Articles

Cristina de Middel on her signature brand of filmic photography

Inside View • 9 Sep 15

The work of Spanish photographer Cristina de Middel has been exhibited worldwide – we found out what goes into her cinematic-style images. >
Eatwell is tailor-made for people with Alzheimer's disease

Design News • 9 Sep 15

Something as simple as tableware could ease the everyday troubles of Alzheimer's patients. >
The unknown modernist gems of Myanmar's architecture

Design News • 9 Sep 15

The soon-to-be-published "Architectural Guide: Yangon" exposes the hidden modernist treasures of Myanmar's largest city's architectural landscape. >
James Boock's 3-way sound system puts the performance back into music

Next Generation • 9 Sep 15

Royal College of Art graduate James Boock has designed a sound system, which allows listeners to see how music is created by making it a more tangible process. >
Marije Vogelzang imagines meat growing on plants for her food design project

Design News • 9 Sep 15

Plant Bones is Dutch food designer Marije Vogelzang’s exploration into culinary creativity. >
Three innovative ways to combat toxic air

Design News • 8 Sep 15

Three student designers have proposed interactive, health conscious ways to deal with air pollution. >
Htein Lin immortalises 1000 of Myanmar's political prisoners

Design News • 8 Sep 15

Myanmese artist and former political prisoner Htein Lin aims to cast the hands of 1000 political prisoners in plaster of Paris as a reminder of Myanmar's past. >
Koe Koe, Myanmar's first health app, is going to revolutionise healthcare in the country

Design Frontiers • 8 Sep 15

Koe Koe Tech founder Michael Lwin says he is going to fix Myanmar's healthcare with this comprehensive mobile app. >
Self-sustaining kitchen teaches kids about healthy living

Design News • 8 Sep 15

Interactive, self-sustaining kitchen teaches kids how to grow and cook food. >
Step into Erik Spiekermann's world

Profiling • 8 Sep 15

Find out what makes prolific typographer and graphic designer Erik Spiekermann tick as Freunde von Freunden take us into his home and studio in Berlin. >
Three housing solutions that tackle hyper-urbanisation in Africa

Design News • 8 Sep 15

Ethiopian and Bauhaus students collaborate on experimental urban housing prototypes to accommodate the massive growth of Africa's urban population. >
Panzagar campaign battles hate speech online in Myanmar

Design News • 7 Sep 15

In April 2014 a Myanmar blogger and activist started the Panzagar ("Flower Speech") campaign to battle the online hate speech that led to offline violence. >
A fleet of bicycles are cleaning up the densely populated and polluted city of Lagos

Design Frontiers • 7 Sep 15

Wecyclers, a fleet of low-cost tricycles, offers a convenient recycling service to densely populated, low-income Lagosian neighbourhoods. >
Yangon Bakehouse upskills Myanmese women to start their own businesses

Design News • 7 Sep 15

A coffee shop in Yangon empowers disadvantaged women in Myanmar with its food and beverage training programme. >
A preview of Ghanaian artist Ofoe Amegavie's untitled exhibition

Design News • 7 Sep 15

Ghanaian photographer Ofoe Amegavie's pain speaks through his latest work. >
Nigerian students build zero-emission car

Next Generation • 7 Sep 15

A team of Mechanical Engineering students of the University of Lagos have designed and built an electric and eco-friendly car. >
Refugees Welcome is becoming known as the Airbnb for refugees

Design News • 4 Sep 15

Refugees Welcome is a Berlin-based non profit that connects displaced refugees to citizens with spare rooms in European cities. >
The CimaVax vaccine is Cuba's most recent gift to cancer treatment

Design Frontiers • 4 Sep 15

The Centre of Molecular Immunology in Cuba is making great strides in cancer research with a new vaccine. >
La Marca – Cuba's first legal tattoo parlour

Design News • 4 Sep 15

La Marca's innovative tattooists attempt to capture Cuba on the skin of their customers. >
Could Wale Williams be Nigeria's new superhero?

Design News • 4 Sep 15

Lagos-born digital animator Roye Okupe releases his afrofuturistic graphic novel based entirely on African characters. >
From junk to jewellery: Mariana Acosta challenges the meaning of preciousness

Design News • 4 Sep 15

One man's junk is another man's contemporary jewellery, proves designer Mariana Acosta. >
The Bhulk 3D-printed bike frame is made from plants

Design News • 4 Sep 15

Italian design studio Eurocompositi are attempting to change the way we make bicycles. >
The rise of tech and innovation in Africa

African Report • 3 Sep 15

The tech and startup scene in Africa is burgeoning. Now innovation is being taught in schools, with the help of the LEGO Education Innovation Studios. >
Masixole Feni's photographs show how dignity and sanitation are inextricably linked

Design News • 3 Sep 15

Activist photographer Masixole Feni has won the Ernst Cole award for his images, which show that inadequate sanitation robs people of their dignity. >
A sustainable salt city in the desert

Design News • 3 Sep 15

At only 24 years old architecture graduate Eric Geboers has already designed a solution to global desertification. >
Humanitarian shelter for the sick and displaced in Nepal delivered by Ikea

Design News • 3 Sep 15

Ikea is putting the innovative design they're celebrated for into action in crisis zones across the world, such as Nepal, to give people better shelters. >
James Greenfield on how to rebrand a multi-billion dollar company

Inside View • 2 Sep 15

The creative director behind Airbnb’s largely publicised rebranding discusses his approach to branding projects. >
Meet Kenya's courageous Mau Mau fighters in Osborne Macharia's photographic narrative

Lookbook • 2 Sep 15

In Macicio, a Kenyan photographer tells the story of his country's fight for independence through fictional, freedom fighters. >
Menzi Khoza's photography isn't about showing off

Design News • 2 Sep 15

Young Durban-based photographer Menzi Gerald Khoza's camera makes everyone fall in love with the lesser-known beauty of South Africa. >
ATMs in Kenya dispense water to the people living in slums who need it

Design News • 2 Sep 15

These water dispensing ATMs are transforming the water and sanitation landscape in Nairobi’s slums by increasing access to clean, affordable water. >

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