Take Five

Our top story featured Nigerian graphic designer Karo Akpokiere, who didn’t know about the Venice Biennale until his work was selected for an exhibition there.
Take Five
Our top story featured Nigerian graphic designer Karo Akpokiere, who didn’t know about the Venice Biennale until his work was selected for an exhibition there.

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Readers were thrilled to discover Nigerian artist Karo Akpokiere, who is showing at an exhibtion called All the World’s Futures at the Venice Biennale. And to think that a few moths ago he only had a vague sense of the event’s real significance. 

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Readers were curious about the win-win innovation behind the isabelo bench in Maboneng, Johannesburg. The bench provides free wifi in exchange for users completing a quick questionnaire that delivers data to clients.

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Our Lookbook of furniture prototypes by 11 young designers at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York was a timely hit.

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Spanish artist Bea Crespo’s humorous illustrations tickled and toyed with readers’ imaginations.

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Another timely, popular feature was our pick of favourite design projects on Kickstarter for #DesignMonth.