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Vibrant Paralympic Games ad wins Art Director’s Club of Europe award

Design News > Design Activism / Film & Animation

The ‘We are the Superhumans’ campaign celebrates the disabled community. >

30 Mar 17
Cape Town illustrator talks local style and narrative

Design News > African Design / Graphic Design & Illustration

We spoke to Emerging Creative Russell Abrahams about maintaining a visual language in illustration. >

29 Mar 17
Turning spinach into organs

Design News > Design Thinking

The answer to the problem of organ transplantation demand could be Popeye’s favourite vegetable. >

29 Mar 17
The Centre for the Less Good Idea

Design News > Design Activism

Visual artist William Kentridge has created a space to nurture the growth of South African artists. >

29 Mar 17
The art of Lina Viktor makes black womanhood the focus

Design News > Art & Photography

Using 24-karat gold, the New York City-based artist elevates the power of identity. >

29 Mar 17
Wednesdays with Goddard

Design News > Film & Animation

A personal quest for spiritual enlightenment leads to romance and despair. >

29 Mar 17
The Skin I’m In by Nicole Buchanan

Design News > Art & Photography

The photographer’s work gives a voice to minority students. >

28 Mar 17
Cairo: Youth in resistance

Design News > African Design / Film & Animation

Director Selim El Sadek documents the youth who challenge the system through hip hop in Cairo, Egypt. >

28 Mar 17
Grandmothers, Afrofuturism and Nairobi-beats

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

Kenyan photographer Osborne Macharia directs his first film, the music video to Blinky Bill's new song "Atie". >

27 Mar 17
A shirt that pulsates with the intensity of music

Design News > Design Activism / Music & Sound Design

This wearable device allows the hearing impaired to experience music. >

27 Mar 17
The unspoken cost of precious metals

Lookbook > African Design / Art & Photography

A literal depiction of what we gain from mining versus the longterm landscape destruction that follows. >

27 Mar 17
Cape Town moves to become Africa’s first truly digital city

Design Frontiers > African Design / Information Design

This city’s creatives are set to be among the biggest winners in the drive to become the most digitally connected hub in Africa. >

27 Mar 17
Mbongeni Fongoqa uses graphic design to uplift township businesses

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

Beauty and function merge to create a new kind of public space. >

27 Mar 17
Would you drink beer made from sewage water?

Design News > Design Activism / Food Design

A California brewing company has created a ‘delicious’ beer using recycled wastewater. >

27 Mar 17
The Thermotrap Project

Design News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors

This start-up initiative aims to uplift the living conditions of township residents. >

24 Mar 17
This kids clothing range literally grows alongside your child

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

“Slow fashion for fast growing kids.” >

24 Mar 17
Meet Mr Trash Wheel, a clever water pollution solution

Design News > Design Thinking / Industrial Design

A self-sustaining trash collector that cleanses urban waters using renewable energy. >

24 Mar 17
This queer visibility comic already has 800 backers

Design News > Creative Economy / Film & Animation

Tee Franklin’s Bingo Love is a new take on queer relationships, heartbreak and growth. >

24 Mar 17
Shape: Design is everywhere

Design News > Design Thinking

A film about design. If for one day you had the power to make your world work better, what would you change? >

24 Mar 17
Dear White America

Design News > African Design / Information Design

US-based artist Inyegumena Nosegbe’s newspaper project is a poignant look at police brutality. >

23 Mar 17
Refugee chefs share the taste of home

Design News > Food Design

Eat Offbeat: An unprecedented cookbook featuring recipes and stories by refugees now working as chefs in New York City. >

23 Mar 17
The Dark Room

Lookbook > Art & Photography

Expat photographer illustrates the nature of depression in surreal gloom. >

23 Mar 17
A delicate portrayal of brutality

Lookbook > Art & Photography

This artist depicts the subject of sex inequality in a stylised and all-encompassing way. >

23 Mar 17
Giving back with ethical fashion

Design News > African Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Eco-friendly and ethically made, Allmade pushes the boundaries of the ordinary t-shirt. >

23 Mar 17

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