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Intimate Strangers: I don't walk alone

Design News • 6 Sep 16 • Sponsored Content

In the second part of her photo series Intimate Strangers, South African artist Puleng Mongale explores the yearning she has to be in touch with her ancestors. >
Modern art that celebrates the African heritage

Design News • 6 Sep 16 • Sponsored Content

Travel and experiences in Africa gave French artist Doline Legrand Diop an artistic mission. >
Meet the strangers in your mind with Hyde & Seek

Design News • 6 Sep 16 • Sponsored Content

Jimin Kim’s award-winning book of illustrations asks you to find the Mr Hyde to your Dr Jekyll. >
New mural by Faith47: Who will guard the guards

Design News • 5 Sep 16 • Sponsored Content

New mural by Faith47 in Downton LA, titled "Who will guard the guards themselves", asks how power can be held accountable for the behaviour it allows. >
Biovessel: An odourless compost bin for the dinner table

Design News • 5 Sep 16 • Sponsored Content

We waste around 45 per cent of the food we produce. The Biovessel is a beautiful addition to sustainable living. >
The Setsuna: Toyota’s wooden concept car

Design News • 5 Sep 16 • Sponsored Content

The Japanese car manufacturer has created a functional concept car inspired by the emotional connections we have with family vehicles. >
Retro summer scenes: Are problem-free summers behind us?

Design News • 5 Sep 16 • Sponsored Content

A greek visual designer re-visits and interrogates iconic summer days from the 50s & 60s. >
Step into Aquasixio’s surreal fantasy universes

Design News • 2 Sep 16 • Sponsored Content

This clinical psychologist unpacks the inner workings of his world by creating new worlds. >
Body Love: The adult colouring book challenging how we see our bodies

Design News • 2 Sep 16 • Sponsored Content

This Canadian artist is championing body positivity. >
The surface that turns mealtime into a balancing act

Design News • 2 Sep 16 • Sponsored Content

The Sati Tala is a surface unlike any other dinner table. Built for mindfulness, it physically connects its users. >
Mapping the invisible world of microbes with bees

Design News • 2 Sep 16 • Sponsored Content

How insects are helping a team of scientists and designers understand our microbial surroundings. >
Hornsea Project Two: UK’s massive new wind farm

Design News • 1 Sep 16 • Sponsored Content

The British government has recently approved construction of a second, world-leading collection of wind turbines. >
Taj Francis creates Afro-Japanese portraiture

Design News • 1 Sep 16 • Sponsored Content

A lyric, the emotion of a song and the instruction of a beat gives birth to illustrations meant to awaken the viewer. >
The Forest Where the Wind Returns: Hayao Miyazaki’s real-life woodland landscape

Design News • 1 Sep 16 • Sponsored Content

The former spearhead of Studio Ghibli plans to give children an immersive experience of the natural world in Kumé Island, Okinawa. >
Reimagining feminism on Bitch Planet

Design News • 1 Sep 16 • Sponsored Content

The patriarchy becomes a literal prison in this refreshing, feminist comic series. >
The quiet struggle in water scarce Pakistan

Design News • 31 Aug 16 • Sponsored Content

Water scarcity threatens the security of Pakistan’s people. Follow one photojournalist as she documents its effects. >
Breeze Yoko unveils latest work 'Boniswa'

Design News • 31 Aug 16 • Sponsored Content

The Johannesburg-based street artist's latest work is a tribute to the black girl child. >
Egypt uses sewage to grow forests in the desert

Design News • 31 Aug 16 • Sponsored Content

To tackle desertification, the Egyptian government is growing tree plantations that thrive on waste water. >
One man’s journey home with the help of Google Earth

Design News • 31 Aug 16 • Sponsored Content

Using Google Earth, Saroo Brierley found his family after 25 years. This is his story. >
Estream: A portable USB charger powered by moving water

Design News • 30 Aug 16 • Sponsored Content

Enomad’s portable power plant generates electricity using any source of running water. >
The dynamic solar shading of Kiefer Technic Showroom

Design News • 30 Aug 16 • Sponsored Content

This building reacts to the outside environment to benefit its inhabitants. >
Sculptural desalination plant imagined for Santa Monica pier

Design News • 30 Aug 16 • Sponsored Content

Pipe is a sustainable water harvesting solution that could produce 4.5 billion litres of clean water for California. >
Problem? These girls build their own solutions

Design News • 30 Aug 16 • Sponsored Content

Construction and carpentry are not readily associated with high school girls. Project H Design’s Girls Garage hopes to change that. >
50 000 murals to pay tribute to the honeybee

Design News • 29 Aug 16 • Sponsored Content

American artist Matthew Willey paints breathtaking murals to save the honeybee. >

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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