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How Blackboard is helping kids unleash their creativity

Next Generation > Graphic Design & Illustration

Nkanyezi Masango, founder of Blackboard, believes exposing kids to creative careers can unlock a world of opportunities.

13 Aug 19
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Merging architecture, entrepreneurship and digital fabrication in Cameroon

Design Frontiers > Urban & Landscape Design

"Ours is the first digital manufacturing laboratory for architecture and design in Africa," African Fabbers School founder Paolo Cascone.

13 Aug 19
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Conserving Cairo's architectural heritage

African Report > Architecture & Interiors

Meet ARCHiNOS, an architecture firm that is helping to restore Cairo's mediaeval and Ottoman-era buildings.

13 Aug 19
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The Trap is an exploration of the female form merged with nature

Design News > Craft

Ali Aschman explores her conflicting feelings on the ways in which women have been associated with nature through the ages.

9 Aug 19
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Lukhanyo Mdingi on the defining characteristics of his eponymous label

Next Generation > Fashion & Jewellery Design

“Luxury, essentially, is time. Using the spirit of time in the best way, in order to create quality items.”

7 Aug 19
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The Great Passenger Pigeon Comeback project is a blueprint for de-extinction

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

The speculative designer behind human leather, Tina Gorjanc explores the ethics and implications of de-extinction

7 Aug 19
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Discover forgotten worlds with The Lost Botanist

Design Frontiers > Interaction Design

We journey forth with The Lost Botanist into worlds unknown made possible through animation and VR technology.

7 Aug 19
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Natsai Audrey Chieza on working with nature to help solve fashion's waste problem

Design Frontiers > Product Design

She talks about projects that include dyeing clothes using bacteria, developing a residency programme and her love for Solange, Mafikizolo and Bjork.

6 Aug 19
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How 3D printing is helping to make music more accessible

Design Frontiers > Product Design

By printing 3D instruments, designers are able to custom-fit the instrument to each musician, foregoing the usual barriers.

6 Aug 19
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Tahiti Fashion Week: A celebration of the island's rich cultural history

Design Frontiers > Fashion & Jewellery Design

We take a look at the untapped talent of the French Polynesian island of Tahiti.

5 Aug 19
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Street artist Nardstar is painting women of colour in public spaces

Design News > Design Activism

Nardstar's murals can be found in New York, Paris and her hometown, Cape Town

2 Aug 19
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Illustrating vernacular South African terms

Design Frontiers > Graphic Design & Illustration

Kobie Niewoudt explores “Tsotsitaal” (the slang language among Cape Town's youth) with her illustrations and quirky gifs.

1 Aug 19
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Could flies be used to treat rare diseases?

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

Experimental designer Frank Kolkman puts the treatment of rare conditions into the hands of those afflicted.

1 Aug 19
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Designer Siyanda Mbele on fusing functionality, aesthetics and culture

Design News > Product Design

By creating practical, locally made art and furniture, Mbele hopes to inspire younger South African designers to learn and teach.

1 Aug 19
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Tackling unemployment through a holistic approach to design

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

Devised by service designer Hazel Scrimgeour, LINKUP is a platform set to make a difference to South Africa's unemployed youth.

31 Jul 19
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Rebuilding Somalia’s ruined cities

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

The civil war in Somalia has not only destroyed the lives of countless people – it also left behind many ruined cities.

30 Jul 19
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How digital technologies can help Africa’s smallholder farmers

Design Frontiers > Industrial Design

The various applications of digital tech in agriculture could produce unprecedented results on the continent.

30 Jul 19
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Meet the Queen of Cowries: Lafalaise Dion

Next Generation > Fashion & Jewellery Design

For Ivorian designer Lafalaise Dion, the cowrie shell is representative of African legacy and spirituality.

30 Jul 19
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bioMason grows bricks without using any heat

Design Frontiers > Industrial Design

This method mimics a naturally occurring material called biological cement, much like the process that occurs when coral is formed.

29 Jul 19
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Primrose Chimhanda on nature as inspiration for her textile designs

Design News > Product Design

“Each design is inspired by a form of nature which represents an expression of the most powerful lessons I’ve learnt.”

29 Jul 19
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Biology is the new technology with Silvio Tinello’s grown objects

Design News > Industrial Design

“Designers are beginning to realise that they can grow a better future."

29 Jul 19
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London street gets the Yinka Ilori happy treatment

Design Frontiers > Urban & Landscape Design

Happy Streets is the product designer's first public project.

29 Jul 19
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Michelle Mlati's afrofuturist approach to spatial planning

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

“It is about spatially rewriting the city to not only mitigate apartheid spatial legacies...but one that transforms with evolving black culture.”

26 Jul 19
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Eleazer Radebe’s journey into the world of fashion

Next Generation > Craft

From humble beginnings and several detours, Design Indaba Emerging Creative Eleazer Radebe is carving a wholesome fashion and lifestyle brand, By Ele.

26 Jul 19

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