March 2019 Archive

7 Interior designers that should be on your radar

Next Generation • 13 Mar 19

As part of the Emerging Creatives programme, these young designers exhibited their work at the Design Indaba Festival 2019. >
The coveted items that make up the IKEA Överallt collection

Design Frontiers • 13 Mar 19

“This is how design makes the world smaller and brings people from different cultures closer together,” Bibi Seck. >
Wacy Zacarias on taking back the African textile market

Design News • 13 Mar 19

The Mozambican entrepreneur started Karingana Wa Karingana Textiles to create authentic African prints. >
Ify Ojo tells the stories we never hear through textile design

Design Frontiers • 12 Mar 19

The Nigerian, Canada-based designer pays tribute to the women of Africa with Stèlà Textile. >
Adebayo Oke-Lawal on using fashion as a tool for social change

Design Frontiers • 12 Mar 19

"I feel like fashion will be such a huge part of the way Africa shapes its future and the way Africa progresses as a people." >
Dezeen Awards 2019 are encouraging African designers to enter

Design Frontiers • 11 Mar 19

Dezeen Awards is the benchmark for international design excellence and the ultimate accolade for architects and designers everywhere. >
Could a synthetic brain make manufacturing automation accessible for all?

Design Frontiers • 6 Mar 19

Imagine a future in which anyone with a dream can easily turn it into a physical product. >
Uganda's maker space aiming to transform science education in the country

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:04:09 • 5 Mar 19

Science education should be hands-on and interactive, says Fundi Bots founder Solomon King Benge. >
Neo African artist Dennis Osadebe’s new work is begging us to Stand for Something

Design Frontiers • 5 Mar 19

“I ask myself again and again. What is African art? Who gets to define it? What are its limits? And where is it going?” >
#GlobalGrad Tshepo Mokholo on innovating traditional architectural practises

Design News • 4 Mar 19

The Soweto-born architect, who is also a former Emerging Creative, tells us how a chance meeting landed him in Kigali. >
#MeToo: Global Grad Ellie Frymire makes sense of the iconic movement

Design News • Duration: 00:08:33 • 4 Mar 19

We know that the movement was started to call out rampant abuse of women around the world, but Frymire delved into what people were really saying with #MeToo >
Interdependence II by Houtlander named Most Beautiful Object in South Africa 2019

Design News • 1 Mar 19

The public has spoken! Take a look at this year’s winning design in the question of what constitutes beauty. >
Wanuri Kahiu talks Rafiki and being a reluctant activist

Design Frontiers • 1 Mar 19

"I am truly a creative. I start from a creative space and not from an activist space. I am like the most reluctant activist you will ever meet." >

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