Katie de Klee

Image Merchants: W&N Studio and James Lavelle

We talk to DJ and artist James Lavelle and photographers Warren Du Preez and Nick Thorton Jones about the resurgence of craft and their various collaborations. >
Francois Knoetze on representations of waste and consumer culture

Performance artist Francois Knoetze's trash monsters are a bleak and beautiful reflection of our consumer culture and the waste it creates. >
How is virtual reality changing the architecture industry?

We talk to the VR specialist at South African architecture and design practice SAOTA about how virtual reality and technology is changing design. >
A new channel for the vicarious traveller

How Far From Home, speakers from our 2016 Conference, have just launched a video blog for those of us that are seeing the world vicariously through their eyes. >
Bio-bean: Imagine cities powered by coffee waste

Bio-bean is an award-winning clean technology company that recycles waste coffee grounds into advanced biofuels that could replace fossil fuels in cities. >
A medical icon kit for low literacy communities

Graphic design student Jonathan Stannard has won an RSA Design Award for his medical symbol kit to help people in low literacy areas understand their medicines. >
Sustainable plastic products made out of air pollution

AirCarbon is a plastic polymer made out of methane emissions that would otherwise be polluting the air. >
Si-Low: A low-cost grain storage unit for Africa

Anthony Brown has developed the Si-Low, a low-cost grain storage unit to help prevent farmers in Africa from loosing their grain after they harvest. >
Welcome to Wes Africa: A new fashion campaign with a touch of nostalgia

Online fashion store Superbalist presents a Wes Anderson-inspired cinematic winter campaign shot in Dakar, Senegal. We'd like to share it with you. >
Enabled by design: A way finding system that considers the disabled

A More Inclusive Pedestrian Wayfinding System builds on the existing "Legible London" system to create an enhanced and more user-friendly navigation system. >
A new human-centred packaging system for ARV medication in Africa

A new system for the packaging of AIDS-related virus medication in Sub-Saharan Africa thinks more holistically about the user's needs. >
The meat-free burger that bleeds

Impossible Foods has developed an entirely vegetarian burger that simulates meat so effectively that it bleeds. >
Inside Nairobi's growing fashion scene

Nairobi concept store Ichyulu teams up with local photographers and style bloggers to celebrate the city’s growing fashion scene. >
Sou Fujimoto on multi-layered and conceptual architecture

Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto’s philosophical body of work explores architecture that doesn’t dictate any particular behaviour to its users. >
Puzzle-like mural for a new mother and child hospital in Johannesburg

Lorenzo Nassimbeni has been working with 26'10 SOUTH Architects to create a geometric tiled mural on the new Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital. >
CROSS.CULTURES is an exploration into heritage, personal influences and culture

Despite their highly different cultures, Cebisa Mafukuzela and Georgina Campbell found a way to celebrate their heritage through their project CROSS.CULTURE. >
Twenty-Fifty: A visualisation of the world’s food crisis

Designer Gemma Warriner is trying to make the global food crisis we face in 2050 accessible by representing the data in vegetables. >
Benjamin Hubert on how to redesign the way you work to make a bigger, better impact

Design by numbers. British industrial designer Benjamin Hubert shares a bit of data about his journey through the design industry. >
Why London's cars are like America's guns

Issue 2 of Do The Green Thing, "Why London's cars are like America's guns", is a call to reduce the number of cars and protect public space and fresh air. >
Ged Palmer and the art of lettering

British designer Ged Palmer is a master of hand painted lettering. He works with a brush (not a keyboard and mouse) because it brings him better peace of mind. >
Margaret Calvert on work and play over 60 years in graphic design

South African-born graphic designer Margaret Calvert, OBE is best known for the signs she helped design for Britain's roads. You can now watch her full talk. >
Beating Heart: An archive of African sounds is remixed for a new album

Several famous musicians have contributed remixes to the new Beating Hearts album, using sounds from a vast and previously private audio archive. >
Sou Fujimoto: The infinite possibilities of open field architecture

Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto talks about how architecture should create spaces for people to behave as they would like to. >
We Design Conference Durban calls for a national spatial revolution

The first We Design Conference in Durban, South Africa calls for radical transformation of South Africa's cities, towns and villages. >

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