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BuggyAir: A mobile air pollution tracker

Design News > Design Activism / Product Design

This air pollution testing kit helps parents make informed decisions about the type of environments they expose their children to. >

22 Aug 16
Buhle Ngaba’s The Girl Without A Sound

Design Frontiers > Art & Photography / Graphic Design & Illustration

Meet the young actress encouraging little girls to own their voice. >

22 Aug 16
Shoey Shoes made entirely from waste materials

Design News > Creative Economy / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Student looks into using material offcuts to create a sustainable range of children’s shoes. >

22 Aug 16
Mapping poverty: getting relief to developing areas

Design News > Design Activism / Design Thinking

These researchers are using mapping technology to find the world’s poorest areas. >

22 Aug 16
Interior designer Seugnet Herbst challenges the ordinary

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Product Design

2016 Emerging Creative Seugnet Herbst challenges ordinary aspects of interior design. >

19 Aug 16
No Man’s Sky: The videogame that conceives galaxies

Design Frontiers > Information Design / Interaction Design

The 2016 offering of Hello Games is pushing the possibilities of open-world gameplay to new stratospheres. >

19 Aug 16
Boombox champions nomadic retail spaces

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

A startup platform that gives emerging businesses access to a public market. >

19 Aug 16
Tiny device uses sunlight to disinfect water

Design News > Design Activism / Product Design

Researchers at Stanford University created a tiny device that purifies water in minutes. >

18 Aug 16
Saving the planet with art supplies

Design News > Art & Photography / Design Activism / Product Design

The startup turning air pollution into ink. >

18 Aug 16
Project Florence: Opening communication with plant life

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

Helene Steiner works to expand communication with plants. The resulting dialogue is bizarre and intriguing. >

18 Aug 16
The creative collective disrupting SA's National Arts Festival

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

The 10 Day Men are shaking things up in Grahamstown. >

18 Aug 16
Students create seaweed-based yarn to tackle fashion industry pollution

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

BioEsters is a bio-based material that presents a sustainable yarn alternative for designers. >

18 Aug 16
Blubel: The intelligent bicycle bell

Product Spotlight > Information Design / Product Design

Blubel Tech’s new device for cyclists offers far more than the chime of a bell. >

17 Aug 16
Photographer Ofoe Amegavie captures the beauty of Ghana’s iconic festivals

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography

Photographer Ofoe Amegavie tells the vivid stories of Ghana’s traditional festivals in an ongoing series. >

17 Aug 16
Intuitive wardrobe donates unworn clothes to charities

Design News > Design Activism

The Internet of Clothes is a creative concept that tackles the over consumption of fashion. >

17 Aug 16
Capturing the "Gully Queens" of Jamaica

Design News > Art & Photography

Pieter Hugo’s collaboration with Hood by Air is a celebration of the vilified gay community of Kingston. >

17 Aug 16
Concrete creative: Entries to South Africa’s biggest art and design prize are still open

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Craft / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Film & Animation

PPC Imaginarium Awards are open for entries for their 2016/2017 competitions until the end of September 2016. >

17 Aug 16 / Advertorial
Wintergatan Marble Machine: Making music with marbles

Product Spotlight > Music & Sound Design

This arcade-style music box features a range of programmable instruments. >

17 Aug 16
Jewellery made from everyday items

Design News > African Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Johannesburg-based alternative jeweller Belinda Phofu uncovers the untapped potential of everyday items. >

16 Aug 16
In the pipeline: The new underwater motorways of Norway

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Urban & Landscape Design

These submerged floating tubes may be the first step into trans-Atlantic road connections. >

16 Aug 16
Sustaining the memory of the ‘Black Mamba’

Design Frontiers > African Design / Art & Photography

Cryus Kabiru’s roadster fixation leads to imaginative and nostalgic sculptures. >

16 Aug 16
DuoSkin: Tattoo-like devices print tech on skin

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Interaction Design

Using gold leaf metal, MIT researchers are placing customised, tattoo-like interfaces directly onto the skin of the user. >

16 Aug 16
Photographer documents the struggles of Jatra’s former actors

Design News > Art & Photography

Soumya Sankar Bose photographs the folk-theatre actors who have left the stage behind to make a living. >

15 Aug 16
Osborne Macharia’s little Kenyan battle squad

Design News > Art & Photography / 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. >

15 Aug 16

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