Articles

London-based design studio Something & Son ran a pop-up shop selling elegant jewellery made of coal to question mindless consumption at the cost of the earth. >

Enda is a running shoe inspired by Kenya’s legacy of running champions >

Someone Somewhere combines traditional handcrafts with contemporary products to empower Mexican artisans. >

Johnny Miller’s photographic series shows that Apartheid spatial planning is still present in South Africa’s Mother City. >

Two African innovators have created a cheap soap to combat Malaria in the developing world. >

Margrethe Odgaard is celebrated for her contributions to Nordic art and design. >

Designers develop a method of fabric-casting concrete into dynamic architectural forms >

The Transit Explore Bus was designed to tackle extreme traffic congestion and pollution in China. >

Self-sustaining, off-grid village to be built in the Netherlands offers a look at the future of eco-friendly living. >

Digging through the landfills of Dakar, Ousmane Mbaye sees design materials where others see trash. >

The Johannesburg-based startup Grove Audio creates custom designed wooden boomboxes. >

South African photographer Kristin-Lee Moolman creates a separate reality through her work. >

Researchers have found a way to cut down global littering by incorporating cigarette butts into 2.5 per cent of the world's annual brick production. >

A US-based company empowers Kampala’s street vendors through their solar powered micro-business cart. >