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TrackR Bravo: Making lost items a thing of the past
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Chris Herbert and his team at Phone Halo have designed a compact tracker device that can be used for practically anything.
22 Aug 16
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BuggyAir: A mobile air pollution tracker
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Product Design
This air pollution testing kit helps parents make informed decisions about the type of environments they expose their children to.
22 Aug 16
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Buhle Ngaba’s The Girl Without A Sound
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Meet the young actress encouraging little girls to own their voice.
22 Aug 16
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Shoey Shoes made entirely from waste materials
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Student looks into using material offcuts to create a sustainable range of children’s shoes.
22 Aug 16
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Mapping poverty: getting relief to developing areas
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Design Thinking
These researchers are using mapping technology to find the world’s poorest areas.
22 Aug 16
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Interior designer Seugnet Herbst challenges the ordinary
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Product Design
2016 Emerging Creative Seugnet Herbst challenges ordinary aspects of interior design.
19 Aug 16
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No Man’s Sky: The videogame that conceives galaxies
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Interaction Design
The 2016 offering of Hello Games is pushing the possibilities of open-world gameplay to new stratospheres.
19 Aug 16
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Boombox champions nomadic retail spaces
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Architecture & Interiors
A startup platform that gives emerging businesses access to a public market.
19 Aug 16
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Tiny device uses sunlight to disinfect water
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Product Design
Researchers at Stanford University created a tiny device that purifies water in minutes.
18 Aug 16
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Saving the planet with art supplies
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Product Design
The startup turning air pollution into ink.
18 Aug 16
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Project Florence: Opening communication with plant life
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Design Thinking
Helene Steiner works to expand communication with plants. The resulting dialogue is bizarre and intriguing.
18 Aug 16
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The creative collective disrupting SA's National Arts Festival
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Design Activism
The 10 Day Men are shaking things up in Grahamstown.
18 Aug 16
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Students create seaweed-based yarn to tackle fashion industry pollution
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
BioEsters is a bio-based material that presents a sustainable yarn alternative for designers.
18 Aug 16
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Photographer Ofoe Amegavie captures the beauty of Ghana’s iconic festivals
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Art & Photography
Photographer Ofoe Amegavie tells the vivid stories of Ghana’s traditional festivals in an ongoing series.
17 Aug 16
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Blubel: The intelligent bicycle bell
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Product Design
Blubel Tech’s new device for cyclists offers far more than the chime of a bell.
17 Aug 16
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Intuitive wardrobe donates unworn clothes to charities
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Design Activism
The Internet of Clothes is a creative concept that tackles the over consumption of fashion.
17 Aug 16
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Capturing the "Gully Queens" of Jamaica
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Art & Photography
Pieter Hugo’s collaboration with Hood by Air is a celebration of the vilified gay community of Kingston.
17 Aug 16
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Concrete creative: Entries to South Africa’s biggest art and design prize are still open
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Film & Animation
PPC Imaginarium Awards are open for entries for their 2016/2017 competitions until the end of September 2016.
17 Aug 16
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Wintergatan Marble Machine: Making music with marbles
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Music & Sound Design
This arcade-style music box features a range of programmable instruments.
17 Aug 16
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Jewellery made from everyday items
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Johannesburg-based alternative jeweller Belinda Phofu uncovers the untapped potential of everyday items.
16 Aug 16
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Sustaining the memory of the ‘Black Mamba’
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Art & Photography
Cryus Kabiru’s roadster fixation leads to imaginative and nostalgic sculptures.
16 Aug 16
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In the pipeline: The new underwater motorways of Norway
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Urban & Landscape Design
These submerged floating tubes may be the first step into trans-Atlantic road connections.
16 Aug 16
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DuoSkin: Tattoo-like devices print tech on skin
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Interaction Design
Using gold leaf metal, MIT researchers are placing customised, tattoo-like interfaces directly onto the skin of the user.
16 Aug 16
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Photographer documents the struggles of Jatra’s former actors
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Art & Photography
Soumya Sankar Bose photographs the folk-theatre actors who have left the stage behind to make a living.
15 Aug 16
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