Articles

Death is an opportunity for design

Design News • 18 Sep 15

Ideo and the Zen Hospice Project have pioneered the way to an expressive, palatable death. >
Community activists are helping fight malnutrition in Angola

Design News • 18 Sep 15

Trained Angolan volunteers treat approximately 50 children a week using Valid International's acute malnutrition programme. >
Jo Ratcliffe's black and white images show the eerie silence that remains after war

Design News • 18 Sep 15

Photographer Jo Ratcliffe investigates how the land we live on can bear the permanent, emotional marks of its history. In this series she focuses on Angola. >
Buddy: The next generation smart wearable for dogs

Design News • 17 Sep 15

Lighting, GPS tracking, health sensors, and home automation are all features in Squeaker’s new dog collar. >
Botswana's solar hearing aid goes global

Design News • 17 Sep 15

Six years ago, Deaftronics created a solar-powered hearing aid battery charger from a workshop in Botswana. Now, the tech is going global. >
Burkina Faso is home to Francophone Africa’s first “fab lab”

Design News • 17 Sep 15

Burkina Faso is home to OugaLab, the first fabrication lab in the French-speaking region of Africa. >
Home sweet home on Mars

Design News • 17 Sep 15

French 3D-printing team Fabulous has designed a dome-like, Martian habitat for space exploration. >
The history of apartheid is still alive in contemporary South Africa

Design News • 17 Sep 15

Startling juxtapositions show the patterns of apartheid are still alive in modern day South Africa. >
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In advertising you need talent and means, but it's the talent that's the magic part

Design News • 16 Sep 15

TBWA\Angola's creative director Miguel Reis on advertising in Africa, the importance of advertising festivals, and why he loathes industry trends. >
Cécile Dormeau laughs off body image issues through illustrations

Design News • 16 Sep 15

French illustrator Cécile Dormeau's illustrations and GIFs are a colourful reminder that our bodies are all different and imperfect, and that's okay. >
Nigerian students design software for visually impaired mobile users

Next Generation • 16 Sep 15

Obafemi Awolowo University engineering students have built Humane – an app to make smartphone features more accessible to the blind. >
Edson Chagas' photographs are simple and striking

Design News • 16 Sep 15

Edson Chagas, the acclaimed Angolan artist, is taking his photographs to the MoMA. >
Sandbag housing solution opens doors for home ownership in Nakuru

Design News • 16 Sep 15

Design organisation, Orkistudio has created a sustainable housing alternative for Kenyan locals while providing a platform to increase family incomes. >
Primary school in Angola gets an upgrade from parents

Design News • 15 Sep 15

A dilapidated primary school in the Capalanga district, Angola received a much needed revamp from parents and community members. >
Yonamine explores African history through art

Design News • 15 Sep 15

Angolan artist Yonamine creates ever-changing art in a variety of disciplines. >
Designing functional fashion for disabled bodies

Design News • 15 Sep 15

Fashion design student Lucy Jones has created a guide to designing stylish clothing adapted to wheelchair-bound individuals. >
Something Borrowed: Collage artist B. D. Graft goes back to paper and glue

Next Generation • 15 Sep 15

German collage artist Brian de Graft started creating art as a pleasant distraction from his studies and it soon became his obsession. >
Heart-In-A-Box: The device set to revolutionise transplant surgery

Design Frontiers • 15 Sep 15

A medical device company has created a box capable of keeping organs alive long after removal from the body. >
Rebuilding Haiti one house at time

Design News • 15 Sep 15

New Story has funded the construction of 100 new homes for Haiti’s homeless in 100 days with its transparent, online fundraising platform. >
The "boat people" of the Rohingya refugee camps

Design News • 14 Sep 15

Photojournalist Andrew Stanbridge captures emotive images of the Tuang Pyo camps in Myanmar, home of the detained Rohingya boat refugees. >
Zero-waste, ethical fashion is possible

Design News • 14 Sep 15

Rachel Faller's clothing manufacturing company Tonlé succeeds on scraps and she says other businesses can do it too. >
Forget cracking art codes – Sandy Little breaks them

Design News • 14 Sep 15

The music and visual art produced by Bloemfontein-based artist and musician Sandy Little is a beautiful mess. >
Egyptian studio designs contemporary furniture from handmade, recycled material

Design News • 14 Sep 15

With a belief that design can solve problems, Reform Studio developed a material from reused plastic bags, which now forms the basis of its designs. >
Non-profit’s greenhouses help Andean communities combat malnutrition

Design News • 14 Sep 15

A social development project in the Andes Mountains has changed the diet and farming methods of highland Peruvians. >
This nippy little device is the world’s smallest phone charger

Next Generation • 14 Sep 15

Weighing in at only ten grams, The Nipper is small enough to fit on your key-ring. >
Lorenzo Nassimbeni's drawings capture the essence of cities

Design News • 11 Sep 15

Two new series by South African architect-turned-artist Lorenzo Nassimbeni express the characters of the city where he was born and the city where he lives. >
Redesigning the human body

Design Frontiers • 11 Sep 15

Bigger is not always better, says artist Arne Hendricks, calling for the downsizing of the human race. >
Introducing Jalpa Shah’s quirky Monday BLUdle illustrations

Lookbook • 11 Sep 15

The Monsoon Monster, The Amoeba Man & Shitty Selfie form part of this Indian illustrator’s light-hearted graphic series. >
Yangon Echoes exposes untold stories of locals living in Yangon’s dilapidated colonial buildings

Design News • 11 Sep 15

A photographic book highlights the conflict surrounding the destruction of Yangon’s historic architecture by putting a spotlight on the buildings’ residents. >
Yasser Booley is listening with his lens

Lookbook • 10 Sep 15

Yasser Booley has been taking photos since he was seventeen. Today, he has an impressive repertoire of photographs stretching over a number of artistic genres. >

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