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A biodegradable alternative to harmful plastic packaging

Design News • 25 Apr 16

AMAM takes top prize at the Lexus Design Award for its zero waste solution to packaging pollution. >
Lungile Mbokane: An emerging graphic artist telling stories through his work

Design News • 25 Apr 16

Johannesburg artist, Lungile Mbokane, speaks about his work and creative process. >
“Where is the ‘ME’ in Media?” asks a black woman in photography

Design News • 25 Apr 16

South African-based, Kenyan Stephanie Mzee’s new photographic series interrogates the representation of black women in media. >
Zedfactory’s pod homes are built on city car parks

Design News • 25 Apr 16

A new housing concept will tap into the millions of existing car park spaces across the UK. >
Panama’s waste is now a village of plastic bottles

Design News • 25 Apr 16

Isla Colón in Bocas Del Toro, Panama will be home to an entire village constructed out of recycled plastic bottles. >
Graphic posters explore the notion of "keeping it real"

Video Interviews • 22 Apr 16

Ndumiso Nyoni, a young designer from Johannesburg, has created a poster series on cultures that inspire him. >
Seymour Chwast set to launch Kickstarter campaign to publish new anti-war book

Design News • 22 Apr 16

Prolific designer Seymour Chwast plans to crowdfund his illustrative epic, “At War with War”. >
Dutch designer creates flexible wood for furniture range

Design News • 22 Apr 16

Designer Carolien Laro contradicts the notion of wood as a rigid material with her springy wooden furniture. >
Tiny flexible film designed to combat pancreatic cancer

Design Frontiers • 22 Apr 16

MIT’s latest advancement is a tiny, flexible roll of film designed for localised cancer treatment. >
Zero-maintenance, low-cost water filtration bucket

Design News • 21 Apr 16

The ProCleanse Water Filtration system is designed for the people who have no access to clean water. >
Japan’s invisible trains will take off in 2018

Design News • 21 Apr 16

Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima designs trains with a reflective surface that mirrors the surrounding scenery. >
African Design Centre fellowship programme to open in September

Design News • 21 Apr 16

Based in Kigali, the African Design Centre has launched a 2-yr fellowship programme to train the creative leaders who will design a more sustainable Africa. >
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. >
Sorry to the other metropoles, but London is the design capital of the world

Q&A • 15 Apr 16

Future London Academy bring together design enthusiasts, students and professionals from everywhere in the world to learn from their design-immersive courses. >
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. >

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