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Allan Amato explores the naked form in SLIP: Naked In Your Own Words
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Art & Photography
The nude form inspires awe, lust, empathy, envy, anger says photographer Allan Amato.
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20 Apr 16
Material girls: We look at two local textile designers
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
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Product Design
Megan Smith and Luhandra Vorstman live on opposite sides of South Africa but share a similar approach to textile design and production.
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19 Apr 16
Thai architects develop a building typology for disaster-resistant schools
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Vin Varavarn Architects, a Bangkok-based firm, developed a new architectural typology for earthquake resistant schools.
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19 Apr 16
Illustrator Carla Latsky doesn't like to pigeonhole her craft
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Art & Photography
South African illustrator Carla Latsky is addicted to the details. Her work, which is infused with nostalgia, is created in a variety of mediums.
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19 Apr 16
Artist’s small studio is a canvas for her surreal worlds
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Craft
JeeYoung Lee taps into her dreams and memories to create enchanting worlds in her studio.
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19 Apr 16
Microbots absorb pollutants from industrial wastewater
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Industrial Design
New nanotechnology innovation addresses heavy metal contamination of natural water sources.
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18 Apr 16
Sleepwear doesn't have to look like something you'd only wear to bed
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Alexia Hechter, one of our Design Indaba 2016 Emerging Creatives, creates high-end sleepwear out of wool.
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18 Apr 16
Off-grid library encourages education in remote Tanzania
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Design Activism
Humanitarian architect Patricia Erimescu designed an off-grid library built with recycled and locally sourced materials.
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18 Apr 16
Art as a tool for integration in India
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The Aravani Art Project’s painted murals work to integrate India’s transgender community.
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18 Apr 16
NeuroLife: A chip that gives movement back to the paralysed
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Design Thinking
Researchers have created a prototype for a medical device that allows a paralysed person to perform basic tasks.
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15 Apr 16
Electric fork simulates salty taste in food
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Product Design
Japanese researcher develops a fork that adds a salty taste to sodium-free food.
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15 Apr 16
Artificially intelligent furniture of the future
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Product Design
Carlo Ratti Associati unveils a digitally transformable sofa that morphs into different forms.
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15 Apr 16
Illustrations show the twists and turns of modern society
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Polish illustrator Igor Morski uses mixed media and photo manipulation to explore the ills of the world.
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14 Apr 16
PIXO changes the way we use our tablets
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Product Design
Oscar Diaz designs a solution for an everyday tech-related problem we didn’t even know we had.
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14 Apr 16
Innovative origami material paves the way for shape-shifting architecture
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Architecture & Interiors
Foldable material designed by Harvard engineers can change its shape, size, and volume.
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14 Apr 16
Moeketsi Lebakeng’s minimal illustrations pay tribute to Africa’s women
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African Design
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Moeketsi Lebakeng uses illustration to celebrate his everyday heroes – African women.
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13 Apr 16
Standing wheelchair developed to improve the reach and mobility of a paraplegic person
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Product Design
Rehabilitation team designs an adjustable wheelchair to help paraplegic people be more productive in daily activities.
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13 Apr 16
Water, energy, and internet all in one system
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Design Activism
The Watly system aims to bring the necessities to the developing world using one device.
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13 Apr 16
Korean artist explores “hysteria” in mixed media paintings
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Art & Photography
Confronted with something terrifying, the characters in Yeom Ji-Hee’s work must face their fears.
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13 Apr 16
TippyTalk: Tech that bridges the gap between the disabled and their caregivers
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Interaction Design
Rob Laffan created an app that helps his autistic daughter communicate from anywhere at anytime.
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12 Apr 16
Skin: The next step in wearable tech
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Design Thinking
SkinHaptics is a new innovation that sees the palm of your hand as the next display surface for wearable tech.
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12 Apr 16
A fossil-fuel-free houseboat from an apocalyptic future
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Industrial Design
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Tshepo Mokholo is an architect-turned-designer and his goal is to bring about inner-city change through better design.
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12 Apr 16
The UK’s first transparent solar bus shelter
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Urban & Landscape Design
Energy-generating bus shelter sets the standard for solar glass infrastructure in city spaces.
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12 Apr 16
Eco-friendly trap designed to stop spread of virus-carrying mosquitoes
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Product Design
An innovation made from old car tyres helps contain mosquito-related virus outbreaks in Guatemala.
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12 Apr 16
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