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Family-friendly sculpture garden opens at Franschhoek wine estate

Design News • 24 Jul 17 • Sponsored Content

The Boschendal Wineland Estate says they want the garden to be diverse enough to cater to both young and old. >
HUT: Architecture concept for a spiritual community

Design News • 24 Jul 17 • Sponsored Content

This Italian design group has conceptualised a meditative hub for Tanaf Village, Senegal. >
Neurospeculative AfroFeminism creates a safe space for women of colour

Design News • 21 Jul 17 • Sponsored Content

Created by Hyphen Labs, this virtual reality (VR) salon combines technology and art. >
Laduma Ngxokolo's timely move into wearable tech

Design News • 21 Jul 17 • Sponsored Content

The limited edition Mna Nam by Laduma allows you to save as easily as you would normally spend. >
Introducing Spectrum.za – a new publication focusing on the work of black LGBT+ creatives

Design News • 21 Jul 17 • Sponsored Content

The e-zine centres marginalised identities and their narratives. >
Walk the geometric maze of Camille Walala

Design News • 21 Jul 17 • Sponsored Content

The interactive exhibition is transforming the Greenwich Peninsula’s NOW Gallery into a body-bending experience. >
Could plant-based graffiti be the street art of the future?

Design News • 20 Jul 17 • Sponsored Content

This multimedia designer uses foliage as a paint brush. >
Curtain-like exterior gives this new building a sense of always being in motion

Design News • 20 Jul 17 • Sponsored Content

The Shanghai Bund Financial Center is a collaboration between Foster & Partners and Heatherwick Studio. >
The Ki Ecobe shoe doesn’t use a single drop of glue

Design News • 20 Jul 17 • Sponsored Content

The revolutionary, modular footwear can be self-assembled in less than five minutes. >
Sunu Gonera on getting branded media right

Design News • 20 Jul 17 • Sponsored Content

The Cannes Lions award-winning filmmaker believes in authentic African storytelling. >
Nigerian artist Dennis Osadebe on his work and moving away from terms like "African Art"

Design News • 19 Jul 17 • Sponsored Content

He says "African Art" as a term, is not doing justice to the different experiences that artists are facing and expressing on the continent. >
Wasted reimagines how we deal with urban trash

Design News • 19 Jul 17 • Sponsored Content

Amsterdam-based CITIES Foundation has used plastic as currency for two years. Now they’ve added paper, textiles and glass. >
Argentinian artist uses 100, 000 banned books to build a monument

Design News • 18 Jul 17 • Sponsored Content

Conceptual artist Marta Minujín has created a full-scale replica of the Parthenon – one of the world’s most famous structures. >
The ecological reincarnation of Mount Trashmore

Design News • 18 Jul 17 • Sponsored Content

Proof that a second chance at life can be rewarding, even when it comes to lifeless urban spaces. >
Step into the vibrant alternative future of Adblock City

Design News • 18 Jul 17 • Sponsored Content

How will we escape the ever-mounting saturation of advertising in our cities? >
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has found a novel way to share its vast artwork

Design News • 17 Jul 17 • Sponsored Content

US art lovers can text keywords or an emoji and receive matching pictures from the museum's database >
Cook This Page wants to make cooking new things easy and fun

Design News • 17 Jul 17 • Sponsored Content

Interactive IKEA recipes demonstrate just how deliciously simple creativity can be. >
New vertical residences in Eindhoven to be designed by MVRDV

Design News • 17 Jul 17 • Sponsored Content

This mosaic-like structure combines urban farming, housing and more in the Eindhoven city centre. >
Unwind: Music as an alternative to traditional medicine

Design News • Duration: 00:22:12 • 17 Jul 17 • Sponsored Content

Marko Ahtisaari presents Unwind, a global experiment in drug-free ways to treat physical and mental health. >
Cape Town décor label Mia Mélange revitalises with fresh look and feel

Design News • 16 Jul 17 • Sponsored Content

“Our intention was to express the diverse ways in which our products can be used in and around the home.” >
Cole Ndelu's arresting work tackles collective memory and the portrayal of black bodies

Design News • 14 Jul 17 • Sponsored Content

The Durban-based artist and photographer challenges representation with her disruptive imagery. >
A golden way to draw attention to an overlooked piece of female anatomy

Design News • 14 Jul 17 • Sponsored Content

Alli Sebastian Wolf hopes that her work will spur more conversations about the fascinating magic and underappreciated aspects of the clitoris. >
Swedish design gallery celebrates the monumental failures of the product design world

Design News • 13 Jul 17 • Sponsored Content

We so often learn about the breakthroughs, the triumphs and innovations of creativity – what about the blunders? >
Dutch photographer captures candid moments of life on the streets of Christian Village

Lookbook • 13 Jul 17 • Sponsored Content

“Photography helps me to see more, to connect with strangers and listen to their stories.” >

From the Archives

Designing for social good

Inside View • Duration: 00:04:59 • 24 Apr 14

According to Tom Hulme, founder of OpenIDEO, the only way to produce relevant and meaningful work as a designer is to address a real human need. >
Volcanic eruption

Design News • 24 Apr 14

Studio Formafantasma experiment with volcanic lava in the creation of a new product collection. >
Communicating with aliens

Design News • 24 Apr 14

Marguerite Humeau latest project looks at designing new communication devices that allow people to communicate with otherworldly creatures. >
2014 winners announced

Design News • 23 Apr 14

Design Museum has announced the Designs of the Year 2014 category winners. >

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