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Blubel: The intelligent bicycle bell

Product Spotlight • Duration: 3:29 • 17 Aug 16 • Sponsored Content

Blubel Tech’s new device for cyclists offers far more than the chime of a bell. >
Intuitive wardrobe donates unworn clothes to charities

Design News • 17 Aug 16 • Sponsored Content

The Internet of Clothes is a creative concept that tackles the over consumption of fashion. >
Capturing the "Gully Queens" of Jamaica

Design News • 17 Aug 16 • Sponsored Content

Pieter Hugo’s collaboration with Hood by Air is a celebration of the vilified gay community of Kingston. >
Concrete creative: Entries to South Africa’s biggest art and design prize are still open

Design News • 17 Aug 16 • Sponsored Content

PPC Imaginarium Awards are open for entries for their 2016/2017 competitions until the end of September 2016. >
Wintergatan Marble Machine: Making music with marbles

Product Spotlight • Duration: 4:32 • 17 Aug 16 • Sponsored Content

This arcade-style music box features a range of programmable instruments. >
Jewellery made from everyday items

Design News • 16 Aug 16 • Sponsored Content

Johannesburg-based alternative jeweller Belinda Phofu uncovers the untapped potential of everyday items. >
Sustaining the memory of the ‘Black Mamba’

Design Frontiers • 16 Aug 16 • Sponsored Content

Cryus Kabiru’s roadster fixation leads to imaginative and nostalgic sculptures. >
In the pipeline: The new underwater motorways of Norway

Design Frontiers • Duration: 0:55 • 16 Aug 16 • Sponsored Content

These submerged floating tubes may be the first step into trans-Atlantic road connections. >
DuoSkin: Tattoo-like devices print tech on skin

Design Frontiers • 16 Aug 16 • Sponsored Content

Using gold leaf metal, MIT researchers are placing customised, tattoo-like interfaces directly onto the skin of the user. >
Emerging Creatives 2017 – applications closed

Festival News • 15 Aug 16 • Sponsored Content

There’s nothing better than owning your own business, but there’s also nothing more challenging. >
Photographer documents the struggles of Jatra’s former actors

Design News • 15 Aug 16 • Sponsored Content

Soumya Sankar Bose photographs the folk-theatre actors who have left the stage behind to make a living. >
Osborne Macharia’s little Kenyan battle squad

Design News • 15 Aug 16 • Sponsored Content

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. >
Aeon Flux: An animated future from the past

Opinion • 15 Aug 16 • Sponsored Content

The 1991 brainchild of Peter Chung seems more thought-provoking now than ever before. >
Ceiling lamp made from its own packaging

Design News • 15 Aug 16 • Sponsored Content

Dutch design studio creates waste-free lamp from cardboard tubing. >
A stitched strategy for Zika prevention

Design News • 15 Aug 16 • Sponsored Content

Virtual marketplace Maternova tackles the Zika emergency using stylish apparel. >
Design Centre mimics human anatomy

Design News • 12 Aug 16 • Sponsored Content

Solar-powered and inspired by skin and bone, the Xinhee Design Centre defies every office building norm. >
Meet the girls of Malaville

Design Frontiers • 12 Aug 16 • Sponsored Content

Model and businesswoman Mala Bryan’s debut doll collection is black girl magic. >
Social media cross-formatting: plagiarism or optimisation?

Hot Topic • 12 Aug 16 • Sponsored Content

Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter and Instagram take more ideas from one another than they care to admit. But is it a bad thing? >
Living armchair makes a comeback

Design News • 12 Aug 16 • Sponsored Content

Italian design studio relaunches its well-known grass furniture piece. >
Gangster-turned-writer John Fredericks survived prison by telling stories

Design News • 11 Aug 16 • Sponsored Content

The film Noem My Skollie (Call me thief) has been chosen as South Africa’s official selection for the 89th Annual Academy Awards (Oscars). >
Interactive dynamic video is a game changer for Pokémon Go, VR and more

Design Frontiers • 11 Aug 16 • Sponsored Content

Pokémon Go combines augmented reality and the real world, but this tech could take it a step further. >
Wearable sunscreen device encourages necessary sun protection behaviour

Design News • 11 Aug 16 • Sponsored Content

SunZee is a wristband that simplifies sunscreen reapplication during outdoor activities. >
Stop Sign Art Gallery: Art that moves

Design News • Duration: 1:15 • 11 Aug 16 • Sponsored Content

Zama Phakathi champions the rising artists of Maboneng. >
How Far From Home on over 100 000 kilometres of creative enlightenment

Talks • Duration: 00:29:32 • 10 Aug 16 • Sponsored Content

South Africans Chanel Cartell and Stevo Dirnberger abandoned the comforts of home to reinvigorate their creativity. >

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