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Bompas and Parr's breathable cocktail cloud leaves visitors in high spirits

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Food Design

Meteorology and mixology collide in Bompas and Parr’s latest project, Alcoholic Architecture, a bar with an intoxicating atmosphere. >

20 Aug 15
Yerka: The Fort Knox of bicycles

Design News > Industrial Design

Three Chilean engineering students dropped out of college to develop an unstealable bicycle with an integrated locking system. >

20 Aug 15
The Lalela Project pits art against poverty

Design News > Art & Photography / Design Activism

A Western Cape-based non-profit organisation empowers impoverished youths through art and music. >

20 Aug 15
A 3D-printed surfboard that can collapse into 48 pieces

Design News > Industrial Design

Design student Max Robotham makes carrying a surfboard from place to place a lot easier. >

19 Aug 15
Designers in Amsterdam reward community members for getting Wasted

Design News > Design Activism / Design Thinking

Wasted is a community laboratory in Amsterdam Noord, where plastic waste is turned into building blocks and rubbish becomes a valuable currency. >

18 Aug 15
Poop water project makes great strides in Senegal

Design News > Design Activism / Industrial Design

A US engineering company have launched a pilot project in Senegal that turns human waste into water. >

17 Aug 15
Black Cats on Holiday wins Grand Prix at the Loerie Awards

Design News > Creative Economy / Film & Animation

IMPACT BBDO Dubai won the coveted Grand Prix award at the Loerie Awards last night for their cat campaign for the Lebanese national lottery. >

17 Aug 15
Alexandra Lucas’ space suit for life on another planet

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Textile designer and Central Saint Martins alumnus imagines a mission to Mars in her space-inspired textiles. >

17 Aug 15
Nigerian opera is sung in Pidgin English

Design News > African Design / Music & Sound Design

The Pavarotti of Nigerian opera is here: she’s a woman singing in Pidgin English. >

14 Aug 15
The Winner's Podium: New Milo ad reveals the psychology behind children’s need to be a champion

Design News > Design Thinking / Film & Animation

This new Milo ad from Ogilvy Malaysia shows that often children want to be number one because they fear disappointing their parents. >

14 Aug 15
The CSPS medical centre at Burkina Faso’s Opera Village is now open

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

Kéré Architecture’s Opera Village in Burkina Faso uses cultural identity and pride as a tool for positive development. It now includes a medical centre. >

13 Aug 15
Biofuels company Fulcrum powers aircrafts with household garbage

Design News > Design Activism / Design Thinking

The largest producer of aviation biofuels, Fulcrum BioEnergy aims to provide an alternative to petroleum by converting household garbage into jet fuel. >

13 Aug 15
New wearable panic button

Design News > Product Design

Wearsafe is a safety device and app designed to instantly alert and connect your friends or family in an emergency. >

13 Aug 15
Sue Sylvester paints her country into cloth

Design News > Art & Photography / Product Design

South African artist Sue Sylvester creates hand-painted fabrics inspired by a love of her home. >

12 Aug 15
These astronauts-cum-farmers have grown the first vegetables in space

Design News > Design Thinking / Food Design

According to these “space farmers”, the first vegetables ever grown, harvested and eaten in space are quite delicious. >

12 Aug 15
MOAD's newest curator is an accountant

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography / Design Thinking

The Museum of African Design (MOAD) has turned the idea of the "expert curator" on its head with its new exhibition, which is curated by a novice. >

11 Aug 15
Reconnecting to the idea of the udder

Design News > Food Design / Product Design

5.5 Design Studio have created the "Vache à Lait" (Milk Cow) in order to reconnect consumers to the idea of milk coming from the udder. >

11 Aug 15
Graphic dresses fashioned out of false fingernails

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Central Saint Martins graduate Anna Goswami repurposes plastic nails from kitsch to couture. >

10 Aug 15
Cape Town’s Hotel Verde wins double platinum with innovative green design

Design News > Design Activism / Industrial Design / Urban & Landscape Design

Hotel Verde was awarded a second LEED Platinum Green Building Certification for its ongoing commitment to running an environmentally friendly hotel. >

7 Aug 15
Faith47’s new project "Lay Your Weapons Down"

Design News > Art & Photography / Urban & Landscape Design

The Cape Town artist’s latest work is situated in a creative district of New York City and speaks to the power of human connection. >

7 Aug 15
Conservationists call on Coca-Cola to save the planet

Design News > Design Activism / Graphic Design & Illustration

An independent group of altrulists have asked Coke to pump its three billion dollar yearly advertising budget into saving the planet. >

7 Aug 15
Multi-sensory Cotton Candy Theremin

Design News > Food Design / Interaction Design

The act of spinning cotton candy becomes a multi-sensory experience with "feeding designer" Emilie Baltz's Cotton Candy Theremin. >

7 Aug 15
Eskom chic – I got dressed in the dark

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design / Film & Animation

"Eskom Chic – I Got Dressed in the Dark" is a new fashion film where the models get dressed in the blackness of a loadshedding power cut in South Africa. >

6 Aug 15
Ejector bed literally launches you out of dreamland

Design News > Design Thinking / Product Design

YouTube star and engineer Colin Furze has built a bedframe that rockets you out of bed before you get a chance to hit the snooze button. >

6 Aug 15

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