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Inventors use gravity to create safe, clean light

Design News > Creative Economy / Design Activism / Product Design

A light powered by gravity is GravityLight’s solution to the health and environmental hazards of kerosene lamps. >

10 Sep 15
Fruit and veggie waste is transformed into leathery material

Design News > Food Design

A group of design students in Rotterdam have created a new type of leather from discarded fresh produce. >

10 Sep 15
SnooCode gives addresses to Ghanaians that don't have one

Design News > African Design / Design Activism / Design Thinking

Using a computer algorithm to generate a unique code, SnooCode is a simple and effective solution for the lack of formal addresses in Ghana. >

10 Sep 15
Miniature 3D-printed refugees in art project Moving People

Design News > Design Activism

The Moving People guerrilla art installation by the Power of Art House collective sees miniature 3D-printed refugees in cities in Europe. >

9 Sep 15
Eatwell is tailor-made for people with Alzheimer's disease

Design News > Design Activism / Product Design

Something as simple as tableware could ease the everyday troubles of Alzheimer's patients. >

9 Sep 15
The unknown modernist gems of Myanmar's architecture

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

The soon-to-be-published "Architectural Guide: Yangon" exposes the hidden modernist treasures of Myanmar's largest city's architectural landscape. >

9 Sep 15
Marije Vogelzang imagines meat growing on plants for her food design project

Design News > Food Design

Plant Bones is Dutch food designer Marije Vogelzang’s exploration into culinary creativity. >

9 Sep 15
Surviving severe drought is top of this designer’s priorities

Design News > Product Design

Design graduate Jaime Tai uses a natural sugar to help ensure drought survival. >

9 Sep 15
Three innovative ways to combat toxic air

Design News > Design Activism / Product Design

Three student designers have proposed interactive, health conscious ways to deal with air pollution. >

8 Sep 15
Htein Lin immortalises 1000 of Myanmar's political prisoners

Design News > Art & Photography / Design Activism

Myanmese artist and former political prisoner Htein Lin aims to cast the hands of 1000 political prisoners in plaster of Paris as a reminder of Myanmar's past. >

8 Sep 15
Self-sustaining kitchen teaches kids about healthy living

Design News > Design Activism / Food Design

Interactive, self-sustaining kitchen teaches kids how to grow and cook food. >

8 Sep 15
Three housing solutions that tackle hyper-urbanisation in Africa

Design News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking

Ethiopian and Bauhaus students collaborate on experimental urban housing prototypes to accommodate the massive growth of Africa's urban population. >

8 Sep 15
Panzagar campaign battles hate speech online in Myanmar

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

In April 2014 a Myanmar blogger and activist started the Panzagar ("Flower Speech") campaign to battle the online hate speech that led to offline violence. >

7 Sep 15
Myanmar: Battling poverty with human-centred design

Design News > Design Activism / Product Design

Proximity Design’s creations help people in Myanmar survive in extreme poverty. >

7 Sep 15
Yangon Bakehouse upskills Myanmese women to start their own businesses

Design News > Creative Economy

A coffee shop in Yangon empowers disadvantaged women in Myanmar with its food and beverage training programme. >

7 Sep 15
A preview of Ghanaian artist Ofoe Amegavie's untitled exhibition

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography

Ghanaian photographer Ofoe Amegavie's pain speaks through his latest work. >

7 Sep 15
Refugees Welcome is becoming known as the Airbnb for refugees

Design News > Design Activism

Refugees Welcome is a Berlin-based non profit that connects displaced refugees to citizens with spare rooms in European cities. >

4 Sep 15
La Marca – Cuba's first legal tattoo parlour

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

La Marca's innovative tattooists attempt to capture Cuba on the skin of their customers. >

4 Sep 15
Could Wale Williams be Nigeria's new superhero?

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Lagos-born digital animator Roye Okupe releases his afrofuturistic graphic novel based entirely on African characters. >

4 Sep 15
From junk to jewellery: Mariana Acosta challenges the meaning of preciousness

Design News > Design Activism / Fashion & Jewellery Design

One man's junk is another man's contemporary jewellery, proves designer Mariana Acosta. >

4 Sep 15
The Bhulk 3D-printed bike frame is made from plants

Design News > Industrial Design

Italian design studio Eurocompositi are attempting to change the way we make bicycles. >

4 Sep 15
Masixole Feni's photographs show how dignity and sanitation are inextricably linked

Design News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Design Activism

Activist photographer Masixole Feni has won the Ernst Cole award for his images, which show that inadequate sanitation robs people of their dignity. >

3 Sep 15
Dominic Wilcox reveals crazy breakfast tech

Design News > Product Design

British designer Dominic Wilcox was challenged by Kellogs to change the face of breakfast time, and he answered in the most Wilcox way possible. >

3 Sep 15
A sustainable salt city in the desert

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

At only 24 years old architecture graduate Eric Geboers has already designed a solution to global desertification. >

3 Sep 15

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