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Oded Ezer designs the Life/Death t-shirt

Product Spotlight • 13 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Tel Aviv-based graphic design artist Oded Exer designed a t-shirt to help refugees. >
Portable surgical sterilisation suitcase

Design News • 13 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Eniware is a new sterilisation system that aims to have a positive impact on health care in developing countries. >
The Honey: Representations of blackness as power

Design News • 13 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Rendani Nemakhavhani's dynamic photo series "The Honey" turns away from blackness as struggle. >
Budapest-based brand NewFoldr champions cardboard electronics

Design News • 12 May 16 • Sponsored Content

NewFoldr aims to create a recyclable electronics movement to challenge the global e-waste issue >
"Inside Ya Body" looks inside the body for inspiration

Design News • 12 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Jack Sachs' solo installation takes a quirky, animated look at the inside of the human body. >
Artist’s mock machine guns are sculpted from old typewriters

Design News • 12 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Denver-based Ravi Zupa brings gun violence to the fore in “Mightier Than”. >
Snail shell shelter brings user closer to nature

Design News • 12 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Helix is a micro-architecture structure that can shelter one nomadic individual. >
Treating mental illness with virtual reality

Design News • 11 May 16 • Sponsored Content

An Oxford University study tested virtual simulation on sufferers of severe paranoia, with positive results. >
Swawou School for Girls finally opens its doors to students in Sierra Leone

Design News • 11 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Orkidstudio unveils its free-education school in eastern Sierra Leone after the Ebola outbreak put the project on hold. >
The FoodShare Truck: Fresh produce at affordable prices

Design News • 11 May 16 • Sponsored Content

The travelling food market offers fresh produce at cheaper prices to locals that otherwise can’t access or afford it. >
Photographer documents the unseen life of Senegal’s talibes

Design News • 11 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Photojournalist Mario Cruz’s photobook explores the harsh lives of Senegal’s modern child slaves. >
Revitalising Detroit by giving homes to writers

Design News • 11 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Write A House is a non-profit that provides vocational training to Detroit locals while trying to stabilise a city in decline. >
Transforming London’s Trafalgar Square into a crazy golf course

Design News • 10 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Designed by the late Zaha Hadid, the undulating course will be futuristic, functional, fun and free for the public. >
Sundial installation 3D-printed with sheets of plastic

Design News • 10 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Contemporary sundial uses solar data to change shape according to the natural trajectory of the sun. >
Recent innovations in nanowire technology could lead to self-cooling clothing

Design News • 10 May 16 • Sponsored Content

A more flexible, environmentally sound, safer nanowire array has the potential to revolutionise occupations like fire fighting. >
Tanzanian street kids tell their stories through photography

Design News • 10 May 16 • Sponsored Content

By providing Tanzanian street kids with cameras and training, Club Sanaa has them tell their own stories. >
Interactive technology could change the way we play ping-pong

Design News • 9 May 16 • Sponsored Content

German designer Thomas Mayer helps players improve their ping-pong game with realtime performance visuals. >
Play Sea Hero Quest and help scientists understand dementia

Design News • 9 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Scientists and game developers have teamed up to create a game that contributes to Alzheimer’s research. >
Green Product: Wirework takes a contemporary twist on traditional crafts

Design News • 6 May 16 • Sponsored Content

The South African self-help project uses recycled materials to create functional art. >
The world’s first 3D-printed wheelchair that can be customised on an app

Design News • 6 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Layer is soon to launch its new 3D-printed wheelchair, made to fit each individual’s body and disability. >
A parachute that turns into a shelter for refugees or disaster victims

Design News • 6 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Portugal-based STUDIOMUDA design a prefabricated shelter that can be easily deployed out of an airplane. >
New York rec centre combines gaming and exercise

Design News • 6 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Interactive and high-intensity, this circuit-based gym changes the experience of exercise. >
Chimera IoT: a Kenyan startup designing smart homes

Design News • 5 May 16 • Sponsored Content

The recently established company adapts Western technology to African specific conditions. >
A self-healing biomaterial is the closest yet to mimicking human muscle

Design News • 5 May 16 • Sponsored Content

New biomaterial possesses extreme stretchability, self-healing and endurance properties; all revolutionary in the development of artificial skin and muscle. >

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Q&A • 20 Mar 23

This 2023 Design Indaba Emerging Creative is a storyteller at heart. >
Japanimation

Q&A • 20 Mar 23

Wooden puppets come to life in an action-packed stop-motion film about revenge. >
Winning formula

Design News • 20 Mar 23

David Chipperfield has been selected as the 2023 winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. >
Shapeshifter

Design News • 20 Mar 23

This New York theatre’s new branding changes for each production. >