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Counting sheep

Design News • 29 May 23 • Sponsored Content

This exhibition shows how wool is more than just a raw material. >
The hills are alive

Design News • 29 May 23 • Sponsored Content

This winery building forges a symbiotic relationship between architecture and nature. >
Pretty in pink

Design News • 22 May 23 • Sponsored Content

A 7,6-metre-tall fluorescent tree decorates New York’s High Line. >
Dreams come true

Design News • 22 May 23 • Sponsored Content

Adjaye Associates transformed a former ice warehouse in Harlem into a public school. >
House of memories

Design News • 12 May 23 • Sponsored Content

A memorial dedicated to earthquake victims traces the natural paths on a hill. >
To-do list

Design News • 12 May 23 • Sponsored Content

Ayse Birsel’s latest book guides readers in designing their own long, happy lives. >
Bathroom break

Design News • 12 May 23 • Sponsored Content

Tom Dixon collaborates with Cosentino on a bold new vision for bathrooms. >
Around the world

Design News • 8 May 23 • Sponsored Content

Thirteen design startups were chosen for their innovative strategies for building a more circular society. >
Rock of ages

Design News • 8 May 23 • Sponsored Content

This combined research and exhibition space invites exploration and discovery. >
The New Medium

Design News • 8 May 23 • Sponsored Content

The first fine-art physical NFT gallery in South Africa opens in Johannesburg. >
Tomorrow's designs today

Design News • 2 May 23 • Sponsored Content

Four up-and-coming designers have made their ambitious designs a reality. >
For stories

Design News • 2 May 23 • Sponsored Content

This spiral building serves as a public exhibition and reading area. >
Limited edition

Design News • 24 Apr 23 • Sponsored Content

Former Design Indaba Emerging Creatives showcased their collections at South African Fashion Week 2023. >
Heads up

Design News • 24 Apr 23 • Sponsored Content

William Kentridge's The Head & The Load comes to the African continent for the first time. >
Cabin fever

Design News • 24 Apr 23 • Sponsored Content

This wooden cabin can be opened up to let in nature. >
The plot thickens

Design News • 17 Apr 23 • Sponsored Content

Studio Other Spaces has been developing this massive park in Ethiopia since 2013. >
Light work

Design News • 17 Apr 23 • Sponsored Content

This wind-up flashlight kit was designed in collaboration with its intended users. >
Illumination station

Design News • 17 Apr 23 • Sponsored Content

Light takes centre stage in six Milan Design Week exhibitions. >
Laying the foundations

Design News • 11 Apr 23 • Sponsored Content

This school in Tanzania is designed to respond to site-specific climatic conditions. >
Naturally synthetic

Design News • 11 Apr 23 • Sponsored Content

This low-carbon biomaterial created from plant waste and microbes is an alternative to traditional clothing fabrics. >
Making sense

Design News • 11 Apr 23 • Sponsored Content

Design Indaba alum Ai Weiwei’s new exhibition includes a piece made from 650 000 Legos. >
Raise the roof

Design News • 4 Apr 23 • Sponsored Content

The People Tree House in India incorporates sustainable water and power features. >
Fast food, slow packaging

Design News • 4 Apr 23 • Sponsored Content

Elium Studio has redesigned McDonald’s iconic red packaging to be reusable. >
The curious desert

Design News • 4 Apr 23 • Sponsored Content

The National Museum of Qatar presents a dual-site exhibition by Icelandic–Danish artist Olafur Eliasson. >

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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 >