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Food designer Chloé Rutzerveld turns waste into healthy treats

Design News • 12 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

This edible innovation addresses wastage in the food industry – with delicious results. >
Code artist Zach Lieberman launches Weird Type in collaboration with Design Indaba

Design News • 12 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

“How does typography change when it is spatial, when we can move around it and it exists in 3D space?” >
An industrial design graduate has created an Emotional First Aid Kit

Design News • 12 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

Rui Sun tackles the question, “Why do so many products ease physical pain and so few treat emotional stress?” >
Art as an exploration of the self and an interrogation of the world with Buhlebezwe Siwani

Design News • 10 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

"I’ve always said if art doesn’t engage socially what are you making it for?" >
Thomas Heatherwick on why the Zeitz MOCAA is unlike any other museum

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:03:14 • 9 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

“Some of the most incredible work is done on this continent and it felt bonkers that many of those artists have to relocate to other parts of the world” >
Sweden’s Self-Built City offers solutions to the country’s housing shortage

Design Frontiers • 9 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

The collaborative project seeks to turn refugees into self-sufficient builders. >
Michael Candy’s 3D-printed flowers could save dwindling bee populations

Design News • 9 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

This design intervenes in the risk-prone world of pollination using robotic flowers. >
Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi awarded the 2018 Pritzker Prize

Design News • 9 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

Doshi believes the award will draw attention to the capacity for architecture to trigger social upliftment. >
Nike designs shoebox made out of recycled milk containers and coffee lids

Design News • 9 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

The sportswear giant teamed up with Taiwanese architect and engineer Arthur Huang to create multi-functional shoe boxes. >
Waterstudio’s Parthenon seawall doubles as natural energy generator

Design News • 9 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

This Dutch design company explores water-based solutions for urban planning. >
Aiming for Democratic Architecture exhibition taps into the role of architecture in democracy

Design Frontiers • 8 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

At the exhibition, held in Stockholm recently, Design Indaba chatted to MYCKET, a women-led design firm. >
Two Cape Town brothers on starting one of the world's biggest online learning platforms

Design Frontiers • Duration: 00:02:43 • 8 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

"Rather than tearing down the structures that exist, it is far better to use the best of the old and the best of the new." >
On the dying practice of female facial tattoos in North Africa

Design News • 8 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

Photographer Yumna Al-Arashi travelled to villages in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia to document the disappearing custom of female facial tattoos. >
Replace pads, tampons and cups with this eco-friendly alternative

Design News • 8 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

One WUKA is said to replace 100 tampons or pads from polluting the planet. >
Lebo Mashile breathes inner life into the story of Saartjie Baartman

Design News • 7 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

“For the first time, Saartjie's life as an artist and as a performer – because she defined herself as an artist – made a lot of sense to me." >
Swedish design gallery celebrates the monumental failures of the product design world

Design News • 7 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

We so often learn about the breakthroughs, the triumphs and innovations of creativity – what about the blunders? >
Yannis Davy Guibinga interrogates the colour black and its relation to death

Design News • 7 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

The artist’s new photo series unpacks the colour black as a symbol of darkness, mourning and death. >
Here are some highlights from Design Indaba 2018!

Design Frontiers • 7 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

This year's Design Indaba was a multi-sensory event that brought together creatives from all over the world. >
This stylish and smart clothing range stretches as your children grow

Design Frontiers • 7 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

Redesigning children's garments to lower costs and minimise environmental impact. >
This enhanced man-made skin graft helps burn victims heal

Design News • 6 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

By combining collagen skin grafts with healthy skin cells, an MIT researcher created a scaffold that heals burn victims faster. >
The Ki Ecobe shoe doesn’t use a single drop of glue

Design News • 6 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

The revolutionary, modular footwear can be self-assembled in less than five minutes. >
Nixie Girl rethinks menstrual cups for a new generation

Design News • 6 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

Redesigning menstrual products to appeal to a younger market. >
How do you tackle piracy, the refugee crisis and learning new language using design?

Design News • 6 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

These Design Indaba 2017 speakers are leading the way. >
Côte d'Ivoire-based artist, Kadarik uses pop art as social commentary

Design News • 5 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

Pop Art that analyses modern society using, the Joker, Spiderman and Wonder Woman. >

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