Articles

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 >
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 >
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”. >
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. >
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. >
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 >
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. >
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. >
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. >
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. >
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. >
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 >
Is wearing jeans bad for the environment?

Design News • 5 Jun 17

According to researchers, the answer is a bit more complicated than that >
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. >
Minutiae: The ‘anti-social’ app gives your more mundane moments meaning

Design Frontiers • 5 Jun 17

“YOU ARE NOT YOUR TIMELINE.” >
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. >
Native Nation captures Mexico’s forgotten cultures

Design News • 2 Jun 17

Uncover the indigenous communities of Mexico with photographer Diego Huerta. >
The striking interpretation of an age-old Senegalese legend

Design News • 2 Jun 17

Translating an old adage into striking visual art. >
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. >
Guerilla art collective Luzinterruptus pays tribute to the march of time

Design News • 31 May 17

Spanish art collective has personalised 5000 recycled paper notebooks into a work of art >
This footwear startup is using 3D imaging technology to give you the perfect fit

Design Frontiers • 31 May 17

True Gault deliberately avoids traditional sizing to ensure a truly comfortable shoe. >
Cinismo Ilustrado: Illustrated Cynicism

Design News • 31 May 17

An artist with a tongue-in-cheek approach to life’s disappointments. >
Scientists have found a way to give you more pasta for less money

Design News • 31 May 17

With programmable pasta, scientists have found an easier way to reduce shipping costs by manipulating its size >
Zemba Luzamba explores the migrant experience through depictions of ordinary people

Design News • 30 May 17

The Cape Town-based artist's eloquent oil paintings of everyday life encourage viewers to draw their own conclusions. >
5 oddball designs for the dinner plate

Design News • 30 May 17

Where the worlds of cuisine and design-thinking collide. >
Typographer Keith Vlahakis on his signature lettering style

Design News • 29 May 17

The South African illustrator talks us through the process behind some of his pop culture-inspired illustration videos. >
Student 3D prints his own set of retainers to straighten his teeth

Next Generation • 29 May 17

Dudley Amos’ Orthoprint could make the production of clear braces less expensive. >
Serge Alain Nitegeka explores the colour black

Design News • 29 May 17

Johannesburg-based artist Serge Alain Nitegeka has explored forced migration and xenophobia in the past. >
This artist's Play-Doh portraits are making fine art photography more accessible

Design News • 29 May 17

Eleanor Macnair’s vibrant and unconventional images are made entirely from the children’s play material. >
The Hausa People: Unique civilisation captured in graphic design

Design News • 29 May 17

A comprehensively designed manual on one of Africa’s largest ethnic groups. >

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