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Yasser Booley is listening with his lens

Lookbook • 10 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

Yasser Booley has been taking photos since he was seventeen. Today, he has an impressive repertoire of photographs stretching over a number of artistic genres. >
Forced to flee: Visual tales of Myanmar's child refugees

Design News • 10 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

Erika Berg's book is a visual representation of the plight of Myanmar's minorities who are forced to flee ongoing violence in the country. >
Africa's cleanest city is officially a car-free zone

Design News • 10 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

The Rwandan city of Kigali is a beacon of clean living as its recently implemented car-free policy makes way for a new green transport system. >
Inventors use gravity to create safe, clean light

Design News • 10 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

A light powered by gravity is GravityLight’s solution to the health and environmental hazards of kerosene lamps. >
Fruit and veggie waste is transformed into leathery material

Design News • 10 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

A group of design students in Rotterdam have created a new type of leather from discarded fresh produce. >
SnooCode gives addresses to Ghanaians that don't have one

Design News • 10 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

Using a computer algorithm to generate a unique code, SnooCode is a simple and effective solution for the lack of formal addresses in Ghana. >
Miniature 3D-printed refugees in art project Moving People

Design News • 9 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

The Moving People guerrilla art installation by the Power of Art House collective sees miniature 3D-printed refugees in cities in Europe. >
Eatwell is tailor-made for people with Alzheimer's disease

Design News • 9 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

Something as simple as tableware could ease the everyday troubles of Alzheimer's patients. >
The unknown modernist gems of Myanmar's architecture

Design News • 9 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

The soon-to-be-published "Architectural Guide: Yangon" exposes the hidden modernist treasures of Myanmar's largest city's architectural landscape. >
Marije Vogelzang imagines meat growing on plants for her food design project

Design News • 9 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

Plant Bones is Dutch food designer Marije Vogelzang’s exploration into culinary creativity. >
Surviving severe drought is top of this designer’s priorities

Design News • 9 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

Design graduate Jaime Tai uses a natural sugar to help ensure drought survival. >
Three innovative ways to combat toxic air

Design News • 8 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

Three student designers have proposed interactive, health conscious ways to deal with air pollution. >
Htein Lin immortalises 1000 of Myanmar's political prisoners

Design News • 8 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

Myanmese artist and former political prisoner Htein Lin aims to cast the hands of 1000 political prisoners in plaster of Paris as a reminder of Myanmar's past. >
Self-sustaining kitchen teaches kids about healthy living

Design News • 8 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

Interactive, self-sustaining kitchen teaches kids how to grow and cook food. >
Three housing solutions that tackle hyper-urbanisation in Africa

Design News • 8 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

Ethiopian and Bauhaus students collaborate on experimental urban housing prototypes to accommodate the massive growth of Africa's urban population. >
Panzagar campaign battles hate speech online in Myanmar

Design News • 7 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

In April 2014 a Myanmar blogger and activist started the Panzagar ("Flower Speech") campaign to battle the online hate speech that led to offline violence. >
Myanmar: Battling poverty with human-centred design

Design News • 7 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

Proximity Design’s creations help people in Myanmar survive in extreme poverty. >
Yangon Bakehouse upskills Myanmese women to start their own businesses

Design News • 7 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

A coffee shop in Yangon empowers disadvantaged women in Myanmar with its food and beverage training programme. >
A preview of Ghanaian artist Ofoe Amegavie's untitled exhibition

Design News • 7 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

Ghanaian photographer Ofoe Amegavie's pain speaks through his latest work. >
Refugees Welcome is becoming known as the Airbnb for refugees

Design News • 4 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

Refugees Welcome is a Berlin-based non profit that connects displaced refugees to citizens with spare rooms in European cities. >
La Marca – Cuba's first legal tattoo parlour

Design News • 4 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

La Marca's innovative tattooists attempt to capture Cuba on the skin of their customers. >
Could Wale Williams be Nigeria's new superhero?

Design News • 4 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

Lagos-born digital animator Roye Okupe releases his afrofuturistic graphic novel based entirely on African characters. >
From junk to jewellery: Mariana Acosta challenges the meaning of preciousness

Design News • 4 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

One man's junk is another man's contemporary jewellery, proves designer Mariana Acosta. >
The Bhulk 3D-printed bike frame is made from plants

Design News • 4 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

Italian design studio Eurocompositi are attempting to change the way we make bicycles. >

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Finding hope

Q&A • 12 May 23

Design Indaba Emerging Creative for 2023 Oteng Hope Kopiso applies no limits to her craft. >
House of memories

Design News • 12 May 23

A memorial dedicated to earthquake victims traces the natural paths on a hill. >
To-do list

Design News • 12 May 23

Ayse Birsel’s latest book guides readers in designing their own long, happy lives. >
Bathroom break

Design News • 12 May 23

Tom Dixon collaborates with Cosentino on a bold new vision for bathrooms. >