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6 clever design solutions for pressing healthcare issues
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We highlight some of the design solutions aimed at healthcare sector.
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28 Nov 19
Five examples of great design from Singapore
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Proof that a small island can produce big creativity.
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17 Sep 18
Six creative crowdfunding projects worth supporting this April
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From a wordless graphic novel to a project to turn an olive farm into a retreat for creatives and even a project turning plastic into homeware.
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12 Apr 18
Six creative crowdfunding projects worth supporting this April
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From a wordless graphic novel to a project to turn an olive farm into a retreat for creatives and even a project turning plastic into homeware.
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12 Apr 18
Top 10 Creative Crowdfunding Projects | March 2018
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Find out why this design made the cut in this month's crowdfunding round-up.
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14 Mar 18
Best Moments of Day 1 of Design Indaba Conference 2018
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Take a look at our speakers' most poignant messages delivered on stage at this year's Conference line-up.
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21 Feb 18
Top 10 Creative Crowdfunding Projects | February 2018
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We've scoured the web for compelling creative campaigns around the globe that you might want to support in their quest for funding. Have a look!
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5 Feb 18
Top 10 Creative Crowdfunding Projects | January 2018
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Graphic Design & Illustration
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We've scoured the web for compelling creative campaigns around the globe that you might want to support in their quest for funding. Have a look!
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31 Jan 18
Top 10 Creative Crowdfunding Projects | October 2017
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African Design
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Art & Photography
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Design Activism
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We've scoured the web for compelling creative campaigns around the globe that you might want to support in their quest for funding. Have a look!
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13 Oct 17
Top 10 Creative Crowdfunding Projects | September 2017
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African Design
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Craft
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Design Activism
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
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Film & Animation
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Graphic Design & Illustration
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Product Design
We've scoured the web for compelling creative campaigns around the globe that you might want to support in their quest for funding. Have a look!
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5 Sep 17
Top 10 Creative Crowdfunding Projects | August 2017
Focus On
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
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Film & Animation
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Product Design
We've scoured the web for compelling creative campaigns around the globe that you might want to support in their quest for funding. Have a look!
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4 Aug 17
5 design projects saving the oceans
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Design Activism
Today – World Oceans Day – we celebrate the ocean’s power to inspire and the innovative thinkers who’re protecting them.
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8 Jun 15
Focus On: Luxury
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Luxury may have always been a relative thing but its definition is shifting more than ever in our time-starved, media-saturated world.
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5 Jun 15
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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.
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23 May 15
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Joburg artists Hlanganani Nkambule and Melikhaya Ntlangeni’s Izikhotane-inspired cartoon touched a chord with readers this week.
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16 May 15
Mothers and daughters in design
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Here's a feel-good feature about three mother-daughter design teams for Mother's Day.
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10 May 15
Take Five
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Boundary-pushing fashion designer Lukhanyo Mdingi pulled the most interest on our website this week.
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9 May 15
Focus on: Telling time
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Six innovative timepieces that turn clock-watching into an unusual experience.
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26 Apr 15
Take Five
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Food Design
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Our gallery of specially made anti-xenophobia posters submitted by local illustrators was the most popular story this week.
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25 Apr 15
10 product highlights at Milan 2015
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As Milan Design Week draws to an end, we look back at ten new designs that made an impression.
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19 Apr 15
Take Five
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Christoph Niemann’s illustration, made for us in response to the recent spate of xenophobic violence in South Africa, had universal impact.
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18 Apr 15
Focus on: South African designers working in wool
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It’s Wool Week in Cape Town! We round up five recently launched designs that explore the tactile possibilities of this natural fibre.
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12 Apr 15
Take Five
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Graphic Design & Illustration
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The tale of a traditional Nigerian fabric called Aso Oke, reinvented in contemporary shoe designs, walked away with the top spot.
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11 Apr 15
Focus on: The fine art of street signs
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Graphic Design & Illustration
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Urban & Landscape Design
Street signs hold sway in our urban psyches, thanks to these design masters – and subverters.
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6 Apr 15
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