Design News

Tanzanian, sand-based water filter wins innovation award

Design News • 4 Nov 15 • Sponsored Content

A simple, low-cost filtering invention has earned Tanzanian chemical engineer, Askwar Hilonga the Royal Academy of Engineering African innovation prize. >
High fashion heels with low environmental impact

Design News • 4 Nov 15 • Sponsored Content

Designer Kristel Peters' Rethinking High Fashion Shoes project questions the role of the designer in contributing toward a sustainable future. >
Empty plastic water bottles make the ideal insulated roof tiles

Design News • 4 Nov 15 • Sponsored Content

'A'Gua water bottles by Donald Thomson are custom-designed plastic water bottles that turn into roofing tiles when empty. >
Bar game takes the mystery out of urban planning

Design News • 3 Nov 15 • Sponsored Content

“Cards Against Urbanity” pokes fun at the pains of urban planning in a cynical, yet educational way. >
A one-dollar contraceptive designed for the developing world

Design News • 3 Nov 15 • Sponsored Content

Designed to be self-administered and cost only one dollar, this contraceptive is changing the state of women's health in developing countries. >
Mogees can turn anything into a musical instrument

Design News • 3 Nov 15 • Sponsored Content

Mogees, the latest in interactive surface technology and design, creates music with just a small device and your phone. >
MIT’s bacteria-powered material, bioLogic, will literally make your skin crawl

Design News • 3 Nov 15 • Sponsored Content

BioLogic is an innovative second skin with an automated ventilation system that is powered by living organisms. >
A new workstation for nomadic employees

Design News • 2 Nov 15 • Sponsored Content

HÔTEL TRAVAIL is a new workspace concept for freelancers and nomadic employees by Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Shay Raviv. >
A film shot in two European cities attempts to define progressive art

Design News • 2 Nov 15 • Sponsored Content

"Progressive Art", a film by Phsics Media and shot in Amsterdam and Berlin, seeks to understand and investigate the meaning of its title. >
Warka Water creates water from air

Design News • 2 Nov 15 • Sponsored Content

Design studio Architecture and Vision is bringing clean water to rural Ethiopia with its Warka Water project. >
Emoji keyboard highlights the plight of refugees

Design News • 2 Nov 15 • Sponsored Content

Virtual emoji keyboard lets the social media generation show they care about the plight of refugees. >
Solar power brings clean water to remote Mexican village

Design News • 2 Nov 15 • Sponsored Content

The introduction of a solar powered water purification system sparked a new economy in a remote Mexican village. >
The world’s first hand-woven raffia car in Nigeria

Design News • 2 Nov 15 • Sponsored Content

A weaver based in Ibadan, Nigeria has taken the age-old craft of weaving to new heights by weaving the entire body of a car. >
A prefab home made from bio-based materials

Design News • 30 Oct 15 • Sponsored Content

DDacha is a customisable and sustainable living concept designed for a Northern European climate. >
Visualising brainwaves in a kaleidoscope of colour

Design News • 30 Oct 15 • Sponsored Content

Filmmaker and animator Alice Dunseath creates a vibrant short film to show the brain’s reaction to beauty and functionality. >
Safer: The beautiful, wearable panic button

Design News • 30 Oct 15 • Sponsored Content

Leaf Innovations have designed a line of jewellery that could save your life. >
Master of the craft: Orthopaedic surgeon

Design News • 29 Oct 15 • Sponsored Content

In the second instalment of our photo series focusing on master artisans, we look at the hands of the makers. Today we look at an orthopaedic surgeon. >
This underground fridge doesn't need electricity

Product Spotlight • 29 Oct 15 • Sponsored Content

Dutch designer Floris Schoonderbeek has designed an underground, cellar-style fridge that doesn’t require any energy to keep food cool and fresh. >
Waterless toilets designed for rural India

Design News • 29 Oct 15 • Sponsored Content

A new Eco-friendly waterless toilet system designed by a university professor is set to prevent illnesses caused by human waste. >
Takeout container turned mini-greenhouse makes growing food a snap

Design News • 29 Oct 15 • Sponsored Content

Homegrown’s Takeout container makes the perfect mini-greenhouse for growing organic food. >
Roots Up is on a mission to create self-sufficient family farming in Ethiopia

Design News • 29 Oct 15 • Sponsored Content

The Roots Up project aims to improve poor living conditions for the Gondar farming community in the Ethiopian highlands. >
Smartphones at the forefront of healthcare in Africa

Design News • 29 Oct 15 • Sponsored Content

Diagnosis, monitoring, and a treatment plan could be sent via a smartphone with Vodacom’s healthcare apps. >
A pocket-sized flashlight powered by body heat

Product Spotlight • 28 Oct 15 • Sponsored Content

This inventor's flashlight is powered by body heat and is expected to be a step towards living without batteries. >
Julia DeVille turns death into art

Design News • 28 Oct 15 • Sponsored Content

Taxidermist and jeweller Julia deVille uses reimagined dead animals to celebrate life. >

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EX ASTRA

Design Frontiers • 27 Mar 23

This set of woodcut prints celebrates the months of the year. >
The art bias

Design News • 27 Mar 23

The aim of this Bangalore museum collection is to reframe ideas of Indian art. >
Wayfinder

Q&A • 27 Mar 23

For 2023 Design Indaba Emerging Creative Kamil Adam Hassim, nature is the ultimate inspiration. >
Printed pavilion

Design News • 27 Mar 23

This climate-adaptable pavilion is 3D-printed from recycled plastic. >