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Green Product: Citycropps virtually helps create a functional garden

Design News > Design Activism / Information Design

Citycropps is an urban agricultural project that virtually assists app users as they cultivate their own organic gardens. >

3 May 16
EVOLVE: Egypt’s local artists interpret Phobia

Design News > Art & Photography / Graphic Design & Illustration

Cairo-based art project, EVOLVE calls local artists together to contemplate and share their digital interpretations of phobia. >

2 May 16
Child’s Cup Full: Toys and accessories handmade by refugees

Design News > Craft / Creative Economy

Non-profit social enterprise Child’s Cup Full encourages women in the West Bank to be makers. >

2 May 16
Floating solar panels take to the seas

Design News > Industrial Design

Heliofloat solar farm is designed to generate clean energy out at sea and preserve water in arid regions. >

29 Apr 16
Skyscraper made out of wooden numbers

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Anders Berensson Architects is set to transform an old parking lot in Stockholm into a multi-use wooden skyscraper. >

29 Apr 16
Skull echoes offer solution to current password systems

Design News > Information Design

German research team look into skull echoes as new passwords to access private accounts or devices. >

28 Apr 16
Search engine uses ad revenue to plant trees

Design News > Information Design

Ecosia is a search engine and social initiative that uses income generated from search ads to fight global deforestation. >

28 Apr 16
Pockulus: Smartphone free, affordable VR

Design News > Product Design

Based on open-source tech, Pockulus is a DIY way into virtual reality. >

28 Apr 16
Bioo: A plant that is also a charging station

Design News > Product Design

Charging your electronic devices could be done in the easiest, greenest way possible with the Bioo plant. >

28 Apr 16
Plastic card melts to fix or modify anything

Design News > Product Design

FORMcard is a play dough type of substance that aims to become as ubiquitous as sticky tape or Prestik. >

27 Apr 16
A floating UFO to call home

Design News > Industrial Design

Italian boating company designs a flying saucer-like house boat for living and sailing on the sea. >

27 Apr 16
Local animator Mike Scott on creating lasting relationships with characters

Design News > Film & Animation

Cape Town animator Mike Scott’s work is simple nostalgia mixed with pop culture characters that you want to get to know. >

27 Apr 16
Tackling Islamophobia through unifying portraits

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography

It’s time to shift the conversation on the Muslim identity, says NATIVE VML. >

27 Apr 16
Gloves translate sign language into speech

Design News > Product Design

Two university students are bridging a communication gap by turning sign language gestures into spoken English. >

26 Apr 16
Advertising billboard doubles as Zika mosquito trap

Design News > Creative Economy / Product Design

Two Brazilian agencies are creating awareness around the Zika virus while alleviating the problem. >

26 Apr 16
Hunt virtual prey with this VR experience

Design News > African Design / Interaction Design

Become the hunter in this interactive, educational, and experiential VR game. >

26 Apr 16
A biodegradable alternative to harmful plastic packaging

Design News > Product Design

AMAM takes top prize at the Lexus Design Award for its zero waste solution to packaging pollution. >

25 Apr 16
Lungile Mbokane: An emerging graphic artist telling stories through his work

Design News > Art & Photography

Johannesburg artist, Lungile Mbokane, speaks about his work and creative process. >

25 Apr 16
“Where is the ‘ME’ in Media?” asks a black woman in photography

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography / Creative Economy / Design Activism

South African-based, Kenyan Stephanie Mzee’s new photographic series interrogates the representation of black women in media. >

25 Apr 16
Zedfactory’s pod homes are built on city car parks

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

A new housing concept will tap into the millions of existing car park spaces across the UK. >

25 Apr 16
Panama’s waste is now a village of plastic bottles

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Urban & Landscape Design

Isla Colón in Bocas Del Toro, Panama will be home to an entire village constructed out of recycled plastic bottles. >

25 Apr 16
South Africa joins the Fashion Revolution

Design News > Design Activism / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Sunday 24 April 2016 is Fashion Revolution Day. South African designers join the movement to spread the word on the dangerous implications of fast fashion. >

22 Apr 16
Seymour Chwast set to launch Kickstarter campaign to publish new anti-war book

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Prolific designer Seymour Chwast plans to crowdfund his illustrative epic, “At War with War”. >

22 Apr 16
Dutch designer creates flexible wood for furniture range

Design News > Product Design

Designer Carolien Laro contradicts the notion of wood as a rigid material with her springy wooden furniture. >

22 Apr 16

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