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George Gibbens is using design to tackle South Africa's social problems

Design News > Design Thinking / Industrial Design / Interaction Design / Product Design

The industrial designer has designed a VR device to help the visually impaired, a portable machine to fight shack fires and more. >

26 Apr 18
$Taiwanese designers and students from Tunghai University, Yu-Chi Wang and Yu Man's bone fracture fixation board - BoneAid$

Taiwanese students design foldable bone-fracture boards for disaster relief

Design News > Design Thinking / Product Design

Unlike traditional bone rehabilitation boards, BoneAid can be applied to multiple body parts with different folding methods. >

26 Apr 18
Robotic traffic officers direct cars on Kinshasa’s roads

Design Frontiers > African Design / Design Thinking / Industrial Design

Solar-powered robotic traffic cops have been “hired” to regulate the disorderly traffic in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. >

18 Apr 18
Scientists are working on a pill that mimics the effects of exercise

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

Scientists are a step closer to developing exercise in a pill to help the chronically lazy, elderly, and those medically unable to exercise. >

13 Apr 18
Six creative crowdfunding projects worth supporting this April

Take Five > Design Thinking / Industrial Design / Product Design

From a wordless graphic novel to a project to turn an olive farm into a retreat for creatives and even a project turning plastic into homeware. >

12 Apr 18
Salooni creates a judgement-free space at festivals to discuss black hair

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography / Design Thinking / Film & Animation

"We want women who leave the Salooni to feel beautiful and to feel celebrated." >

10 Apr 18
This architect is helping to rebuild health facilities in disaster-hit areas

Design News > Design Activism / Design Thinking

Partners In Health offer high-tech facilities where there would otherwise be very little care options in places like Haiti and Liberia. >

6 Apr 18
This designer uses bacteria to make colourful silk scarves

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Industrial Design

Are microorganisms even more useful than we previously thought? >

5 Apr 18
Meet the world's first drone costume designer

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Industrial Design / Product Design

Before industrial designer, Léa Pereyre, started working at Verity Studios the job description of "drone costume designer" did not exist. >

4 Apr 18
Scientists design liquid barrier to protect coral reefs from UV damage

Design Frontiers > Design Activism / Design Thinking

As the world’s temperatures rise, a threat to marine life is mounting in the form of sun bleaching. These researchers may have the solution. >

4 Apr 18
This Polish designer created a book that puts you in the shoes of someone with dementia

Next Generation > Art & Photography / Creative Economy / Design Activism / Design Thinking

The Polish photographer and communication designer turned her frustration into art. >

31 Mar 18
On the future of food, fashion and eating our environmental problems away

Next Generation > Craft / Design Activism / Design Thinking / Food Design / Product Design

The world is changing rapidly, this means our fashion and food choices need to keep up. >

30 Mar 18
This design duo is exploring ‘stardust’ as an alternative raw matter

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

As Above, So Below uses micrometeorites to communicate an important message. >

26 Mar 18
On creating unique ceramics out of sand collected from all over the world

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

Lonny van Ryswyck talks about using sand from the depleted Theewaterskloof Dam to make the Design Indaba 2018 speakers gift, her process and more. >

26 Mar 18
The Calmingstone counters panic attacks and stress

Product Spotlight > Design Thinking / Product Design

This hand-held design emits soothing signals that target anxiety, bringing you back to a state of zen. >

21 Mar 18
A wound-healing gel inspired by slugs

Design News > Design Thinking

Where sutures and stitches fail, doctors are turning to the restorative slime of gastropods. >

20 Mar 18
These contact lenses deliver medicine straight to your eye

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

The lenses can deliver drugs to the back of the eye to treat macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, retinal vein occlusion, and other diseases. >

20 Mar 18
On transforming diarrhoea treatment in Zambia with a simple solution

Design News > Design Activism / Design Thinking / Product Design

The award-winning innovator, Simon Berry says he hopes in the next ten years there won’t be a need for ColaLife to exist. >

19 Mar 18
LEGO is rolling out its first plant-based plastic blocks

Design News > Design Thinking

The popular toy brand is making vast strides towards a more sustainable future. >

19 Mar 18
Tatsuya Honda's hairpin enables you to feel sounds

Next Generation > Design Thinking / Product Design

This graduate of the Future University Hakode has designed a more intuitive aid for hearing impaired users that translates sound to vibration. >

13 Mar 18
27 young South African creatives to watch

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography / Design Thinking / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Film & Animation / Food Design / Graphic Design & Illustration / Music & Sound Design / Product Design

Part of our Emerging Creatives 2018, these are just some of the young designers you should have on your radar for South African talent. >

12 Mar 18
An industrial design graduate has created an Emotional First Aid Kit

Design News > Design Thinking / Product Design

Rui Sun tackles the question, “Why do so many products ease physical pain and so few treat emotional stress?” >

12 Mar 18
Thomas Heatherwick on why the Zeitz MOCAA is unlike any other museum

Video Interviews > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking

“Some of the most incredible work is done on this continent and it felt bonkers that many of those artists have to relocate to other parts of the world” >

9 Mar 18
Nike designs shoebox made out of recycled milk containers and coffee lids

Design News > Design Thinking / Product Design

The sportswear giant teamed up with Taiwanese architect and engineer Arthur Huang to create multi-functional shoe boxes. >

9 Mar 18

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