Articles

How to use consumerism to raise awareness for climate change

Design News • 1 Jun 16

London-based design studio Something & Son ran a pop-up shop selling elegant jewellery made of coal to question mindless consumption at the cost of the earth. >
Graphite: a modular honeycomb-shaped shelving system

Product Spotlight • 1 Jun 16

A storage system designed to be sturdy and fully customisable. >
Social enterprise designs Kenyan running shoe

Design News • 1 Jun 16

Enda is a running shoe inspired by Kenya’s legacy of running champions >
Welcome Shelter: Charlie Redman’s kinetic dining experience

Next Generation • 1 Jun 16

Architecture student Charlie Redman designed an outdoor structure that functions in any weather. >
Someone Somewhere is about empowerment through fashion

Design News • 1 Jun 16

Someone Somewhere combines traditional handcrafts with contemporary products to empower Mexican artisans. >
L CARD: A lung cancer “breathalyzer”

Design Frontiers • 31 May 16

The tiny device can detect whether or not a patient has lung cancer. >
Photographer presents a bird’s-eye view of inequality in Cape Town

Design News • 31 May 16

Johnny Miller’s photographic series shows that Apartheid spatial planning is still present in South Africa’s Mother City. >
Photographer Martha Tadesse captures her Ethiopian truth

Design News • 30 May 16

Ethiopian photographer Martha Tadesse hopes to share images of her travels through Addis Ababa with the world. >
Cheap, effective, mosquito killing soap

Design Frontiers • 30 May 16

Two African innovators have created a cheap soap to combat Malaria in the developing world. >
Luzinterruptus illuminates social issues using light and photography

Design News • 30 May 16

The anonymous collective Luzinterruptus is creating illuminating installations with light. >
Margrethe Odgaard’s work is full of colour, creativity and compassion

Design News • 30 May 16

Margrethe Odgaard is celebrated for her contributions to Nordic art and design. >
Innovative filter destroys pollutants in the air

Design News • 30 May 16

The Molekule air filter uses nano-technology and light to destroy air pollutants at a molecular level. >
Robotic arms and a bit of lycra can change the way concrete is used in design

Design News • 30 May 16

Designers develop a method of fabric-casting concrete into dynamic architectural forms >
Nigerian photographer's romantic visions of Lagos

Design News • 27 May 16

Photographer re-envisions his hometown using light and photographic installations. >
China's futuristic bus allows cars to pass underneath its carriages

Design News • 27 May 16

The Transit Explore Bus was designed to tackle extreme traffic congestion and pollution in China. >
Gamer gets a high-tech bionic limb

Design News • 27 May 16

Packed with gadgets, James Young’s robotic prosthesis also houses a drone. >
ReGen Village: an under-construction utopia of sustainable living

Design News • 27 May 16

Self-sustaining, off-grid village to be built in the Netherlands offers a look at the future of eco-friendly living. >
Smart earpiece translates languages in real-time

Design Frontiers • 27 May 16

Pilot is an earpiece that translates conversations as they happen. >
Ousmane Mbaye turns discarded metals into sculptural furniture

Design News • 26 May 16

Digging through the landfills of Dakar, Ousmane Mbaye sees design materials where others see trash. >
Flood House explores a new typology of responsive architecture

Design News • 26 May 16

Matthew Butcher’s Flood House looks at how future dwellings should be adapted to co-exist with their native environments. >
Tshepo Sedumo’s handmade portable boomboxes

Product Spotlight • 26 May 16

The Johannesburg-based startup Grove Audio creates custom designed wooden boomboxes. >
DoruNsimba: a design collaboration reintroducing Africa to the world

Design Frontiers • 26 May 16

A collaboration of two African-born creatives hopes to change perceptions of the African continent through their work. >
Kristin-Lee Moolman’s subversive photography challenges gender and the African aesthetic

Design News • 26 May 16

South African photographer Kristin-Lee Moolman creates a separate reality through her work. >
School on Wheels brings education to impoverished children

Design News • 25 May 16

A bus remodelled to become a mobile classroom for children with no access to school facilities in Mumbai. >
Cigarette butt bricks burn away pollution

Design News • 25 May 16

Researchers have found a way to cut down global littering by incorporating cigarette butts into 2.5 per cent of the world's annual brick production. >
WarOnWall: an exhibition on the state of Syria

Design News • 25 May 16

The photographic collection will be displayed on the last remnants of the Berlin Wall. >
Musana Carts: providing clean energy to Kampala’s micro-businesses

Design News • 25 May 16

A US-based company empowers Kampala’s street vendors through their solar powered micro-business cart. >
Vegan leather inspires new sneaker collection

Design News • 24 May 16

A leather made from pineapple leaves inspires Parisian fashion brand’s new shoe line >
Street art and energy inform Kronk’s Zakifo redesign

Design News • 24 May 16

The Zakifo Musik Festival comes to Durban, South Africa with a look inspired by culture, street art and energy. >
Affordable water filter inspired by puff pastry

Design Frontiers • 24 May 16

A simple layered paper, inspired by French puff pastry, could improve the quality of life for millions of people by removing resistant viruses from water. >

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