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Smart earpiece translates languages in real-time

Design Frontiers > Product Design

Pilot is an earpiece that translates conversations as they happen.

27 May 16
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Ousmane Mbaye turns discarded metals into sculptural furniture

Design News > Craft

Digging through the landfills of Dakar, Ousmane Mbaye sees design materials where others see trash.

26 May 16
00:02:50

Pia Nyakairu: Designing a device to improve remote care for cancer patients

Video Interviews > Interaction Design

Ugandan-born industrial design graduate Pia Nyakairu has designed a device that helps physiotherapists and doctors offer distance care to cancer patients.

26 May 16
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Flood House explores a new typology of responsive architecture

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Matthew Butcher’s Flood House looks at how future dwellings should be adapted to co-exist with their native environments.

26 May 16
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Tshepo Sedumo’s handmade portable boomboxes

Product Spotlight > Music & Sound Design

The Johannesburg-based startup Grove Audio creates custom designed wooden boomboxes.

26 May 16
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DoruNsimba: a design collaboration reintroducing Africa to the world

Design Frontiers > Fashion & Jewellery Design

A collaboration of two African-born creatives hopes to change perceptions of the African continent through their work.

26 May 16
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Kristin-Lee Moolman’s subversive photography challenges gender and the African aesthetic

Design News > Art & Photography

South African photographer Kristin-Lee Moolman creates a separate reality through her work.

26 May 16
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School on Wheels brings education to impoverished children

Design News > Design Activism

A bus remodelled to become a mobile classroom for children with no access to school facilities in Mumbai.

25 May 16
00:04:18

Studio [D] Tale: Design for social impact in emerging economies

Video Interviews > Architecture & Interiors

We talk to cross-continental architecture and design studio Studio [D] Tale about innovation in the everyday, especially in emerging economies.

25 May 16
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Green light: An artistic workshop on the refugee crisis in Europe

Design News > Product Design

The project helps refugees escaping persecution and war find acceptance and community.

25 May 16
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Cigarette butt bricks burn away pollution

Design News > Product Design

Researchers have found a way to cut down global littering by incorporating cigarette butts into 2.5 per cent of the world's annual brick production.

25 May 16
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WarOnWall: an exhibition on the state of Syria

Design News > Design Activism

The photographic collection will be displayed on the last remnants of the Berlin Wall.

25 May 16
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Musana Carts: providing clean energy to Kampala’s micro-businesses

Design News > Design Activism

A US-based company empowers Kampala’s street vendors through their solar powered micro-business cart.

25 May 16
00:04:09

Christian Benimana: Architects don’t have to be local to think local

Video Interviews > Architecture & Interiors

Rwandan architect Christian Benimana believes that the built environment should catalyse positive systemic change.

24 May 16
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Vegan leather inspires new sneaker collection

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

A leather made from pineapple leaves inspires Parisian fashion brand’s new shoe line

24 May 16
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Street art and energy inform Kronk’s Zakifo redesign

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

The Zakifo Musik Festival comes to Durban, South Africa with a look inspired by culture, street art and energy.

24 May 16
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AbsorbPlate cuts calories by reducing grease on your plate

Product Spotlight > Product Design

The dinner plate’s design has perforations in its surface to trap excess grease.

24 May 16
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Affordable water filter inspired by puff pastry

Design Frontiers > Product Design

A simple layered paper, inspired by French puff pastry, could improve the quality of life for millions of people by removing resistant viruses from water.

24 May 16
00:21:57

Studio [D] Tale on design activism and innovation within existing systems

Talks > Urban & Landscape Design

Social impact designers Studio [D] Tale talk about innovating within informal economies and interventions in existing, sometimes backward, systems.

23 May 16
00:04:19

Twins Cartoon: Comics in Egypt will keep evolving

Video Interviews > Graphic Design & Illustration

Identical twin brothers Mohamed and Haitham El-seht draw inspiration from the characters found in the streets of Egypt.

23 May 16
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Tea shirts: clothing made from tea

Design News > Product Design

A tea by-product could be a more sustainable material for clothing manufacture.

23 May 16
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BaseLantern: a new project by BioLite

Product Spotlight > Product Design

The BaseLantern portable lantern is designed for off-grid usage.

23 May 16
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Cliff face shelter designed to provide safe passage for refugees

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Slice Refugee Hospitality Centre proposes an architectural solution to welcoming and hosting migrants that cross seas to seek asylum.

23 May 16
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Edible six-pack rings could save marine life

Design Frontiers > Product Design

Millions of seabirds, marine mammals, and sea turtles die every year from getting trapped in six-pack rings. One brewery has come up with an edible solution.

20 May 16

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