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Si-Low: A low-cost grain storage unit for Africa

Next Generation • 1 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

Anthony Brown has developed the Si-Low, a low-cost grain storage unit to help prevent farmers in Africa from loosing their grain after they harvest. >
Flood-prone affordable homes empower slum residents

Design News • 1 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

Alok Shetty addresses the bleak housing conditions of the urban poor in Bangalore >
Biometric wearable designed to lower stress levels

Design News • 1 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

ZENTA is a health-tracker-cum-life-coach that focusses on the wearer’s overall mind and body wellbeing. >
Welcome to Wes Africa: A new fashion campaign with a touch of nostalgia

Design News • 1 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

Online fashion store Superbalist presents a Wes Anderson-inspired cinematic winter campaign shot in Dakar, Senegal. We'd like to share it with you. >
Body Electric: Technology meets fashion

Design News • 30 Jun 16 • Sponsored Content

Fashion designer Clara Daguin brings together technology and textiles in her striking collection Body Electric. >
Enabled by design: A way finding system that considers the disabled

Next Generation • 30 Jun 16 • Sponsored Content

A More Inclusive Pedestrian Wayfinding System builds on the existing "Legible London" system to create an enhanced and more user-friendly navigation system. >
“Give a Beep” calls for a more cycle-friendly London

Design News • 30 Jun 16 • Sponsored Content

Swedish company Hövding kickstarts movement that encourages London’s mayor to “give a beep” about cyclists’ safety. >
Alby Apparel promises liquid-repellent breathable clothes

Product Spotlight • 29 Jun 16 • Sponsored Content

Using patented Fillium technology, wearing these Alby Apparel clothes promises to dramatically reduce your washing load. >
A new human-centred packaging system for ARV medication in Africa

Next Generation • 29 Jun 16 • Sponsored Content

A new system for the packaging of AIDS-related virus medication in Sub-Saharan Africa thinks more holistically about the user's needs. >
Upcycled textiles add character to resin stools

Design News • 29 Jun 16 • Sponsored Content

Designer Ammar Kalo discovers an unconventional use for discarded scraps of fabric. >
The meat-free burger that bleeds

Product Spotlight • 29 Jun 16 • Sponsored Content

Impossible Foods has developed an entirely vegetarian burger that simulates meat so effectively that it bleeds. >
Inside Nairobi's growing fashion scene

Lookbook • 29 Jun 16 • Sponsored Content

Nairobi concept store Ichyulu teams up with local photographers and style bloggers to celebrate the city’s growing fashion scene. >
Sou Fujimoto on multi-layered and conceptual architecture

Talks • Duration: 00:24:17 • 28 Jun 16 • Sponsored Content

Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto’s philosophical body of work explores architecture that doesn’t dictate any particular behaviour to its users. >
Puzzle-like mural for a new mother and child hospital in Johannesburg

Design News • 28 Jun 16 • Sponsored Content

Lorenzo Nassimbeni has been working with 26'10 SOUTH Architects to create a geometric tiled mural on the new Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital. >
$Marbelous Wood "Refraction #1"$

Hypnotic flooring created by new approach to ancient marbling

Design News • 28 Jun 16 • Sponsored Content

Snedker Studio’s Marbelous Wood series transforms pine wood into ripple-effect artwork. >
Shoes that are wearable for longer win cradle to cradle design challenge

Product Spotlight • 28 Jun 16 • Sponsored Content

Virginia Tech student designs modular shoe with parts that can be disassembled to recycle or decompose. >
Exoskin: The programmable material

Design Frontiers • 28 Jun 16 • Sponsored Content

Scientists have created a material that is able to bring motion to otherwise motionless products. >
Eco-ware made only out of leaves aims to revolutionise packaging industry

Design News • 28 Jun 16 • Sponsored Content

Leaf Republic develops environmentally-friendly packaging and servingware from pressed leaves. >
After Lights Out: A photo series of twilight landscapes

Design News • 27 Jun 16 • Sponsored Content

Photographer Julien Mauve investigates the twilight with only one source of light. >
Wovns promises original woven textiles on demand

Design News • 27 Jun 16 • Sponsored Content

Imagine being able to turn individual digital designs into custom Jacquard-woven fabric, available in quantities as small as a single metre. >
Floating greenhouse is both sustainable and educational

Design News • 27 Jun 16 • Sponsored Content

Serbian design firm Salt & Water have conceptualised a floating community hub that teaches green living. >
SA designer develops a lifesaving drone

Design News • 27 Jun 16 • Sponsored Content

Mikhail Aymés is no stranger to industrial design. His latest project uses tech to save people from drowning. >
iGrow drives organic farming investment in Indonesia

Design News • 27 Jun 16 • Sponsored Content

Online marketplace iGrow connects farmers with urban dwellers who want to own a farm. >
Kazuya Kawasaki on biohacking the fashion industry

Talks • Duration: 00:06:44 • 24 Jun 16 • Sponsored Content

Speculative designer and Keio University student Kazuya Kawasaki grows new materials for the fashion industry. >

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