Design News

Bicycle path doubles as solar panel

Product Spotlight • 17 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

Solar panels fitted into bike path generate more electricity than expected. >
Kampala's street children rehabilitated through music and art

Design News • 17 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

M-Lisada is an orphanage in Uganda that empowers Kampala's street children through art. >
A movement to clean-up and beautify the city of Bhopal

Design News • 17 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

Bhopal I-Clean Team is a spot-fixing programme started by a group of locals who are determined to tidy up their city. >
Clever cooking hacks to combat wasteful food habits

Design News • 16 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

SpoonLed is a video and event series that shows millennials how to make the most out of their food waste. >
Ugandan community hall crafted out of basic materials

Design News • 16 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

Natural light and locally-sourced materials bring the late Ross Langdon’s design to life. >
An innovative way to extinguish a fire

Design News • 16 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

The Elide Fire Extinguishing Ball uses a chemical blast to control unexpected fires. >
Fashion house Mille Collines celebrates all things Africa

Design News • 15 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

The recent Mille Collines show at AFI MBFW Joburg takes an elegant and contemporary look at ubiquitous African curios. >
Auto-focus specs adapts lenses to near and farsighted vision

Design News • 15 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

Deep Optics’ omnifocals automatically adjust focus, providing the wearer with improved vision. >
Newly discovered enzyme could change the way we recycle plastic

Design News • 15 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

Kyoto University researchers are able to cultivate an enzyme that can break down plastic into harmless chemicals. >
Township: Photographs depicting life after South African apartheid

Design News • 15 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

Anne Rearick’s work documents the lives of people faced with economic hardship, poverty and racism. >
A pictorial narrative explores the estranged lives of adults

Design News • 14 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

A children’s book for adults, The Well of Being explores life through narrative and illustration. >
US digital artist talks representation of minorities in graphic design

Design News • 14 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

Jeff Manning’s work is inspired by music and informed by the need to represent minorities in graphic design. >
EduKick designs football games that teach slum kids maths

Design News • 14 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

Community project gets creative with soccer to increase children’s literacy in India. >
31 Bits’ holistic business model empowers Ugandan women

Design News • 11 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

Jewellery brand creates a sustainable income for Ugandan artisans while teaching them skills to become self-reliant. >
Experimental street art inspired by the Cape

Design News • 11 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

South African illustrator and street artist Anwar Davids aims to make his work accessible all over the world. >
Wi-Fi trashcans encourage festivalgoers to practise responsible rubbish disposal

Design News • 10 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

Indian startup ThinkScream develops a trashcan that provides Wi-Fi connection in exchange for trash. >
UNICEF bicycle initiative helps Ghanaian schoolgirls get to class safely

Design News • 10 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

Swedish brand Vélosophy teams up with UNICEF to donate its commuter bikes to girls in Ghana. >
Multimedia project remembers the forgotten victims of political imprisonment

Design News • 10 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

Based in Austria, Christoph Lingg documents the forgotten history of political prisoners all over the world. >
Old tennis rackets become colourful works of art

Product Spotlight • 9 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

Cape Town local Danielle Clough has many inventive outlets, but her embroidery has caught the attention of the creative world. >
IKEA's next step for sustainability

Design News • 9 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

The eco-responsible furniture company is transitioning to biobased packaging made out of mushrooms. >
New supermarket in Denmark only stocks food past its sell by date

Design News • 9 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

WeFood is reducing food waste in Denmark by selling the food that mainstream supermarkets throw out. >
Enter your design to the Green Product Award

Design News • 9 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

The Green Product Award have extended their deadline exclusively for Design Indaba readers. Submissions are open until Sunday 13 March. >
Embroidery and needlepoint give prisoners a new outlook

Design News • 9 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

The Fine Cell Work initiative has contributed to the rehabilitation of the UK’s prisoners for over a decade. >
This is what it's like to read with dyslexia

Design News • 9 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

Victor Widell’s interactive blog post lets the viewer experience what it’s like to be dyslexic. >

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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. >