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Hayoung Kim’s lamps draw inspiration from handheld fans
Design Frontiers
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Product Design
As a user moves them, much in the same way one would fold and unfold a handheld fan, the light dims.
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22 Mar 18
Could these be the fast food favourites of the future?
Design Frontiers
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Food Design
Food lab Space10 reinvents 5 classic dishes using alternative, sustainable ingredients.
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22 Mar 18
Cape Town entrepreneur is designing a new language around menstruation
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Design Activism
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Product Design
Entrepreneur Zizipho Ntobongwana challenges everything from the packaging to ads to sustainability.
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22 Mar 18
The Calmingstone counters panic attacks and stress
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Design Thinking
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Product Design
This hand-held design emits soothing signals that target anxiety, bringing you back to a state of zen.
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21 Mar 18
14 graphic designers to watch
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African Design
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Graphic Design & Illustration
These up and coming visual artist showed us a sneak peak into the future of graphic design in South Africa.
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21 Mar 18
Mozambican photographer Mario Macilau on documenting the lives of society's most vulnerable
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African Design
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Art & Photography
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Film & Animation
"My work is also a personal documentary. I prefer long-term projects that require commitment and trust."
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20 Mar 18
A wound-healing gel inspired by slugs
Design News
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Design Thinking
Where sutures and stitches fail, doctors are turning to the restorative slime of gastropods.
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20 Mar 18
Stone Wool is an eco-friendly way to control the temperature in our homes
Design News
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Architecture & Interiors
Engineers have identified this material as a better way to build and protect our homes and spaces.
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20 Mar 18
These contact lenses deliver medicine straight to your eye
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Design Thinking
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Product Design
The lenses can deliver drugs to the back of the eye to treat macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, retinal vein occlusion, and other diseases.
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20 Mar 18
Swedish clinic designed with the country's refugee population in mind
Design Frontiers
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Architecture & Interiors
Rejecting the traditional strict clean lines typical of medical centers, the design team explored the concept of a bright facade with an unusual 3D effect.
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19 Mar 18
Journalists are fighting censorship using streaming sites like Spotify and Deezer
Design News
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Design Activism
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Information Design
The Uncensored Playlist uses a streaming loophole to get censored news to the public in repressed countries.
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19 Mar 18
On transforming diarrhoea treatment in Zambia with a simple solution
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Design Activism
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Design Thinking
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Product Design
The award-winning innovator, Simon Berry says he hopes in the next ten years there won’t be a need for ColaLife to exist.
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19 Mar 18
LEGO is rolling out its first plant-based plastic blocks
Design News
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Design Thinking
The popular toy brand is making vast strides towards a more sustainable future.
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19 Mar 18
What if you could 3D print your own home in a matter of hours?
Design Frontiers
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Architecture & Interiors
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Industrial Design
The ICON project’s Vulcan printer creates concrete homes in record time.
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19 Mar 18
Nüshu is an ancient secret language developed by women
Design News
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Design Activism
These women would embroid their Nüshu scripts on fabrics such as quilts, aprons, and handkerchiefs.
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16 Mar 18
Young scientist develops possible solution for shack fires
Design Frontiers
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Product Design
Gabriella Mogale’s innovation won gold at the 2017 Eskom Expo for Young Scientists.
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16 Mar 18
Dina Amin on stop animation, upcycling in Cairo and her inspiration
Design News
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African Design
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Product Design
“I kept thinking, questioning whether we actually need all the things that we produce..."
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16 Mar 18
Experimental food design studio introduces 3D-printed sushi
Design Frontiers
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Food Design
Open Meals imagines a future of generating, combining and printing food from anywhere in the world.
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16 Mar 18
IBUKU is pioneering the use of bamboo as a sustainable building material
Design News
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Architecture & Interiors
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Urban & Landscape Design
“Bamboo buildings are like a living organism, every bamboo pole represents the ‘DNA’ of the building."
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16 Mar 18
Meet the future of South African fashion
Design News
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African Design
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
These are the young creatives in the fashion industry who formed part of our Emerging Creatives programme for 2018.
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16 Mar 18
Graduates in Chile transform abandoned urban lots into community spaces
Design News
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Architecture & Interiors
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Urban & Landscape Design
Sitio Eriazo, a collective of theatre, architecture and art graduates are on a mission to restore beauty to these spaces.
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15 Mar 18
Photographer Benjamin Von Wong sheds light on E-waste in latest collection
Design News
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Art & Photography
What happens to all our electronics after we’re done with them?
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15 Mar 18
The Desert Twins create water out of dry air
Design News
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Design Activism
“The first three days of testing were frustrating; our own sweat was the only liquid produced.”
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15 Mar 18
Memphis Meats is at the forefront of kill-free meat
Design Frontiers
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Food Design
As far as innovation in the agriculture sector goes, the future of food is equal parts bizarre and exciting.
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14 Mar 18
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