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Cool ideas

Design News • 5 Dec 22 • Sponsored Content

Designer Yael Issacharov has created an electricity-free airconditioning system made of terracotta tiles combined with a water flow. >
Timeless timber

Design News • 5 Dec 22 • Sponsored Content

Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh has been announced as the 22nd Serpentine Pavilion designer. >
Tickled pink

Design News • 5 Dec 22 • Sponsored Content

Design Indaba alum Morag Myerscough has transformed a courtyard at Sheffield Children's Hospital into a kaleidoscope of colour. >
Practical science

Design News • 5 Dec 22 • Sponsored Content

The VIZIUM Science and Innovation Centre in Latvia was designed by Audrius Ambrasas Architects as a merging of landscape and architecture. >
My, oh, Miami!

Design News • 28 Nov 22 • Sponsored Content

The 18th edition of Design Miami is taking place between 30 November and 4 December 2022. >
Fashion forward

Design News • 28 Nov 22 • Sponsored Content

Ten local designers and brands were awarded for their sustainability practices at the Twyg Sustainable Fashion Awards 2022. >
Necessity is the mother of invention

Design News • 28 Nov 22 • Sponsored Content

Tomasz Raczyński, Dominik Baraniecki and Piotr Walter win the 2022 James Dyson Award for SmartHEAL. >
Power up

Design News • 28 Nov 22 • Sponsored Content

Lift 109, the latest revamped feature of Battersea Power Station, opened to the public earlier in November. >
Carbon neutral

Design News • 21 Nov 22 • Sponsored Content

A short film about carbon-absorbing buildings premiered at the UN’s Climate Change Conference COP27 in Egypt. >
Tracking changes

Design News • 21 Nov 22 • Sponsored Content

The world-famous train known as the Orient Express is getting a nostalgia-inspired makeover. >
The language of precarity

Design News • 21 Nov 22 • Sponsored Content

Raw Nerves, running until 14 January 2023, is the latest exhibition at Hannah Barry Gallery in London. >
Arabian dreams

Design News • 21 Nov 22 • Sponsored Content

The largest creative festival in the Middle East took place between 8 – 13 November 2022. >
African consciousness illuminated

Design News • 14 Nov 22 • Sponsored Content

A dynamic new exhibition probes the way black culture wishes to represent itself. >
Pointed Polish giant

Design News • 14 Nov 22 • Sponsored Content

A new landmark is drawing pedestrians’ gazes in Poland’s capital city. >
Cable me home

Design News • 14 Nov 22 • Sponsored Content

Future city transport looks personalised, clean and intelligent. >
Land on Water

Design News • 7 Nov 22 • Sponsored Content

As interest in building on water grows, MAST has come up with a flatpack modular system that will allow for floating homes. >
Filling in the gaps

Design News • 7 Nov 22 • Sponsored Content

Studio DRIFT employs drones to vividly reimagine history’s architectural masterpieces. >
Telling stories through colour

Design News • 3 Nov 22 • Sponsored Content

Design Indaba partners with Google to showcase the continent's creatives through "Colours of Africa". >
Read all about it

Design News • 31 Oct 22 • Sponsored Content

The Royal Institute of British Architects has named the New Library at Magdalene College as the 26th Stirling Prize winner. >
Pretty ugly

Design News • 31 Oct 22 • Sponsored Content

Georgina Gratrix’s new exhibition converses with Irma Stern’s artworks at the iconic painter’s former home. >
Head above water

Design News • 24 Oct 22 • Sponsored Content

Former Design Indaba Emerging Creative Kenyaa Mzee’s latest visual collection is exhibiting at Youngblood Gallery, Cape Town in October. >
Parking off

Design News • 24 Oct 22 • Sponsored Content

Design Indaba, Beefeater Gin and I Love The Dough collaborated on turning a pavement into a community-minded parklet. >
Modern classics

Design News • 24 Oct 22 • Sponsored Content

Iconic furniture design studio Herman Miller collaborated with Danish design brand HAY on a collection that reimagines the classic Eames collection. >
Come home again

Design News • 17 Oct 22 • Sponsored Content

British designer Es Devlin created a cathedral-like structure illustrated with pencil drawings of London’s 243 endangered flora and fauna species. >

From the Archives

Typeface as a tool for empowerment, with Bruno Maag

Design Frontiers • 10 Sep 19

“We, as graphic designers, should strive to make sure that information processing can be done easily for everyone.” >
Is food the next big thing in fashion?

Design Frontiers • 10 Sep 19

Agraloop Bio-Refinery produces high value bio-materials from food waste. >
Lebohang Kganye unpacks her family's journey of migration

Design News • 10 Sep 19

“The project evolves around how my family landed in Johannesburg – how they ended up in the city from the farmlands. But it’s really a relatable story." >
Not African Enough explores the diversity of Kenya's fashion landscape

Design News • 9 Sep 19

The Nest Collective’s second book challenges narrow perceptions of African fashion. >

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