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Mapping poverty: getting relief to developing areas
Design News
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22 Aug 16
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These researchers are using mapping technology to find the world’s poorest areas.
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Interior designer Seugnet Herbst challenges the ordinary
Design News
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19 Aug 16
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2016 Emerging Creative Seugnet Herbst challenges ordinary aspects of interior design.
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No Man’s Sky: The videogame that conceives galaxies
Design Frontiers
• Duration: 5:53
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19 Aug 16
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The 2016 offering of Hello Games is pushing the possibilities of open-world gameplay to new stratospheres.
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Boombox champions nomadic retail spaces
Design News
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19 Aug 16
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A startup platform that gives emerging businesses access to a public market.
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Tiny device uses sunlight to disinfect water
Design News
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18 Aug 16
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Researchers at Stanford University created a tiny device that purifies water in minutes.
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Saving the planet with art supplies
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18 Aug 16
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The startup turning air pollution into ink.
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Project Florence: Opening communication with plant life
Design Frontiers
• Duration: 2:21
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18 Aug 16
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Helene Steiner works to expand communication with plants. The resulting dialogue is bizarre and intriguing.
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The creative collective disrupting SA's National Arts Festival
Design News
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18 Aug 16
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The 10 Day Men are shaking things up in Grahamstown.
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Students create seaweed-based yarn to tackle fashion industry pollution
Design News
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18 Aug 16
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BioEsters is a bio-based material that presents a sustainable yarn alternative for designers.
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Photographer Ofoe Amegavie captures the beauty of Ghana’s iconic festivals
Design News
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17 Aug 16
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Photographer Ofoe Amegavie tells the vivid stories of Ghana’s traditional festivals in an ongoing series.
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Blubel: The intelligent bicycle bell
Product Spotlight
• Duration: 3:29
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17 Aug 16
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Blubel Tech’s new device for cyclists offers far more than the chime of a bell.
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Intuitive wardrobe donates unworn clothes to charities
Design News
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17 Aug 16
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The Internet of Clothes is a creative concept that tackles the over consumption of fashion.
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Capturing the "Gully Queens" of Jamaica
Design News
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17 Aug 16
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Pieter Hugo’s collaboration with Hood by Air is a celebration of the vilified gay community of Kingston.
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Concrete creative: Entries to South Africa’s biggest art and design prize are still open
Design News
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17 Aug 16
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PPC Imaginarium Awards are open for entries for their 2016/2017 competitions until the end of September 2016.
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Wintergatan Marble Machine: Making music with marbles
Product Spotlight
• Duration: 4:32
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17 Aug 16
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This arcade-style music box features a range of programmable instruments.
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Jewellery made from everyday items
Design News
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16 Aug 16
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Johannesburg-based alternative jeweller Belinda Phofu uncovers the untapped potential of everyday items.
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Sustaining the memory of the ‘Black Mamba’
Design Frontiers
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16 Aug 16
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Cryus Kabiru’s roadster fixation leads to imaginative and nostalgic sculptures.
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In the pipeline: The new underwater motorways of Norway
Design Frontiers
• Duration: 0:55
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16 Aug 16
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These submerged floating tubes may be the first step into trans-Atlantic road connections.
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DuoSkin: Tattoo-like devices print tech on skin
Design Frontiers
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16 Aug 16
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Using gold leaf metal, MIT researchers are placing customised, tattoo-like interfaces directly onto the skin of the user.
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Emerging Creatives 2017 – applications closed
Festival News
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15 Aug 16
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There’s nothing better than owning your own business, but there’s also nothing more challenging.
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Photographer documents the struggles of Jatra’s former actors
Design News
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15 Aug 16
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Soumya Sankar Bose photographs the folk-theatre actors who have left the stage behind to make a living.
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Osborne Macharia’s little Kenyan battle squad
Design News
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15 Aug 16
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The man who set the internet ablaze with his astonishing images of eccentric Kenyans has turned his attention to another group of characters: little people.
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Aeon Flux: An animated future from the past
Opinion
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15 Aug 16
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The 1991 brainchild of Peter Chung seems more thought-provoking now than ever before.
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Ceiling lamp made from its own packaging
Design News
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15 Aug 16
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Dutch design studio creates waste-free lamp from cardboard tubing.
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