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#RightsNotGames makes protesting accessible for disabled people

Talks > Design Activism / Information Design

Arjun Harrison-Mann talks ethical design at the Design Indaba Festival 2017. >

12 Sep 17
Carina Bonse on developing the Swimming In It campaign to new heights

Video Interviews > Design Activism / Information Design

The Global Grad chatted with us about the challenges of educating the masses about Cape Town’s less than pristine beaches. >

30 Aug 17
Exposing the fecal danger in our picturesque beaches with Carina Bonse

Talks > Information Design / Product Design

“People are concerned about what they put in their bodies, yet don’t know the effect that wastewater can have on their health.” >

30 Aug 17
Empathy and fact in Ekene Ijeoma’s emotive projects

Video Interviews > Information Design

The US-based interdisciplinary designer’s Refugee Map looks outside the frames of a global crisis. >

25 Aug 17
Should you be putting your website to bed?

Design News > Creative Economy / Information Design

Sleep debt facts say yes. >

24 Aug 17
Talking odd interplay with information and ephemeral tech with Tea Uglow

Video Interviews > Design Thinking / Information Design / Interaction Design

As technology becomes more functional, does it become less human-centric? >

17 Aug 17
Tea Uglow on the creative unknown and dispelling misplaced confidence in reality

Talks > Design Thinking / Information Design

Tea Uglow, the director of Google’s Creative Lab in Sydney on her work at the intersection of tech and creativity. >

16 Aug 17
Shoko Tamura on designing garments that amplify personal expression

Talks > Information Design / Product Design

The Keio University student says wearable technology could redefine the way people play in urban landscapes. >

7 Aug 17
London-based experience designer on the University of the Underground

Video Interviews > Design Thinking / Information Design

Nelly Ben Hayoun teaches students how to engineer situations, to design experiences and challenge structures of power. >

26 Jul 17
Laduma Ngxokolo's timely move into wearable tech

Design News > African Design / Information Design

The limited edition Mna Nam by Laduma allows you to save as easily as you would normally spend. >

21 Jul 17
British technology designer Chris Sheldrick on design and reinventing the postal address

Video Interviews > Design Activism / Design Thinking / Information Design

The technology designer wants to make life easier for 4 billion people without an address. >

19 Jul 17
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has found a novel way to share its vast artwork

Design News > Art & Photography / Information Design

US art lovers can text keywords or an emoji and receive matching pictures from the museum's database >

17 Jul 17
Henn+Honeyball

Henn+Honeyball is a Johannesburg-based multidisciplinary design studio that creates memorable and lasting design solutions. >

13 Jul 17
Eitan Stern

Eitan is a commercial and entertainment attorney, and a director at Legalese. >

5 Jun 17
3 Ways to hack discrimination in the US

Design News > Design Activism / Information Design

Hacking Discrimination aimed to find technology-based solutions to address discrimination. >

17 May 17
Collaborative cartography for a good cause

Design News > Design Thinking / Information Design

A citizen-powered navigation app to benefit visually impaired folks. >

9 May 17
Giorgia Lupi and Kaki King on the value of beauty in design

Design News > Information Design / Music & Sound Design

Beauty or functionality? We ask the designers who helped us feel data and see music. >

3 May 17
Research project produces first map of Nairobi’s informal transport system

Design News > African Design / Information Design

Researchers are crowdsourcing data to create a transport system map for the accurate location of matatu routes – Nairobi’s informal transit system. >

21 Apr 17
WhereIsMyTransport mapped the entire public transport network of Cape Town

Design News > Design Thinking / Information Design

WhereIsMyTransport has added Gauteng province, Kampala, Nairobi, Dar es Salaam and Kigali to the network of cities it covers. >

19 Apr 17
Digital tool tracks innovative water projects in the US

Design News > Information Design

The US is battling against ageing infrastructure. This Living Map highlights its wins so far. >

19 Apr 17
Farmerline uses SMSes to empower small-scale farmers in Ghana

Design News > African Design / Information Design

Ghanaian tech provider, Farmerline offers innovative mobile communication and farming information services to literate and illiterate rural farmers >

18 Apr 17
Giorgia Lupi: Drawing from life

Design News > Art & Photography / Information Design

A brief jaunt through design, part two. Today we share a short interview with emotional data translator Giorgia Lupi. >

14 Apr 17
Free language education for the world

Video Interviews > Design Activism / Design Thinking / Information Design

Tech entrepreneur Luis von Ahn created an app that enables anyone, anywhere to learn a language for free. >

12 Apr 17
Cape Town moves to become Africa’s first truly digital city

Design Frontiers > African Design / Information Design

This city’s creatives are set to be among the biggest winners in the drive to become the most digitally connected hub in Africa. >

27 Mar 17

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