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We chat to #DI Emerging Creative Kgothatso Malatjie about her emotionally charged multimedia work
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Kgothatso Malatjie uses different artforms to express herself her emotions
26 Jul 21
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Design that envisions a better future
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Urban & Landscape Design
No Waste winners, parks that halt climate change, & fashion that empowers…
22 Jul 21
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We chat to #DI Emerging Creative Azee Tanzi on tailoring and timeless fashion
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Azola Tanzi’s clothing career is tailor-made for her
19 Jul 21
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LOLA and Piet Oudolf’s visionary new landscaping book and exhibition focuses on public gardens as a solution to climate change
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Urban & Landscape Design
Explore former #DI Speaker Peter Veenstra’s fertile new collab with Piet Oudolf
19 Jul 21
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#DI Emerging Creative Chifunilo Mulusa talks to #DI on giving back & African luxury
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
A timeless aesthetic is Milan-trained Chifunilo Mulusa’s design foundation
19 Jul 21
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No Waste Challenge winners announced!
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Product Design
Sixteen global waste-busters awarded top honours by What Design Can Do.
16 Jul 21
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Exploring Woven Cosmos, Kenyan biophilia, music’s mavericks, & our newest multimedia-ists
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Craft
New worlds
15 Jul 21
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We interview #DI Emerging Creative Alizwa Mnyatheli on her otherworldly art
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Art & Photography
Self-taught artist Alizwa Mnyatheli’s work poetically explores various mediums.
12 Jul 21
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Kéré Architecture’s Startup Lions Campus is set to inspire future achievers
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Architecture & Interiors
Former #DI Speaker Diébédo Francis Kéré designs a new nature-inspired landmark in Kenya.
12 Jul 21
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Hella Jongerius - a former #DI Speaker - welcomes you into her magical world of weaving
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Craft
Woven Cosmos, Hella Jongerius’ interactive show, demonstrates 25 years of textile wisdom.
12 Jul 21
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Discover how #DI Emerging Creative Nhlakanipho Mashinini explores difficult subject matter in our exclusive interview with the young digital artist
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Art & Photography
As a way to make sense of chaos, Nhlakanipho Mashinini layers different artistic techniques.
12 Jul 21
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Why KoolKiel’s cool, Kenya’s new CAMO-flage, proud LGBTQIA+ garb, & more!
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
A shot of Expression
8 Jul 21
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Denouncing plastic, hair as art, African spirituality & the Bouroullec Brothers’s latest…
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Design Thinking
Design for people, by people.
7 Jul 21
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Kenyan photographer Thandiwe Muriu’s Parisian show stands out by blending in
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Art & Photography
Thandiwe Muriu’s CAMO series celebrates being African by playing with colour and culture.
5 Jul 21
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#DI Speaker Winy Maas’s latest MVRDV project, KoolKiel, is a community-engaged, resident-designed building
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Architecture & Interiors
For its new building project in Germany, MVRDV has asked the community what they want.
5 Jul 21
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Designing for queer kids, #DI Emerging Creative Tristan Shaun Henry uses fashion as socio-political commentary
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
We chat to Tristan Shaun Henry about creating LGBTQIA+ awareness through fashion.
5 Jul 21
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Storytelling informs #DI Emerging Creative Lithemba Nziweni’s photography
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Art & Photography
#DI Exclusive: We chat to Lithemba Nziweni about his approach to his craft
5 Jul 21
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Spoon Archaeology examines plastic cutlery, hopefully, as a relic of the past
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Design Activism
Kai Linke and Peter Eckart put 20 years of plastic cutlery on museum display.
28 Jun 21
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Tadao Ando, NeM and Bouroullec Brothers transform La Bourse de Commerce
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Art & Photography
La Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection bridges past and present.
28 Jun 21
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Hair all about it! We interview #DI Emerging Creative Nikiwe Dlova on her hair art
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Nikiwe Dlova brings together head and heart.
28 Jun 21
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We spoke to #DI Emerging Creative Lerato Lodi about spirituality and her art
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Rising artist Lerato Lodi combines traditional African spirituality and contemporary Western practices.
28 Jun 21
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Reframing specs, a sustainable high-speed train, and adaptable materials
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Product Design
Seeing into the future.
23 Jun 21
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The high-speed Hyperloop by Zaha Hadid Architects will revolutionise land-based travel
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Product Design
Hyperloop and Zaha Hadid Architects on track to transport us into the future.
21 Jun 21
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#DI Global Graduate Ackeem Ngwenya envisions a future of fashion inclusivity with REFRAMD eyewear
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Product Design
REFRAMD’s vision is one of individualized solutions to eyewear.
21 Jun 21
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