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Tired running shoes turned into slippers for school children
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
GreenSole collects old trainers and transforms them into new shoes for rural kids.
25 Aug 16
2:00
The Street Store: Pop-up charity for the homeless
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Interaction Design
Cape Town’s Street Store uses public spaces to provide clothing for the homeless locally and abroad.
25 Aug 16
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Noma: A temporary place called home
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Film & Animation
Filmmaker Pablo Pinedo Bóveda’s Noma looks at the struggles of a South African slum community.
24 Aug 16
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Phlur: The new fragrance brand with socially conscious appeal
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Product Design
Eric Korman believes the cologne industry should start taking ethical responsibility.
24 Aug 16
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Kosovo’s visually arresting road to the Olympics
Design Frontiers
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Art & Photography
These images capture the Kosovo Olympic team as they prepare to make history.
24 Aug 16
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A bamboo city built for communal living
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Architecture & Interiors
Penda explores the idea of a sustainable urban village made out of bamboo and rope.
24 Aug 16
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Christi du Toit’s ping-pong approach to illustration
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Art & Photography
We spoke to South African illustrator Christi du Toit about honing your craft in a competitive industry.
24 Aug 16
00:38:22
Snask on the power of provocative branding
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Stockholm-based creative agency Snask is known for rockstar-inspired, pink, provocative designs.
23 Aug 16
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The Hangman: transcending expectations of the armed struggle
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Film & Animation
Directed by SA filmmaker Zwelethu Radebe, “The Hangman” tells the story of a black warder faced with an impossible choice.
23 Aug 16
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The Jolt Sensor: detecting concussions in young athletes
Design News
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Product Design
This thumb-sized, wearable sensor is making sport safer.
23 Aug 16
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China opens record-breaking transparent bridge
Design News
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Urban & Landscape Design
The Hunan province is now home to the longest and highest glass-bottomed bridge in the world.
23 Aug 16
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Catch an autonomous flying drone to work
Design Frontiers
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Industrial Design
Airbus shares plans to develop autonomous flying vehicles in response to land-based traffic congestion.
23 Aug 16
1:38
TrackR Bravo: Making lost items a thing of the past
Product Spotlight
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Product Design
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
Design News
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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
Design Frontiers
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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
Design News
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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
Design News
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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
Design News
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Product Design
2016 Emerging Creative Seugnet Herbst challenges ordinary aspects of interior design.
19 Aug 16
5:53
No Man’s Sky: The videogame that conceives galaxies
Design Frontiers
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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
Design News
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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
Design News
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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
Design News
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Product Design
The startup turning air pollution into ink.
18 Aug 16
2:21
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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