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Blitab enables blind people to browse the web with a responsive Braille display

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

Blitab is the world’s first tactile tablet device for blind and visually impaired people, enabling them to browse the web on an innovative Braille screen. >

14 Jul 15
Personalise your audio environment

Design News > Design Thinking / Industrial Design / Music & Sound Design

Doppler Labs have developed wireless earbuds and an app that allow you to control and customise what you hear in real time. >

14 Jul 15
Solar technology will be used to create the world’s first underground park

Design News > Design Thinking

The Lowline, the world’s first underground park, have raised enough money in a crowdfunding campaign to build their Lowline Lab. >

9 Jul 15
The first 3D-printed car for consumers

Design News > Design Thinking / Industrial Design

Forget vases, jewellery and trinkets. The first street-ready 3D-printed car is imminent. >

9 Jul 15
Glasses enable doctors to see malignant cancer cells in the dark

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

A Nigerian scientist working in the United States has won the prestigious St. Louis Award for his ground-breaking cancer-visualisation glasses. >

7 Jul 15
Jack Lennie designs a motorbike you can download

Next Generation > Design Thinking / Industrial Design / Product Design

Tinker is a downloadable, no weld, motorcycle kit designed by Edinburgh Napier University graduate Jack Lennie >

6 Jul 15
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg: The dream of better

Video Interviews > Design Thinking / Interaction Design

By applying design thinking to emerging technologies Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg imagines a better future for us all. >

6 Jul 15
Lady Skollie’s latest exhibition is a manifestation of her desires

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

“Ask for What You Want” is a provocative exploration of the nature of human sexual desire by Cape Town-based artist Lady Skollie. >

2 Jul 15
Carla Kreuser on why designing by hand still matters

Talks > African Design / Art & Photography / Design Thinking / Film & Animation / Graphic Design & Illustration

Carla Kreuser pulled herself away from her computer screen and went back to basics, illustrating and binding an entire book by hand. >

1 Jul 15
Every startup has a "Brand Debt" – make sure you know yours

Opinion > Creative Economy / Design Thinking

Jim Bull, the co-founder and chief creative officer of Moving Brands, asks: “How early do startups need to think about their brand?” >

1 Jul 15
Celebrating fifteen years of Serpentine Pavilions

Design News > Design Thinking / Graphic Design & Illustration

To celebrate 15 years of the Summer Pavilion, the Serpentine Galleries have teamed up with Pentagram to launch a digital platform and campaign. >

30 Jun 15
Smart Specs offers a visual aid to the legally blind

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

Smart Specs are new augmented reality smart glasses designed by Oxford University research fellow Dr Stephen Hicks. >

30 Jun 15
Sci-fi psychedelic cover art for Nozinja’s debut album

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography / Design Thinking / Graphic Design & Illustration / Music & Sound Design

Los Angeles-based design duo Oval-X channels the spirit of South African townships and “Shangaan electro” to create covert art for Nozinja’s debut album. >

30 Jun 15
#cocreateSA awards funds to 6 South African-Dutch sustainability projects

Design News > Design Thinking / Industrial Design

Six innovative projects focussing on water management, healthcare, agro-processing and food security will each receive a R100,000 cash injection. >

26 Jun 15
Studio Dror unveils three new residential concepts for New York

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking

Dror Benshetrit imagines three towers that each push the limits of high-rise buildings. >

26 Jun 15
Martijn Engelbregt: Breaking society out of its rut

Video Interviews > Design Thinking

Meet the ringmaster of Circus Engelbregt who oversees the delicate act of subverting social norms using design. >

26 Jun 15
Joe Public awarded a Bronze at Cannes Lion

Design News > African Design / Design Activism / Design Thinking / Interaction Design

Joe Public took home a Bronze Cannes Lion with the Cinemark “Vote SA” activation, a campaign set on inspiring social change. >

24 Jun 15
A human organ on a microchip wins Design of the Year 2015

Design News > Design Thinking

The line between medical science and design just got narrower with London’s Design Museum’s top award going to Human Organs-On-Chips. >

23 Jun 15
12 standout buildings from the 2015 World Architecture Festival Award finalists

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking

700 entries from architects and designers across the world were narrowed down to make the World Architecture Festival shortlist. >

23 Jun 15
India Harris translates photography into textiles

Next Generation > Design Thinking / Fashion & Jewellery Design

The textures and colours of film photography are the inspiration behind this University of Brighton graduate’s collection. >

22 Jun 15
Forget virtual tours. This online gallery is like another dimension.

Lookbook > Architecture & Interiors / Art & Photography / Design Activism / Design Thinking

UCLA’s New Wight Gallery has been replicated online. But the experience of this virtual exhibition space bears no resemblance to any gallery you know. >

19 Jun 15
Roy Choi: The food truck revolution that spread like wildfire

Video Interviews > Design Thinking / Food Design

The LA food truck kickstarted a global movement thanks to Twitter, says Roy Choi. >

19 Jun 15
Trailer: Roy Choi on food that tastes like LA

Trailers > Design Thinking / Food Design

What do Twitter and tacos have to do with each other? Meet the chef who took gourmet food onto LA’s streets. >

18 Jun 15
Roy Choi on moving on from losing his job to starting a street food revolution

Talks > Design Thinking / Food Design

“We started [outside nightclubs] at midnight, serving this taco which tasted like the city.” >

18 Jun 15

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