Design News

Nigerian artist uses posters to tackle issues of climate change

Design News • 8 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

Nigerian artist Fred Martins uses art to trigger an emotional response in the viewer and to convey a serious message about climate change. >
Accra-based Swedish fashion brand creates street couture in collaboration with Ghanaian tailors

Lookbook • 8 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

HI ON LIFE is a fashion brand driven by sustainable design, Ghanaian culture and a Scandinavian appreciation of form. >
Leaving design up to chance

Design News • 8 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

Origami-inspired game randomises the textile design process, encouraging the creation of new knowledge. >
Hello Tractor brings African farmers equipment on demand

Design News • 7 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

Nigerian technology startup Hello Tractor is an on-demand farming machinery service for farmers in rural Africa. >
A massive eco-village with a utopian take on sustainable living

Design News • 7 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

Agroecologist Amlankusum’s conceptual designs combines natural elements with controlled construction to create a 36-storey paradise. >
Global artists recreate monsters thought up by children

Design News • 7 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

The Monster Project facilitates art with children by reimagining their monsters. >
The creative chef, Jasper Udink ten Cate releases his first cookbook

Design News • 4 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

The Creative Chef cookbook shows home cooks how to turn everyday meals into mind-blowing dining experiences. >
Urban Farm Pod: A plant growing sphere in urban spaces

Design News • 4 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

Terreform ONE’s Plug-In-Ecology project brings vertical farming to urban spaces. >
Shape-shifting textile cloud can change sound quality in a room

Product Spotlight • 4 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

BLOOM is a knitted origami surface that can alter the ambient acoustics of public spaces. >
Teledisko: The 60s nightlife experience in a phone booth

Design News • 3 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

Teledisko is a phone booth upcycled into the world’s smallest nightclub. >
Candyfloss characters in comical GIFs with a feminist touch

Design News • 3 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

Inspired by Instagram artists, Swedish art director Sofia Hydman creates GIFs depicting chubby, confident girls. >
Award-winning architecture student Alfie Hope imagines a city floating on bamboo

Design News • 3 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

Alfie Hope champions water-based urbanism with his proposal to grow floating land with bamboo. >
Six things you might not know about Airbnb and its co-founder Joe Gebbia

Design News • 3 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

Airbnb's co-founder Joe Gebbia will be speaking at Design Indaba 2017. Here are some things you might not know about this peer-to-peer home-rental start up. >
Zami Life: A stool for smart sitting in an age of inactivity

Design News • 3 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

The Zami smart stool promotes healthy living through innovative furniture design. >
Concept artist merges Maasai warriors with sci-fi tech

Design News • 2 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

Rodrigo Galdino imagines what it would look like if traditional Maasai warriors integrated alien tech into their culture. >
NASA invites public to send art to space

Design News • 2 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

NASA’s upcoming mission to a near-Earth asteroid will take with it artworks submitted by explorers from around the world. >
Nursery Fields Forever imagines a preschool where kids learn how to farm

Design News • 2 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

Rome-based design team wins an architecture award for its new age urban farming school for children. >
Agriculture meets architecture in France's urban farm tower

Design News • 1 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

Built like a staircase, ABF-lab's urban farming structure aims to raise awareness and encourage better living and social responsibility. >
3D printed braille maps for navigating interiors

Design News • 1 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

Rutgers University researchers hope their new braille maps will become a new standard feature in all public spaces. >
Phone booth gets a green makeover

Design News • 1 Mar 16 • Sponsored Content

Artist transforms a London phone booth into a botanical box to call for the greening up of city spaces. >
Do The Green Thing urges the film industry to be more environmentally conscious

Design News • 29 Feb 16 • Sponsored Content

Do The Green Thing relaunches with an attack on Hollywood screenwriters and a few suggestions for how films could be sending a greener message to their viewers. >
Kiro'o Games to release first African-inspired action-RPG

Design News • 29 Feb 16 • Sponsored Content

Cameroonian startup Kiro'o Games is set to release the first PC game inspired by African mythology. >
Empowering women with skills and business acumen

Product Spotlight • 29 Feb 16 • Sponsored Content

WomenWeave is a charitable trust helping artisan weavers trade on the global Market. >
Zun Lee’s photographs alternate notions of black fatherhood in America

Design News • 29 Feb 16 • Sponsored Content

Zun Lee picked up a camera to relieve work stress and ended up capturing a poignant series of photos that challenge stereotypes of black families in America. >

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Golden touch

Q&A • 9 Sep 22

Mishaal Gangaram is a conceptual photographer, visual storyteller and one of Design Indaba’s Emerging Creatives for 2022 >
Dokter’s orders

Design News • 9 Sep 22

Johannesburg-based multidisciplinary product-design company Dokter and Misses’ latest collection is functional art. >
The anatomy of art

Design News • 9 Sep 22

New York-based artist Michael Mapes creates fragmented portraits out of collected items >
‘A’ Okay

Design News • 9 Sep 22

Swedish architecture firm Naturvillan designed an A-framed ‘greenhouse’ that is entirely self-sufficient. >