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Plug into solar power in your home
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Product Design
This plug enables you to use solar power in your home without installing your own solar panels.
6 Aug 15
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African Cityzens: A five-year photographic narrative of Africa’s 54 countries
African Report
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Art & Photography
Two photographers are on a journey to capture the most hidden and routine moments of everyday African life
6 Aug 15
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Ejector bed literally launches you out of dreamland
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Product Design
YouTube star and engineer Colin Furze has built a bedframe that rockets you out of bed before you get a chance to hit the snooze button.
6 Aug 15
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South African youth culture according to Thulisizwe Mamba
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Thulisizwe Mamba, the swank Durban-based illustrator, gives us a preview of the illustrations to expect from his self-published web zine, “Co. Issue.”.
6 Aug 15
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Khosi Mpungose: The illustrated African traveller
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Multimedia designer and illustrator Khosi Mpungose created her book "Thandi’s Trippy Trips" for young, hungry minds.
6 Aug 15
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Illustrator sketches the ghosts of projects yet to come
Design News
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Artist and illustrator Marta Menacho creates delicate watercolour and ink drawings of imagined works by anonymous artist group Luzinteruptus.
5 Aug 15
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Robert Brunner tells us what goes into designing a great product
Inside View
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Industrial Design
Robert Brunner, former Apple industrial design director and founder of design studio Ammunition, offers some insight into what he does best.
5 Aug 15
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Eco-friendly food carts on the move in the US
Design News
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Product Design
MOVE Systems have designed a food cart that aims to cut harmful emissions by 95 per cent, and they'll be populating the streets of New York soon.
5 Aug 15
00:02:53
Catherine Ash: Self-taught in the art of ceramics
Video Interviews
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Craft
Catherine Ash, the young ceramist working behind Ash Ceramics, brings her training as a sculptor into the delicate art of ceramics.
5 Aug 15
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This wearable uses your skin to enhance your body awareness
Next Generation
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Interaction Design
Flair is a wearable that uses the sensors in your skin to enhance your perception of your body and the world around you.
5 Aug 15
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Mumbai's iconic cabs used to showcase emerging designers
Design News
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Young designers are using Mumbai's taxis to take art to the people with the Taxi Fabric project.
5 Aug 15
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Activists and creatives in Angola call for the release of political prisoners
Design News
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Design Activism
Angolan artists, journalists, musicians and activists launch a video campaign that calls for the release of political prisoners in Luanda.
4 Aug 15
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Le Dessien empowers women through educated fashion
Design News
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Socially minded fashion label Le Dessien raises money to help underprivileged girls pay for an education.
4 Aug 15
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Create 3D photographs with your smartphone or tablet using Bevel
Design News
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Product Design
Bevel is the first accessory capable of turning a smartphone or tablet into a 3D camera.
4 Aug 15
00:01:30
Trailer: Sindiso Khumalo on the love affair with her ancestry through her textiles
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
The fashion designer draws from her Zulu inheritance in the design of her contemporary fashion collections.
4 Aug 15
00:11:19
Sindiso Khumalo on the love affair with her ancestry in her textiles
Talks
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
The fashion designer draws from her Zulu inheritance in the design of her contemporary fashion collections.
4 Aug 15
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"Garage" is a new comic magazine from a collective of Arabic artists
Design News
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Egyptian twin-artists Haitham and Mohamed Raafat El-seht are releasing a comic magazine created by an Arabic-comics' collective.
4 Aug 15
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MOM is designed to save “the lost generation” of refugees
Design Frontiers
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Product Design
A British student has designed an inflatable incubator specifically to save the lives of premature babies born in refugee camps.
4 Aug 15
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MBFWCT 2015: The future of SA fashion is looking bright
Next Generation
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Cape Town (MBFWCT) raised the local fashion pulse and showed the world what to expect next from South Africa.
3 Aug 15
00:02:18
Kiara Gounder: 3D printed fashion
Video Interviews
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Fashion designer Kiara Gounder integrates advanced 3D printing technology and natural shapes into her designs.
3 Aug 15
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The twig chair: Nendo’s most recent design
Product Spotlight
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Product Design
Japanese studio Nendo creates a minimalist seat with a changeable backrest for designer furniture brand Alias.
3 Aug 15
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Meet Dot, the braille smart watch for the visually impaired
Design News
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Product Design
Created by a South Korean start-up Dot, this Braille smart watch could help unlock the digital world for visually impaired people.
3 Aug 15
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Turn air into water as you ride your bike
Design Frontiers
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Product Design
A Viennese industrial designer has created a solar-powered device that collects up to 500ml of condensation per hour as you ride your bike.
3 Aug 15
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The BillBed means a good night's sleep for Pakistan's homeless
Design News
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Creative Economy
The award-winning MoltyFoam campaign turns a billboard into a bed for those sleeping on the streets.
3 Aug 15
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