March 2017 Archive

Permanent Alien focuses on stories from the Asian American diaspora

Design Frontiers • 14 Mar 17

“What if we made a comic featuring people who looked like us for people who look like us?” >
Falling: Representing depression through art

Design News • 13 Mar 17

This artist depicts her longstanding experience of mental disorder in disturbing style. >
The Scene of Childhood

Design News • 13 Mar 17

Photographer Lionel Jusseret captures the magical ways that autistic children communicate. >
The carbon cost of your cocaine

Opinion • 13 Mar 17

In the sixth edition of Do The Green Thing, the eco-warriors reveal the carbon footprint associated with every line of cocaine. >
This tampon packaging brings an important part of menstruation out of hiding

Design News • 13 Mar 17

Thinx Tampons has gone where no tampon maker has dared go before. >
The Five Fields Play Structure by Matter Design

Design News • 10 Mar 17

This playground stimulates the imagination and encourages creativity. >
Panâh: An ethical fashion production house in Kenya

Design News • 10 Mar 17

This African production house produces high quality clothes for international brands. >
Using soybeans to create vegan leather

Design News • 9 Mar 17

We can now add soybeans to the list of cruelty-free leather alternatives. >
Remembering Chinese Photographer Ren Hang

Design Frontiers • 9 Mar 17

The 29-year old provocateur leaves behind an awe-inspiring body of work. >
Photographer captures the nuances of a South African township

Design News • 9 Mar 17

In an ongoing project, photographer Andile Bhala looks to capture the beauty of Soweto. >
Can you spot the women in these chaotic, illustrated ads?

Design News • 8 Mar 17

This ad campaign highlights the lack of women in the Egyptian workforce. >
Kasha: Rwanda’s digital solution to a pervasive problem

Design News • 8 Mar 17

Access to information and basic services can help women progress in the developing areas. >
Emulating female power through fashion

Next Generation • 8 Mar 17

Thebe Magugu pays homage to the important people in his life with original couture. >
Plastic Utopia by photographer Henri Blommers

Design News • 7 Mar 17

This Netherlands-based photographer captures human waste within nature. >
How do we perceive others and ourselves?

Design News • 7 Mar 17

Gaze is a new South African web series deconstructing the art of seeing others. >
Recharging Mount Olivella with thousands of trees

Design Frontiers • 7 Mar 17

This ambitious art intervention breathes new life into a devastated area. >
Arch For Arch: A coda for Design Indaba Festival Day 3

Festival News • 6 Mar 17

One last thing, which deserves a piece of its own, the spectacular finale of the 2017 Conference and a tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu. >
The final Dispatch from Day 3 of Design Indaba 2017

Festival News • 6 Mar 17

On the third and final day of Design Indaba, themes on stage recalled themes of the previous two days and introduced a new one that advocates for the unknown. >
SONOP primary school gets a solar powered upgrade

Design Frontiers • 6 Mar 17

Design Indaba partnered with SolarWorld Africa (Pty) Ltd and On Track to give this school a sustainable update. >
The Finale: Our speakers drop nuggets of truth during last day of Design Indaba Conference 2017

Festival News • 3 Mar 17

Take a look at our speakers' most poignant messages delivered on stage at this year's Conference line-up. >
Swahili launches on Duolingo

Design News • 3 Mar 17

At Design Indaba 2017, Luis Von Ahn launches the first African language course on Duolingo. >
Just because you can’t see it, doesn’t mean it’s not there

Design News • 3 Mar 17

Poo. We’re talking about poo. >
DI Dispatch Day 2: Seek absolution

Festival News • 3 Mar 17

Here is our third official dispatch, as we look back on Day Two. >
Kamila Iżykowicz’s RITU range reflects the different stages in a woman’s cycle

Design News • 3 Mar 17

This global grad’s jewellery collection emits soothing scents when you engage with it. >

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