Design News

60 sandbag classrooms built in Mbera refugee camp, Mauritania

Design News • 27 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Overflowing with Malian refugees and in need of classrooms, sandbags made for the most logical and durable building material for a school at Mbera refugee camp. >
The Samara Work Table is a lifelong companion in creativity

Product Spotlight • 26 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

British studio Feist Forest are putting joy, passion, purpose and story back into product design with its humble wooden table. >
EarthEnable brings clean, affordable floors to Rwanda

Design News • 26 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

EarthEnable's mission to bring clean, affordable floors to Rwanda could lead to healthier lives. >
Dazin's renewable cooking fuel saves lives

Design News • 25 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Bhutan-based group Dazin are using fuel cookies and smokeless stoves to eliminate deadly cooking smoke. >
Mushrooming with bio-waste is booming in Ghana

Design News • 25 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

The cultivation of mushrooms from vegetable peels could improve health and economy in Ghana. >
Géraldine Biard's designs relieve dementia sufferers

Product Spotlight • 25 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

French designer Géraldine Biard’s new furniture collection aims to relieve the stress of dementia. >
Lisa Firer creates organic forms in her handcrafted porcelain designs

Design News • 25 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Woodstock-based potter Lisa Firer creates ceramics that are inspired by the tactility of hand-rolling and hand-embossing clay. >
Infiniti's incredible From Pencil to Metal 360° video

Design News • 24 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Sit in the driver's seat as the QX30 concept car is created around you. >
The buildings of Waterbank School in Kenyan harvest rainfall for the community

Design News • Duration: 00:01:01 • 24 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

The architecture of the Waterbank campus in Kenya is built to collect, store and filter water for irrigation use while serving as a school for children. >
Eco-friendly glass paint to keep metal roofs cool

Product Spotlight • 24 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Scientists have developed a glass paint that will keep metal cool in the harshest of summer days. >
Nebia shower head uses 70 per cent less water

Product Spotlight • 24 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

A Kickstarter-funded shower system could reduce water wastage in the drought-stricken US. >
Burning Man Festival calls out to urban designers

Design News • 24 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

The Black Rock City Ministry of Urban Planning has put a call out to urban designers to reimagine the Burning Man Festival’s temporary city design. >
Miniature robots made from waste electronic chips and wires

Design News • 24 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Singapore and Malaysia-based industrial designer Anthony Oh recycles electric parts into miniature robot sculptures. >
Google's Project Sunroof brings solar panels to your doorstep

Design News • 21 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Google has unveiled Project Sunroof, a tool to determine how much money you could save with solar panels. >
Design for disabilities: Rayn Jacket, DrumPants TAPS and BeamPro

Design News • 21 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

These three designs — Rayn Jacket, DrumPants TAPS and BeamPro — reveal how assistive technology is changing the lives of those living with disabilities. >
Scientists at MIT have mastered the process of 3D printing glass

Design News • 21 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Glass, a mysterious amorphous solid, is the latest material to be 3D printed by scientists at MIT's Mediated Materials Group lab. >
How tech and social media can connect a family

Design News • 21 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

A grandfather learns how to use Instagram to send drawings to his grandchildren living abroad. >
Humanity, animality and nonsense in Wilma Cruise's etchings

Design News • 21 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

South African sculptor and visual artist Wilma Cruise investigates verbal and nonverbal communication in her nonsense-inspired creations. >
Cyrus Daruwala's Painful People satirises Mumbai's most annoying commuters

Design News • 21 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Author and illustrator Cyrus Daruwala addresses Mumbai's pain-in-the-neck residents in his new handmade book. >
Designer Terry Angelos creates by merging nature and humour

Product Spotlight • 21 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

South African artist Terry Angelos designs wall art and homeware using nature and her quirky side as inspiration. >
Family builds self-sufficient floating home

Design News • 20 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Over the last twenty years, a Canadian family have assembled a floating home made up of living quarters fortified by greenhouses. >
A doctor in the Gaza strip is 3D printing medical tools

Design News • 20 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

A conflict-zone doctor in the Gaza strip is 3D printing low-cost medical tools to help improve vital care in the area. >
Bompas and Parr's breathable cocktail cloud leaves visitors in high spirits

Design News • 20 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Meteorology and mixology collide in Bompas and Parr’s latest project, Alcoholic Architecture, a bar with an intoxicating atmosphere. >
Yerka: The Fort Knox of bicycles

Design News • 20 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Three Chilean engineering students dropped out of college to develop an unstealable bicycle with an integrated locking system. >

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Finding hope

Q&A • 12 May 23

Design Indaba Emerging Creative for 2023 Oteng Hope Kopiso applies no limits to her craft. >
House of memories

Design News • 12 May 23

A memorial dedicated to earthquake victims traces the natural paths on a hill. >
To-do list

Design News • 12 May 23

Ayse Birsel’s latest book guides readers in designing their own long, happy lives. >
Bathroom break

Design News • 12 May 23

Tom Dixon collaborates with Cosentino on a bold new vision for bathrooms. >