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MAPBOX: Beautiful Custom Maps
MapBox provides a suite of open source tools and services for creating and using custom maps in the cloud.
MapBox’s TileMill toolkit is a fully configured open source tile rendering engine that can be used to create custom maps using…
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KITENGELA GLASS: Ancient Art of Glass-Blowing In Africa
Kitengela Glass [Kenya], uses the ancient art of glass-blowing to create wonderful pieces of glass crafts.
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MICROFUNDO: Music + Microfinance
Microfundo is a unique service which provides micro-funding for emerging international artists.
Microfundo was conceived as a collective ~ a local network of fans and artists who are creating and defining their own music scene – a pooling of resources…
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Ki2 Fashion: Clothes Made From The Kanga
Ki2 Fashion’s garments, are all creatively designed using the kanga, a traditional multi-colored cotton printed with a proverb from the rich Swahili culture.
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VOTEiQ: Social Network For Politics
Vote iQ is the first major social networking site expressly designed for politics. It is a groundbreaking platform that revolutionizes the relationship between voters and policy makers. It is specifically designed for the ever-changing political world connecting policymakers, voters and…
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ART-O-MAT: Cigarette Vending Machines That Sell Unique Art
Art-o-mat machines are retired cigarette vending machines that have been converted to vend art. Currently they have around 400 contributing artists from 10 different countries.
They are always searching for new, and fresh work. Here’s guidelines to the submission…
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World Bank Report Highlights Recent Success Stories From Africa
The African Success story is a World Bank research study anchored in the Africa Region Chief Economist’s Office Unit. The project intends to document recent African success stories across a broad range of topics with a view to: (1) broaden…
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MAKARAPA: Hats Made From Mining Helmets
Fans sporting their teams’ makarapa was a ubiquitous scene during the 2010 world cup in south africa. These colourful hats are actually made from plastic mining helmets, cut, bent and hand painted with different football scenes.
The origin of these helmets…
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Oded Ezer: Using Skype To Create Art
Oded Ezer’s Face Type is a new project influenced by the visual possibilities of Skype’s video conferencing and social networks. Each letter of “Face Type” was designed by an individual from a different country, and was photographed together with it’s…
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Jeremy Innes-Hopkins
Jeremy Innes-Hopkins is a creative designer from London. As a student project, he designed the ‘Nokia Kinetic’ a magical phone that makes receiving a call, text, email or alarm a bit more ‘playful’, by converting digital information into kinetic movement;…
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Scratch Maps
You can get maps of all sorts, but this cute pin-up wall map is interactive – in a lo-fi way. Made for the intrepid traveller it lets you scratch off the gold surface to reveal more detail (like those old…