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Paying homage to the matriarchy

Design News • 6 Feb 22

Nokukhanya Charity Vilakazi’s work explores the power of the stories African grandmothers tell their grandchildren. >
Light my wire

Design News • 6 Feb 22

A contemporary spin on telephone wire weaving makes for a range of mesmerising pendants. >
A look into the work of Luke Rudman

Lookbook • 3 Feb 22

Luke Rudman uses performance art, photography and painting to explore queerness. >
Upward mobility

Design News • 31 Jan 22

Stefano Boeri Architectti brings urban forestry to social housing in Eindhoven >
The body eclectic

Design News • 31 Jan 22

Queerness and environmentalism are central to the work of Luke Rudman >
Animals crossing

Design News • 30 Jan 22

Ardmore launches its ravishing Jabula Ceramic Collection >
Tsonga Pride

Design News • 30 Jan 22

adidas and fashion designer Rich Mnisi unveil sizzling performance wear >
Announcing Design Indaba’s Emerging Creatives Class of 2022

Design Frontiers • 25 Jan 22

This unique developmental programme offers gifted young creatives a platform to gain exposure and grow their careers >
Unmissable monographs

Design Frontiers • 21 Jan 22

We celebrate two titles by designers in the service of joy and collective wellbeing >
Colour Pop

Design News • 21 Jan 22

An Olimpia Zagnoli retrospective, held in her home town, pays homage to her witty creations >
Make it snappy

Design News • 21 Jan 22

Exploring how the built environment might respond to the harsh conditions of climate change. >
Glass Act

Design News • 14 Jan 22

Artist Kit Paulson has a heart of glass >
Block party

Design News • 14 Jan 22

iheartblob’s Fungible/Non-fungible Pavilion paves the way for us to all become architects >
Cakes and oil

Design News • 14 Jan 22

Four students from The Design Village in India have found a sustainable solution to packaging edible oil >
Woodkid

Design News • 14 Jan 22

Driving a car powered by discarded wood, across forgotten parts of Germany, is performance art with a difference. >
Cool runnings

Design News • 10 Jan 22

A simple chemical reaction powers new cooling tech that keeps things cold without electricity. >
Celebrating the Arch

Design News • 10 Jan 22

Few South Africans have left as profound a legacy as Archbishop Desmond Tutu. >
The house that LEGO built

Design News • 10 Jan 22

Room Copenhagen launches a playful, sustainable homeware line for grown-ups >
Holding sway

Design News • 10 Jan 22

Parametric design turns an urban office block into an object of wonder >
Rain on me

Design News • 30 Dec 21

Tactus Design Workshop’s self-sustainable home of the future >
In the raw

Design News • 30 Dec 21

Introducing the award-winning zero-waste Ermis chair >
Exploring interspecies art

Design News • 30 Dec 21

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg has developed an algorithm that caters for pollinator preferences >
From kelp to catwalk

Design News • 30 Dec 21

Commercial-scale seaweed-based yarn can transform fashion >
Curiosity thrilled the cat

Design News • 17 Dec 21

Meet the purrrr-fect bionic spy robot for cat lovers >
100 Beautiful Baskets

Design News • 17 Dec 21

A curated exhibition that celebrates African weavers >
Tackling sanitation taboos with panache

Design News • 17 Dec 21

Jasmine Burton’s creative approach to WASH challenges can change the world for billions. >
Dazzling with design

Design News • 17 Dec 21

How Yinka Ilori’s technicolour storytelling is taking over the world >
African storytelling comes of age in CODA

Design News • 14 Dec 21

The urban documentary delves into how we mark the passing of time >
Out of this world

Design News • 13 Dec 21

Ghanaian artist Steloo channels Zambian ‘Afronaut’ >
The seeds and the sower

Design News • 13 Dec 21

Art and design fuse effortlessly in Jan Ernst’s first solo exhibition in France >

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