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Today – World Oceans Day – we celebrate the ocean’s power to inspire and the innovative thinkers who’re protecting them. >

Senegalese architects Atelier Koé imagines a new design for rural Ghanaian mud houses to combat the negative associations that surround traditional buildings. >

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

Luxury may have always been a relative thing but its definition is shifting more than ever in our time-starved, media-saturated world. >

Durban-based studio Clarisse Design launches a light inspired by the silk web of a cocoon. >

Matali Crasset collaborates with craftsmen in the rural French woodland of La Muese. >

The architects behind Studio [D] Tale propose a set of innovative designs to improve life for informal traders in African cities. >

Istanbul-based Tabanlıoğlu Architects wins a trio of awards, including one for the Dakar Congress Centre with its distinctive latticed roof. >

South Africa's favourite fabric designer, Heather Moore of Skinny laMinx, goes all sweet and subtle in her new collection. >

A team of New York design schools in collaboration with Google have created 30 Weeks, a hybrid between a tech incubator and design school. >

Food, a musical swing and red stockings populated our Instagram account as “eating designer” Marije Vogelzang took over. >

A rugged copper-pipe lamp from Ingrid Auret and Jovan Geldenhuys of The Artisan launches today. >

Tuleka Prah tells us why the representation of African food needs a makeover, and how she plans on doing it. >

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!. >