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Morag Myerscough's design converted at Cape Town primary school to inspire kids
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Urban & Landscape Design
This project extends the life of ‘Embrace the Unknown’, the structure that was erected at Design Indaba Festival 2018.
23 Mar 18
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Could wastewater biorefinery help in the Cape Town water crisis?
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Design Activism
As we observe World Water Day, Cape Town's management of a severe drought is an example of what's to come.
22 Mar 18
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Blinky Bill on why he does not want to be restricted to a particular music genre
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Music & Sound Design
“I want to make genreless sound – but if you absolutely have to place it, it is a mix of hip-hop, afrobeat and jazz.”
22 Mar 18
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Hayoung Kim’s lamps draw inspiration from handheld fans
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Product Design
As a user moves them, much in the same way one would fold and unfold a handheld fan, the light dims.
22 Mar 18
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Could these be the fast food favourites of the future?
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Food Design
Food lab Space10 reinvents 5 classic dishes using alternative, sustainable ingredients.
22 Mar 18
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Cape Town entrepreneur is designing a new language around menstruation
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Product Design
Entrepreneur Zizipho Ntobongwana challenges everything from the packaging to ads to sustainability.
22 Mar 18
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The Calmingstone counters panic attacks and stress
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Product Design
This hand-held design emits soothing signals that target anxiety, bringing you back to a state of zen.
21 Mar 18
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14 graphic designers to watch
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Graphic Design & Illustration
These up and coming visual artist showed us a sneak peak into the future of graphic design in South Africa.
21 Mar 18
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Mozambican photographer Mario Macilau on documenting the lives of society's most vulnerable
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Film & Animation
"My work is also a personal documentary. I prefer long-term projects that require commitment and trust."
20 Mar 18
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A wound-healing gel inspired by slugs
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Design Thinking
Where sutures and stitches fail, doctors are turning to the restorative slime of gastropods.
20 Mar 18
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Stone Wool is an eco-friendly way to control the temperature in our homes
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Architecture & Interiors
Engineers have identified this material as a better way to build and protect our homes and spaces.
20 Mar 18
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These contact lenses deliver medicine straight to your eye
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Product Design
The lenses can deliver drugs to the back of the eye to treat macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, retinal vein occlusion, and other diseases.
20 Mar 18
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Swedish clinic designed with the country's refugee population in mind
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Architecture & Interiors
Rejecting the traditional strict clean lines typical of medical centers, the design team explored the concept of a bright facade with an unusual 3D effect.
19 Mar 18
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Journalists are fighting censorship using streaming sites like Spotify and Deezer
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Information Design
The Uncensored Playlist uses a streaming loophole to get censored news to the public in repressed countries.
19 Mar 18
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On transforming diarrhoea treatment in Zambia with a simple solution
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Product Design
The award-winning innovator, Simon Berry says he hopes in the next ten years there won’t be a need for ColaLife to exist.
19 Mar 18
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LEGO is rolling out its first plant-based plastic blocks
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Design Thinking
The popular toy brand is making vast strides towards a more sustainable future.
19 Mar 18
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What if you could 3D print your own home in a matter of hours?
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Industrial Design
The ICON project’s Vulcan printer creates concrete homes in record time.
19 Mar 18
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Nüshu is an ancient secret language developed by women
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Design Activism
These women would embroid their Nüshu scripts on fabrics such as quilts, aprons, and handkerchiefs.
16 Mar 18
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Young scientist develops possible solution for shack fires
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Product Design
Gabriella Mogale’s innovation won gold at the 2017 Eskom Expo for Young Scientists.
16 Mar 18
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Dina Amin on stop animation, upcycling in Cairo and her inspiration
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Product Design
“I kept thinking, questioning whether we actually need all the things that we produce..."
16 Mar 18
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IBUKU is pioneering the use of bamboo as a sustainable building material
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Urban & Landscape Design
“Bamboo buildings are like a living organism, every bamboo pole represents the ‘DNA’ of the building."
16 Mar 18
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Meet the future of South African fashion
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
These are the young creatives in the fashion industry who formed part of our Emerging Creatives programme for 2018.
16 Mar 18
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Experimental food design studio introduces 3D-printed sushi
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Food Design
Open Meals imagines a future of generating, combining and printing food from anywhere in the world.
16 Mar 18
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Graduates in Chile transform abandoned urban lots into community spaces
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Urban & Landscape Design
Sitio Eriazo, a collective of theatre, architecture and art graduates are on a mission to restore beauty to these spaces.
15 Mar 18
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Mumbai-based architectural and design firm Community Design Agency is working together with community members to revitalise the Sanjaynagar slum
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