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Flare, the ambulance Uber in Nairobi

Design Frontiers > African Design / Design Thinking

Using an integrated ambulance dispatch system, Flare is a next-generation tech product that cuts hours to minutes in medical emergencies in East Africa. >

12 Jul 16
Nimb discreetly sends alerts in emergency situations

Design News > Design Thinking / Product Design

If you’re in distress, the Nimb ring sends your location to family and friends. >

12 Jul 16
Project Nourished: A virtual reality experience that tricks your taste buds

Design Frontiers > Food Design / Interaction Design

Experience designer Jinsoo An’s Project Nourished creates virtual worlds where any food dream is possible. >

12 Jul 16
Trackable lifejacket uses app technology for man-overboard rescue

Design News > Product Design

Anti X1 is a clever redesign of the time old lifejacket, created to improve safety at sea >

12 Jul 16
The world’s largest air purifier is touring the smoggy cities of China

Design News > Design Activism / Urban & Landscape Design

Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde’s Smog Free Tower (which works like a vacuum cleaner for dirty air) is travelling to China. >

11 Jul 16
Buildings made of bones

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking

Cambridge researchers explore bone and eggshell as greener building materials of the future. >

11 Jul 16
Dune covered carpark doubles as flood defence

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking / Urban & Landscape Design

Named the Best Dutch Building of the Year in 2016, the Katwijk underground parking garage protects against future floods. >

11 Jul 16
Cow's milk plastic provides a natural, eco-friendly alternative

Design News > Creative Economy / Design Thinking / Product Design

Using an extract from skimmed milk, Tessa Silva-Dawson created a durable alternative to harmful plastics. >

11 Jul 16
Interaction is more important than expensive tech, says experience designer Marcus Lyall

Design News > Interaction Design / Music & Sound Design

Marcus Lyall is behind some of the most spectacular shows of our time. >

11 Jul 16
Cozmo, the unpredictable robotic companion

Design News > Design Thinking / Product Design

Tech innovation company Anki have designed a tiny robotic companion like no other. >

8 Jul 16
Belgian artist creates art out of chickens

Design News > Design Activism / Design Thinking

The Cosmopolitan Chicken project by Koen Vanmechelen uses the living materials collected during chicken cross-breeding to create art. >

8 Jul 16
Floris Kaayk: The Modular Body merges fact and fiction

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Film & Animation

Filmmaker Floris Kaayk toys with the public’s willingness to believe in the extraordinary. >

8 Jul 16
Design graduate shares her artful take on wood joinery using plastic bottles

Design News > Product Design

Royal College of Art student Micaella Pedros unveils a resourceful technique of making furniture >

8 Jul 16
Sohofama: Farm to table in Hong Kong

Design News > Food Design

At Sohofama restaurant urban farming meets Chinese comfort cuisine with a menu inspired by Chinese doctors and farmers. >

7 Jul 16
SunFire: A 3-part solution for solar cooking

Design News > African Design / Design Activism

SA based company’s parabolic solar kits offer a sustainable cooking solution in rural or hard to reach areas of Africa. >

7 Jul 16
Home-grown sanitary pads help treat infections

Design News > Creative Economy / Design Thinking / Product Design

Growing healthy bacteria in agar jelly, the pads are placed in front of the vagina to balance pH-levels. >

7 Jul 16
Addressing packaging waste one pizza box at a time

Design News > Product Design

GreenBox is a reconfigurable pizza box designed for multiple use >

7 Jul 16
Portraiture encourages pride in a marginalised Bangladeshi community

Design News > Art & Photography

Photographer Samsul Alam Helal’s portraits depict Bangladesh’s oppressed Dalit community. >

7 Jul 16
Photographer chronicles the people of Cape Town’s bustling public transport system

Design News > Art & Photography

Photographer Mads Norgaard spent seven years photographing the people that make up the fringes of Cape Town. >

6 Jul 16
Amahlé’s Ndebele inspired jewellery for a European market

Product Spotlight > African Design / Creative Economy / Fashion & Jewellery Design

The Africa-inspired jewellery is designed to be sophisticated, yet durable enough for everyday use. >

6 Jul 16
Plastic-bag sculptures critique the treatment of the homeless

Design News > Art & Photography / Design Activism

Made in the silhouette of a person crouched on the street, the installation captures London’s response to homeless people. >

6 Jul 16
Producer Ibaaku on the avant-garde in Senegal

Design News > African Design / Music & Sound Design

Alien Cartoon marked the birth of a new wave of music in Senegal. Its creator Ibaaku tells us about what inspired the album. >

6 Jul 16
The New Raw: Plastic waste as the new raw material

Design News > Design Activism

A team of creatives based in Greece have launched a new initiative to combat the worst pollutant: plastic waste. >

6 Jul 16
A new channel for the vicarious traveller

Design News > African Design / Graphic Design & Illustration

How Far From Home, speakers from our 2016 Conference, have just launched a video blog for those of us that are seeing the world vicariously through their eyes. >

5 Jul 16

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