Design News

This luxury sustainable micro unit utilizes solar and wind energy

Design News • 11 Jun 20 • Sponsored Content

“Ecocapsule is your design way to independent living. It can become a pop-up hotel, caravan, mobile office, research station or anything you want it to." >
MIT Media Lab presents Cyborg Botany

Design News • 11 Jun 20 • Sponsored Content

“Our goal is to merge and power our electronic functionalities with existing biological functions of living plants.” >
Expressing solidarity through design

Design News • 9 Jun 20 • Sponsored Content

In the wake of #blackouttuesday we look to the everyday work needed to right the social wrongs. >
Design hacks for the new normal

Design News • 2 Jun 20 • Sponsored Content

Taking a leaf out of hack’s own book, we’re finding ways to thrive by seeking out design solutions from around the world. >
Africa Day 2020

Design News • 24 May 20 • Sponsored Content

We look to a wealth of African thinkers who are improving the world through creativity. >
Are you socially acceptable?

Design News • 19 May 20 • Sponsored Content

New distancing norms in life after lockdown demand that we reinvent the way we socialize, especially as this mode may remain in place indefinitely. >
Why we should recalibrate the future

Design News • 12 May 20 • Sponsored Content

With the pandemic throwing wasteful ways into sharp relief, we’ve all had to step back and recalibrate. >
Hope heroes from across the globe

Design News • 5 May 20 • Sponsored Content

DON'T WORRY (TOO MUCH), BE HAPPY. >
Can design solve for a pandemic?

Design News • 28 Apr 20 • Sponsored Content

The design community has rallied behind the cause, delivering a volley of rapid-fire solutions to help combat COVID-19. >
The future may be virtual, but will it be good?

Design News • 21 Apr 20 • Sponsored Content

Join us as we highlight innovation and impact driven by virtuality and digital tech. >
The Department of Audacious Projects

Design News • 10 Mar 20 • Sponsored Content

A Design Indaba initiative for South African Tourism. >
It's HERE! #DI2020 speaker programme announced

Design News • 21 Feb 20 • Sponsored Content

Come experience the magic! Here’s your 3-Day programme for the 2020 Design Indaba Conference. >
Measurable impact | Robert Wong explores humanity’s possible futures at Google

Design News • 4 Feb 20 • Sponsored Content

Chief creative officer of Google Creative Lab, Robert Wong spoke at Design Indaba 2020. >
The Most Beautiful Object in South Africa

Design News • 3 Feb 20 • Sponsored Content

Brought to you by Mercedes-Benz. >
Exploring the connection between aromas and our memory

Design News • 6 Dec 19 • Sponsored Content

“It’s really important for us to make emotion that could differentiate smell in how something makes you feel when you smell it.” >
Interdisciplinary architectural design practice Neri&Hu use research as a design tool

Design News • 2 Dec 19 • Sponsored Content

The Shanghai-based Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu spoke at Design Indaba 2020. >
Using art activism to fight gender-based violence

Design News • 2 Dec 19 • Sponsored Content

Artists and creatives came together for the 'Rise' exhibition to raise awareness about gender-based violence in South Africa. >
The Coral Farm allows you to grow algae at home

Design News • 29 Nov 19 • Sponsored Content

Hyun Seok An's project was inspired by a UN World Food Conference that named algae ‘the most ideal food for mankind.’ >
P Bank is a public toilet facility that offers a solution to the phosphorus scarcity

Design News • 28 Nov 19 • Sponsored Content

P Bank allows visitors to make a donation of Phosphorus, which is currently endangered due to high consumption levels. >
Re:flex is a material that can be reprogrammed using heat

Design News • 28 Nov 19 • Sponsored Content

Dutch product designer Karlijn Sibbel says she and her team wanted to create a material that adapts to changes the way nature does. >
Jack Newbury has designed an inclusive sexual education kit

Design News • 25 Nov 19 • Sponsored Content

The design student says this new kit and curriculum, a first for the UK, is inclusive of the LGBTQ+ community and other types of sexual practices. >
Kinya Tagawa on threading humanity into the tech world

Design News • 20 Nov 19 • Sponsored Content

The Japanese designer and engineer will be speaking at Design Indaba 2020. >
Self-taught Mexican artist on creating artwork that speaks to the masses

Design News • 19 Nov 19 • Sponsored Content

“I am totally self-taught, which gives me full freedom of experimentation." >
SPACE10 set to launch research and design lab in Delhi

Design News • 14 Nov 19 • Sponsored Content

“We want to be where the future is...Innovation doesn’t happen in isolation, so we want to anchor our research and design process closer to the people." >

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Golden touch

Q&A • 9 Sep 22

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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. >