2021 Archive

#DI Emerging Creative Caleb Pillay chats to us about meaningful design and social media’s influence

Q&A • 25 Aug 21

Caleb Pillay’s dream brand collaboration is out of this world. >
Exclusive: Former #DI Emerging Creative Sifiso Kunene shares his new Resort ‘21 collection

Design News • 24 Aug 21

We get resort-ready with fashion designer Sifiso Kunene >
No Waste Challenge Winner, Radial makes radical change

Design News • 23 Aug 21

Materials for mitigating plastic pollution >
#DI Alumni unite: Selly Rabe Kane tackles pollution in a short film for Little Sun

Design News • 20 Aug 21

Little Sun starts a new climate conversation >
No Waste Challenge winner, Clothing Loop swaps Fast Fashion for sustainability

Design News • 16 Aug 21

“I haven’t bought any new clothes in over 13 years and that’s going fine.” >
Sruli Recht’s sci-fi footwear for a post-traumatic future

Design News • 16 Aug 21

The climate-conscious collection, Damage, solves for a dystopic future >
#DI Emerging Creative Buhle Qabaka chats to us about music icons, popular culture, and old-school cartoons

Q&A • 16 Aug 21

Bold illustrations and breaking boundaries >
A-E-I-O-U - Gisèle Human’s new Waif film by Frankie Nassimbeni - addresses mental health

Design News • 16 Aug 21

Former #DI Emerging Creative Gisèle Human creates a safe space for healing, softness, and peace >
Creative Cures

Design News • 11 Aug 21

From period poverty to the perfect portrait. >
#DI Emerging Creative Chelsea Robin Ingham chats to us about printmaking

Q&A • 9 Aug 21

Chelsea Robin Ingham on printmaking, coloured culture and ‘imposter syndrome’ >
Our media partner ARTSTHREAD & GUCCI join forces to showcase the world’s design graduates

Design News • 9 Aug 21

Following the success of the 2020 Global Design Graduate Show, ARTSTHREAD is ready for another round >
#DI Emerging Creative Fiona Davhana talks appreciating the natural, expressing womanhood and being her own muse

Q&A • 9 Aug 21

Creativity as a form of healing and body positivity >
From pineapple waste to period products

Design News • 9 Aug 21

Nyungu Afrika simultaneously combats period poverty and pollution >
A Gold Medal for design at the Tokyo Olympics

Design News • 2 Aug 21

Some of the greatest moments of the Tokyo Olympics will prove to be design-related >
No Waste Challenge winner CarbonCraft is transforming construction

Design News • 2 Aug 21

Carbon Tiles reuse waste to provide eco-friendly building materials >
Iwan Baan will transport you to the ‘Most Hopeful Places on Earth’

Design News • 2 Aug 21

Renowned photographer Iwan Baan guest-curates See All This. >
We chatted to #DI Emerging Creative Thando Phenyane about his wide-ranging influences

Q&A • 2 Aug 21

Thando Phenyane’s artworks pay homage to his architectural and art studies. >
A changing landscape

Design News • 29 Jul 21

This week: Design takes Gold in Tokyo; the war on waste; and artists changing norms… >
We chat to #DI Emerging Creative Kgothatso Malatjie about her emotionally charged multimedia work

Q&A • 26 Jul 21

Kgothatso Malatjie uses different artforms to express herself her emotions >
No Waste Challenge 2021 winner Mapu is the world’s first active sound system made of clay, wood, cork and wool

Design News • 26 Jul 21

Craft-led Mapu proves that eco-friendly materials can replace plastics in electronics >
Pavilion Tokyo 2021 is a public arts intervention featuring former #DI Speaker Sou Fujimoto

Design News • 26 Jul 21

Sou Fujimoto’s whimsical Cloud Pavilion adds visual poetry to urban Tokyo >
#DI Exclusive: Steloolive launches his latest experimental project, NiKANiKA Robotics

Design News • 26 Jul 21

Maverick Ghanian muso and #DI18 performer Steloolive shares his most recent artistic explorations with us >
#DI Exclusive: Steloolive launches his latest experimental project, NiKANiKA Robotics

Design News • 26 Jul 21

Maverick Ghanian muso and #DI18 performer Steloolive shares his most recent artistic explorations with us >
We chat to #DI Emerging Creative Kgothatso Malatjie about her emotionally charged multimedia work

Q&A • 26 Jul 21

Kgothatso Malatjie uses different artforms to express herself her emotions >

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