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How an artist is helping rebuild Haiti
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Design Activism
The Konbit Shelter is a sustainable building project in Haiti
23 Dec 16
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Smokeless cooking in Kenya
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Design Activism
Fighting lower respiratory infection with innovative design.
23 Dec 16
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Things we learnt in 2016
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Design Thinking
We share a few of the interesting, incredible and sometimes unbelievable things we learnt on Design Indaba this year.
23 Dec 16
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Minerae: Another way to touch light
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Interaction Design
This conceptual designer thinks of ways to make new connections between us and our environment.
23 Dec 16
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Gemma O'Brien: The art of lettering
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Letter artist Gemma O'Brien talks about the appeal of the handmade and the way that the shape of words can capture the character of a place.
22 Dec 16
02:37
Beginning of Life
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Music & Sound Design
Take a look at the live production that depicted the earliest years of life on Earth.
22 Dec 16
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Spying on a thief in this fascinating documentary
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Film & Animation
Film student Anthony van der Meer made a documentary tracking his stolen phone and the thief who stole it
21 Dec 16
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Sailing the Seine on a ferry powered by human energy
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Industrial Design
The latest eco-design from Carlo Ratti Associati takes human efficiency to the next level.
21 Dec 16
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Anti-Human: An avant-garde photo series from the Kolor Art Collective
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Art & Photography
Rio de Janeiro’s Kolor Art Collective present their latest photo series highlighting animal abuse
20 Dec 16
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Cleaning up outer space with Kounotori’s electrified tether
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Industrial Design
Scientists are testing ways to clear up the new problem of space pollution.
20 Dec 16
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What does flatpack furniture have to do with love?
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Product Design
Assisted intimacy: How to build flat-pack furniture and bond with your loved ones.
20 Dec 16
00:00:09
Kate Moross: How to make mess look good
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Graphic Design & Illustration
London-based art director Kate Moross and her studio create explosive work, often for music artists or events with a certain chaotic (messy) energy.
19 Dec 16
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How do you photograph a phobia?
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Art & Photography
This VSCO commissioned series looks at rare phobias that disturb the mind.
19 Dec 16
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Alive by Juno Jeon
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Product Design
The Netherlands-based designer enlivens his furniture pieces through movement
19 Dec 16
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Teepee-like complex serves as a haven for Japan's elderly
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Architecture & Interiors
Issei Suma's whimsical structures provide a calming environment for the retired.
16 Dec 16
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South African jewellery designer Stacy Beukes on the value of community
Profiling
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
We talk to the South African jewellery designer behind the brand A Ring To It.
16 Dec 16
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Stepping up solar efforts
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Design Activism
This sidewalk converts steps into power.
16 Dec 16
02:20
The Torturous History of the Treadmill
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Film & Animation
One of the world’s most common exercise machines has quite a draconian past.
16 Dec 16
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Dakar's Creatives: A photo series that captures the city's movers and shakers
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Art & Photography
In this photographic series by Jean Baptiste Joire we see Dakar's young creative agents in places in the city that inspire them.
15 Dec 16
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An interview with Ulfah Davids – the First Lady of Twobop
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
In conversation with the designer behind the brand’s very first women’s collection.
15 Dec 16
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5 sustainable fashion brands
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
We highlight five brands making clothes ethically
15 Dec 16
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'Lost In The World' sheds light on South Africa’s corrective rape problem
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Film & Animation
The short film is a landmark in the advent of queer, African cinema.
15 Dec 16
00:53
Constructive Interference in the mind
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Design Thinking
This sculpture demonstrates the ease with which our minds are mystified by optical illusions.
15 Dec 16
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Ibaaku: Creating unique African beats
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Music & Sound Design
While in Dakar, we talked to Senegalese music producer Ibaaku about his hypnotic afro-beats.
14 Dec 16
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