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Play Mat connects parents to autistic kids

Design News > Product Design

The Electronic Play Mat is designed to promote interactive play between autistic children and their parents or caregivers to build communication.

2 Oct 18
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International Coffee Day: Imagine cities powered by coffee waste

Design News > Product Design

Bio-bean is an award-winning clean technology company that recycles waste coffee grounds into advanced biofuels that could replace fossil fuels in cities.

1 Oct 18
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These graduates want to change the world in ways we never thought possible

Next Generation > Design Thinking

Antenna 2018 is here! Meet the first five speakers for the global design platform.

28 Sep 18
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Five past Design Indaba speakers on how they perceive product design

Design News > Product Design

Watch Design Indaba Alumni give their take on what it means to make quality functional products.

27 Sep 18
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Eric Quint on 3M's design-centered mission

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

“We are part of an ecosystem, uniting purpose with partnership, that creates meaningful innovations.”

27 Sep 18
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Award-winning artist and designer Es Devlin designed the UK Pavilion for Expo 2020 Dubai

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

The stage design pioneer to stars like Kanye West & Adele is about to design her first building.

27 Sep 18
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Meet the three nominees for the Future Food Design Awards

Design Frontiers > Food Design

They were selected out of 50 entries from 30 different countries.

26 Sep 18
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The Human Utility: How a Twitter discussion started a movement

Design News > Interaction Design

What started out as a Twitter discussion soon became a way to address the water affordability and access issue in the United States.

26 Sep 18
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On the first national memorial to victims of lynching in the US

Design News > Art & Photography

Designed by MASS Design Group, who have offices in Boston and in Kigali, the memorial relies on sculpture, art, and design to contextualise racial terror.

26 Sep 18
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The Slave Calendar retells the story of South Africa’s slave trade

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

This award-winning campaign highlights the overlooked descendants of South Africa’s slave trade.

26 Sep 18
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A delicate dance of history and modernity in Sudan

African Report > Architecture & Interiors

Our second report on Cairo-based architecture firm ARCHiNOS looks at the firm’s work on conserving Sudan's ancient treasures.

25 Sep 18
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AGI Open México City speakers contemplate design on 'the other side'

Design Frontiers > Graphic Design & Illustration

Alejandro Paul, Alejandro Magallanes, Flávia Nalon and Fábio Prata on how they will broach the topic in their talks this week.

25 Sep 18
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This Guinea Bissau artist uses his art to draw attention to social injustice

Design Frontiers > Art & Photography

"Design should be used as a tool to improve lives and harmonise situations,” says artist Nu Barreto.

24 Sep 18
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Damon Davis explores Ghana's slave past and its impact on black America

Design News > Film & Animation

“...the world tells us that our identity doesn’t matter and our story doesn’t matter and our lives don’t matter.”

24 Sep 18
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Indian graphic design studios reviving their heritage

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

We look at a few artists who represent their Indian Heritage through their designs.

20 Sep 18
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A' Design Awards & Competition is calling for submissions

Design Frontiers > Product Design

The awards aim to highlight, advertise and advocate good design, designers and design-oriented companies.

20 Sep 18
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Harnessing the power of urine

Design Frontiers > Product Design

Researchers designed a cheaper, more efficient way to generate power from organic waste.

20 Sep 18
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Threads of Peru shines a spotlight on traditional Quechua weaving culture

Design News > Creative Economy

The non-profit organisation economically empowers skilled women artisans from Peru.

19 Sep 18
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Cultivating mini farms aboard cargo ships

Next Generation > Design Thinking

This student-designed collapsible farm could help utilise the massive amounts of wasted space created by shipping containers.

19 Sep 18
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Indelibl wants to make art by Africans more accessible

Design Frontiers > Art & Photography

Both online and offline, the platform is committed to taking art beyond the gallery space.

17 Sep 18
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Five examples of great design from Singapore

Focus On > Product Design

Proof that a small island can produce big creativity.

17 Sep 18
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Acknowledging Ghana's slave trade history with sculptor Kwame Akoto-Bamfo

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

“As a Ghanaian who is interested and inspired by Ghanaian and African culture, I'm a living witness to the knowledge that is being lost to time.”

14 Sep 18
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How two researchers hacked software to create a functional AI for their diabetic son

Design News > Design Activism

"Not one of those companies allowed me to directly access the data that was literally coming out of my son’s body. So I hacked it."

12 Sep 18
00:02:48

Fernando Laposse's Totomoxtle shortlisted for the 2018 Beazley Designs of the Year

Video Interviews > Creative Economy

"The world market has forced the price of corn to reduce drastically. This has made traditional methods of harvesting corn not economically viable anymore."

12 Sep 18

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