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A bamboo city built for communal living
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Architecture & Interiors
Penda explores the idea of a sustainable urban village made out of bamboo and rope.
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24 Aug 16
Christi du Toit’s ping-pong approach to illustration
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African Design
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Art & Photography
We spoke to South African illustrator Christi du Toit about honing your craft in a competitive industry.
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24 Aug 16
The Hangman: transcending expectations of the armed struggle
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Film & Animation
Directed by SA filmmaker Zwelethu Radebe, “The Hangman” tells the story of a black warder faced with an impossible choice.
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23 Aug 16
The Jolt Sensor: detecting concussions in young athletes
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Design Thinking
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Product Design
This thumb-sized, wearable sensor is making sport safer.
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23 Aug 16
China opens record-breaking transparent bridge
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Architecture & Interiors
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Industrial Design
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Urban & Landscape Design
The Hunan province is now home to the longest and highest glass-bottomed bridge in the world.
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23 Aug 16
BuggyAir: A mobile air pollution tracker
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Design Activism
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Product Design
This air pollution testing kit helps parents make informed decisions about the type of environments they expose their children to.
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22 Aug 16
Shoey Shoes made entirely from waste materials
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Creative Economy
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Student looks into using material offcuts to create a sustainable range of children’s shoes.
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22 Aug 16
Mapping poverty: getting relief to developing areas
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Design Activism
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Design Thinking
These researchers are using mapping technology to find the world’s poorest areas.
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22 Aug 16
Interior designer Seugnet Herbst challenges the ordinary
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Architecture & Interiors
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Product Design
2016 Emerging Creative Seugnet Herbst challenges ordinary aspects of interior design.
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19 Aug 16
Boombox champions nomadic retail spaces
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Architecture & Interiors
A startup platform that gives emerging businesses access to a public market.
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19 Aug 16
Tiny device uses sunlight to disinfect water
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Design Activism
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Product Design
Researchers at Stanford University created a tiny device that purifies water in minutes.
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18 Aug 16
Saving the planet with art supplies
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Art & Photography
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Design Activism
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Product Design
The startup turning air pollution into ink.
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18 Aug 16
Students create seaweed-based yarn to tackle fashion industry pollution
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
BioEsters is a bio-based material that presents a sustainable yarn alternative for designers.
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18 Aug 16
The creative collective disrupting SA's National Arts Festival
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African Design
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Art & Photography
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Design Activism
The 10 Day Men are shaking things up in Grahamstown.
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18 Aug 16
Photographer Ofoe Amegavie captures the beauty of Ghana’s iconic festivals
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African Design
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Art & Photography
Photographer Ofoe Amegavie tells the vivid stories of Ghana’s traditional festivals in an ongoing series.
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17 Aug 16
Intuitive wardrobe donates unworn clothes to charities
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Design Activism
The Internet of Clothes is a creative concept that tackles the over consumption of fashion.
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17 Aug 16
Capturing the "Gully Queens" of Jamaica
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Art & Photography
Pieter Hugo’s collaboration with Hood by Air is a celebration of the vilified gay community of Kingston.
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17 Aug 16
Concrete creative: Entries to South Africa’s biggest art and design prize are still open
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Architecture & Interiors
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Craft
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
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Film & Animation
PPC Imaginarium Awards are open for entries for their 2016/2017 competitions until the end of September 2016.
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17 Aug 16
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Jewellery made from everyday items
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African Design
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Johannesburg-based alternative jeweller Belinda Phofu uncovers the untapped potential of everyday items.
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16 Aug 16
Photographer documents the struggles of Jatra’s former actors
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Art & Photography
Soumya Sankar Bose photographs the folk-theatre actors who have left the stage behind to make a living.
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15 Aug 16
Osborne Macharia’s little Kenyan battle squad
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Art & Photography
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Design Activism
The man who set the internet ablaze with his astonishing images of eccentric Kenyans has turned his attention to another group of characters: little people.
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15 Aug 16
A stitched strategy for Zika prevention
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Design Activism
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Virtual marketplace Maternova tackles the Zika emergency using stylish apparel.
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15 Aug 16
Ceiling lamp made from its own packaging
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Product Design
Dutch design studio creates waste-free lamp from cardboard tubing.
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15 Aug 16
Design Centre mimics human anatomy
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Architecture & Interiors
Solar-powered and inspired by skin and bone, the Xinhee Design Centre defies every office building norm.
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12 Aug 16
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