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#DI Emerging Creative Buhle Qabaka chats to us about music icons, popular culture, and old-school cartoons

Interviews • 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

Creative Work • 16 Aug 21

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

Creative Work • 11 Aug 21

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

Interviews • 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

Creative Work • 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

Interviews • 9 Aug 21

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

Creative Work • 9 Aug 21

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

Creative Work • 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

Creative Work • 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’

Creative Work • 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

Interviews • 2 Aug 21

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

Creative Work • 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

Interviews • 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

Creative Work • 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

Creative Work • 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

Creative Work • 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

Creative Work • 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

Interviews • 26 Jul 21

Kgothatso Malatjie uses different artforms to express herself her emotions >
Design that envisions a better future

Creative Work • 22 Jul 21

No Waste winners, parks that halt climate change, & fashion that empowers… >
We chat to #DI Emerging Creative Azee Tanzi on tailoring and timeless fashion

Interviews • 19 Jul 21

Azola Tanzi’s clothing career is tailor-made for her >
LOLA and Piet Oudolf’s visionary new landscaping book and exhibition focuses on public gardens as a solution to climate change

Creative Work • 19 Jul 21

Explore former #DI Speaker Peter Veenstra’s fertile new collab with Piet Oudolf >
#DI Emerging Creative Chifunilo Mulusa talks to #DI on giving back & African luxury

Interviews • 19 Jul 21

A timeless aesthetic is Milan-trained Chifunilo Mulusa’s design foundation >
No Waste Challenge winners announced!

Creative Work • 16 Jul 21

Sixteen global waste-busters awarded top honours by What Design Can Do. >
Exploring Woven Cosmos, Kenyan biophilia, music’s mavericks, & our newest multimedia-ists

Creative Work • 15 Jul 21

New worlds >

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