2016 Archive

Modern day Dracula and the plight of immigrants

Design News • 28 Dec 16

Artists adapt the classic tale of Dracula to explore the immigrant rights in the United States. >
The adventures of unconventional women

Design News • 26 Dec 16

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls is a collection of alternative bedtime stories for girls. >
How an artist is helping rebuild Haiti

Design News • 23 Dec 16

The Konbit Shelter is a sustainable building project in Haiti >
Smokeless cooking in Kenya

Design News • 23 Dec 16

Fighting lower respiratory infection with innovative design. >
Things we learnt in 2016

Design News • 23 Dec 16

We share a few of the interesting, incredible and sometimes unbelievable things we learnt on Design Indaba this year. >
Minerae: Another way to touch light

Design News • 23 Dec 16

This conceptual designer thinks of ways to make new connections between us and our environment. >
Spying on a thief in this fascinating documentary

Design News • 21 Dec 16

Film student Anthony van der Meer made a documentary tracking his stolen phone and the thief who stole it >
Sailing the Seine on a ferry powered by human energy

Design Frontiers • 21 Dec 16

The latest eco-design from Carlo Ratti Associati takes human efficiency to the next level. >
Clever design: Little Sun original

Festival News • 20 Dec 16

Designed by an artist and an engineer, the Little Sun Original solar lamp is illuminating lives around the world. >
Anti-Human: An avant-garde photo series from the Kolor Art Collective

Design News • 20 Dec 16

Rio de Janeiro’s Kolor Art Collective present their latest photo series highlighting animal abuse >
#DesignIndaba2017: Grid appointed as brand agency!

Festival News • 20 Dec 16

Stop the press, Design Indaba has appointed a new brand agency! >
Cleaning up outer space with Kounotori’s electrified tether

Design Frontiers • 20 Dec 16

Scientists are testing ways to clear up the new problem of space pollution. >
What does flatpack furniture have to do with love?

Design News • 20 Dec 16

Assisted intimacy: How to build flat-pack furniture and bond with your loved ones. >
How do you photograph a phobia?

Design News • 19 Dec 16

This VSCO commissioned series looks at rare phobias that disturb the mind. >
Alive by Juno Jeon

Design News • 19 Dec 16

The Netherlands-based designer enlivens his furniture pieces through movement >
Teepee-like complex serves as a haven for Japan's elderly

Design Frontiers • 16 Dec 16

Issei Suma's whimsical structures provide a calming environment for the retired. >
South African jewellery designer Stacy Beukes on the value of community

Profiling • 16 Dec 16

We talk to the South African jewellery designer behind the brand A Ring To It. >
Stepping up solar efforts

Design News • 16 Dec 16

This sidewalk converts steps into power. >
Dakar's Creatives: A photo series that captures the city's movers and shakers

Design News • 15 Dec 16

In this photographic series by Jean Baptiste Joire we see Dakar's young creative agents in places in the city that inspire them. >
An interview with Ulfah Davids – the First Lady of Twobop

Design Frontiers • 15 Dec 16

In conversation with the designer behind the brand’s very first women’s collection. >
5 sustainable fashion brands

Design News • 15 Dec 16

We highlight five brands making clothes ethically >
'Lost In The World' sheds light on South Africa’s corrective rape problem

Design Frontiers • 15 Dec 16

The short film is a landmark in the advent of queer, African cinema. >
An eccentric range of tools for the Guerilla Gardener

Design Frontiers • 14 Dec 16

Vanessa Harden’s brass jewellery range blurs the line between tool and accessory. >
Overview: A New Perspective of Earth

Lookbook • 14 Dec 16

Benjamin Grant’s photographic tome shows the world from a thought-provoking angle. >

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