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Electronic plants breakthrough could lead to more innovations
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A Swedish research team have created analog and digital electronic systems inside a living rose.
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24 Nov 15
Richard van der Laken: Creating Gorilla and the designer's "do" mentality
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Design Thinking
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The Amsterdam-based graphic designer tells us why designers are wired to be solution-finders and conversation-starters.
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24 Nov 15
Story Pod is a moveable reading nook for the community
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Architecture & Interiors
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Story Pod is a reading nook and book exchange by day and a community lantern by night.
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23 Nov 15
Tactum: Design 3D creations using light projection directly on the body
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Light projected onto the body becomes a straight-to-print design tool with Tactum.
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20 Nov 15
Salt and a car battery can provide clean water with this community device
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Portable chlorine maker provides easy access to clean, drinkable water in low resource communities.
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20 Nov 15
The future of urban farming is flat-packed
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Urban & Landscape Design
With this design, an instructions booklet and a set of flat-pack pieces that can be easily fitted together are all you need to start farming in the city.
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19 Nov 15
Scientists illustrate the space colonies of the future
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Art & Photography
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Scientists have come up with a number of designs for what life would be like when staying on Earth is no longer an option.
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19 Nov 15
The CannaCloud is the instant high without the fuss
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This new system makes medical marijuana prep as easy as brewing a cup of coffee.
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19 Nov 15
Icon's underwear line tackles incontinence in women
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Design Thinking
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Product Design
Icon's new underwear line seeks to help women who suffer from light incontinence after childbirth.
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18 Nov 15
Smart burn dressing lights up under UV light when infected
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Product Design
This smart burn dressing is designed to change colour when the patient’s burn wound is infected.
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18 Nov 15
Slaughter-free "genuine" leather for your shoes and jackets
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Design Thinking
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Modern Meadows is a Brooklyn-based biotechnology start-up growing slaughter-free leather from living cow cells.
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17 Nov 15
Artificial neurons able to learn human language
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Information Design
ANNABELL, a new cognitive model, is able to learn language organically, without the need for pre-coded responses.
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17 Nov 15
Kathryn Fleming: Designing the evolution of animals
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Design Thinking
US designer Kathryn Fleming explores various ways in which animals and humans could co-evolve in the future.
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16 Nov 15
These classrooms are designed to help children with ADHD focus
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Architecture & Interiors
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Design Thinking
Israeli architect Lior Ben-Sheetrit designed an innovative classroom to assist children with ADHD to focus and learn better.
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16 Nov 15
Soft robots are the way of the future
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Design Thinking
A 3-D-printed robotic hand made out of silicone rubber does what its predecessors can’t – handle objects as delicate as an egg.
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13 Nov 15
Early Bird tickets are now available for Design Indaba Conference 2016
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Secure your seat to the most inspiring and innovative event of the year with our limited, reduced-rate Early Bird ticket.
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12 Nov 15
Outdoor classroom grows as students learn
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Architecture & Interiors
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Design Thinking
Architecture studio AP+E has designed an evolving outdoor classroom for alternative learning.
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12 Nov 15
Trailer: Kathryn Fleming on designing future species
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Design Thinking
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RCA graduate Kathryn Fleming imagines using the endless potential of biology to create future species with unusual characteristics.
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12 Nov 15
Kathryn Fleming on designing future species
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RCA graduate Kathryn Fleming imagines using the endless potential of biology to create future species with unusual characteristics.
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12 Nov 15
Todd St. John: HunterGather and primitive design practices
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Design Thinking
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Film & Animation
Simple visuals bring complex ideas to life at Todd St. John’s studio, HunterGatherer.
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11 Nov 15
An eco-friendly textile dye made from algae
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Design Thinking
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Product Design
Blond and Bieber’s Algaemy project investigates the creative possibilities of various forms of algae.
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11 Nov 15
Steven Heller: Deconstructing design and the power of logos
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Design Thinking
The art of critiquing design from one of the leading voices in design criticism.
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10 Nov 15
Transparent solar panels: Any surface could be a power source
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Researchers are developing a completely transparent solar panel and it’s set to be a game-changer.
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10 Nov 15
Mobile app encourages creative thinking to beat cancer
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African Design
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Design Thinking
Cancer survivor Conn Bertish beat the disease with treatment and creative thinking and is now encouraging others to do the same.
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10 Nov 15
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