Design News

21st Century farming technology to address global food crisis

Design News • 18 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Urban Produce is a sustainable vertical farming system that looks toward the future of agriculture. >
Brad Harris’ illustrations capture the innocence of everyday childhood

Design News • 18 May 16 • Sponsored Content

South African artist Brad Harris draws from childhood experience to create stories and illustrations that capture child-like innocence. >
Florine Demosthene explores the black female form using mixed media art

Design News • 18 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Inspired by her travels in Africa, Florine Demosthene has created a new black heroine. >
Now they’re 3D printing bones

Design News • 17 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have developed a new material that can be used in bone replacement surgery. >
Livi brings nature indoors

Product Spotlight • 17 May 16 • Sponsored Content

The portable planter has a new take on interacting with nature. >
Claudia Liebenberg explores masculine themes through delicate watercolour illustration

Design News • 17 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Illustrator Claudia Liebenberg uses her passion for art to mentor some of South Africa’s disadvantaged kids. >
Edible insects: Won’t you pass the bugs?

Design News • 17 May 16 • Sponsored Content

NB Studio reimagines major food brands and chains with insects as their main ingredients. >
Open Eyes: The social ad campaign with a vision

Design News • 16 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Following the moving advertising campaign #OpenEyes, we talk to FoxP2 at about why a brand needs to make people feel something in order to be relevant. >
Wear Your Label wants a stigma-free society

Product Spotlight • 16 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Wear Your Label gets people talking about mental health through fashion and jewellery design. >
Pop-up sweatshop appears in Amsterdam

Design News • 16 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Customers face the harsh reality of where their clothes come from in this pop-up sweatshop. >
A farming and recreational space designed to bring a community together

Design News • 16 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Bottle Seedling House is a multipurpose shelter that aims to improve the quality of life for a farming community affected by HIV/AIDS. >
Oded Ezer designs the Life/Death t-shirt

Product Spotlight • 13 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Tel Aviv-based graphic design artist Oded Exer designed a t-shirt to help refugees. >
Portable surgical sterilisation suitcase

Design News • 13 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Eniware is a new sterilisation system that aims to have a positive impact on health care in developing countries. >
The Honey: Representations of blackness as power

Design News • 13 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Rendani Nemakhavhani's dynamic photo series "The Honey" turns away from blackness as struggle. >
Budapest-based brand NewFoldr champions cardboard electronics

Design News • 12 May 16 • Sponsored Content

NewFoldr aims to create a recyclable electronics movement to challenge the global e-waste issue >
"Inside Ya Body" looks inside the body for inspiration

Design News • 12 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Jack Sachs' solo installation takes a quirky, animated look at the inside of the human body. >
Artist’s mock machine guns are sculpted from old typewriters

Design News • 12 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Denver-based Ravi Zupa brings gun violence to the fore in “Mightier Than”. >
Snail shell shelter brings user closer to nature

Design News • 12 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Helix is a micro-architecture structure that can shelter one nomadic individual. >
Treating mental illness with virtual reality

Design News • 11 May 16 • Sponsored Content

An Oxford University study tested virtual simulation on sufferers of severe paranoia, with positive results. >
Swawou School for Girls finally opens its doors to students in Sierra Leone

Design News • 11 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Orkidstudio unveils its free-education school in eastern Sierra Leone after the Ebola outbreak put the project on hold. >
The FoodShare Truck: Fresh produce at affordable prices

Design News • 11 May 16 • Sponsored Content

The travelling food market offers fresh produce at cheaper prices to locals that otherwise can’t access or afford it. >
Photographer documents the unseen life of Senegal’s talibes

Design News • 11 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Photojournalist Mario Cruz’s photobook explores the harsh lives of Senegal’s modern child slaves. >
Revitalising Detroit by giving homes to writers

Design News • 11 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Write A House is a non-profit that provides vocational training to Detroit locals while trying to stabilise a city in decline. >
Transforming London’s Trafalgar Square into a crazy golf course

Design News • 10 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Designed by the late Zaha Hadid, the undulating course will be futuristic, functional, fun and free for the public. >

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Melting pot

Q&A • 6 Mar 22

Buhle Nkalashe’s powerful artworks are steeped in isiXhosa, isiZulu and Ndebele traditions >
Pool poetics

Design News • 6 Mar 22

Kanya Viljoen’s Eurydice makes use of femme narratives in a waterless pool >
Igloo eatery

Design Frontiers • 6 Mar 22

Japan’s Kamakura Village pop-up eatery serves traditional fare in icy igloos for one month a year >
From dawn to dust

Design News • 6 Mar 22

Katie Paterson’s Requiem will change the way you think about dust >