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Algorithmically designed jewellery by Nervous System

Creative Work • 5 Jan 17

Made from brass and rubber, the Corollaria collection is inspired by science and technology. >
Hattie Newman: Creator of paper worlds

Interviews • Duration: 00:01:37 • 30 Dec 16

London-based set designer and paper artist Hattie Newman is in love with tactile things. >
Modern day Dracula and the plight of immigrants

Creative Work • 28 Dec 16

Artists adapt the classic tale of Dracula to explore the immigrant rights in the United States. >
The adventures of unconventional women

Creative Work • 26 Dec 16

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls is a collection of alternative bedtime stories for girls. >
How an artist is helping rebuild Haiti

Creative Work • 23 Dec 16

The Konbit Shelter is a sustainable building project in Haiti >
Smokeless cooking in Kenya

Creative Work • 23 Dec 16

Fighting lower respiratory infection with innovative design. >
Things we learnt in 2016

Creative Work • 23 Dec 16

We share a few of the interesting, incredible and sometimes unbelievable things we learnt on Design Indaba this year. >
Minerae: Another way to touch light

Creative Work • 23 Dec 16

This conceptual designer thinks of ways to make new connections between us and our environment. >
Gemma O'Brien: The art of lettering

Interviews • Duration: 00:02:49 • 22 Dec 16

Letter artist Gemma O'Brien talks about the appeal of the handmade and the way that the shape of words can capture the character of a place. >
Beginning of Life

Creative Work • Duration: 02:37 • 22 Dec 16

Take a look at the live production that depicted the earliest years of life on Earth. >
Spying on a thief in this fascinating documentary

Creative Work • 21 Dec 16

Film student Anthony van der Meer made a documentary tracking his stolen phone and the thief who stole it >
Sailing the Seine on a ferry powered by human energy

Creative Work • 21 Dec 16

The latest eco-design from Carlo Ratti Associati takes human efficiency to the next level. >
Anti-Human: An avant-garde photo series from the Kolor Art Collective

Creative Work • 20 Dec 16

Rio de Janeiro’s Kolor Art Collective present their latest photo series highlighting animal abuse >
Cleaning up outer space with Kounotori’s electrified tether

Creative Work • 20 Dec 16

Scientists are testing ways to clear up the new problem of space pollution. >
What does flatpack furniture have to do with love?

Creative Work • 20 Dec 16

Assisted intimacy: How to build flat-pack furniture and bond with your loved ones. >
Kate Moross: How to make mess look good

Creative Work • Duration: 00:00:09 • 19 Dec 16

London-based art director Kate Moross and her studio create explosive work, often for music artists or events with a certain chaotic (messy) energy. >
How do you photograph a phobia?

Creative Work • 19 Dec 16

This VSCO commissioned series looks at rare phobias that disturb the mind. >
Alive by Juno Jeon

Creative Work • 19 Dec 16

The Netherlands-based designer enlivens his furniture pieces through movement >
Teepee-like complex serves as a haven for Japan's elderly

Creative Work • 16 Dec 16

Issei Suma's whimsical structures provide a calming environment for the retired. >
South African jewellery designer Stacy Beukes on the value of community

Interviews • 16 Dec 16

We talk to the South African jewellery designer behind the brand A Ring To It. >
Stepping up solar efforts

Creative Work • 16 Dec 16

This sidewalk converts steps into power. >
The Torturous History of the Treadmill

Creative Work • Duration: 02:20 • 16 Dec 16

One of the world’s most common exercise machines has quite a draconian past. >
Dakar's Creatives: A photo series that captures the city's movers and shakers

Creative Work • 15 Dec 16

In this photographic series by Jean Baptiste Joire we see Dakar's young creative agents in places in the city that inspire them. >
An interview with Ulfah Davids – the First Lady of Twobop

Creative Work • 15 Dec 16

In conversation with the designer behind the brand’s very first women’s collection. >

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