Design News

Hooded: Subversion through photography

Design News • 21 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

Myles Loftin confronts the stereotype of the hooded black man in a new multimedia project. >
Why wastewater?

Design News • 20 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

World Water Day 2017 will look at the way we manage the precious resource during every part of the water cycle. >
Buddibox: A community-driven courier network in South Africa

Design News • 20 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

This organisation tackles local unemployment by facilitating small-scale courier services. >
Arch for Arch celebrates Archbishop Tutu and the freedom of South Africa

Design News • 20 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

It will be launched on 7 October, 2017 to coincide with The Arch's 86th birthday. >
Stories of feral children told through photography

Design News • 17 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

This photographer sheds light on the cruelty faced by children as they are abandoned by society absolutely. >
A conceptualised take on gendered domestic bliss

Design News • 17 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

Photographer Patty Carroll’s Anonymous Women addresses our gendered view of domesticity. >
A look into the volume of the internet

Design News • Duration: 01:22 • 16 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

How much do you know about the design of the worldwide web? >
Data Oruwari: Master of the micropen

Design News • 16 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

“Creativity is my religion, so I’m always finding new ways to bring things to life.” >
South African photographer shortlisted in 2017 Sony World Photography Awards

Design News • 16 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

Cole Ndelu’s arresting entry was inspired by the #FeesMustFall movement. >
Using technology to reimagine the documentation of human suffering

Design News • 16 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

Photographer Richard Mosse’s latest work opens at the Barbican. >
RiverBlue

Design News • Duration: 02:00 • 15 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

This film documents the unspoken cost of the global fashion industry. >
Eco-friendly digs for the modern nomad

Design News • 15 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

The University of Porto (UPTEC), Portuguese startup Ecocubo created a prefab perfect for travellers. >
Nana Oforiatta – Ayim and the encyclopaedia of African art and culture

Design News • 15 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

African art, advancements, innovations and magic all in one place. >
StelooLive: An experimental, electronic soundscape in Accra

Design News • 14 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

In this live mix of fashion, art and sound, Accra-based trail-blazer Dj Steloo creates an experimental soundscape using glass, spoons and cans as instruments. >
Falling: Representing depression through art

Design News • 13 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

This artist depicts her longstanding experience of mental disorder in disturbing style. >
New subversive hip hop from Kenyan artist Muthoni Drummer Queen

Design News • 13 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

Kenyan rapper and singer, Muthoni Drummer Queen’s latest song is hip-hop activism at its finest. >
The Scene of Childhood

Design News • 13 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

Photographer Lionel Jusseret captures the magical ways that autistic children communicate. >
This tampon packaging brings an important part of menstruation out of hiding

Design News • 13 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

Thinx Tampons has gone where no tampon maker has dared go before. >
The Five Fields Play Structure by Matter Design

Design News • 10 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

This playground stimulates the imagination and encourages creativity. >
Panâh: An ethical fashion production house in Kenya

Design News • 10 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

This African production house produces high quality clothes for international brands. >
Using soybeans to create vegan leather

Design News • 9 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

We can now add soybeans to the list of cruelty-free leather alternatives. >
Photographer captures the nuances of a South African township

Design News • 9 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

In an ongoing project, photographer Andile Bhala looks to capture the beauty of Soweto. >
Can you spot the women in these chaotic, illustrated ads?

Design News • 8 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

This ad campaign highlights the lack of women in the Egyptian workforce. >
Kasha: Rwanda’s digital solution to a pervasive problem

Design News • 8 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

Access to information and basic services can help women progress in the developing areas. >

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Golden touch

Q&A • 9 Sep 22

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Dokter’s orders

Design News • 9 Sep 22

Johannesburg-based multidisciplinary product-design company Dokter and Misses’ latest collection is functional art. >
The anatomy of art

Design News • 9 Sep 22

New York-based artist Michael Mapes creates fragmented portraits out of collected items >
‘A’ Okay

Design News • 9 Sep 22

Swedish architecture firm Naturvillan designed an A-framed ‘greenhouse’ that is entirely self-sufficient. >