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Wonderbag: Cooking for cleaner air

Design News • 17 Jan 12 • Sponsored Content

Innovation firm Frog teamed up with SA company Wonderbag to create a mobile app that can track energy and CO2 savings gained from using their heat-retention bag >
Order to print

Design News • 17 Jan 12

Silicone, chocolate, cheese and concrete are just some of the materials the Imagine 3D printer can use to print shapes. >
Daisy Ginsberg: Synthetic Biology

Video Interviews • 17 Jan 12

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg explores how synthetic biology and design can be utilised to do useful things, engineering a better future. >
Patched works

Design News • 17 Jan 12

Dutch designers Herso's range of "patchwork" furniture is made with reclaimed wood, non-toxic glue and all their by-products are recycled. >
Take home the best of SA creativity at Design Indaba Expo 2012

Festival News • 16 Jan 12

The countdown has begun! Expect the best of South African design and creativity at Design Indaba Expo from 2 to 4 March 2012. >
Barcelona Rock: Bringing the mountain to the city

Design News • 15 Jan 12

Barcelona Rock is a proposed new landmark on the Spanish city's skyline made from the rock of Montserrat. If you can't bring Mohammed to the mountain... >
Varied objects

Design News • 14 Jan 12

From "weak furniture" to new molten glass forms and transformed agricultural nets, Nendo presents a range of new designs at Maison et Objet. >
Ode to plastic

Design News • 13 Jan 12 • Sponsored Content

FormaFantasma's "Botanica" project pays homage to works of art and design produced with plastic, while also commenting on the need for plastic alternatives. >
Dive! trailer

FilmFestFriday • 13 Jan 12

Living off America's waste. >
Why Designer John Bielenberg Thinks Wrong

Profiling • 12 Jan 12 • Sponsored Content

John Bielenberg thinks wrong. And he's changing the world, one design project at a time. Design Indaba chats to this mastermind about his creative progeny. >
Quick print

Design News • 12 Jan 12

Black boxes are known to know everything. This BlackBox is a portable device for printing text messages from your phone, so you'll remember everything! >
Hanging balance

Design News • 11 Jan 12

This see-saw table is more than a fun place to eat your dinners. It's also designed to encourage good table etiquette. >
Skating 80s

Design News • 11 Jan 12

Rolling Back the Years is an exhibition showcasing custom designed skate decks in celebration of the glory of 80s skateboarding. >
Bookshelf bike rack

Design News • 11 Jan 12

Store your bicycle, books and other gadgets all on the same shelf. The Bookbike shelving solution is ideal for urban spaces. >
Free to move

Design News • 11 Jan 12

Pro is a versatile new chair design, ideal for use in schools, by the German designer Konstantin Grcic. >
Dark visualisations

Design News • 10 Jan 12

Graphic designer Stewart Scott-Curan designed a poster visually depicting each of the songs on Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon album. >
Tablets for learning

Design News • 10 Jan 12 • Sponsored Content

The One Laptop Per Child initiative have just launched the XO-3 tablet, with the vision to distribute it to children in developing nations. >
Song for the road

Design News • 10 Jan 12

From the Highway to Hell to Penny Lane, the Song Map is a litho print featuring the names of songs about streets and landmarks. >
Trained naturally

Design News • 9 Jan 12

Studio Tjep designed elements of the new Fabbrica restaurant in The Netherlands. They made it less shiny and more natural. >
Say hello

Design News • 9 Jan 12

"Hello World!" is an installation consisting of some 5000 individual video diaries taken from the internet. >
Reading list

Design News • 9 Jan 12 • Sponsored Content

A Turkish designer's "TarGetBook Shelf" makes it easy to organise your books according to those that have been read and those that must still be read. >
Era of coffee

Design News • 8 Jan 12

Norwegian designer Katrine Austgulen created a series of colourful and vibrant covers for coffee tumblers, inspired by historical time periods. >
New bird on the block

Design News • 7 Jan 12

Cowbird, a new type of social media network, aims to become a public library of human experience. >
Design as a verb

Q&A • 7 Jan 12 • Sponsored Content

When it comes to his job, starchitect Thomas Heatherwick doesn’t think about titles, he thinks about verbs. >

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