Articles

Experimental street art inspired by the Cape

Design News • 11 Mar 16

South African illustrator and street artist Anwar Davids aims to make his work accessible all over the world. >
A new, sustainable way to make plastic

Design Frontiers • 11 Mar 16

Researchers at Stanford have found a way to create sustainable plastic using inedible plant materials. >
Wi-Fi trashcans encourage festivalgoers to practise responsible rubbish disposal

Design News • 10 Mar 16

Indian startup ThinkScream develops a trashcan that provides Wi-Fi connection in exchange for trash. >
UNICEF bicycle initiative helps Ghanaian schoolgirls get to class safely

Design News • 10 Mar 16

Swedish brand Vélosophy teams up with UNICEF to donate its commuter bikes to girls in Ghana. >
Graffiti as a tool for liberation in Kabul

Design Frontiers • 10 Mar 16

Liberation and the fight for women's rights through contemporary art and graffiti in Kabul. >
Rope made out of plastic bottles

Design Frontiers • 10 Mar 16

A really handy tool from a runaway Kickstarter campaign. >
Multimedia project remembers the forgotten victims of political imprisonment

Design News • 10 Mar 16

Based in Austria, Christoph Lingg documents the forgotten history of political prisoners all over the world. >
Old tennis rackets become colourful works of art

Product Spotlight • 9 Mar 16

Cape Town local Danielle Clough has many inventive outlets, but her embroidery has caught the attention of the creative world. >
IKEA's next step for sustainability

Design News • 9 Mar 16

The eco-responsible furniture company is transitioning to biobased packaging made out of mushrooms. >
New supermarket in Denmark only stocks food past its sell by date

Design News • 9 Mar 16

WeFood is reducing food waste in Denmark by selling the food that mainstream supermarkets throw out. >
Enter your design to the Green Product Award

Design News • 9 Mar 16

The Green Product Award have extended their deadline exclusively for Design Indaba readers. Submissions are open until Sunday 13 March. >
Embroidery and needlepoint give prisoners a new outlook

Design News • 9 Mar 16

The Fine Cell Work initiative has contributed to the rehabilitation of the UK’s prisoners for over a decade. >
This is what it's like to read with dyslexia

Design News • 9 Mar 16

Victor Widell’s interactive blog post lets the viewer experience what it’s like to be dyslexic. >
Nigerian artist uses posters to tackle issues of climate change

Design News • 8 Mar 16

Nigerian artist Fred Martins uses art to trigger an emotional response in the viewer and to convey a serious message about climate change. >
Perfect man-made waves

Design Frontiers • 8 Mar 16

Kelly Slater's high-performance, man-made wave pool has been met with scepticism in the industry. >
Accra-based Swedish fashion brand creates street couture in collaboration with Ghanaian tailors

Lookbook • 8 Mar 16

HI ON LIFE is a fashion brand driven by sustainable design, Ghanaian culture and a Scandinavian appreciation of form. >
Leaving design up to chance

Design News • 8 Mar 16

Origami-inspired game randomises the textile design process, encouraging the creation of new knowledge. >
Hello Tractor brings African farmers equipment on demand

Design News • 7 Mar 16

Nigerian technology startup Hello Tractor is an on-demand farming machinery service for farmers in rural Africa. >
High-tech repository for the dead

Design Frontiers • 7 Mar 16

Ruri Den is an alternative to burial sites for space-starved cities like Tokyo >
A massive eco-village with a utopian take on sustainable living

Design News • 7 Mar 16

Agroecologist Amlankusum’s conceptual designs combines natural elements with controlled construction to create a 36-storey paradise. >
Global artists recreate monsters thought up by children

Design News • 7 Mar 16

The Monster Project facilitates art with children by reimagining their monsters. >
Urban Farm Pod: A plant growing sphere in urban spaces

Design News • 4 Mar 16

Terreform ONE’s Plug-In-Ecology project brings vertical farming to urban spaces. >
The creative chef, Jasper Udink ten Cate releases his first cookbook

Design News • 4 Mar 16

The Creative Chef cookbook shows home cooks how to turn everyday meals into mind-blowing dining experiences. >
Wearable technology for the visually impaired

Design Frontiers • 4 Mar 16

Wearable technology from Cairo describes oncoming objects to its users >
MFA’s #techstyle: Fashion that moves, interacts and adapts

Design Frontiers • 4 Mar 16

The Museum of Fine Arts’ #techstyle exhibition takes a look at where fashion design is headed thanks to its relationship with technology. >
Saphon Energy creates new wind-harnessing technology

Design Frontiers • 3 Mar 16

This Tunisian startup didn’t reinvent the wind turbine; instead, they created a new technology. >
Teledisko: The 60s nightlife experience in a phone booth

Design News • 3 Mar 16

Teledisko is a phone booth upcycled into the world’s smallest nightclub. >
Candyfloss characters in comical GIFs with a feminist touch

Design News • 3 Mar 16

Inspired by Instagram artists, Swedish art director Sofia Hydman creates GIFs depicting chubby, confident girls. >
Award-winning architecture student Alfie Hope imagines a city floating on bamboo

Design News • 3 Mar 16

Alfie Hope champions water-based urbanism with his proposal to grow floating land with bamboo. >
Six things you might not know about Airbnb and its co-founder Joe Gebbia

Design News • 3 Mar 16

Airbnb's co-founder Joe Gebbia will be speaking at Design Indaba 2017. Here are some things you might not know about this peer-to-peer home-rental start up. >

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