilities in disaster-hit areas

Design News • 6 Apr 18

Partners In Health offer high-tech facilities where there would otherwise be very little care options in places like Haiti and Liberia. >
Thabisa Mjo on using bold product design to tell stories

Design News • 5 Apr 18

"I consider design a form of story-telling and design is the medium through which those stories are told." >
Dutch designer Anton Karlsson on the importance of using humour to make people think

Design News • 5 Apr 18

He recently won a Rising Star award at the 2018 Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair for his range that is modelled on the digestive system. >
This designer uses bacteria to make colourful silk scarves

Design Frontiers • 5 Apr 18

Are microorganisms even more useful than we previously thought? >

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