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Graphite: a modular honeycomb-shaped shelving system

Product Spotlight > Architecture & Interiors / Industrial Design / Product Design

A storage system designed to be sturdy and fully customisable. >

1 Jun 16
Social enterprise designs Kenyan running shoe

Design News > African Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Product Design

Enda is a running shoe inspired by Kenya’s legacy of running champions >

1 Jun 16
Welcome Shelter: Charlie Redman’s kinetic dining experience

Next Generation > Architecture & Interiors / Interaction Design / Product Design

Architecture student Charlie Redman designed an outdoor structure that functions in any weather. >

1 Jun 16
Someone Somewhere is about empowerment through fashion

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Someone Somewhere combines traditional handcrafts with contemporary products to empower Mexican artisans. >

1 Jun 16
Ingestible origami robot can patch a wound from the inside

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Interaction Design / Product Design

Researchers have developed a tiny magnetically controlled robot with dozens of healthcare applications. >

31 May 16
L CARD: A lung cancer “breathalyzer”

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Interaction Design / Product Design

The tiny device can detect whether or not a patient has lung cancer. >

31 May 16
Spyce: healthy meals with the speed and ease of fast food

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

Designed by students, the machine makes a healthy meal as quick and easy as fast food. >

31 May 16
Photographer presents a bird’s-eye view of inequality in Cape Town

Design News > Art & Photography / Design Activism

Johnny Miller’s photographic series shows that Apartheid spatial planning is still present in South Africa’s Mother City. >

31 May 16
Photographer Martha Tadesse captures her Ethiopian truth

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography

Ethiopian photographer Martha Tadesse hopes to share images of her travels through Addis Ababa with the world. >

30 May 16
Cheap, effective, mosquito killing soap

Design Frontiers > African Design / Design Thinking

Two African innovators have created a cheap soap to combat Malaria in the developing world. >

30 May 16
Luzinterruptus illuminates social issues using light and photography

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

The anonymous collective Luzinterruptus is creating illuminating installations with light. >

30 May 16
Margrethe Odgaard’s work is full of colour, creativity and compassion

Design News > Craft / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Margrethe Odgaard is celebrated for her contributions to Nordic art and design. >

30 May 16
Innovative filter destroys pollutants in the air

Design News > Design Thinking / Product Design

The Molekule air filter uses nano-technology and light to destroy air pollutants at a molecular level. >

30 May 16
Robotic arms and a bit of lycra can change the way concrete is used in design

Design News > Industrial Design

Designers develop a method of fabric-casting concrete into dynamic architectural forms >

30 May 16
Nigerian photographer's romantic visions of Lagos

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography

Photographer re-envisions his hometown using light and photographic installations. >

27 May 16
China's futuristic bus allows cars to pass underneath its carriages

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

The Transit Explore Bus was designed to tackle extreme traffic congestion and pollution in China. >

27 May 16
Gamer gets a high-tech bionic limb

Design News > Interaction Design / Product Design

Packed with gadgets, James Young’s robotic prosthesis also houses a drone. >

27 May 16
ReGen Village: an under-construction utopia of sustainable living

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Design Activism

Self-sustaining, off-grid village to be built in the Netherlands offers a look at the future of eco-friendly living. >

27 May 16
Smart earpiece translates languages in real-time

Design Frontiers > Creative Economy / Product Design

Pilot is an earpiece that translates conversations as they happen. >

27 May 16
Ousmane Mbaye turns discarded metals into sculptural furniture

Design News > African Design / Craft

Digging through the landfills of Dakar, Ousmane Mbaye sees design materials where others see trash. >

26 May 16
Flood House explores a new typology of responsive architecture

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Matthew Butcher’s Flood House looks at how future dwellings should be adapted to co-exist with their native environments. >

26 May 16
Tshepo Sedumo’s handmade portable boomboxes

Product Spotlight > African Design / Music & Sound Design

The Johannesburg-based startup Grove Audio creates custom designed wooden boomboxes. >

26 May 16
DoruNsimba: a design collaboration reintroducing Africa to the world

Design Frontiers > Fashion & Jewellery Design

A collaboration of two African-born creatives hopes to change perceptions of the African continent through their work. >

26 May 16
Kristin-Lee Moolman’s subversive photography challenges gender and the African aesthetic

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography

South African photographer Kristin-Lee Moolman creates a separate reality through her work. >

26 May 16

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