March 2019 Archive

This Bible-verse inspired building has a unique swan-like design

Design News • 28 Mar 19

The distinctive roof is a pearly white concrete structure with sweeping, futuristic curves. >
One photographer's surrealist impression of mental illness

Design News • 27 Mar 19

Katie Joy Crawford was diagnosed young. This is how she sees her anxiety and depression. >
Abstract Peaces: Redefining mental illness

Design News • 26 Mar 19

Conceptual photographer Tsoku Maela challenges the stigma around mental illness by drawing on his personal experience. >
Four designers are looking to redesign the gynaecology experience

Design News • 25 Mar 19

Yona is trying to redesign the uncomfortable vaginal speculum using human-centred experience design. >
On being a young creative dealing with mental health

Design News • 25 Mar 19

We spoke to past Design Indaba Emerging Creatives to unpack the way creativity and mental health co-exist in their lives. >
Zipline is the small medical drone in Rwanda solving a worldwide logistics problem

Design News • 25 Mar 19

"Health is where we found the connection between something we knew we could do and a problem that needed solving," Zipline's Keenan Wyrobek. >
Cairo architect Nada Elhadedy on architecture driven by circumstance

Design News • 20 Mar 19

“So instead of using the building as a barrier… we used it to promote openings and interaction.” >
Ilze Wolff on creating an activist and public culture around architecture

Design News • 20 Mar 19

In this architectural practice collaboration with artists is just as important as working with other architects and engineers. >
Could embracing the informality of South Africa’s chaotic taxi industry do more good than bad?

Design News • 18 Mar 19

Researcher and urban planner Zonke Mkhomazi discusses the history and future of transport in South Africa. >
4 graphic designers experimenting with colour and tackling taboos

Design News • 14 Mar 19

These are the graphic designer who were a part of the Design Indaba Emerging Creatives exhibition, a smorgasbord of young South African talent. >
Wacy Zacarias on taking back the African textile market

Design News • 13 Mar 19

The Mozambican entrepreneur started Karingana Wa Karingana Textiles to create authentic African prints. >
#GlobalGrad Tshepo Mokholo on innovating traditional architectural practises

Design News • 4 Mar 19

The Soweto-born architect, who is also a former Emerging Creative, tells us how a chance meeting landed him in Kigali. >
#MeToo: Global Grad Ellie Frymire makes sense of the iconic movement

Design News • Duration: 00:08:33 • 4 Mar 19

We know that the movement was started to call out rampant abuse of women around the world, but Frymire delved into what people were really saying with #MeToo >
Interdependence II by Houtlander named Most Beautiful Object in South Africa 2019

Design News • 1 Mar 19

The public has spoken! Take a look at this year’s winning design in the question of what constitutes beauty. >

March 2019 Archive

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