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Fundudzi by Craig Jacobs presents Vuwani|The Rise
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
The designer’s latest lookbook pays tribute to a scarce resource: water.
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19 Jan 17
Walk the walk: Accra's most stylish creatives
Lookbook
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African Design
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Art & Photography
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Meet three of Accra’s best-dressed creatives – DJ Steloo, Neal Davids and Daniel Mawuli Quist, all recently featured on London-based publication Nataal.
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18 Jan 17
This video game challenges societal expectations of women
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Art & Photography
“You look awkward. You feel ridiculous, but that’s the toll of contorting yourself to fit in.”
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18 Jan 17
A Ritual of Exile by Poulomi Basu
Design Frontiers
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Art & Photography
Inside the patriarchal, centuries-old Nepalese ritual.
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17 Jan 17
Now and Then: Tracing the city of Detroit’s decay
Design News
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Art & Photography
This photo collection depicts two contrasting points in the lifespan of a city.
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16 Jan 17
Playful and powerful illustrations by Nokwanda Themba
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Art & Photography
The self-taught artist puts pen to paper in celebration of black women.
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16 Jan 17
Antoine Tempé: Documenting West African culture
Video Interviews
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African Design
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Art & Photography
French photographer Antoine Tempé has been living in Dakar, Senegal and works on portraits and documenting contemporary West African culture.
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13 Jan 17
The haunting self-portraits of Josephine Kuuire
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Art & Photography
The Ghanaian photographer learning to love herself through creativity.
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10 Jan 17
South African photographer takes us into one of Cape Town’s oldest traditions
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African Design
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Art & Photography
The Cape Town Minstrel Carnival is an annual celebration of renewal in Cape Town, South Africa.
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9 Jan 17
Free the nipple: LED teats contest censorship on Facebook
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Design Activism
Anonymous Spanish art collective Luzinterruptus create a carpet of glowing nipples outside Madrid's Facebook office to protest against censorship.
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5 Jan 17
Hattie Newman: Creator of paper worlds
Video Interviews
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Art & Photography
London-based set designer and paper artist Hattie Newman is in love with tactile things.
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30 Dec 16
Anti-Human: An avant-garde photo series from the Kolor Art Collective
Design News
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Art & Photography
Rio de Janeiro’s Kolor Art Collective present their latest photo series highlighting animal abuse
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20 Dec 16
How do you photograph a phobia?
Design News
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Art & Photography
This VSCO commissioned series looks at rare phobias that disturb the mind.
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19 Dec 16
Dakar's Creatives: A photo series that captures the city's movers and shakers
Design News
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African Design
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Art & Photography
In this photographic series by Jean Baptiste Joire we see Dakar's young creative agents in places in the city that inspire them.
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15 Dec 16
Overview: A New Perspective of Earth
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Art & Photography
Benjamin Grant’s photographic tome shows the world from a thought-provoking angle.
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14 Dec 16
Chat with Lauren Beukes
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Art & Photography
Ever wanted to pick the brain of South Africa’s most acclaimed young writer? Here’s your chance.
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14 Dec 16
The magical figures of the Haas Brothers
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Art & Photography
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Craft
These LA-based artists blur the lines between nature and psychedelia.
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13 Dec 16
Photographer captures childhood fears
Design News
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Art & Photography
Ghost stories and monsters brought to life in A Raven’s Dream.
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12 Dec 16
maria elena baumann illustration
An old fashioned, watercolours-on-paper illustrator
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9 Dec 16
3600 panties focus attention on South Africa’s rape crisis
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Art & Photography
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Design Activism
A trio of South African artists strung up 3600 donated panties in a public display against violence.
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9 Dec 16
This is Olafur Eliasson. We'll let him introduce himself
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Art & Photography
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Design Activism
Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson created the vast, indoor sun at the Tate in London, made rivers run green and made a waterfall flow upwards.
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9 Dec 16
Olafur Eliasson
Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson created the vast, indoor sun at the Tate in London, made rivers run green and made a waterfall flow upwards.
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9 Dec 16
The plastic bottle artworks of Veronika Richterová
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Art & Photography
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Design Thinking
This Czech artist demonstrates the potential to find beauty in garbage.
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9 Dec 16
Beauty is in the nostrils of the beholder (NSFW)
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Art & Photography
Conceptual photo series challenges our perceptions of beauty by splicing together the human body in an unnerving way.
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8 Dec 16
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