November 2015 Archive

Andile Buka's photo book explores the Johannesburg landscape

Design News • 17 Nov 15

"Crossing Strangers", Andile Buka’s first published work, is a photobook exploring Johannesburg and the people that live there. >
Photographer captures the oppressive reality of anxiety

Design News • 16 Nov 15

Katie Crawford’s self-portraiture series captures the raw essence of anxiety. >
Vibe-ing explores the possibilities of self-healthcare in textile design

Design News • 16 Nov 15

An innovative garment joins the ranks of high-tech fashion by combining vibration therapy with textile technology. >
A Ugandan graduate can charge your phone with a bicycle tyre

Design News • 16 Nov 15

Elliot Mwebaze has developed a device that enables phones to charge using a bicycle dynamo. >
Colour-changing clothing amplifies body language

Design News • 16 Nov 15

Eef Lubbers’ Kimbow dress changes colour with the wearer to transcend the limits of static textiles. >
The Pickle Index makes way for a new age of cross-medium, immersive storytelling

Design News • 13 Nov 15

Novelist Eli Horowitz tells a futuristic story through three completely unique narrative experiences. >
Artist rediscovering the scenes of ordinary life in Nigeria

Design News • 13 Nov 15

Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi observes daily life and paints what she sees, and the result is a collection of witty, touching, and genuine paintings. >
DIY restaurant calls attention to poorly treated staff

Design News • 13 Nov 15

Guests cooked for themselves in a restaurant turned workers’ rights campaign. >
Safia Qureshi: A project to help eliminate paper cup waste in London

Design News • Duration: 00:04:44 • 13 Nov 15

Safia Qureshi talks about her new, chai wallah-inspired project, Cup Club, which aims to reduce the amount of waste caused by disposable coffee cups in London. >
Master of the craft: Vespa mechanic

Design News • 12 Nov 15

In the fourth in a photographic series focused on the hands of artisans, we look at the greased and oiled fingers of a Vespa mechanic. >
New app means new knowledge for a new Myanmar

Design News • 12 Nov 15

New Niti aims to teach youth about democracy as Myanmar’s general elections end military rule. >
Outdoor classroom grows as students learn

Design News • 12 Nov 15

Architecture studio AP+E has designed an evolving outdoor classroom for alternative learning. >
Low-income district on the banks of the Nile set for revival by Foster + Partners

Design News • 12 Nov 15

Egyptian government selects Foster + Partners to design the rundown Maspero Triangle District on the banks of the river Nile in downtown Cairo. >
SOS Children’s Village provides shelter for vulnerable children and their families in Djibouti

Design News • 12 Nov 15

Urko Sanchez Architects’ award-winning residential complex for children provides a safe-haven from extreme temperatures. >
Low-cost house in Mozambique features corrugated iron and wood

Design News • 11 Nov 15

Casas Melhoradas, a double storey, low-cost house by Architects Without Borders, reinterprets Mozambique’s traditional corrugated iron and wood homes. >
Uganda Press Photo Award up-skills photojournalists

Design News • 11 Nov 15

The winners of Uganda’s Press Photo Awards are the next generation of artistic photographers. >
An eco-friendly textile dye made from algae

Design News • 11 Nov 15

Blond and Bieber’s Algaemy project investigates the creative possibilities of various forms of algae. >
Mobile app encourages creative thinking to beat cancer

Design News • 10 Nov 15

Cancer survivor Conn Bertish beat the disease with treatment and creative thinking and is now encouraging others to do the same. >
Muji launches three tiny, prefab houses

Design News • 10 Nov 15

In what sounds like a prefab fairytale, Muji launches three little houses – one made of cork, one of aluminium and one built out of wood. >
One ripped page from a Lauren Beukes thriller turns into 150 books

Design News • 10 Nov 15

Pages ripped from Lauren Beukes' thriller "Broken Monsters" are being turned into once-off artworks and sold to raise money for a local literacy NGO. >
Lithuanian street artist, Ernest "ZACH" Zacharevic has been dubbed the next Banksy

Design News • 10 Nov 15

The Penang-based artist's unique brand of interactive street art has fans lining up for pictures. >
Morocco will be home to the world's largest solar farm

Design News • 10 Nov 15

The Moroccan city of Ouarzazate will be home to the largest solar farm in the world and it will generate energy for one million homes. >
A vertical village in Singapore is the World Building of the Year

Design News • 10 Nov 15

The Interlace, an expansive interlocking network of living and communal spaces, takes the top prize at the World Architecture Festival. >
Google SA takes top prize for green innovations

Design News • 9 Nov 15

Google Head Office in SA has won top honours at the International Green Interior Awards. >

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