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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. >
Tulip fever

Design News • 17 Oct 22 • Sponsored Content

The biggest design event in Northern Europe is taking place in Eindhoven between 22 and 30 October 2022. >
Babe in arms

Design News • 17 Oct 22 • Sponsored Content

Ogilvy Africa, RotoTanks and the Ministry of Health Kenya partnered on a project aimed at educating young mothers to prevent malnutrition. >
Creative business

Design News • 10 Oct 22 • Sponsored Content

Multidisciplinary artist Nene Mahlangu is the 2023 Design Indaba Emerging Creative programme curator. >
Ringing the changes

Design News • 10 Oct 22 • Sponsored Content

The International Olympic Committee revealed a new brand identity for the Olympics, the first since the games began in 1896 >
Architecture’s best

Design News • 10 Oct 22 • Sponsored Content

The Aga Khan Award for Architecture announced the six winners of its 15th award cycle (2020-2022) >
Tapping in

Design News • 3 Oct 22 • Sponsored Content

Austrian industrial design company Salz tackles water heating in emerging markets with a solar water heater. >
On the seashore

Design News • 3 Oct 22 • Sponsored Content

A collaborative design from Barcode Architects and the Bjarke Ingels Group, the Sluishuis residential building slants over the water in Amsterdam. >
London Calling

Design News • 3 Oct 22 • Sponsored Content

The 20th edition of the London Design Festival took place across 12 design districts in the city. >
High Tide

Design News • 26 Sep 22 • Sponsored Content

SeaPods, the latest innovation from Ocean Builders, imagines a living space that floats in the middle of the ocean. >
Memento Mori

Design News • 26 Sep 22 • Sponsored Content

Artist and activist Ai Weiwei unveiled his first glass sculpture exhibition at Venice’s Basilica of San Giorgio Maggiore. >
On the dot

Design News • 26 Sep 22 • Sponsored Content

Postgraduate students at the Royal College of Art created Dotplot – a handheld device that helps monitor at-home breast checks. >
Living Space

Design News • 19 Sep 22 • Sponsored Content

Architect and computational designer Manas Bhatia used AI to imagine a utopian future with symbiotic buildings. >
The language of plants

Design News • 18 Sep 22 • Sponsored Content

The 23rd Triennale Milano features a futuristic greenhouse where visitors can experience plants' reactions to their surroundings >
Dokter’s orders

Design News • 9 Sep 22 • Sponsored Content

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

Design News • 9 Sep 22 • Sponsored Content

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

Design News • 9 Sep 22 • Sponsored Content

Swedish architecture firm Naturvillan designed an A-framed ‘greenhouse’ that is entirely self-sufficient. >
The search for South Africa’s next generation of creative sensations is back!

Design News • 7 Sep 22 • Sponsored Content

Applications to participate in the Design Indaba Emerging Creatives Class of 2023 are now open! >
Food is medicine

Design News • 5 Sep 22 • Sponsored Content

New York-based artist Chiizii’s ‘Nni Bu Ogwu’ archival collection examines pre- and post-colonial Igbo dietary practices. >
Play ball

Design News • 5 Sep 22 • Sponsored Content

The eye-catching Taipei Performing Arts Center was designed by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) >
Contemporary commute

Design News • 28 Aug 22 • Sponsored Content

Layer Design’s latest creation is a commuter bike designed to make personal transport a more effortless and convenient task >
Raise your glass

Design News • 28 Aug 22 • Sponsored Content

Berlin-based design studio Studio Other Spaces unveiled their kaleidoscopic wine-tasting pavilion in early August >
Most Valuable Player

Design News • 28 Aug 22 • Sponsored Content

Adidas collaborated with South African luxury fashion designer and LVMH prize winner Thebe Magugu to create a multi-use sports collection >
Dripping with hope

Design News • 23 Aug 22 • Sponsored Content

A Tunisian startup has designed a machine that can create drinkable water from thin air >

From the Archives

Exploring the connection between aromas and our memory

Design News • 6 Dec 19

“It’s really important for us to make emotion that could differentiate smell in how something makes you feel when you smell it.” >
Antya Waegemann redesigns the rape kit

Next Generation • 2 Dec 19

The 'When No One Believes You' rape kit includes six different design interventions for use by victims, nurses and the police. >
Ignis uses household materials to create a safe, reliable source of energy

Next Generation • 2 Dec 19

Antenna 2019 speaker Tobias Trubenbacher created Ignis to help provide clean and affordable energy to those without access to electricity. >
Camila Chiriboga on fashion that brings dignity to differently-abled people

Next Generation • 2 Dec 19

The antenna 2019 speaker created Veº, an inclusive system of fashion for the blind and visually impaired. >

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