Articles

Tired running shoes turned into slippers for school children

Design News • 25 Aug 16

GreenSole collects old trainers and transforms them into new shoes for rural kids. >
Noma: A temporary place called home

Design News • 24 Aug 16

Filmmaker Pablo Pinedo Bóveda’s Noma looks at the struggles of a South African slum community. >
Phlur: The new fragrance brand with socially conscious appeal

Product Spotlight • 24 Aug 16

Eric Korman believes the cologne industry should start taking ethical responsibility. >
Kosovo’s visually arresting road to the Olympics

Design Frontiers • 24 Aug 16

These images capture the Kosovo Olympic team as they prepare to make history. >
A bamboo city built for communal living

Design News • 24 Aug 16

Penda explores the idea of a sustainable urban village made out of bamboo and rope. >
Christi du Toit’s ping-pong approach to illustration

Design News • 24 Aug 16

We spoke to South African illustrator Christi du Toit about honing your craft in a competitive industry. >
The Hangman: transcending expectations of the armed struggle

Design News • 23 Aug 16

Directed by SA filmmaker Zwelethu Radebe, “The Hangman” tells the story of a black warder faced with an impossible choice. >
The Jolt Sensor: detecting concussions in young athletes

Design News • 23 Aug 16

This thumb-sized, wearable sensor is making sport safer. >
China opens record-breaking transparent bridge

Design News • 23 Aug 16

The Hunan province is now home to the longest and highest glass-bottomed bridge in the world. >
Catch an autonomous flying drone to work

Design Frontiers • 23 Aug 16

Airbus shares plans to develop autonomous flying vehicles in response to land-based traffic congestion. >
BuggyAir: A mobile air pollution tracker

Design News • 22 Aug 16

This air pollution testing kit helps parents make informed decisions about the type of environments they expose their children to. >
Buhle Ngaba’s The Girl Without A Sound

Design Frontiers • 22 Aug 16

Meet the young actress encouraging little girls to own their voice. >
Shoey Shoes made entirely from waste materials

Design News • 22 Aug 16

Student looks into using material offcuts to create a sustainable range of children’s shoes. >
Mapping poverty: getting relief to developing areas

Design News • 22 Aug 16

These researchers are using mapping technology to find the world’s poorest areas. >
Interior designer Seugnet Herbst challenges the ordinary

Design News • 19 Aug 16

2016 Emerging Creative Seugnet Herbst challenges ordinary aspects of interior design. >
Boombox champions nomadic retail spaces

Design News • 19 Aug 16

A startup platform that gives emerging businesses access to a public market. >
Tiny device uses sunlight to disinfect water

Design News • 18 Aug 16

Researchers at Stanford University created a tiny device that purifies water in minutes. >
Saving the planet with art supplies

Design News • 18 Aug 16

The startup turning air pollution into ink. >
The creative collective disrupting SA's National Arts Festival

Design News • 18 Aug 16

The 10 Day Men are shaking things up in Grahamstown. >
Students create seaweed-based yarn to tackle fashion industry pollution

Design News • 18 Aug 16

BioEsters is a bio-based material that presents a sustainable yarn alternative for designers. >
Photographer Ofoe Amegavie captures the beauty of Ghana’s iconic festivals

Design News • 17 Aug 16

Photographer Ofoe Amegavie tells the vivid stories of Ghana’s traditional festivals in an ongoing series. >
Intuitive wardrobe donates unworn clothes to charities

Design News • 17 Aug 16

The Internet of Clothes is a creative concept that tackles the over consumption of fashion. >
Capturing the "Gully Queens" of Jamaica

Design News • 17 Aug 16

Pieter Hugo’s collaboration with Hood by Air is a celebration of the vilified gay community of Kingston. >
Concrete creative: Entries to South Africa’s biggest art and design prize are still open

Design News • 17 Aug 16

PPC Imaginarium Awards are open for entries for their 2016/2017 competitions until the end of September 2016. >
Jewellery made from everyday items

Design News • 16 Aug 16

Johannesburg-based alternative jeweller Belinda Phofu uncovers the untapped potential of everyday items. >
Sustaining the memory of the ‘Black Mamba’

Design Frontiers • 16 Aug 16

Cryus Kabiru’s roadster fixation leads to imaginative and nostalgic sculptures. >
DuoSkin: Tattoo-like devices print tech on skin

Design Frontiers • 16 Aug 16

Using gold leaf metal, MIT researchers are placing customised, tattoo-like interfaces directly onto the skin of the user. >
Emerging Creatives 2017 – applications closed

Festival News • 15 Aug 16

There’s nothing better than owning your own business, but there’s also nothing more challenging. >
Photographer documents the struggles of Jatra’s former actors

Design News • 15 Aug 16

Soumya Sankar Bose photographs the folk-theatre actors who have left the stage behind to make a living. >
Osborne Macharia’s little Kenyan battle squad

Design News • 15 Aug 16

The man who set the internet ablaze with his astonishing images of eccentric Kenyans has turned his attention to another group of characters: little people. >

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