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The Living Chair celebrates the beauty of imperfection

Product Spotlight > Craft / Product Design

Carpenter reinterprets his father’s iconic rocking chair design with flawed salvaged wood. >

23 Jun 18
We speak to an emoji activist on why diverse emojis matter

Design Frontiers > Design Activism / Graphic Design & Illustration

Jennifer 8 Lee says the Emojination wants to make the approval of emoji a more inclusive and representative process. >

22 Jun 18
Hossein Fatemi photographs the duality of life in Iran

Design News > Art & Photography

The award-winning photographer has spent over 15 years documenting the lives of young people in the country. >

22 Jun 18
Sethembile Msezane on why she uses her art as resistance

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography

South Africa’s history is wrought with erasure. Sethembile Msezane is reclaiming the narrative with her work. >

22 Jun 18
Ameera Conrad on the joy and 'realness' of telling the stories of unheard voices

Design News > African Design / Design Activism

Meet the writer, director, and actress making unapologetically political theatre. >

22 Jun 18
Grigri Pixel is looking for African creatives to participate in a residency in Madrid

Design News > African Design / Design Thinking

The award-winning programme brings together African and European creatives to create urban space interventions. >

21 Jun 18
Artist turns Ghana's symbol of scarcity into political art

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography / Design Activism

Serge Attukwei Clottey uses Ghana’s ever-present yellow oil gallons to make a political statement about the environment, history and consumption. >

21 Jun 18
Nigerian artist Dennis Osadebe on isolation, the future and African art

Design News > Art & Photography

“For art in a whole continent to be limited to just one label – 'African Art' – is a problem.” >

21 Jun 18
Mexican students design a carpet for growing crops in refugee camps

Design Frontiers > Design Activism / Design Thinking

Rise, which was designed by three Mexican industrial design students, addresses one of the world's most pressing issues. >

20 Jun 18
Nadir Bouhmouch is filming the longest protest in Morocco’s history

Design News > African Design / Film & Animation

“The first victims of climate change, of the environmental injustice are poor people.” >

19 Jun 18
Inspired by the African Dung Beetle, this invention is cleaning up streets and providing value to its community

Design News > African Design / Design Activism

Made in Africa, the Dung Beetle Project turns single use plastic items into usable fuel. >

19 Jun 18
5 African Internet start-ups redefining agriculture

Design Frontiers > Creative Economy / Design Thinking

It's Sustainable Gastronomy Day, a day that reaffirms that all cultures and civilisations are contributors and crucial enablers of sustainable development. >

18 Jun 18
Studio Swine on making sustainable design desirable

Design News > Creative Economy / Design Activism

London-based duo is behind accessories made of human hair, furniture made from ocean waste, among other designs. >

18 Jun 18
Heartworks: Storytelling through crafts and embroidery

Design Frontiers > African Design / Craft

Helle Vibeke Jensen and Tina Ratzer’s Heartworks workshop inspires out-of-the-box thinking. >

15 Jun 18
This photo series examines the ways in which black women are forced to comply in society

Design News > Art & Photography

Emerging Creative 2018 participant Stephanie Kenyaa Mzee also talks about xenophobia and why her work centres black women. >

15 Jun 18
A sixth sense for visually impaired people with the Sunu wristband

Design News > Product Design

This device is designed to help blind people seamlessly navigate their surroundings with sonar. >

14 Jun 18
Uninvited Guests is an elderly man’s battle with smart technology

Design News > Design Thinking

Superflux’s short film Uninvited Guests looks at the frictions that can arise as technology evolves. >

14 Jun 18
Albus: The photo series challenging established standards of beauty

Design News > Art & Photography

On #AlbinismAwarenessDay, a look at Justin Dingwall's groundbreaking photo series exploring the aesthetics of albinism. >

13 Jun 18
Playful enterprise gives new life to old plastic

Design News > Product Design

ecoBirdy’s eco-friendly furniture is about play, function and sustainable design. >

13 Jun 18
Aso Oke fabric travels from head to toe

Design Frontiers > African Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Product Design

A Nigerian designer is translating his passion for traditional Nigerian fabric into an unusual design application. >

12 Jun 18
Monitor air pollution with these reactive sweatshirts

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Aerochromics drives air pollution awareness with smart textile garments. >

12 Jun 18
Pay-as-you-go energy provider delivers power to off-the-grid homes

Design News > African Design / Design Activism

M-KOPA is considered the world’s leading pay-per-use solar power provider in Africa. >

12 Jun 18
To teach graphic design is to learn to adapt with the field says Lucille Tenazas

Design Frontiers > Graphic Design & Illustration

“For us, as educators, we are constantly aware that our profession is sort of a moving target.” >

11 Jun 18
Photographer visually deconstructs the myth that being queer is un-African

Design News > Art & Photography

Celebratory, bright and vibrantly coloured, Limit(less) pictures what freedom can look like for the black queer body. >

11 Jun 18

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