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Surplus food truck

Design News > Food Design / Design Thinking

The Lucky Mi Fortune Cooking project is a mobile truck that collects food nearing their supermarket sell-by date and uses it in culinary experiments. >

16 Nov 11
Food fight: Laetitia Wolff

Design News > Food Design / Design Thinking

Laetitia Wolff believes that technology, synthetic food and GM should not be written off. >

15 Nov 11
Food fight: Vince Frost

Design News > Food Design / Graphic Design & Illustration

If we all just ate the amount we were meant to at meals, there will be less waste, admonishes Vince Frost. >

15 Nov 11
Quazi Design

Quazi Design is a progressive craft company from Swaziland that transforms waste magazines into original accessories and interiors. >

17 Sep 11
Well dressed

Design News > Product Design

Canadian duo, the Brothers Dressler, repurpose used materials and respectfully transform renewable resources into original furniture. >

19 Jul 11
Future visions

Design News > Design Thinking / Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking / Urban & Landscape Design

The Festarch festival explores visions of a future city that prioristises civil engagement, shared spaces and an open society. >

3 Jun 11
Diederick Schneemann at Milan2011

Video Interviews > Product Design / Craft / Design Thinking

Diederick Schneemann talks about the significance of well designed and crafted objects, working with the Unique-Eco initiative in Kenya. >

19 May 11
Campana Brothers at Milan2011

Video Interviews > Product Design / Design Thinking

For the Campana Brothers design is about creating and proposing dreams, like they did in ostrich leather with the Klein Karoo company. >

19 May 11
Toys from trash

Design News > Craft / Design Thinking

A US soldier in Afghanistan is using creativity and recycled materials to bring joy to the children in this war-torn area. >

2 Mar 11
Far from China

Design News > Product Design

Not Made in China is designer Guillem Ferran's critique on the modern trend of production decentralisation. >

29 Dec 10
Heath Nash on sustainability within design

Talks > Design Thinking / Product Design

Plastic waste + hands + geometry = beautiful objects + employment, a system that Heath Nash has refined using other people's rubbish. >

25 Nov 10
Second time around

Design News > Product Design / Design Thinking

The Waste Not Want It campaign might be the most effective way of (really) greening your office. >

3 Aug 10
Europe's trashiest hotel

Design News > Design Thinking / Design Thinking

The Save Beach Hotel was the perfect place for asylum seekers from a world of consumption. >

18 Jun 10
New made rubbish

Design News > Design Thinking / Product Design

Design Indaba Expo 2010: Over the past year Heath Nash has been focusing on using plastic waste in new ways. >

1 Feb 10
Countertop farming

Design News > Product Design / Design Thinking

Domesticated farming options to try in your kitchen. >

2 Oct 09
Our products manifesto

Design News > Craft / Design Thinking

KEAG's Ilithalomsa project evolves the litter that gets washed up on our beaches into desirable sculptures and homeware products. >

1 Aug 06
My lights manifesto

Profiling > Design Thinking / Product Design

Named as the 2006 Elle Decoration South Africa Designer of the Year, Heath Nash excels at making treasures from trash. >

1 Aug 06

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