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Benjamin Hubert: Design with meaning
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Product Design
Industrial designer Benjamin Hubert talks about how designers have a responsibility to solve the right kind of problems.
2 Jun 16
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Free Wi-Fi in exchange for keeping the air clean
Design News
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Product Design
Amsterdam-based startup TreeWiFi designs birdhouses that offer free internet when the air quality improves.
2 Jun 16
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Soofa: NYC’s solar-powered benches
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Urban & Landscape Design
The Soofa group is spreading technology with their solar-powered benches.
2 Jun 16
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Photo Series: Documenting “The Other Africa”
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Art & Photography
Social documentary photographer Lou Jones has spent the last few years documenting the new Africa, “The Other Africa.”
2 Jun 16
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BooToo: locally designed educational toys
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Product Design
South African entrepreneur Daniel Jillings, creates aesthetically pleasing children’s toys.
2 Jun 16
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How to use consumerism to raise awareness for climate change
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
London-based design studio Something & Son ran a pop-up shop selling elegant jewellery made of coal to question mindless consumption at the cost of the earth.
1 Jun 16
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Graphite: a modular honeycomb-shaped shelving system
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Product Design
A storage system designed to be sturdy and fully customisable.
1 Jun 16
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Social enterprise designs Kenyan running shoe
Design News
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Product Design
Enda is a running shoe inspired by Kenya’s legacy of running champions
1 Jun 16
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Welcome Shelter: Charlie Redman’s kinetic dining experience
Next Generation
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Product Design
Architecture student Charlie Redman designed an outdoor structure that functions in any weather.
1 Jun 16
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Someone Somewhere is about empowerment through fashion
Design News
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Someone Somewhere combines traditional handcrafts with contemporary products to empower Mexican artisans.
1 Jun 16
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Ingestible origami robot can patch a wound from the inside
Design Frontiers
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Product Design
Researchers have developed a tiny magnetically controlled robot with dozens of healthcare applications.
31 May 16
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L CARD: A lung cancer “breathalyzer”
Design Frontiers
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Product Design
The tiny device can detect whether or not a patient has lung cancer.
31 May 16
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Spyce: healthy meals with the speed and ease of fast food
Design Frontiers
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Product Design
Designed by students, the machine makes a healthy meal as quick and easy as fast food.
31 May 16
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Photographer presents a bird’s-eye view of inequality in Cape Town
Design News
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Design Activism
Johnny Miller’s photographic series shows that Apartheid spatial planning is still present in South Africa’s Mother City.
31 May 16
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Photographer Martha Tadesse captures her Ethiopian truth
Design News
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Art & Photography
Ethiopian photographer Martha Tadesse hopes to share images of her travels through Addis Ababa with the world.
30 May 16
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Cheap, effective, mosquito killing soap
Design Frontiers
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Design Thinking
Two African innovators have created a cheap soap to combat Malaria in the developing world.
30 May 16
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Luzinterruptus illuminates social issues using light and photography
Design News
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Interaction Design
The anonymous collective Luzinterruptus is creating illuminating installations with light.
30 May 16
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Margrethe Odgaard’s work is full of colour, creativity and compassion
Design News
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Margrethe Odgaard is celebrated for her contributions to Nordic art and design.
30 May 16
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Innovative filter destroys pollutants in the air
Design News
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Product Design
The Molekule air filter uses nano-technology and light to destroy air pollutants at a molecular level.
30 May 16
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Robotic arms and a bit of lycra can change the way concrete is used in design
Design News
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Industrial Design
Designers develop a method of fabric-casting concrete into dynamic architectural forms
30 May 16
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Nigerian photographer's romantic visions of Lagos
Design News
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Art & Photography
Photographer re-envisions his hometown using light and photographic installations.
27 May 16
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China's futuristic bus allows cars to pass underneath its carriages
Design News
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Urban & Landscape Design
The Transit Explore Bus was designed to tackle extreme traffic congestion and pollution in China.
27 May 16
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Gamer gets a high-tech bionic limb
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Product Design
Packed with gadgets, James Young’s robotic prosthesis also houses a drone.
27 May 16
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ReGen Village: an under-construction utopia of sustainable living
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Design Activism
Self-sustaining, off-grid village to be built in the Netherlands offers a look at the future of eco-friendly living.
27 May 16
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In honour of Human Rights Day on 21 March, we take a look at human-centred innovations from South Africa.
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Sumayya Vally is shaping and shifting architectural discourses for the future.
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Something fishy
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13 Mar 23
This floating pavilion, which resembles a fish eye, is dedicated to sustainable fishing.
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Full of beans
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Anish Kapoor’s latest sculpture lies ‘squashed’ under a high-rise building.
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