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Vukuzenzele is a digital puzzle game helping to redesign informal settlements

Design News > African Design / Interaction Design

The game uses the concept of re-blocking to reimagine the layout of an informal settlement in order to create better access to basic services. >

17 Apr 18
Ekene Ijeoma deconstructs the US national anthem as a comment on mass imprisonment

Design News > Design Activism / Interaction Design / Music & Sound Design

In Deconstructed Anthems, he built a software that removes notes from the US national anthem at the same rate Americans have been imprisoned. >

16 Apr 18
See the novel ways these designers are innovating healthcare practices

Design Frontiers > Product Design

From beautiful colostomy bags to a USB stick that’s also an HIV testing kit, these projects affirm that the future of healthcare is in safe hands. >

16 Apr 18
Japanese art of paper cutting inspires the next generation of bandages

Design News > Product Design

These MIT engineers believe a simple method of pattern-cutting holds great benefits in store for wound healing plasters and wearable tech. >

16 Apr 18
Sustainable planter helps trees and plants survive in arid environments

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

A product developed by Dutch startup Land Life Company increases seedling survival rates up to 95 per cent. >

16 Apr 18
The Araba Belle androgynous capes are inspired by Ghana’s coast

Design News > African Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Accra-based fashion brand DoNeal was inspired by the people and landscape of Ghana's Cape Coast. >

15 Apr 18
The world’s first design museum built inside a Mumbai slum

Design News > Design Activism

The artists also aim to question the word “slum” because of the ways in which it ignores the complexity and dynamism of a community. >

14 Apr 18
Can you redevelop a big city like Lagos without displacing the poor?

Design News > African Design / Urban & Landscape Design

Urban planner Lookman Oshodi seems to think it is possible. >

13 Apr 18
Scientists are working on a pill that mimics the effects of exercise

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

Scientists are a step closer to developing exercise in a pill to help the chronically lazy, elderly, and those medically unable to exercise. >

13 Apr 18
MaXhosa launches rug collection and appoints new creative director

Design News > African Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Changes are afoot for the acclaimed South African fashion brand. >

13 Apr 18
"We already live in a dystopian world" – Fabrice Monteiro

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography

Senegalese photographer Fabrice Monteiro believes we are already living in a dystopian world, on an earth that humans have made sick. >

12 Apr 18
These surreal portraits explore ideas of culture, family, tradition, and gender

Design News > Art & Photography

Ndidi Emefiele’s art addresses societal expectations of women in Nigeria. >

12 Apr 18
5 projects that are looking into the possible future of humans on Mars

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Product Design

To celebrate International Day of Human Space Flight here's a look at some projects that are looking into space exploration. >

12 Apr 18
Industrial design student introduces a refillable, more sustainable mascara

Design News > Creative Economy / Design Activism / Product Design

The refillable mascara that can be applied using a 3D printed fingertip, saving an estimated 25 mascara bottles from landfill per person over ten years. >

11 Apr 18
Joshua Kissi on disrupting and diversifying stock photography

Design News > Art & Photography

The photographer and co-founder of TONL tells us why he decided to make images of the unrepresented his priority. >

11 Apr 18
This film explores the legacy of colonial architecture in the Congo

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Film & Animation

The Tower – A Concrete Utopia explores the social afterlives of colonialist infrastructure in the Congolese city of Kinshasa. >

11 Apr 18
Designer Ying Gao uses fingerprint recognition to identify strangers

Design Frontiers > Fashion & Jewellery Design / Interaction Design

These ‘smart’ garments form part of her Possible Tomorrows project. >

10 Apr 18
Salooni creates a judgement-free space at festivals to discuss black hair

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography / Design Thinking / Film & Animation

"We want women who leave the Salooni to feel beautiful and to feel celebrated." >

10 Apr 18
Alexandra Fruhstorfer uses design to find creative solutions for environmental problems

Design Frontiers > Fashion & Jewellery Design / Industrial Design

She explores the impact of alien species through food as well as how to make clothes more sustainable through a different kind of yarn. >

9 Apr 18
Three unique factors that are important to building a modern city

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Urban & Landscape Design

Here are three key takeaways from some of our Design Commons speakers. >

9 Apr 18
This centre offers a safe haven for Rwandan women who’ve escaped the unthinkable

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Design Activism

Inspired by Rwandan architecture, the Women’s Opportunity Centre is home to about 300 women. >

7 Apr 18
Cellphones hold a solution to infant mortality in Cameroon

Design News > African Design / Design Activism / Information Design

Gifted Mom is a low-tech, m-health platform that aims to reduce the number of deaths of pregnant women and infants in Cameroon. >

6 Apr 18
The People’s Fridge is an effort to reduce food waste and combat hunger

Design Frontiers > Design Activism

The city’s first community fridge is where the needy can help themselves to fresh food at zero cost. >

6 Apr 18
On how South Africa's small, forgotten towns inspired Five Fingers for Marseilles

Design News > Film & Animation

"The idea of a South African Western was probably sparked from the numerous road trips we were doing around the country at the time.” >

6 Apr 18

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