June 2017 Archive

Combatting Algeria’s harsh weather conditions with houses made from plastic bottles

Design Frontiers • 1 Jun 17

These durable homes are safely housing the region’s refugee population. >
The striking interpretation of an age-old Senegalese legend

Design News • 2 Jun 17

Translating an old adage into striking visual art. >
Native Nation captures Mexico’s forgotten cultures

Design News • 2 Jun 17

Uncover the indigenous communities of Mexico with photographer Diego Huerta. >
Ads Imitating Life exhibit explores not-so-progressive media representation

Design News • 2 Jun 17

American artist Hank Willis Thomas takes a critical view of ‘Adland’ in this collection. >
Minutiae: The ‘anti-social’ app gives your more mundane moments meaning

Design Frontiers • 5 Jun 17

“YOU ARE NOT YOUR TIMELINE.” >
A photographer is building a photographic ark of animals before they go extinct

Design News • 5 Jun 17

National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore's project The Photo Ark currently holds photos of over 6500 distinct animal species. >
Is wearing jeans bad for the environment?

Design News • 5 Jun 17

According to researchers, the answer is a bit more complicated than that >
Atang Tshikare collaborated with Lesotho weavers to revive an old tradition

Design News • 6 Jun 17

Multidisciplinary artist and designer Atang Tshikare has gone from murals to furniture to exploring African mythology through weaving >
Haunting black and white images capture forced removals in Johannesburg

Design News • 6 Jun 17

Behind urban renewal is often the untold stories of poor families who are put out with nowhere else to go. >
A look inside the new island museum in Abu Dhabi

Design News • 6 Jun 17

Louvre Abu Dhabi combines breathtaking architecture that is at once futuristic yet informed by ancient Arabian practices. >
Make Care products give teens with butterfly skin back their independence

Design News • 8 Jun 17

The project won Best of the Best at the Chile Design, 2017 Design Biennial. >
LocoL provides community support through food

Design News • 8 Jun 17

Roy Choi’s revolutionary fast food joint is changing what it means to be a great restaurant. >
This web-series tackles social justice through the eyes of a 9-year old girl

Design News • 9 Jun 17

Little Apple takes on racism, sexism and gentrification in this sci-fi drama. >
Anti-Trump patrons put their money where their politics are

Design News • 9 Jun 17

This New York bar donates 100 per cent of their profit to causes that are fighting Trump >
From harvesting fungi from the body to hormone infused cocktails, are these the products of the future?

Design Frontiers • 12 Jun 17

Beirut Design Week's Speculative Needs exhibition is not as far-fetched as one might think. >
Photographer Imraan Christian teams up with Faith XLVII

Design News • 12 Jun 17

South African artists Imraan Christian and Faith XLVII deconstruct a pivotal moment in the country’s 2015 student uprising. >
An art invention to encourage more silence in our cities

Design Frontiers • 13 Jun 17

The Silent Room invites people to come in, for up to 30 minutes and “not perform or achieve anything, but just to be”. >
Pichulik looks to Japan for inspiration behind her latest range

Design News • 14 Jun 17

Flower arrangements created in the Japanese art of Ikebana make striking combo next to her latest range >
Self-financing modular homes for the rural poor

Design News • 14 Jun 17

Globally, access to adequate housing remains a huge problem that governments battle to solve, billionBricks provides a self-financing solution >
15 Southern African artists tell us what it's like to be Young Now

Design News • 15 Jun 17

Johannesburg’s Hazard Gallery is hosting a number of prolific, young African artists in their latest exhibition. >
Dutch designers use human waste to make electricity

Design News • 15 Jun 17

The Compost Kliko Toilet could lead to people getting away from flushing potential down the toilet >
Is this the world’s cheapest solar lamp?

Design News • 16 Jun 17

UK firm designs cheap solar lamp for clean, reliable lighting. >
Introducing MobyMart, the autonomous grocery store on wheels

Design Frontiers • 19 Jun 17

“It is the store that comes to you, instead of you coming to the store.” >
Indie band, The XX, take you behind the scenes with new limited-edition photo book

Design News • 20 Jun 17

Shot by photographer Alasdair McLellan, the photo book will only have one print run of 1000 copies. >

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