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Atang Tshikare collaborated with Lesotho weavers to revive an old tradition

Design News • 6 Jun 17 • Sponsored Content

Multidisciplinary artist and designer Atang Tshikare has gone from murals to furniture to exploring African mythology through weaving >
Is wearing jeans bad for the environment?

Design News • 5 Jun 17 • Sponsored Content

According to researchers, the answer is a bit more complicated than that >
A photographer is building a photographic ark of animals before they go extinct

Design News • 5 Jun 17 • Sponsored Content

National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore's project The Photo Ark currently holds photos of over 6500 distinct animal species. >
Ads Imitating Life exhibit explores not-so-progressive media representation

Design News • 2 Jun 17 • Sponsored Content

American artist Hank Willis Thomas takes a critical view of ‘Adland’ in this collection. >
Native Nation captures Mexico’s forgotten cultures

Design News • 2 Jun 17 • Sponsored Content

Uncover the indigenous communities of Mexico with photographer Diego Huerta. >
The striking interpretation of an age-old Senegalese legend

Design News • 2 Jun 17 • Sponsored Content

Translating an old adage into striking visual art. >
Guerilla art collective Luzinterruptus pays tribute to the march of time

Design News • 31 May 17 • Sponsored Content

Spanish art collective has personalised 5000 recycled paper notebooks into a work of art >
Cinismo Ilustrado: Illustrated Cynicism

Design News • 31 May 17 • Sponsored Content

An artist with a tongue-in-cheek approach to life’s disappointments. >
Scientists have found a way to give you more pasta for less money

Design News • 31 May 17 • Sponsored Content

With programmable pasta, scientists have found an easier way to reduce shipping costs by manipulating its size >
Zemba Luzamba explores the migrant experience through depictions of ordinary people

Design News • 30 May 17 • Sponsored Content

The Cape Town-based artist's eloquent oil paintings of everyday life encourage viewers to draw their own conclusions. >
5 oddball designs for the dinner plate

Design News • 30 May 17 • Sponsored Content

Where the worlds of cuisine and design-thinking collide. >
Typographer Keith Vlahakis on his signature lettering style

Design News • 29 May 17 • Sponsored Content

The South African illustrator talks us through the process behind some of his pop culture-inspired illustration videos. >
Serge Alain Nitegeka explores the colour black

Design News • 29 May 17 • Sponsored Content

Johannesburg-based artist Serge Alain Nitegeka has explored forced migration and xenophobia in the past. >
This artist's Play-Doh portraits are making fine art photography more accessible

Design News • 29 May 17 • Sponsored Content

Eleanor Macnair’s vibrant and unconventional images are made entirely from the children’s play material. >
The Hausa People: Unique civilisation captured in graphic design

Design News • 29 May 17 • Sponsored Content

A comprehensively designed manual on one of Africa’s largest ethnic groups. >
People who stalk us on Instagram: Khanyisa Ketse

Design News • 26 May 17 • Sponsored Content

Vincent van Gogh meets #BlackGirlMagic in digital artist Khanyisa Ketse’s The Beginning. >
Have a look at the latest campaign for Nigerian fashion label Rayo by L. Somoye

Design News • 26 May 17 • Sponsored Content

The striking images were shot and styled by frequent creative collaborators Clement Ogoh and Daniel Obasi. >
Detroit studio Thing Thing disrupts traditional methods of production

Design News • 26 May 17 • Sponsored Content

Thing Thing consider their work to fall somewhere between architecture and a party. >
The PET Pavilion: A communal space revival

Design News • 26 May 17 • Sponsored Content

An example of how derelict urban spaces can be reinvigorated for a good cause. >
Halfway to Nowhere

Design News • 25 May 17 • Sponsored Content

This artist depicts self-doubt and the struggle for acceptance in quirky style. >
Check out Dress Code’s Coke Habit

Design News • 25 May 17 • Sponsored Content

This animated short film provides a unique take on the complexities of childhood addiction. >
The Emma Watch

Design News • 25 May 17 • Sponsored Content

This unique timepiece thwarts the effect of Parkinson’s disorder. >
Can an Elton John song help you understand refugees better?

Design News • 25 May 17 • Sponsored Content

Maybe not Elton John's song itself, but this new music video for "Rocket Man" certainly can. >
This Migrant Business

Design News • 23 May 17 • Sponsored Content

This short film by Kenyan artist and animator Ng'endo Mukii looks at the movement of African people to Europe from the point of view of a human trafficker. >

From the Archives

Hopeful romantic

Q&A • 24 Oct 22

Blurring disciplinary boundaries, Cape Town-based creative Mikhailia Petersen builds intricate narratives in her photo series. >
Head above water

Design News • 24 Oct 22

Former Design Indaba Emerging Creative Kenyaa Mzee’s latest visual collection is exhibiting at Youngblood Gallery, Cape Town in October. >
Parking off

Design News • 24 Oct 22

Design Indaba, Beefeater Gin and I Love The Dough collaborated on turning a pavement into a community-minded parklet. >
Modern classics

Design News • 24 Oct 22

Iconic furniture design studio Herman Miller collaborated with Danish design brand HAY on a collection that reimagines the classic Eames collection. >

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