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Illume Creative Studio: Illuminating Africa through creative communication
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Creative Economy
Rwandan communications agency helps Rwanda’s growing brands and businesses express themselves.
11 Apr 16
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The Kofe Club Collection: Uniquely Nigerian furniture
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African Design
Product designer Nifemi Marcus-Bello believes small-scale operations can lead to unique, Nigerian designs.
11 Apr 16
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Campaign reconnects refugees with their moms
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Design Activism
Refugee Phones turns commercial radio into personal media for refugees to contact their mothers.
11 Apr 16
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Smart thermometer crowdsources info for real-time health tracking
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Design Thinking
Kinsa’s Smart Thermometer is able to help individuals and communities map diseases before they spread.
11 Apr 16
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New strategies to improve the consumer experience
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Design Thinking
The needs of consumers are ever-changing and designers will need to respond.
8 Apr 16
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Grotesque sculptures comment on food waste and production
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Art & Photography
Japanese artist Ayako Fudamoto creates lifelike sculptures of deformed livestock using fake food samples.
8 Apr 16
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Floating bio-filtration system cleans up river litter
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Industrial Design
Melbourne-based designer Rowan Turnham builds a modular plant system that captures trash from an estuary.
8 Apr 16
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3D-printed robots are able to move immediately after printing
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Design Thinking
MIT researchers developed a way to print both liquids and solids, building a robot faster and with immediate results.
8 Apr 16
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Eva Mynsberghe: Making products that tell stories
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Jewellery and interiors designer Eva Mynsberghe emphasises the importance of telling stories with design.
8 Apr 16
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Redesign Meat at the Slagerij de Hamvraag
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Food Design
Food designers rethink the meat industry in a series of talks and discussions at the Slagerij de Hamvraag pop up butchery in the Netherlands.
7 Apr 16
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Architects designing for social improvement
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Architecture & Interiors
billionBricks project manager Astrid Hugo shares advice on how to design for the homeless.
7 Apr 16
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Artist invites humans to bond with worms
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Product Design
Amy Youngs’ exhibition educates people about the benefits of worm composting at home.
7 Apr 16
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Smart tampons could be the future of home diagnostics
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Product Design
Researchers are creating a tampon testing system that helps women monitor their own health and fertility.
7 Apr 16
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Gau Gas creates energy from animal waste
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Product Design
Cooking with fossil fuels over an open flame is harmful to people and the environment, SustainEarth offers a biogas alternative.
7 Apr 16
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Harnessing creativity in the workplace
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Design Thinking
Creativity on demand: Some lessons in how to channel your creative energy in a more productive way.
6 Apr 16
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Dave Hakkens’ DIY plastic recycling machines
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Industrial Design
Industrial designer shares blueprints for recycling machines so that anyone can make plastic products at home.
6 Apr 16
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Backpacks made from traditional Sotho blankets
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Sibusiso Mokhachane makes backpacks from blankets to celebrate his heritage and help the world unlearn African stereotypes.
6 Apr 16
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Helen Borg’s illustrations prove that a little bit of cheek goes a long way
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Using a handful of quirk and a pinch of cheek, Helen Borg’s illustrations question and mock the pleasures and emotions surrounding desire in our society.
6 Apr 16
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Syria’s refugee children tell their stories in an animated series
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Film & Animation
Once upon a time, Syria’s refugee children had families and homes. Now, they’re telling their stories as they flee ongoing conflict.
6 Apr 16
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MakeRight: Involving prisoners in anti-crime design
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Product Design
MakeRight is an initiative that gets prisoners to help manufacture “theft-proof” bags that consider the user and the abuser and designs out the crime.
5 Apr 16
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Backpack-cum-tent designed for urban camping
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Product Design
Melina is a portable tent designed to inspire nomadic city living.
5 Apr 16
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Windows and solar panels could one day be made of transparent wood
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Product Design
Mass produced transparent wood material could be used in windows, solar panels and buildings.
5 Apr 16
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A 100 per cent biodegradable fungi dress
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Neffa’s latest creation, MycoTEX explores the future of fashion with living materials.
5 Apr 16
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Iris Cristal honours the legacy of timeless crystal in modern creations
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Product Design
Crystal chandeliers by Iris Cristal express an ancient tradition in exciting new ways.
5 Apr 16
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