2015 Archive

Adam Hoens draws lines between old and new school Hip Hop

Lookbook • 28 Dec 15

Using his pencil and paint, Canadian-born artist Adam Hoens recreates the biggest names in the Hip Hop industry. >
Introducing Jalpa Shah’s quirky Monday BLUdle illustrations

Lookbook • 11 Sep 15

The Monsoon Monster, The Amoeba Man & Shitty Selfie form part of this Indian illustrator’s light-hearted graphic series. >
Yasser Booley is listening with his lens

Lookbook • 10 Sep 15

Yasser Booley has been taking photos since he was seventeen. Today, he has an impressive repertoire of photographs stretching over a number of artistic genres. >
Meet Kenya's courageous Mau Mau fighters in Osborne Macharia's photographic narrative

Lookbook • 2 Sep 15

In Macicio, a Kenyan photographer tells the story of his country's fight for independence through fictional, freedom fighters. >
Taintless, Lukhanyo Mdingi’s SS16 collection

Lookbook • 19 Aug 15

A campaign lookbook showcasing South African designer Lukhanyo Mdingi’s latest androgynous menswear collection. >
Monica Garza paints women in all their curvaceous glory

Lookbook • 18 Aug 15

Monica Garza uses sparkles, glitter pens and motorcycles to explore and celebrate the fuller female form. >
Images of adolescence in Francesca Allen's "Girls! Girls! Girls!"

Lookbook • 11 Aug 15

London-based photographer Francesca Allen captures the strength and fragility of female adolescence in her five-year-long series "Girls! Girls! Girls!" >
"The Walking Society" — a Camper retrospective

Lookbook • 10 Aug 15

New book “The Walking Society” presents a behind-the-scenes look at Camper, the Mallorcan family-owned business, now in its fortieth year. >
Photos capture the rapid urbanisation of China

Lookbook • 28 Jul 15

"The Great Leap" by photographer Gabriel Murad captures how China is rapidly increasing its urban sprawl by building on its buildings. >
Tara Rice’s photos capture the Mundari tribe of South Sudan

Lookbook • 24 Jul 15

Tara Rice photographs the nomadic cattle-herding tribe of South Sudan, where land mines are a lethal daily threat. >
Imagining monsters

Lookbook • 13 Jul 15

Robin Schnetler, who took over our Instagram account last week, began his illustration career when doodling in class proved more engrossing than the lesson. >
A year in the life of a bench

Lookbook • 10 Jul 15

Hungarian photographer’s “Life of a Bench” series captures the diversity of daily activity centered on a simple wooden structure. >
Chris the Pencil brings us a different kind of weather report

Lookbook • 7 Jul 15

A Cape Town graphic designer is documenting Cape Town’s vacillating weather patterns and his accompanying moods in a bold design-a-day project. >
Six key collections from South African Menswear Week

Lookbook • 6 Jul 15

From soft pastel hues to bold silhouettes, menswear designers in Africa have adopted a new confidence. >
#DITakeover on Instagram: Jonx Pillemer

Lookbook • 22 Jun 15

Cape Town photographer Jonx Pillemer gives us a masterclass on composition, framing, reportage and empathy (with a little help from Susan Sontag). >
Forget virtual tours. This online gallery is like another dimension.

Lookbook • 19 Jun 15

UCLA’s New Wight Gallery has been replicated online. But the experience of this virtual exhibition space bears no resemblance to any gallery you know. >
#DITakeover on Instagram: How Far From Home

Lookbook • 15 Jun 15

Chanel Cartell and Stevo Dirnberger took us with them on their creative sabbatical in a series of wanderlust-inspired photos. >
Selly Raby Kane's "Birds of Dakar" collection

Lookbook • 10 Jun 15

Birds of a feather flock with denizens of the deep in experimental fashion designer Selly Raby Kane's Fall/Winter 2015 collection. >
Christine Eyene curates exhibition on African music's fraught relationship with the West

Lookbook • 8 Jun 15

"All of Us Have a Sense of Rhythm", an exhibition curated by Christine Eyene, brings together video, sound, animation, music and dance. >
#DITakover on Instagram: Studio Formafantasma

Lookbook • 8 Jun 15

Italian design duo Studio Formafantasma took us on a strange and wondrous journey through their creative process in their takeover of our Instagram account. >
#DITakeover on Instagram: Marije Vogelzang

Lookbook • 1 Jun 15

Food, a musical swing and red stockings populated our Instagram account as “eating designer” Marije Vogelzang took over. >
14 Artists speaking out against homophobia in Africa

Lookbook • 28 May 15

Our selection from the more than 40 works by world-renowned artists that go on show in New York for the launch of Africa's Out!. >
Rainbow window art brightens up Buitenkant Street

Lookbook • 27 May 15

Andrzej Urbanski and Pierre Le Riche illuminate a Cape Town storefront with a tapestry of colour. >
#MakeChange: Honest-to-goodness products by KIN Culture

Lookbook • 26 May 15

A group of South African designers have created a range of products whose sale supports KIN Culture's mission to establish an alternative model of orphan care. >

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