Articles

Candyfloss characters in comical GIFs with a feminist touch

Design News • 3 Mar 16

Inspired by Instagram artists, Swedish art director Sofia Hydman creates GIFs depicting chubby, confident girls. >
Award-winning architecture student Alfie Hope imagines a city floating on bamboo

Design News • 3 Mar 16

Alfie Hope champions water-based urbanism with his proposal to grow floating land with bamboo. >
Six things you might not know about Airbnb and its co-founder Joe Gebbia

Design News • 3 Mar 16

Airbnb's co-founder Joe Gebbia will be speaking at Design Indaba 2017. Here are some things you might not know about this peer-to-peer home-rental start up. >
A garden that stretches across Africa

Design Frontiers • 3 Mar 16

The Great Green Wall of Africa will be the biggest man-made marvel in the world once completed. >
Zami Life: A stool for smart sitting in an age of inactivity

Design News • 3 Mar 16

The Zami smart stool promotes healthy living through innovative furniture design. >
Free community skatepark in Ethiopia

Design Frontiers • 2 Mar 16

A non-profit organisation is building skateparks in rural areas around the globe. >
Miniature art scenes inspired by film

Design Frontiers • 2 Mar 16

This artist forgets about time when she creates her painstakingly detailed dioramas. >
Concept artist merges Maasai warriors with sci-fi tech

Design News • 2 Mar 16

Rodrigo Galdino imagines what it would look like if traditional Maasai warriors integrated alien tech into their culture. >
A moss wall that creates clean, green energy

Next Generation • 2 Mar 16

Graduate Elena Mitrofanova has designed a modular system that generates electricity from moss. >
NASA invites public to send art to space

Design News • 2 Mar 16

NASA’s upcoming mission to a near-Earth asteroid will take with it artworks submitted by explorers from around the world. >
Nursery Fields Forever imagines a preschool where kids learn how to farm

Design News • 2 Mar 16

Rome-based design team wins an architecture award for its new age urban farming school for children. >
Agriculture meets architecture in France's urban farm tower

Design News • 1 Mar 16

Built like a staircase, ABF-lab's urban farming structure aims to raise awareness and encourage better living and social responsibility. >
Jaun van Wyk: Bringing the art back into architecture

Design Frontiers • 1 Mar 16

Cape Town based architect Jaun van Wyk plans to restore architecture to an art form. >
3D printed braille maps for navigating interiors

Design News • 1 Mar 16

Rutgers University researchers hope their new braille maps will become a new standard feature in all public spaces. >
Phone booth gets a green makeover

Design News • 1 Mar 16

Artist transforms a London phone booth into a botanical box to call for the greening up of city spaces. >
MIT researchers reveal world's thinnest solar cell

Design Frontiers • 1 Mar 16

A team at MIT have created an ultra-thin solar cell that could open up new applications for solar power in the long term. >
Tech groups rally in support of migrants

Design Frontiers • 29 Feb 16

Techfugees is a global movement pooling together their resources and skill to aid refugees. >
Empowering women with skills and business acumen

Product Spotlight • 29 Feb 16

WomenWeave is a charitable trust helping artisan weavers trade on the global Market. >
Kiro'o Games to release first African-inspired action-RPG

Design News • 29 Feb 16

Cameroonian startup Kiro'o Games is set to release the first PC game inspired by African mythology. >
One week left to enter the A’ Design Awards

Design News • 29 Feb 16

Entries for all categories of the prestigious A’ Design Awards have now been extended to 7 March. >
Spanish building presents new design typologies for social housing

Design News • 29 Feb 16

Spanish architects researched a new typology to improve living conditions and develop sustainable quality housing. The result is the 317 Social Housing Units. >
Rudi Geyser photographs Cape Town's defiant women

Design News • 26 Feb 16

Rudi Geyser has photographed a series of portraits featuring young women based in Cape Town. The collection explores the personal identities of his subjects. >
3D printing human tissue for organ regeneration

Design News • 26 Feb 16

Breakthrough in bioprinting technology opens up new possibilities for organ transplants. >
The advantages of Li-Fi over Wi-Fi

Design News • 26 Feb 16

French start-up discovers that LED lamps can generate a speedy internet connection. >
A portrait of Barbara Kruger, popular culture, words and captivating images

Design News • 26 Feb 16

Meet visual artist Barbara Kruger. Her combination of image and jarring text has permeated popular culture. >
Eddy Kamuanga draws inspiration from the hybridity and complexity of Kinshasa

Design News • 26 Feb 16

Eddy Kamuanga Illunga calls Kinshasa his home and the cultural complexity, hybridity and cosmopolitan nature of the city inspires his paintings. >
Integrating VR into fine dining

Design Frontiers • 26 Feb 16

Samsung says its virtual reality headset will enhance the fine dining experience, but do we need to? >
Modern furniture from reclaimed wood

Product Spotlight • 26 Feb 16

Siyanda Mazibuko is a self-taught furniture designer who upcycles wood and into functional products. >
The new collection by Eva Sonaike takes its inspiration from West African modernism

Product Spotlight • 25 Feb 16

Eva Sonaike, a London based lifestyle brand, has produced the Falomo collection, another luxurious series of home accessories inspired by African architecture. >
Futuristic pod-like dwellings at an affordable price

Product Spotlight • 25 Feb 16

These lightweight and modern homes are delivered ready for occupation. >

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