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Cigarette butt bricks burn away pollution

Design News • 25 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Researchers have found a way to cut down global littering by incorporating cigarette butts into 2.5 per cent of the world's annual brick production. >
WarOnWall: an exhibition on the state of Syria

Design News • 25 May 16 • Sponsored Content

The photographic collection will be displayed on the last remnants of the Berlin Wall. >
Musana Carts: providing clean energy to Kampala’s micro-businesses

Design News • 25 May 16 • Sponsored Content

A US-based company empowers Kampala’s street vendors through their solar powered micro-business cart. >
Vegan leather inspires new sneaker collection

Design News • 24 May 16 • Sponsored Content

A leather made from pineapple leaves inspires Parisian fashion brand’s new shoe line >
Street art and energy inform Kronk’s Zakifo redesign

Design News • 24 May 16 • Sponsored Content

The Zakifo Musik Festival comes to Durban, South Africa with a look inspired by culture, street art and energy. >
AbsorbPlate cuts calories by reducing grease on your plate

Product Spotlight • 24 May 16 • Sponsored Content

The dinner plate’s design has perforations in its surface to trap excess grease. >
Tea shirts: clothing made from tea

Design News • 23 May 16 • Sponsored Content

A tea by-product could be a more sustainable material for clothing manufacture. >
BaseLantern: a new project by BioLite

Product Spotlight • 23 May 16 • Sponsored Content

The BaseLantern portable lantern is designed for off-grid usage. >
Cliff face shelter designed to provide safe passage for refugees

Design News • 23 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Slice Refugee Hospitality Centre proposes an architectural solution to welcoming and hosting migrants that cross seas to seek asylum. >
When world-famous chef Elena Arzak visits South African forager Kobus van der Merwe

Design News • 20 May 16 • Sponsored Content

While award-winning chef Elena Arzak was in SA to present at the Design Indaba Conference, she visited the Paternoster-based forager chef Kobus van de Merwe. >
Mover Kit: Make-it-yourself technology

Design News • 20 May 16 • Sponsored Content

This toy introduces kids to coding and the technology behind their gadgets. >
Spherical garden rolls around looking for sunlight and water

Design News • 20 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Interactive Architecture Lab creates a mobile garden that thinks for itself. >
Parallel: Si MacLennan and Ross Symons collaborate on a new project

Design News • 20 May 16 • Sponsored Content

The two artists have incorporated their unique styles into a colourful creation. >
SkinTrack: the next step in wearable technology

Design News • 19 May 16 • Sponsored Content

The new device uses your arm’s surface as a touch-screen, extending the interface of the smartwatch. >
Plastic recycling initiative supports waste pickers in developing countries

Design News • 19 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Amsterdam-based group Reflow drive a socially responsible 3D printing community >
John Radcliffe Studios documents the regular lives of refugees

Design News • 19 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Foreigner: Migration into Europe 2015–16, is a photography series that hopes to portray a less sensationalist account of the refugee crisis. >
Y&R Paris' 3D printed animals challenge the way life is reproduced

Design News • 19 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Life can’t be reproduced. Y&R Paris' series of images shows the fragile circumstances of wildlife. >
Photographer documents the last nomadic people of Nepal

Design News • 19 May 16 • Sponsored Content

The Raute are Nepal’s last nomadic people nestled in the foothills of the Himalayas. This photo series captures their resistance to the modern word. >
Pentagram’s typographic installation draws attention to animal and plant conservation

Design News • 18 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Designed in response to a call by artists Ackroyd & Harvey, Pentagram’s typographic installation lets viewers highlight endangered species. >
21st Century farming technology to address global food crisis

Design News • 18 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Urban Produce is a sustainable vertical farming system that looks toward the future of agriculture. >
Brad Harris’ illustrations capture the innocence of everyday childhood

Design News • 18 May 16 • Sponsored Content

South African artist Brad Harris draws from childhood experience to create stories and illustrations that capture child-like innocence. >
Florine Demosthene explores the black female form using mixed media art

Design News • 18 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Inspired by her travels in Africa, Florine Demosthene has created a new black heroine. >
Now they’re 3D printing bones

Design News • 17 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have developed a new material that can be used in bone replacement surgery. >
Livi brings nature indoors

Product Spotlight • 17 May 16 • Sponsored Content

The portable planter has a new take on interacting with nature. >

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Golden touch

Q&A • 9 Sep 22

Mishaal Gangaram is a conceptual photographer, visual storyteller and one of Design Indaba’s Emerging Creatives for 2022 >
Dokter’s orders

Design News • 9 Sep 22

Johannesburg-based multidisciplinary product-design company Dokter and Misses’ latest collection is functional art. >
The anatomy of art

Design News • 9 Sep 22

New York-based artist Michael Mapes creates fragmented portraits out of collected items >
‘A’ Okay

Design News • 9 Sep 22

Swedish architecture firm Naturvillan designed an A-framed ‘greenhouse’ that is entirely self-sufficient. >