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The Nest: A DIY approach to storytelling

Kenyan arts collective The Nest makes impressive use of limited resources – from running a radio station out of their bathroom to making an award-winning film. >
Haldane Martin’s zingy interior for new medical innovation hub

Cape Town designer Haldane Martin creates the interior for the new Innovation Hub at Groote Schuur Hospital. >
Trailer: Shubhankar Ray on how brands can survive in the 21st century

Content is king but no one explains why quite like Shubhankar Ray, who re-engineered the brands of Camper, Levis and G-Star. >
Shubhankar Ray on how brands can survive in the 21st century

Content is king but no one explains why quite like Shubhankar Ray, who re-engineered the brands of Camper, Levis and G-Star. >
Photographs capture women’s struggles to leave behind sex work

Alexandra Dietz has shot a series of 20 images that will change the way you see prostitution. >
#DITakover on Instagram: Studio Formafantasma

Italian design duo Studio Formafantasma took us on a strange and wondrous journey through their creative process in their takeover of our Instagram account. >
Thula Sindi: Understanding the dynamics of being an emerging fashion designer

Thula Sindi believes designers have to make themselves indispensible to customers by making truly wearable clothes. >
Focus On: Luxury

Luxury may have always been a relative thing but its definition is shifting more than ever in our time-starved, media-saturated world. >
Chu Suwannapha: Tradition is the new black

The “prince of prints”, Chu Suwannapha, has made reinventing tradition a core part of his new fashion label. >
A cross-continental architecture studio with solutions for Harare’s informal traders

The architects behind Studio [D] Tale propose a set of innovative designs to improve life for informal traders in African cities. >
William Kentridge on peripheral thinking

South Africa’s foremost artist demonstrates how productive procrastination is at the heart of his creative process. >
Trailer: William Kentridge on peripheral thinking

South Africa’s foremost artist demonstrates how productive procrastination is at the heart of his creative process. >
Skinny laMinx launches Diggi Dot collection

South Africa's favourite fabric designer, Heather Moore of Skinny laMinx, goes all sweet and subtle in her new collection. >
Seven films about African creativity at Encounters

These films at the annual Encounters documentary festival probe compelling issues at play in Africa’s creative landscape. >
Students’ stop-motion animation of a Beatles classic

A group of AAA School of Advertising students have created a colourful contemporary video for the Beatles song “Come Together”. >
Buzz lamp by The Artisan

A rugged copper-pipe lamp from Ingrid Auret and Jovan Geldenhuys of The Artisan launches today. >
Tri-light standing lamp by Dark Horse

Cape Town studio Dark Horse launches a minimal lamp with their signature angular aesthetic. >
Rainbow window art brightens up Buitenkant Street

Andrzej Urbanski and Pierre Le Riche illuminate a Cape Town storefront with a tapestry of colour. >
#MakeChange: Honest-to-goodness products by KIN Culture

A group of South African designers have created a range of products whose sale supports KIN Culture's mission to establish an alternative model of orphan care. >
The Making of the #FabulousDressProject

Fashion designer Celeste Arendse and blogger Aisha Baker show us how they stained and washed and wore the perfect white dress using Skip's micro-technology. >
Take Five

Our top story featured Nigerian graphic designer Karo Akpokiere, who didn’t know about the Venice Biennale until his work was selected for an exhibition there. >
“Cream on Chrome” by Steve Scott and Will Sweeney

A vintage-inspired sci-fi animation for “Cream on Chrome”, NYC duo Ratatat’s first song in five years. >
InnovateSA winners tackle malnutrition with spirulina

Paragon Protein by a group of Cape Town teenagers is an affordable and appetising way to incorporate spirulina into impoverished people's diets. >
David Tlale: Business advice from the catwalk

South African fashion designer David Tlale talks about how he was thrust into the business side of fashion. >

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