The finalists for the first "Wood Excellence Prize" at the World Architecture Festival take the creative application of wood to new heights. >

Wiid Design's new bar stool brings together two unlikely materials – cork and concrete. >

The upcoming LagosPhoto Festival highlights photography that imagines alternative African realities and obscures the medium's role as truth-teller. >

This Hungarian textile designer has come up with an ingenious system for generating a never-ending array of patterns. >

Product designer Alejandra Olivera turns seaweed into a new eco-friendly insulation material for informal housing. >

Cheeky, bouncy and bold – here's a sampling of this prolific Cape Town-based designer's recent work. >

This local illustrator is set to launch her first children's book, "Mu's Wolf Problem", later this month. We catch up with her here. >

This track from Tumi Mogorosi's first solo album is thrillingly discordant – an impressive composition to say the least. >

A new foot-operated irrigation device is capable of tripling the revenue of smallholder farmers, says its manufacturer. >

Stefan Bucher's perfectly flowing animation of this music video belies the painstaking work behind it. He tells us about the ups and downs of making it. >