December 2016 Archive

Modern day Dracula and the plight of immigrants

Design News • 28 Dec 16

Artists adapt the classic tale of Dracula to explore the immigrant rights in the United States. >
The adventures of unconventional women

Design News • 26 Dec 16

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls is a collection of alternative bedtime stories for girls. >
How an artist is helping rebuild Haiti

Design News • 23 Dec 16

The Konbit Shelter is a sustainable building project in Haiti >
Smokeless cooking in Kenya

Design News • 23 Dec 16

Fighting lower respiratory infection with innovative design. >
Things we learnt in 2016

Design News • 23 Dec 16

We share a few of the interesting, incredible and sometimes unbelievable things we learnt on Design Indaba this year. >
Minerae: Another way to touch light

Design News • 23 Dec 16

This conceptual designer thinks of ways to make new connections between us and our environment. >
Spying on a thief in this fascinating documentary

Design News • 21 Dec 16

Film student Anthony van der Meer made a documentary tracking his stolen phone and the thief who stole it >
Anti-Human: An avant-garde photo series from the Kolor Art Collective

Design News • 20 Dec 16

Rio de Janeiro’s Kolor Art Collective present their latest photo series highlighting animal abuse >
What does flatpack furniture have to do with love?

Design News • 20 Dec 16

Assisted intimacy: How to build flat-pack furniture and bond with your loved ones. >
How do you photograph a phobia?

Design News • 19 Dec 16

This VSCO commissioned series looks at rare phobias that disturb the mind. >
Alive by Juno Jeon

Design News • 19 Dec 16

The Netherlands-based designer enlivens his furniture pieces through movement >
Stepping up solar efforts

Design News • 16 Dec 16

This sidewalk converts steps into power. >
Dakar's Creatives: A photo series that captures the city's movers and shakers

Design News • 15 Dec 16

In this photographic series by Jean Baptiste Joire we see Dakar's young creative agents in places in the city that inspire them. >
5 sustainable fashion brands

Design News • 15 Dec 16

We highlight five brands making clothes ethically >
A safe, drug-free way to train your body to fight stress

Design News • 13 Dec 16

Will we be able to control our bodies stress responses with the help of technology? >
The magical figures of the Haas Brothers

Design News • 13 Dec 16

These LA-based artists blur the lines between nature and psychedelia. >
Photographer captures childhood fears

Design News • 12 Dec 16

Ghost stories and monsters brought to life in A Raven’s Dream. >
3600 panties focus attention on South Africa’s rape crisis

Design News • 9 Dec 16

A trio of South African artists strung up 3600 donated panties in a public display against violence. >
The plastic bottle artworks of Veronika Richterová

Design News • 9 Dec 16

This Czech artist demonstrates the potential to find beauty in garbage. >
Nigerian designer celebrates friendship in a new streetwear line

Design News • 9 Dec 16

Onwuchekwa by Chikezie Daniel is a made-in-Nigeria high street brand. >
Battling climate change with holistic solutions

Design News • 8 Dec 16

Farmers in Guatemala are adapting to climate change using climate-smart strategies. >
Beauty is in the nostrils of the beholder (NSFW)

Design News • 8 Dec 16

Conceptual photo series challenges our perceptions of beauty by splicing together the human body in an unnerving way. >
New photobook charts photographer Yasser Booley’s Rainbow Nation

Design News • 8 Dec 16

"South Africa at Liberty" documents the work of prolific South African photographer Yasser Booley. >
The miniature embroidered portraits of Danielle Clough

Design News • 8 Dec 16

The artist that reproduces the faces of strangers with needle and thread. >

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