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Designer Anne Kiwia upcycles discarded cloths to create high fashion headbands

Design News • 22 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

“We have enough clothes. The world is full of it. We need to start protecting our environment and stop being needless consumers.” >
Tech to empower marginalised communities

Design News • 18 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

Human rights activist and storyteller Thenmozhi Soundararajan on the power of knowledge creation in the hands of the oppressed. >
Could the heat generated by blockchain be useful for other living beings?

Design News • Duration: 00:11:25 • 15 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

With a project called Farm, MIT student Gary Zhang shows that heat generated in the blockchain has many uses. >
(P)residant: Those who don't let go of power

Design News • 11 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

"I call them 'les presidents residants' because they never want to leave power once in the seat." – Fabrice Monteiro, photographer, Dakar. >
The eco-friendly benefits of a busted smartphone

Design News • Duration: 00:09:03 • 11 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

“This project takes the seemingly catastrophic moment in which the smartphone breaks as an opportunity to redefine the value of the expired object.” >
Bringing Afrocentric design to Milan Design Week

Design News • 10 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

Meet the South African designers who will be exhibiting their work for the first time at Milan Design Week. >
Here’s how movement can form type

Design News • 9 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

“The story of movement has just begun and we're really looking forward to where your designs take it.” >
Youngsta: Rapping the stories of the Cape Colony

Design News • 3 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

We sat down with one of South African rap's busiest and most artists. >
Constant, a photo series on pain, love and healing

Design News • 2 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

“The constant title came about when I had a serious reality check that I was the constant denominator in all my failed relationships." Basetsana Maluleka >
Alexis Peskine explores the black experience through unconventional mediums

Design News • 2 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

He speaks on his Afro-French heritage, immigration and the global black experience. >
The African crown reimagined

Design News • 1 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

Inspired by the work of J.D. Okhai Ojeikere, Medina Dugger and GIF artist François Beaurain celebrate the complexity of hair in Nigeria. >
Cross Cultural Chairs examines the role of the chair in our modern society

Design News • 1 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

"Analysing a chair you can understand the stature of a culture, what kind of materials they used and what kind of techniques they knew." >
This Bible-verse inspired building has a unique swan-like design

Design News • 28 Mar 19 • Sponsored Content

The distinctive roof is a pearly white concrete structure with sweeping, futuristic curves. >
One photographer's surrealist impression of mental illness

Design News • 27 Mar 19 • Sponsored Content

Katie Joy Crawford was diagnosed young. This is how she sees her anxiety and depression. >
Abstract Peaces: Redefining mental illness

Design News • 26 Mar 19 • Sponsored Content

Conceptual photographer Tsoku Maela challenges the stigma around mental illness by drawing on his personal experience. >
Four designers are looking to redesign the gynaecology experience

Design News • 25 Mar 19 • Sponsored Content

Yona is trying to redesign the uncomfortable vaginal speculum using human-centred experience design. >
On being a young creative dealing with mental health

Design News • 25 Mar 19 • Sponsored Content

We spoke to past Design Indaba Emerging Creatives to unpack the way creativity and mental health co-exist in their lives. >
Zipline is the small medical drone in Rwanda solving a worldwide logistics problem

Design News • 25 Mar 19 • Sponsored Content

"Health is where we found the connection between something we knew we could do and a problem that needed solving," Zipline's Keenan Wyrobek. >
Cairo architect Nada Elhadedy on architecture driven by circumstance

Design News • 20 Mar 19 • Sponsored Content

“So instead of using the building as a barrier… we used it to promote openings and interaction.” >
Ilze Wolff on creating an activist and public culture around architecture

Design News • 20 Mar 19 • Sponsored Content

In this architectural practice collaboration with artists is just as important as working with other architects and engineers. >
Could embracing the informality of South Africa’s chaotic taxi industry do more good than bad?

Design News • 18 Mar 19 • Sponsored Content

Researcher and urban planner Zonke Mkhomazi discusses the history and future of transport in South Africa. >
4 graphic designers experimenting with colour and tackling taboos

Design News • 14 Mar 19 • Sponsored Content

These are the graphic designer who were a part of the Design Indaba Emerging Creatives exhibition, a smorgasbord of young South African talent. >
Wacy Zacarias on taking back the African textile market

Design News • 13 Mar 19 • Sponsored Content

The Mozambican entrepreneur started Karingana Wa Karingana Textiles to create authentic African prints. >
#GlobalGrad Tshepo Mokholo on innovating traditional architectural practises

Design News • 4 Mar 19 • Sponsored Content

The Soweto-born architect, who is also a former Emerging Creative, tells us how a chance meeting landed him in Kigali. >

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This award-winning photo captures the muffled side of relationships

Design News • 19 Jul 16

Egyptian photographer Nourhan Refaat Maayouf has won the 2016 Barclays L’Atelier prize for an image which shows a masked and muted couple. >
WellBe: An anti-stress bracelet for personalised well-being

Design News • 19 Jul 16

The WellBe bracelet monitors your heart rate and uses a patent-pending algorithm to determine your stress and calmness level. >
Researchers are a step closer to an invisibility cloak for objects

Design Frontiers • 19 Jul 16

“Cloak” device makes objects seem invisible by making curved surfaces seem flat. >
Social housing in Colombia made from plastic waste

Design News • 19 Jul 16

Conceptos Plásticos is building homes for low-income families using recycled plastic bricks. >