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#DI Alumni unite: Selly Rabe Kane tackles pollution in a short film for Little Sun

Design News > Art & Photography / Design Activism / Film & Animation

Little Sun starts a new climate conversation >

20 Aug 21
No Waste Challenge winner, Clothing Loop swaps Fast Fashion for sustainability

Design News > Design Activism / Fashion & Jewellery Design

“I haven’t bought any new clothes in over 13 years and that’s going fine.” >

16 Aug 21
Sruli Recht’s sci-fi footwear for a post-traumatic future

Design News > Design Activism / Product Design

The climate-conscious collection, Damage, solves for a dystopic future >

16 Aug 21
A-E-I-O-U - Gisèle Human’s new Waif film by Frankie Nassimbeni - addresses mental health

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Former #DI Emerging Creative Gisèle Human creates a safe space for healing, softness, and peace >

16 Aug 21
Creative Cures

Design News > African Design

From period poverty to the perfect portrait. >

11 Aug 21
Our media partner ARTSTHREAD & GUCCI join forces to showcase the world’s design graduates

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Art & Photography / Film & Animation / Graphic Design & Illustration / Product Design

Following the success of the 2020 Global Design Graduate Show, ARTSTHREAD is ready for another round >

9 Aug 21
From pineapple waste to period products

Design News > African Design / Design Activism / Product Design

Nyungu Afrika simultaneously combats period poverty and pollution >

9 Aug 21
A Gold Medal for design at the Tokyo Olympics

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Urban & Landscape Design

Some of the greatest moments of the Tokyo Olympics will prove to be design-related >

2 Aug 21
No Waste Challenge winner CarbonCraft is transforming construction

Design News > Design Activism / Design Thinking / Product Design

Carbon Tiles reuse waste to provide eco-friendly building materials >

2 Aug 21
Iwan Baan will transport you to the ‘Most Hopeful Places on Earth’

Design News > Art & Photography / Urban & Landscape Design

Renowned photographer Iwan Baan guest-curates See All This. >

2 Aug 21
A changing landscape

Design News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Art & Photography / Craft / Design Thinking / Music & Sound Design

This week: Design takes Gold in Tokyo; the war on waste; and artists changing norms… >

29 Jul 21
No Waste Challenge 2021 winner Mapu is the world’s first active sound system made of clay, wood, cork and wool

Design News > Craft / Design Thinking / Product Design

Craft-led Mapu proves that eco-friendly materials can replace plastics in electronics >

26 Jul 21
Pavilion Tokyo 2021 is a public arts intervention featuring former #DI Speaker Sou Fujimoto

Design News > Art & Photography / Interaction Design / Urban & Landscape Design

Sou Fujimoto’s whimsical Cloud Pavilion adds visual poetry to urban Tokyo >

26 Jul 21
#DI Exclusive: Steloolive launches his latest experimental project, NiKANiKA Robotics

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography / Interaction Design / Music & Sound Design

Maverick Ghanian muso and #DI18 performer Steloolive shares his most recent artistic explorations with us >

26 Jul 21
Design that envisions a better future

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography / Design Thinking / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Product Design / Urban & Landscape Design

No Waste winners, parks that halt climate change, & fashion that empowers… >

22 Jul 21
LOLA and Piet Oudolf’s visionary new landscaping book and exhibition focuses on public gardens as a solution to climate change

Design News > Art & Photography / Urban & Landscape Design

Explore former #DI Speaker Peter Veenstra’s fertile new collab with Piet Oudolf >

19 Jul 21
No Waste Challenge winners announced!

Design News > Creative Economy / Design Activism / Design Thinking / Product Design

Sixteen global waste-busters awarded top honours by What Design Can Do. >

16 Jul 21
Exploring Woven Cosmos, Kenyan biophilia, music’s mavericks, & our newest multimedia-ists

Design News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Art & Photography / Craft

New worlds >

15 Jul 21
Kéré Architecture’s Startup Lions Campus is set to inspire future achievers

Design News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors

Former #DI Speaker Diébédo Francis Kéré designs a new nature-inspired landmark in Kenya. >

12 Jul 21
Hella Jongerius - a former #DI Speaker - welcomes you into her magical world of weaving

Design News > Art & Photography / Craft

Woven Cosmos, Hella Jongerius’ interactive show, demonstrates 25 years of textile wisdom. >

12 Jul 21
Why KoolKiel’s cool, Kenya’s new CAMO-flage, proud LGBTQIA+ garb, & more!

Design News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Art & Photography / Fashion & Jewellery Design

A shot of Expression >

8 Jul 21
Kenyan photographer Thandiwe Muriu’s Parisian show stands out by blending in

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography

Thandiwe Muriu’s CAMO series celebrates being African by playing with colour and culture. >

5 Jul 21
#DI Speaker Winy Maas’s latest MVRDV project, KoolKiel, is a community-engaged, resident-designed building

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

For its new building project in Germany, MVRDV has asked the community what they want. >

5 Jul 21
Spoon Archaeology examines plastic cutlery, hopefully, as a relic of the past

Design News > Art & Photography / Design Activism

Kai Linke and Peter Eckart put 20 years of plastic cutlery on museum display. >

28 Jun 21

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