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Thomas Chapman on the creation of the Arch for Arch project

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

The architect and urban designer talks about this momentous project to honor Nobel Peace Prize winner, Desmond Tutu. >

5 Sep 17
Elodie Lascar’s beautiful illustrations re-imagine the female form

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

The French artist’s work provides a nuanced interpretation of womanhood. >

5 Sep 17
The global addressing system, what3words continues to garner international attention

Design News > Creative Economy / Design Activism

What3words ensures that basic services can reach even the most remote places. >

4 Sep 17
From dreaming up stories to starting a movement with Buhle Ngaba

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

We catch up with the woman taking stories to where they're needed most. >

1 Sep 17
This electricity generating yarn could change the face of wearable tech

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

The carbon nanotube yarn generates electricity with just a tug. >

31 Aug 17
The 2017 Beazley Design of the Year finalists include Kanye West, IKEA and architect Sir David Adjaye

Design News > Design Activism

The nominees feature more than 60 projects that span six categories – architecture, digital, fashion, graphics, product and transport. >

29 Aug 17
The inflatable garden that could sustain life on Mars and beyond

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

This NASA project would see astronauts on a self-sustaining vegetarian diet for longer trips across the cosmos. >

29 Aug 17
Sir David Adjaye and Tiffany Chu among the nine speakers at the inaugural Design Commons

Design News > Creative Economy / Design Thinking

The deconstructed conference puts global heavyweights in design at the same table as the audience. >

28 Aug 17
Convenient household composting with Taihi

Next Generation > Product Design

If it’s good enough for your body, it’s certainly good enough for your garden. >

28 Aug 17
The Maitland Institute is changing perspectives on how audiences engage with art

Design News > Art & Photography / Creative Economy

This Cape Town space is departing from the clinical, one-way-communication aspect of the modern art gallery. >

25 Aug 17
On Nathan Reddy, one of the leading design specialists in the ad industry

Design News > African Design

The founder of GRID Worldwide Branding and Design, was inducted into the Loeries Creative Hall of Fame. >

24 Aug 17
Should you be putting your website to bed?

Design News > Creative Economy / Information Design

Sleep debt facts say yes. >

24 Aug 17
See these custom tributes to the iconic Prince

Design News > Music & Sound Design

The icon’s passing was a shock to many, but at least we’ll be able to replicate his purple hue. >

23 Aug 17
A return to our primordial roots with Stanislaw Trzebinski

Design News > Art & Photography

“In spite of our total reliance on the natural world, we have become almost blind to it,” says the artist. >

23 Aug 17
Kolor Art Collective’s latest work questions what it means to be ‘normal’

Design Frontiers > Art & Photography

Photographed by Pol Kurucz, the brazenly avant-garde series defies conventionalities. >

23 Aug 17
From outmoded storage cylinder to innovative knowledge hub

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

This storehouse will be transformed into a dynamic information centre on sustainable energy for the city of Heidelberg. >

22 Aug 17
Wacom Creatives: Benjamin Von Wong on his brand of visual engineering

Design News > Art & Photography / Graphic Design & Illustration

"If social media didn't exist I probably wouldn't be doing photography," says the photographer. >

22 Aug 17
Meet Carolyn Davidson, the woman behind the iconic Nike Swoosh

Design Frontiers > Graphic Design & Illustration

The retired graphic designer created the logo while she was still a student at Portland State University. The job earned her $35 back then. >

21 Aug 17
Testing the bounds of modular home design with DD16

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

This architecture prototype caters for intrepid voyagers and nomadic fishermen with utmost economy in its design. >

21 Aug 17
Exhibiting photography at roadhouses to celebrate this fading social culture

Design Frontiers > Art & Photography / Creative Economy / Film & Animation

Night By Roadhouse brings local and international photography to a wide, non gallery-going audience in Johannesburg. >

18 Aug 17
SaveArtSpace turns billboards into public art canvasses

Design Frontiers > Art & Photography / Design Activism / Graphic Design & Illustration

The initiative aims to empower artists from all walks of life and inspire a new generation of young creatives. >

17 Aug 17
Diversifying media imagery to include more ethnicities with TONL

Design News > Art & Photography

This agency works to arm advertisers and designers with the tools to represent all races in their campaigns, not just one. >

15 Aug 17
A 30 foot warship made from plastic debris is hoping to draw attention to ocean pollution

Design Frontiers > Design Activism

The Surfers Against Sewage initiative is highlighting the world’s largest ocean garbage site. >

14 Aug 17
Dutch artist Thirza Schaap reveals the delicate beauty that can be found in garbage

Design News > Art & Photography

Instead of a bombastic crusade, this project raises awareness of marine pollution in a gentle, considered style. >

11 Aug 17

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