Articles

How to influence human behaviour and other lessons in this game-like online course

Design News • 21 Apr 16

EdTech startup 42courses.com collaborates with Ogilvy to launch an online course in Behavioural Economics from renowned ad man and TED speaker Rory Sutherland. >
Laye Samb moves minds through illustration

Design News • 21 Apr 16

Senegalese artist Laye Samb takes a satirical and sometimes dark look at everyday life in Africa. >
Livia: A high tech solution to menstrual pain

Design News • 21 Apr 16

A US-based company launched a campaign to crowdfund a high tech off-switch for menstrual pain. >
Skyfarm could be the future of urban agriculture

Design News • 20 Apr 16

Stirk Harbour + Partners’ vertical farming tower poses a solution to the global food crisis. >
MOSSMANIA takes over the interior space

Design News • 20 Apr 16

Italian brand brings furry foliage into their product designs >
OSCAR: Challenging the divide between human and machine

Design Frontiers • 20 Apr 16

Dutch filmmaker and visual artist Floris Kaayk’s series of interconnected videos tells the sci-fi story of OSCAR, a modular life form. >
Allan Amato explores the naked form in SLIP: Naked In Your Own Words

Design News • 20 Apr 16

The nude form inspires awe, lust, empathy, envy, anger says photographer Allan Amato. >
Material girls: We look at two local textile designers

Design Frontiers • 19 Apr 16

Megan Smith and Luhandra Vorstman live on opposite sides of South Africa but share a similar approach to textile design and production. >
Thai architects develop a building typology for disaster-resistant schools

Design News • 19 Apr 16

Vin Varavarn Architects, a Bangkok-based firm, developed a new architectural typology for earthquake resistant schools. >
Illustrator Carla Latsky doesn't like to pigeonhole her craft

Design News • 19 Apr 16

South African illustrator Carla Latsky is addicted to the details. Her work, which is infused with nostalgia, is created in a variety of mediums. >
Artist’s small studio is a canvas for her surreal worlds

Design News • 19 Apr 16

JeeYoung Lee taps into her dreams and memories to create enchanting worlds in her studio. >
Microbots absorb pollutants from industrial wastewater

Design News • 18 Apr 16

New nanotechnology innovation addresses heavy metal contamination of natural water sources. >
Sleepwear doesn't have to look like something you'd only wear to bed

Design Frontiers • 18 Apr 16

Alexia Hechter, one of our Design Indaba 2016 Emerging Creatives, creates high-end sleepwear out of wool. >
Off-grid library encourages education in remote Tanzania

Design News • 18 Apr 16

Humanitarian architect Patricia Erimescu designed an off-grid library built with recycled and locally sourced materials. >
Art as a tool for integration in India

Design News • 18 Apr 16

The Aravani Art Project’s painted murals work to integrate India’s transgender community. >
NeuroLife: A chip that gives movement back to the paralysed

Design Frontiers • 15 Apr 16

Researchers have created a prototype for a medical device that allows a paralysed person to perform basic tasks. >
Electric fork simulates salty taste in food

Design News • 15 Apr 16

Japanese researcher develops a fork that adds a salty taste to sodium-free food. >
Illustrations show the twists and turns of modern society

Design News • 14 Apr 16

Polish illustrator Igor Morski uses mixed media and photo manipulation to explore the ills of the world. >
PIXO changes the way we use our tablets

Design News • 14 Apr 16

Oscar Diaz designs a solution for an everyday tech-related problem we didn’t even know we had. >
Innovative origami material paves the way for shape-shifting architecture

Design News • 14 Apr 16

Foldable material designed by Harvard engineers can change its shape, size, and volume. >
Moeketsi Lebakeng’s minimal illustrations pay tribute to Africa’s women

Design News • 13 Apr 16

Moeketsi Lebakeng uses illustration to celebrate his everyday heroes – African women. >
Standing wheelchair developed to improve the reach and mobility of a paraplegic person

Design News • 13 Apr 16

Rehabilitation team designs an adjustable wheelchair to help paraplegic people be more productive in daily activities. >
Water, energy, and internet all in one system

Design News • 13 Apr 16

The Watly system aims to bring the necessities to the developing world using one device. >
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. >

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