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New material detects explosives at airports

Design Frontiers > Product Design

Scientists have created a material that lights up in the presence of explosives.

23 Feb 16
00:01:05

Hilary Cottam: Social problems can be solved by using new digital solutions

Video Interviews > Design Activism

Social designer and Design Indaba Conference speaker Hillary Cottam posits that digital tools are the key to innovative solutions to modern social problems.

22 Feb 16
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Prepd Pack reimagines the lunchbox

Design News > Product Design

Modular lunchbox and app system, Prepd Pack is a convenient and healthy way to plan lunch.

22 Feb 16
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Nendo’s distinctive chocolates are a journey into shape, taste and texture

Design News > Food Design

Nendo, the Japanese design firm, took on something that a number of people consider perfect in its design: chocolate.

22 Feb 16
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New affordable houses in Paris leech onto existing buildings

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Stephane Malka Architects’ modular city home will sell at 40 per cent below the market price.

22 Feb 16
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The Playtime in Africa initiative is a public space for Ghana’s children

Design News > Design Thinking

Mmofra Place will nurture growth, creativity, and expression in a public space designed for children.

22 Feb 16
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Day three of Design Indaba 2016 – and that's a wrap!

Design News > Music & Sound Design

A celebration of language in eight words, four bright young designers and five songs from the wonderful Imogen Heap. And more!

19 Feb 16
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Naresh Ramchandani’s eight all-time favourite words

Design News > Creative Economy

“Eight Words” is Naresh Ramchandani’s ode to the words he likes best in the English language.

19 Feb 16
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This designer is experimenting with emotions

Next Generation > Film & Animation

Israeli-born multidisciplinary artist Naama Schendar is exploring individuality and indentity through experiments with trauma and empathy.

19 Feb 16
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Beercycling transforms urine into beer

Design News > Design Activism

Northern Europe’s largest festival turns festivalgoers’ urine into fertiliser for barley crops

19 Feb 16
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Tiger Maremela uses digital collage to examine black masculinities in the “Rainbow Nation”

Design News > Design Activism

Joburg-based Tiger Maremela uses popular South African consumer products in their digital art to examine capitalism, modernisation and black masculinities.

19 Feb 16
00:03:41

Design Without Borders: Introducing user-centred design to Uganda

Video Interviews > African Design

Design Without Borders facilitates projects in Uganda using user-centred design.

19 Feb 16/ Brand Collaboration
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Day two of Design Indaba Conference 2016

Design News > Design Thinking

The second day of Conference 2016 took us from architecture in Japan to a kitchen in Spain ended with a heavy hit of Swedish rock.

18 Feb 16
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Twins Cartoon release a comic in English

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Twins Cartoon release their comic magazine Garage in English for the first time at Design Indaba Conference.

18 Feb 16
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Redesigning a product that helps you do good

Design News > Product Design

Award-winning designer Benjamin Hubert teamed up with Acts of Random Kindness to design a new ARK.

18 Feb 16
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The designer works as the creative catalyst, says Fred Gelli

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Focused on sustainable design, Fred Gelli believes we’ll need to redesign the way we live.

18 Feb 16
00:06:30

Francois Knoetze's mythical trash creatures reveal our terrible treatment of waste

Next Generation > Art & Photography

The five mythical Cape Mongo characters are each made of discarded waste from the city of Cape Town.

18 Feb 16
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Basia Dżaman’s carbon fibre 3D printer of the future

Design News > Product Design

Polish student Basia Dżaman modified a robotic arm using specially designed, 3D printed tools.

18 Feb 16
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Ugandan motor company unveils Africa's first solar bus

Design Frontiers > Industrial Design

Uganda-based Kiira Motors revealed the first solar-powered bus in Africa – the Kayoola prototype bus.

18 Feb 16
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Day one of Design Indaba Conference 2016

Design News > Design Thinking

Day one of Design Indaba Conference 2016 brought audiences stories of courage, collaboration, confetti and cocks.

17 Feb 16
00:03:46

Michael Wolff: The story of four rooms

Design News > Design Thinking

Design consultant Michael Wolff encourages young designers to trust in their ability to create something new.

17 Feb 16
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Thomas Chapman has built a screen to memorialise the forcibly removed residents of Sophiatown

African Report > Architecture & Interiors

Thomas Chapman, in collaboration with Nedbank and Design Indaba, unveiled a remembrance screen for the displaced residents of Sophiatown.

17 Feb 16
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Christophe Guberan’s living textiles self-adapt, move, and transform

Design News > Product Design

Global graduate Christophe Guberan creates products that challenge the limits of matter.

17 Feb 16
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Rich Mnisi on his latest collection and what informs his design process

Q&A > Fashion & Jewellery Design

We talk to fresh-faced South African fashion designer, Rich Mnisi about his bold new menswear pieces.

17 Feb 16

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